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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #240 on: August 28, 2013, 11:30:27 AM »
I think CV should post a link back to the word. Will make sure he gets the appropriate answer.
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=31926.msg574082#msg574082
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #242 on: August 28, 2013, 11:41:57 AM »
Let me see if I have this right. You say a Bracha before the Mitzvah of killing the Amalekites?
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #243 on: August 28, 2013, 11:43:47 AM »
Let me see if I have this right. You say a Bracha before the Mitzvah of killing the Amalekites?
That was Menachem613's question.

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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #244 on: August 28, 2013, 11:47:07 AM »
That was Menachem613's question.
I don't think the purpose of the post was to ask a question.  ;)
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #245 on: August 28, 2013, 11:48:02 AM »
Let me see if I have this right. You say a Bracha before the Mitzvah of killing the Amalekites?
not sure if it's So clear cut But as a rule we make blessings on all mitzvahs and before taking pleasure in the physical of this world

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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #246 on: August 28, 2013, 11:57:36 AM »
I don't think the purpose of the post was to ask a question.  ;)
I don't like getting into the question of intentions and purposes, the waters get really murky there.

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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #247 on: August 28, 2013, 07:08:15 PM »
Let me see if I have this right. You say a Bracha before the Mitzvah of killing the Amalekites?
sigh...
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #248 on: August 28, 2013, 07:24:05 PM »
I got the other thread right. I said it would not last the day.  :)
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #249 on: September 02, 2013, 06:10:13 PM »
heter?
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #250 on: September 02, 2013, 06:11:40 PM »
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #251 on: September 02, 2013, 06:14:11 PM »
Halachic permission or leniency.
What about in this context?

"So what's the heter for a woman to decline martial relations on a particular night without calling a LOR?"
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #252 on: September 02, 2013, 06:30:34 PM »
What about in this context?

"So what's the heter for a woman to decline martial relations on a particular night without calling a LOR?"
Menachem was asking under the (false) assumption that a woman is obligated to have relations with her husband whenever he wants, and he was asking what's her "Heter" (permission) not to.

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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #253 on: September 02, 2013, 06:37:18 PM »
Menachem was asking under the (false) assumption that a woman is obligated to have relations with her husband whenever he wants, and he was asking what's her "Heter" (permission) not to.
Got it.
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #254 on: September 02, 2013, 06:42:12 PM »

Menachem was asking under the (false) assumption that a woman is obligated to have relations with her husband whenever he wants, and he was asking what's her "Heter" (permission) not to.

Nope. If a man needs to ask permission from a rabbi in order to use a contraceptive, even though it's his wife who would be using the contraceptive, why is she permitted to turn down relations without permission from a rabbi. The result is the same.

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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #255 on: September 03, 2013, 12:01:40 AM »
You mean they are not the same?  :P
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #256 on: September 03, 2013, 04:19:41 PM »
bashert?
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #258 on: September 03, 2013, 04:27:29 PM »
In the context you used would it be soul mate, the one and only?
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Re: Master thread to help me with words/phrases.
« Reply #259 on: September 03, 2013, 04:28:34 PM »
In the context you used would it be soul mate, the one and only?
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