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I heard in a shiur that we left Egypt on Shabbos, and some of the indications for this had something to do with carrying items or placing them on top of animals already in motion.

I would appreciate remembering more details of these items, particularly how an animal's being in motion would be significant.

The other posting inspired about the power of davening for each other.

The Daven Exchange Project runs a web site that matches Jews with similar needs to daven for each other in this powerful fashion.

http://davenx.torah.org

The site was inspired by Rav Paysach Krohn's story on the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation's Tisha B'Av video coupled with "voter exchange" web sites that were facilitating arrangements between supporters of Reb Lieberman and Ralph Nader in the US presidential election,… Continue

A person learning for conversion is prohibited from observing Shabbos like a Jew.
I've learned on this that Shabbos is our intimate time with Hashem, and that it is inappropriate for someone not part of that close relationship to be there at our intimate times, and perhaps more so for Yom Tov.

A righteous gentile friend asked me today about Shabbos, about when it became instituted.

I thought to myself that of course it was during the first days of creation, per kiddush.

And he mainly wanted t… Continue

Given all the mathematical posts, I'd like to renew my interest in trying to figure out if there is a way to condense the logic behind which hoshana gets recited on which day of Succos based upon the 4 possible start days.

I am referencing 2 fantastic Artscroll Ashkenaz books (one siddur, one machzor) with English.
On page 726-727 of The Complete Artscroll Siddur is 4 charts. On page 732-737 of the Artscroll Succos Machzor are a sequence of paragraphs that include instructions that do not match… Continue

Reading in a new book by Rabbi Winston about Redemption I have learned that Moshiach ben Dovid will be a reincarnation of Moshe Rabbeinu.

I also have learned elsewhere that Moshe Rabbinu will be resurrected with Techias HaMeisim and would lead those who died in the 40 years in the desert to Eretz Yisroel.

Given that Moshiach ben Dovid would likely have an ancestral portion in the land of Yehuda, and that Moshe Rabbeinu was of course a Levite, I wonder if there is also a conflict?

In a case of… Continue