I was reading today's weekly portion and it caught my eyes (Shemot 18:6):
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲנִ֛י חֹֽתֶנְךָ֥ יִתְר֖וֹ בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וְאִ֨שְׁתְּךָ֔ וּשְׁנֵ֥י בָנֶ֖יהָ עִמָּֽהּ׃
And he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons ...
As far as I know, it was forbidden to sit in the Azara unless you were a king descended from David.
So it seems the Kohanim must have been forced to stand while eating their portions of the Kodshei Kodashim. But this seems to me like a very undignified way of eating food, and an affront to the h...
@Sabbahillel, you seem to say in comments on the question about lockpicks that a lockpick being used to commit a crime is muktza. Why? If I have a knife in my kitchen, it is not muktzeh. If I go take it out to mug somebody it now becomes muktzeh?
@Ze'evwantsSEtodoteshuva I don’t personally agree with his logic. However, he could argue that a knife is a כלי שמלאכתו לאיסור ומלאכתו להיתר, which is allowed. I would then argue back that a lockpick can be used for one’s own home rather than a neighbor’s, granting it the same status.
The Talmud in Barachot 43a states the following:
אמר ליה רב חסדא לרב יצחק האי משחא דאפרסמון מאי מברכין עלויה א"ל הכי אמר רב יהודה בורא שמן ארצנו א"ל בר מיניה דר' יהודה דחביבא ליה ארץ ישראל לכולי עלמא מאי א"ל הכי אמר רבי יוחנן בורא שמן ערב
R. Hisda said to R. Isaac: What blessing is said ...