114b What if you ate Maror for health reasons?

We Pasken like Reish Lakeish of our daf that Mitzvos need intent – that one must have in mind or be aware that he is performing the Mitzva act as a Mitzva. What if someone ate romaine lettuce – Maror on Seder night, for health reasons? Does he need to eat...

Va`Yikrah – How to preserve purity of heart

ונפש כי תחטא ושמעה קול אלה If a Man sinned and heard an oath The Sefer Taam V`Daas brings a Medrash (Tosefta Shavuos 3:3) that says, “Rabbi Elozar Ben Masiah said: One is not condemned to see, unless one sinned. As it says, “ונפש כי תחטא ושמעה קול...
Mitzva 28 Do not bow to a foreign ‘God’

Mitzva 28 Do not bow to a foreign ‘God’

לא תשתחוה להם ולא תעבדם שמות כ:ה What Do not bow to another "god", even without intention of serving it and even if the 'god' in question is not served through bowing to it. Type Negative prohibition When Anytime Where Anywhere Who Anyone Additional details Like if...

110 Don’t drink in pairs . . .

Daf קי discusses a danger that can come to a person when  he does or eats something in a twosome. Do we need to be careful with this in our times? The Gemora says קי: that one who is not exacting in this, the Sheydim do not exact from him – do not damage him. So...