Sep. 12th, 2013

cellio: (talmud)
Today's daf is in the midst of a discussion of the Pesach offering. The mishna teaches: he who breaks a bone of a clean Pesach offering is punished with lashes (since the torah says no bones shall be broken), but he who leaves over meat of a clean animal until morning (also forbidden by the torah) is not, nor is one who breaks the bone of an unclean animal. Why is one not punished for leaving over the meat until morning? Because, the g'mara elaborates, the torah says "you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning" and also "that which remains until morning you shall burn" -- thus, we have a negative commandment followed by a positive one, and violation of the negative commandment (or negative commandments in general?) is not punished with lashes. This is R. Yehudah's view. But what about breaking the bones from the unclean animal? There are several opinions (which I do not completely understand yet). (84a)

(I don't understand why not breaking the bone of a clean offering isn't also a negative commandment. Or, if it is, why it nonetheless gets lashes.)

cellio: (avatar-face)
Dear LJ brain trust,

What is the current wisdom about special-purpose email forwarding? I need an email address that is not my own main one, whose purpose in life is just to forward email to me (I don't need outbound anything), for which traffic will be very low and probably infrequent -- maybe a message every month or two, maybe less. Because of that last I don't want to set it up on some service where I have to go check the email, hence the forwarding. I could define a pobox alias (I already use pobox), but I'd prefer an extra degree of separation. I do not have my own domain name or mail server. Free is good; cheap is possible.

Thanks.

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