Volume 44: Number 16
Thu, 12 Mar 2026
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Toby Katz
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 22:15:35 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Avodah] Rambam Yomi - Mesiras Nefesh
In Avodah Digest, Vol 44, Issue 11 dated 2/19/2026?
?From: Danny Schoemann <doni...@gmail.com>?Subject: [Avodah] Rambam
Yomi - Mesiras Nefesh??We're up to Yesodei HaTorah Ch. 5.?You have to give
up your life rather than transgress if:?If the goy's intent is to make you
transgress any Mitzva and it's public(in front of 10 Yidden).?If it's a
time if evil decree to eradicate Judaism or a specific Jewishpractice.?What
justification did they use in the concentration camps and ghettos todo
forced labor on Shabbos? (Or to eat chometz on Pessach.)?There has to be a
simple answer since it was the accepted practice.?- Danny
??>>>>>The Nazis were not trying to get the Jews to give up
their religion, like the Spanish Inquisition.? Their goal was not to
eradicate JUDAISM and convert the Jews to some other religion.? Their goal
was to eradicate the JEWS.? They just wanted Jews dead. So it was a mitzva
for Jews to do their best to deny the Nazis the fulfillment of that goal.?
A mitzva to do everything possible to stay alive.
--Toby--Toby Katzt6...@aol.com?=============?______________________________
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Message: 2
From: Michael Poppers
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 21:03:32 -0400
Subject: [Avodah] Segulos and how they work
If I may add one point that I don't think RJIR and R'Micha raised in their
respective, excellent V44n15 responses (if one or both did, please forgive
me for not thus understanding...): if someone can positively change herself
psychologically, she becomes a different person subject to a different
(hopefully "rewarding") outcome -- compare with *t'shuvah*.
All the best from
*Michael Poppers* * Elizabeth, NJ, USA
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Message: 3
From: Joel Rich
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:49:19 +0200
Subject: [Avodah] psak from aged
[I'm converting the opening quote to something our digest software can
handle. -micha]
Rambam Hilkhos Sanhedrin 2:3:
Ein ma'amidim bekhol haSanhedrin
- lo zaqei muflag bashanim
- velo saris
mipenei sheyeish bahen akhzariyus
- velo mi she'ein lo banim
kedei sheyehei rachaman.
Given the above, was there ever a time in halachic history where a poseik's
psak was (or his ability to give psak) was questioned based on this
exclusion? If not, why not?
Bsorot Tovot
Joel Rich
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