tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388344.post7264825081565736609..comments2024-03-28T03:37:24.078-05:00Comments on Apikorsus Online: Conservative Teshuvot on Mikveh: The Language Issueelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16271905313295544312noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388344.post-41858777669953622010-10-10T16:41:59.671-05:002010-10-10T16:41:59.671-05:00Thanks for sharing these useful information! Hope ...Thanks for sharing these useful information! Hope that you will continue doing nice article like this. I will be one of your loyal reader if you maintain this kind of post!<br />Aviglatt.com is the best <a href="http://www.aviglatt.com/" rel="nofollow">kosher</a> where you can find quality kosher and <a href="http://www.aviglatt.com/" rel="nofollow">passover</a> foods. 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Like most translations, it has its p...Interesting. Like most translations, it has its pros and cons. I'll think about it.elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271905313295544312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388344.post-49888604175010480372007-05-29T18:46:00.000-05:002007-05-29T18:46:00.000-05:00this isn't much of a comment, but i like translati...this isn't much of a comment, but i like translating טומאה/טמא as "taboo". of course, as hotshot2000 pointed out, many cases of קדושה/קודש/קדוש could also be translated that way.Steg (dos iz nit der šteg)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07694556690190505030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388344.post-40143686915478154652007-05-08T09:40:00.000-05:002007-05-08T09:40:00.000-05:00Somehow the comments for this post got screwed up....Somehow the comments for this post got screwed up. The blogger comment feature wasn't displayed and the Haloscan comments (which should be hidden) were. I've fixed that. Here are the previous Haloscan comments:<BR/><BR/>Something I thought about recently is how tum'ah and kedushah are pretty much the same thing in terms of effect. They both make the object in question "untouchable" in some way. (That's Milgrom's read of "kol ha-noge`ah bo yikdash" in his famous article on Sancta Contagion.)<BR/><BR/>As ofr the teshuvot, it seems like too much time was spent on language issues and too little time on considering what niddah could be about in effect. (E.g., one of the effets of niddah is to prevent marital rape -- all a woman needs to say to a (frum) husband is "I'm bleeding" and that's the end of that. It also dictates a particular sexual rhythm that some couples might find useful. There are other effects as well, not all positive, obviously.) It felt like the teshuvot were very much in the spirit of "well, we think this basically sucks/is dumb, but we're sort of stuck with something like it, so let's redescribe it to death and get rid of as many of the derabbanans as possible."<BR/>hotshot2000 | 05.03.07 - 8:20 pm | #<BR/><BR/>The thing that struck me the most was the insistence that Conservative Jews are observing T.H., or at least are interested in doing so, or could be convinced to do so with more education. My experience is that even committed Conservative folks take T.H. much less seriously than kashrut or Shabbat - I'm not sure there's much of an audience for these tshuvot.<BR/>Kate | 05.04.07 - 3:32 pm | #<BR/><BR/>hotshot2000 wrote:<BR/><BR/>Something I thought about recently is how tum'ah and kedushah are pretty much the same thing in terms of effect. They both make the object in question "untouchable" in some way.<BR/><BR/>Very true. Both involve "setting apart."<BR/><BR/>As ofr the teshuvot, it seems like too much time was spent on language issues and too little time on considering what niddah could be about in effect.<BR/><BR/>I focused on the language issues in my dvar Torah mainly because they were relevant to the parshah and easy to condense into a brief speech. Susan Grossman is certainly very concerned with language, and Avraham Reisner was pretty concerned with disputing Susan Grossman. However, the teshuvot do all deal to some extent with the potential practical benefits of TH/KY. I don't think that the authors come off as reluctantly accepting the necessity of observing these laws. They seem to really think they're worthwhile.<BR/><BR/>Kate said:<BR/><BR/>The thing that struck me the most was the insistence that Conservative Jews are observing T.H., or at least are interested in doing so, or could be convinced to do so with more education.<BR/><BR/>I don't think the authors have any illusions about the fact that the vast majority of Conservative Jews don't use the mikveh. This fact is the primary motivation behind trying to make the laws more accessible, easier to relate to, and less onerous. There has actually been an increase in interest in mikveh use by non-Orthodox Jews in recent years, which I believe is why the CJLS is suddenly paying attention to the issue.<BR/>elf | Homepage | 05.06.07 - 12:25 am | #elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271905313295544312noreply@blogger.com