Is One That Accepts Charity From Gentiles Disqualified To Serve As A Witness In A Jewish Court?

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The Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 26b states (as translated by https://www.sefaria.org.il/Sanhedrin.26b.19-20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en )   Rav Naḥman says: Those who eat something else, a euphemism for pork, are disqualified from bearing witness. This is referring to those who accept charity from gentiles, thereby causing a desecration of … Continued

Regarding Relying on Non-Jewish “Friends” to Support Israel

Regarding Relying on Non-Jewish “Friends” to Support Israel Historically, our best “friends” in one generation, became our worst enemies in another generation. Avraham our forefather was a friend (Breishit/Genesis 14:13) of the Emori {Emorites}. Sichon and Og of that same … Continued

Model of The Temple Mount 150 years Ago & Natural Efforts to Build The Temple

Model of the Temple Mount of the Gentile, Conrad Schick from 150 years ago that may provide us with useful facts and the view of “Minchat Chinuch” (Rabbi Yosef Babad): It is known that the Torah will not rely on … Continued

Audio & Video of Rabbi Yisroel Barkin: The Kashrut Of The Murex Trunculus Snail For Techeilit – Tekhelet

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A comment by Shlomo Moshe Scheinman on the video/audio that appears below. Because the timing of the rediscovery of Tekhelet has some importance for my article A Solution to Fundamental Problems Regarding Tekhelet and Rabbi Barkin without intention put some … Continued

Only recently have we found ways to get blue Tekhelet dye from Murex Trunculus. Rav Herzog was told this isn’t possible.

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The Chilazon according to our sages was the source of the blue Tekhelet dye needed for the commandment of Tzitzit. Rabbi Herzog’s initial assumption was that the Murex Trunculus mollusc is the Chilazon. According to Baruch Sterman a new correspondence … Continued