Ze'ev misses Monica

@DoubleAA, by the logic of your first comment here, that it is only false things I shouldn't say in blessings, A) can't I add any truth I want? I am thankful for the cake I ate, but also my wife & kids, the beautiful weather, etc? B) I am not sure that saying Al haMechiyah is false per se if I didn't eat. Nowhere does it say "I/we ate". judaism.stackexchange.com/a/113985/537

@DonielF I am just not aware of cases where the איסור in the context of כלי שמלאכתו לאיסור is one other than Shabbat. And fundamentally, muktzeh is about setting aside “this item isn’t for Shabbat use”. My knives aren’t in that camp because even if I don’t expect on any given Shabbat to pull out my boning knife, if in the midst of Shabbat if I wanted to, I could. Are there examples of prohibiting as muktza an item whose use is forbidden by something other than Shabbat?

@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?

Nor have we mentioned the raven

@IsaacMoses This is the sense of being an arev, a cosigner/guarantor on a loan, and what operates in the phrase "all Israel are guarantors for each other" which has halachic weight

@MonicaCellio I'm not unaware of the irony in that you are selling off your swag here, and in fact selling it cheaply (almost literally for a song), and presumably happy to be rid of it, for reasons somewhat unrelated to the stuff itself.

Credit where credit is due: Torah as prized possession is from Rabbi Elefant of OU Torah (and OU Kosher). G-d as artist is from the Interleaved facebook group, useful for those doing daf yomi

Another was about G-d as a great artist who created his masterpiece, the Torah, and has kept it for a long time. Such a person might well be sad to see it go.

One suggestion I heard on why was that this mashal was about selling your stuff because you are very poor & need to basically pawn your stuff.

That is why both say 'thank you'. This accords with his libertarian views. But in Brachot 5a, we are explicitly told that the seller is unhappy while the buyer is happy. This is in contrast to G-d who 'sold' us the Torah, but was happy about it.

Cheese board or water bottle would be of interest. I keep a running list of notes on Daf Yomi so I looked back there to find something juicy. When we were doing Avoda Zarah...er, learning Avoda Zarah...;-) I noted that on 2a, Mishna precludes both buying from & selling to an idolater near his holiday as both ostensibly make him happy for the holiday. This accords with something I saw ages & ages ago in a John Stossel documentary about how a seller is happier with cash and a buyer with goods

Too trollish?

Tempted to post a question of "Should I say blessing mechayeh hametim", answer with sources, and then link

"in a time when this blessing applied..."

I think you are limiting the case more than I am but, ok

How are you at a wedding without knowing if the groom is alive or not before you show up?

Before answering I considered asking in a comment 'is never say this blessing an on-topic answer' but as I found more sources, it seemed more obviously an answer than a comment. The answr having been deleted, I can't comment there, so I came here to ask about it.

I wrote an answer here: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/109735/… that I put a few minutes of research into and it was deleted.

@msh210 Hi

One could however reply that going to mikvah while a zav looks like mikva to remove zav in a way that mikva for niddah won't be mistaken for parah adumah ashes.

One could argue for doing tevila for takanat Ezra even though one has other longer lasting forms of tumah: Nowadays, a woman goes to mikva to be with her husband in spite of the fact that she is tameia met. THe tevila doesn't make her tahora, just permitted to her husband, removing a particular issur. Similarly, one could tell a zav who is also a baal keri to go to mikvah not to be tahor, but to remove a particular issur.

@DonielF Will the bot just grab anything tagged with the current masechta or is it somehow more fine tuned than that? Granted, my question was motivated by daf learning, though I am a few days behind and sat on the question for a few days, making it more out of date than it was when I originally wondered.

@YaacovDeane, it seems the Alter Rebbe is saying "If you are a seeker of G-d, do the following: pray with lots of kavanna, [other things], pray 90 minutes or more". That this is for a select group is fine, though I would hope 'seekers of G-d' includes a great many people. If you say praying the specific kavanot is intended, and as a result one prays over 90 minutes, why mention businessmen? Were there businessmen who wanted to lead, with kavannot, but go even faster than 'blazingly fast'?