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Is the mitzvah of tefillin specifically to don them or to wear them once they are being worn? If one fails to have in mind he is fulfilling the mitzvah of tefillin at the time he is donning them, but has the mitzvah in mind when they are already on, has he fulfilled the mitzvah of tefillin?

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Is existentialism, a western/continental philosophical movement founded primarily by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Søren Kierkegaard, compatible with Judaism? I ask as Joseph soloveitchik studied Kierkegaard

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What is the source for the tradition "when you build a new town the first thing you do is make the cemetery... even before the shochet or yeshiva is set up..." I know I've heard this teaching before and am having trouble locating the source.

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What is Judaism’s perspective on the debate of the principle of univocity of being and whether it is true or not? I could see a non univocal argument supporting Kierkegaard’s notion of the suspension of human good to serve God’s good in the akeida