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JEWISH BILLIONAIRE MOSHE SABA, HIS WIFE, SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW DIE IN A HELICOPTER CRASH

January 10, 2010,

Jewish Community Honors, Mourns Moshe Menorah Z”L & Grandchildren Killed In Tragic Plane Crash

 July 14th, 2010

Manhattan, NY - Nine killed as Plane, Tourist Helicopter Collide over Hudson River

Mazal Tov

The Bris of my son will be  אי"ה tomorrow Thursday 4 av
at 1559 59 st. Brooklyn NY
Shacharith 7 am

ישראל מאיר שכטר

סעודת ליל לפני הברית 
אצל חמי משפחת ווערנר
1675 50ST
משעה 8 בערב

The Baby's name is Yitzchok Menachem
at the same time today My sister in Eretz Hakodesh at the age of 50 gave birth to twins a Girl and a Boy (she had adopted a girl and a boy)
Mazal u Brocho lechol hamispocho
אריה שכטר

Torah Riddles חידה

1. Which Mitzvah only applies to someone who is sitting, reclining or lying down, but not to a standing one? 
2. On Tisha B'Av morning, everyone sits on the floor as a sign of mourning. However, one person in every synagogue publicly sits down on a chair. Who is this person?
3. What verse in the Torah has the first three words the same as the last three words?" clue "The verse where Moses did not say emet (the truth)." ?
   
4. Whats is first meat then parev then treif then meat?
   
5. Shemoneh Esrei consists of 19 blessings. Who, when, where and in what situation does a person say 21 blessings during the repetition of the Shemoneh Esrei? [with out forgetting anything]

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כסף חי Mercury

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I found i a blog

Smattering of info about medicine in early rabbinic Judaism:

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  Of the prohibited Sabbath work categories, grinding is the most germane because many remedies were prepared by grinding. (bShab Ch. 7)
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  A rule against dressing a wound on Shabbat is derived from the prohibited tannery work of smoothing (ha-memakheq Shab 75b).
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  Honey: to treat a sore (76b)
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  Water: to dilute qilor (cp. Greek collyrium) as a red salve for the eye (76b)
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  (Or breast milk or animal milk could serve as the qilor solvent. )77b)
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  Blood: a remedy for ליארוד, cataracts or leucoma (78a)(Artscroll or Jastrow)
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  Antimony (כוחל  Jastrow): as a cosmetics pigment and as a medicinal ingredient (80a)

Quicksilver (mercury), common for ancient remedies, was apparently kept in vials [1], according to Rashi. He calls mercury “כסף חי” literally “living silver” i.e. quicksilver. (78b)

I found it curious that Artscroll mentions J. Preuss, Biblical and Talmudic Medicine (76b n7). How often does the Artscroll (Schottenstein) Talmud cite academic works? [2]

Gesundheit,

Kaspit כספית

[1] The vials were sealed with a small amount of pitch, which for the Mishnah becomes the de minimus amount of pitch that could be carried on Shabbat.)

[2] Cf. bibliography of Jewish healing magic(Alex Jassen and Scott Noegel)

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