Sunday, January 3, 2016

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Among the treats – Can you stamp “נבדק" onto tefillin or mezuzos – Rav Moshe and those who differ, grape juice for kiddush – today we take it as a given that grape juice is just as good as wine but it wasn't always like that [see also Beis Yitzchak 35 page 297 in an article written by Rav Charlap Shlita], can there POSSIBLY be an eruv in Manhattan? [STILL hotly contested], great chiddushim on the sugya of דבר הבא החולין אינו בא לשם חובה.

Some interesting historical miscellania: Can an institution that has limmudei chol be called a yeshiva?
Ner Yisrael tried to start a branch in Israel – too bad it didn't work out.
Rabbis should go into real estate so that they can make enough of their own money and the presidents of their shuls can't dictate to them policy - or should they?