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Archive for May, 2007

Halakhah and the Good Samaritan

On Sunday a motorcyclist was struck by a truck in Israel and probably killed instantly. This incident has been making the news because for a minute or so drivers just drove around the cyclist without stopping (the video is here). Some have said that they didn’t stop because of the gruesome state of the cyclist [...]

Report: King Herod’s Tomb Found

According to Ha’aretz, Prof. Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University has discovered King Herod’s tomb and grave at Herodium, south-west of Jerusalem. I would say that this could be a big find if it is true. Details are to be released on Tuesday at a news conference. Just to show the strength of Wikipedia, the news [...]

Pigs and Mezuzot

In Piskei Tosafot (Shabbat, par. 130), there is a statement which has perplexed many a reader, “עיר שיש בה חזירים פטורה מן המזוזה” (“A city which has in it pigs is exempt from the [commandment of] mezuzah“). Many people have offered emendations of this text in order to try and make sense of it. Among these [...]

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