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  • For fellow observant Jews claiming that Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach laws demand that Orthodox Jews impose a biblical view of marriage on society, it is noteworthy that many rishonim leading rabbis who lived during the 11th to 15th centuries, approximately, including the Ravad, Nachmanides, and Tosafot, rule that there is no obligation to impose Noachide laws on society.

    Eliyahu Federman: Will Gay Marriage Lead to Polygamy, Incest, and Religious Meltdown? Eliyahu Federman 2012

  • For fellow observant Jews claiming that Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach laws demand that Orthodox Jews impose a biblical view of marriage on society, it is noteworthy that many rishonim leading rabbis who lived during the 11th to 15th centuries, approximately, including the Ravad, Nachmanides, and Tosafot, rule that there is no obligation to impose Noachide laws on society.

    Eliyahu Federman: Will Gay Marriage Lead to Polygamy, Incest, and Religious Meltdown? Eliyahu Federman 2012

  • The counting is also a machloket rishonim: the bavli seems to think counting started from the 14th year after the Israelites entered Palestine.

    The irony of shmita: making the poorest poorer | Jewschool 2007

  • The rishonim ask why rennet from a non-kosher animal or kosher animal that was not slaughtered kosherly makes the cheese treif.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

  • Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach laws demand that Orthodox Jews impose a biblical view of marriage on society, it is noteworthy that many rishonim leading rabbis who lived during the 11th to 15th centuries, approximately, including the Click here to leave a comment.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Eliyahu Federman 2012

  • However, there are instances of their successors, the rishonim and achronim, providing new interpretations to psukim after new scientific evidence came to light.

    DovBear 2009

  • Indeed, this leniency - that one need not go barefoot among Gentiles - is not unique to the Avi Ezri, but is quoted by many other rishonim such as Rabbenu Yerucham (18: 2: 164), the Mordechai (Moed Katan 934) and Hagahot Maimoniot (5: 300).

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

  • However, there are instances of their successors, the rishonim and achronim, providing new interpretations to psukim after new scientific evidence came to light.

    DovBear 2009

  • Each topic will commence with an examination of the primary sources, tracing the halakha from the relevant gemarot through the rishonim and acharonim, and will address practical applications as well.

    Hirhurim - Musings 2008

  • 1. BZ - potted plants are a machloket rishonim and are probably hayyav derabbanan.

    The irony of shmita: making the poorest poorer | Jewschool 2007

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