Ask Judea Torah Show 9

[judeanoncapta]

Thank you all for your great questions. I can't wait to hear the new ones.

[q_q_]

why is it that electricity is forbidden?

it is interesting that there is this -huge- conscusus, no disagreement infact, it seems. Yet it's something that is I imagine, interpretation, generalising a case.. Things that normally, not everybody would accept.
 
What is the basis and howcome there is such agreement? Is there even any disagreement?

[q_q_]

2 questions here regarding how one can legally carry these things on shabbat.


Tissues (e.g. important if somebody has hayfever)

Map (could be just a page of a map).   (e.g. very useful if somebody has a bad sense of direction)

Suppose the situation is desperate. Would it be OK to stitch a page of map in a coat.. Do you have a better idea?

[q_q_]

as a continuation from the previous question, of shabbat carrying conundrums. I would add another example of a problem , seeking your solution if possible!


A Coat.
One can wear a coat but not carry it.
Suppose you go when it's hot and return when it's cold. And would normally carry it there and wear in on returning.  It's too hot to wear it on the way there.  Too cold to come back without a coat.
Can you put it on your shoulders on your journey there and say it's a cape? So it's a piece of clothing you're wearing.
Similarly, a jumper as a scarf
How about wearing a "jumper" as a scarf on departure?
Or if dual function is no good , how about saying it's a garment(if halahically it has to have a name, then I can give it a name, and call it a G20) and it's shifted from being worn in one way to being worn in another way.

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

What do you think is the reason the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed and we were exiled? (Is their 1 reason, or many?).

[q_q_]

is it true that the Zohar predicts 2 towers falling down on a certain date, and the vilna gaon said the date was wrong, and corrected it to september 11th 2001.

I read the following online

"
Writing in the 18th century (1700's), the “Genius of Vilna” stated that the Zohar text which described the devastation in "Rome" of the three buildings on the 25th of Elul was “off by two” (02) days - the Zohar was then corrected so that the most correct version (Sifra d'Tsniutha) reads the devastation will occur on the 23rd of Elul – which WAS September 11th
"

apparently this is in the zohar on parashat balak

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

Im listining to your show (the second time) very interesting, insightful, thank you. But one thing that seems as a contradiction I want you to clarify.
On the one hand you said that Jews should follow the Yerushalmi over the Bavli. On the other hand you admit to the claim and statement of Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita that the Jews in Eretz Yisrael should have 1 halahic body, and that is the traditions of the Sefardim since they were the first to come to Eretz Yisrael and be established their. So who should the law go according to- the Yerushalmi or basically the Shulhan Aruch (which I believe is more leaning towards the Bavli) -with additions to national Mitzvot?  (I beleive you will say Yerushalmi, but I would like the explanation to it).

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

Who do you concider to be the top 3 Rabbis today? (or top 5, but in order if you can).

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

In ancient Israel the land was separated according to tribe, then to family - forever. My question is- if a Jew buys land today in Eretz Yisrael - the liklyhood is that it wont be what is destined for his family, so when Moshiach comes and their is an evaluation to where each Jew came from (from which tribe and which family) will the one who has purchased land today loose his land?

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

You mentioned on a thread, that abortion is murder for a goy and not for a Jew(ess). What do you mean by that? Were you saying that they are Hayav Mita and a Jewess is not? Or that when a Jewess does it, it is not that bad (I would think the opposite). Can you just clarify what you mean by that, and talk about abortion in Halacha....

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

Does R' Bar Chaim wear Tefillin all day?
 Can one eat or drink while wearing Tefillin? I have seen this teenager in a Dov Shurim cd wearing tefillin and also drinking vodka together with Dov and a few others (I think they were celebrating that the homo arafat died of aids).  I have heard that one cant eat or drink while wearing tefillin, but was wondering about what people did during the time that Jewish men wore Tefillin all day long? Did they simply take it off when they ate or drank something, or did they eat and drink while wearing it?

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Dear Judea,

You mentioned in the last show about non-haredi settlements dressing less like 19th century Poland and more like Judea/Hebrew/Jewish inspired clothing (is this called beged ivrit?).   I was wondering, what clothing would be considered the style of Judea or authentically Jewish-Middle Eastern in a historical sense?  I have read a few random articles on A7 as my only exposure to the concept of "beged ivrit" but it appeared that whatever they were making was expensive and not mainstream at all (I also wondered about where they got the ideas for the fashions).   What do the nonharedi settlements dress like, and is a more authentically "biblical" Jewish fashion being introduced at least gradually at this time?   Thank you.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

What is your view of the afterlife?   How does your literal reading of the word geulah and the more literal understanding of what our redemption is in a national sense - how does this fit with the concept of the "world to come" and is there a distinction between the two, or between this and 'afterlife' ?   Is it just that at some point in the process of redemption G-d would begin to resurrect the dead who would then live eternally?

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Judea can you please pronounce the word Ehad properly for us as it is to be done in shema with the end letter dalet.   In Arabic there are frontal and guttural sounds, so I am familiar a bit with the difference, just not necessarily the Hebrew letters.   In Arabic there is a "th" ending (frontal) - like in English words thing or faith that is distinct in pronunciation from a different letter which is more like a "dth" (guttural - sort of) ending like in English father or this or that.  I assume that the dalet is like the latter guttural sound corresponding to the arabic letter Thaa ظ  (as in "that") right?

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

I would like to learn Hebrew over the next few years, so I was wondering if you would recommend learning the standard "modern hebrew"  mainstream Sephardi pronunciation that is the official language of Israel, or should I learn some of the Teimani pronunciations or the most accurate modern day pronunciation which  I think you said were Tunisian Sephardic Jews if I remember correctly?   Or if I learn these more complicated and authentic pronunciations, will no one be able to understand what I'm saying when I speak Hebrew to Israeli Jews?   How should one go about this?