Snow & Snowmen in Jewish Law & Mysticism -Talkline With Zev Brenner

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

on the air since 1981. >> It's always great to have Rabbi Daniel J. Glading with us. He is the his shas congregation to Ferris Morai in the five towns. His publishing company is called Met Heraka and he's written over nine books. Prolific writer and he has very thoughtful on some very important issues. So, welcome back. >> Thanks for having me. >> There's no business like snow business. So, what about snowmen? What about snow? What is Cabalo? What is what is the h of building a snow? Let's look at all these interesting ideas regarding snow. >> Okay. So, you know, you know, Hashem created the world with Tyra. So, every a new phenomenon, every unique phenomenon carries with it the messages of Tyra, the hashkafa, the cabala. So, it's interesting. You would think the last thing that would speak about are snowmen. Like, what what could there possibly be in rabbitic literature about snowmen? There's actually an entire safer on one of the one of the topics discussed is whether you're allowed to build a snowman. You know what could the potential issue be? Well, there's a you can't make a full image of a human being. You can't sculpt an entire sculpture from head to toe with all the features of a human being. So Rnissen Carelllet's ruled that to make a snowman would be hakally problematic again

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1. 0:00on the air since 1981. >> It's always great to have Rabbi Daniel J. Glading with…
2. 2:00I'm not sure what kind of snowman they were making in Aritzra. The snowman that we…
3. 4:07intentionally purposely crush it. >> So you can't make a snowball then on chabas. >> That's…
4. 6:12shinoi. One mitigating factor is it doesn't last. So the Mishnaba in the shion has a…
5. 8:16it with dirt. The fact that it calls it earth is not the criteria of what's…
6. 10:54the word for blessing in Hebrew is bar and the Maral points out each letter is…
7. 12:56putting the snow on your forehead, but if you don't want to do that, at least…
8. 14:59teaching of no reer explained there are two ways that snow is like wool. He says…
9. 17:07heat very quickly. There would be flooding. There would be flooding. It would be dangerous. And…
10. 19:09mikvah. Let's say, you know, let's say you build a mikvah, I don't know, in Arizona…

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