אין מעידין אלא על פרצוף פנים עם החוטם אע”פ שיש סימנין בגופו ובכליו … תנו רבנן פדחת ולא פרצוף פנים פרצוף פנים ולא פדחת [מצח] אין מעידין עד שיהו שניהם עם החוטם אמר אביי ואיתימא רב כהנא מאי קרא הכרת פניהם ענתה בם אבא בר מרתא דהוא אבא בר מניומי הוה מסקי ביה דבי רישא […]
Tag Archives: Rudyard Kipling
Putting One's Foot Down, For Once and For All
`The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master — that’s all.’1 I was recently researching the origins of the venerable tradition of the groom stepping on the bride’s foot (or vice versa) under the Huppah to symbolize or effectuate his dominance over her (or hers over him) during the marriage. The earliest […]
"The Spirit He Breathed In Man Is Free" – The Theodicy of Maimonides and Kipling
Prof. Menachem Kellner writes: Rambam also made it clear that (just as traffic accidents don’t just “happen,” but are caused, so) most of the evil from which we suffer is the result of human stupidity and cupidity; the fires were started by stupid kids literally playing with fire, but they spread so disastrously because too […]