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Thank you in advance for this resource and your time and knowledge. My questions are simple and I look forward to their answers. Can you provide a source solely from the Tanach for the following claims: 1) That Gd gave Moses two torahs -- the second one being the oral Torah; and, 2) That the Tanach gives Rabbis authority to interpret the Torah and rule over its meaning. These are very basic questions. However, no one has been able to correctly answer either one. Can you?   Many thanks. -Marci

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If I am late to minyan and therefore not davening at the same pace as them, and I recite Shema after they do, should I recite אל מלך נאמן?

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Dear Rabbi, I’ve always known that if both your parents are alive, you are supposed to leave the synagogue during Yizkor. My situation is that my parents are both alive and healthy, but I had a brother who died many years ago. I would like to recite Yizkor for him. Can I remain in the synagogue and do that?

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Learning Midrash Tanchumah , in Parshat Yitro , I found a reference regarding 3 types of gerim (converts ) that is explained in Midrash Naso, I assume it means Midrash Raba Parashat Naso , but I could not find it. Could you help me by telling me where exactly in Midrash Raba Naso is that explanation about gerim ? Or send me an image of that page ? Toda rabah , Shabat Shalom ve Chag Sameach ! Shlomo

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If I am praying in a congregation that uses a siddur or machzor in which the prayers are worded somewhat differently than the ones I am accustomed to, or that has some additional prayers or omissions of some prayers that I normally do, or that does its prayers in a different order, should I follow the way I normally do my prayers or the way this congregation does it?

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How much of Mincha needs to be completed before plag haMincha to enable Ma'ariv to be read immediately after plag ? Amidah? Avinu Malkenu? Tachanun? the whole?