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Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact!

Will you help us build our community of learners? Drop into our study hall, ask questions, help others with answers to their questions, share a d'var torah if you're so inclined, invite your friends, and join us in building this community together. Not an ask-the-rabbi service, just people at all levels learning together.

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One of the key features of Codidact is Categories. There has been some discussion elsewhere, but now that the community is up & running, Meta is the place to talk about this. Two suggestions I know of so far:

  • Divrei Torah

I think this should be Post only (i.e., like Q without the A) but allow comments, editing, etc.

  • Purim Torah

This should be full Q&A. One key item to decide is whether this should be open for new questions all the time or limited to "close to Purim".

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Divrei Torah

One of the things I've picked up in my time with various online communities is that giving people multiple modes of engagement strengthens community connections. It's why SE chat helps communities connect even though SE treats chat as "other space" that isn't well-integrated. It's why Mi Yodeya's Purim Torah brings in different people and different types of contributions. It's why people who want to share knowledge will look for ways to do that, even if they have to fabricate a self-answered question to fit the platform.

Q&A is central to learning and especially, in my opinion, to Jewish learning. We're all about questions. But we're also about sharing things we've learned, including sharing our own torah insights (clearly labeled as ours so we don't give them more weight than they deserve). I think we should welcome that kind of sharing here on the Judaism Codidact site.

Another new community here is doing something similar: Cooking has a Recipes category. The site doesn't want questions asking for recipes (those don't tend to work out well), so approaching recipes through self-answered questions would be a poor approach. But people can share their recipes in the category set up for that purpose, alongside but not interfering with Q&A.

We have some insightful and knowledgable people here, and we're part of a culture that shares divrei torah in shul, at the Shabbat table, on our blogs, even on Twitter sometimes... why not here? Let's create a category for it, and agree informally to create room for each other there.

I think divrei torah can add another dimension to our community. I'd love to see what y'all have to share without having to twist a teaching into the Q&A format. I want to learn from others here in this other mode, alongside asking and answering questions.

N.B.: I mean divrei torah in the broadest sense of the phrase -- parsha commentary, lessons from chassidut, insights from daf yomi or talmud more generally, examination of points of halacha, insights in t'filah... if it's torah, Jewish teaching, it should be welcome.

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DonielF‭ wrote over 4 years ago

This certainly avoids a long-discussed issue we had on MY, regarding if a user can ask a question of the form “I have this great chiddush – does anyone say it anywhere?” Our community has what to share, and I think having a Dvar Torah category would be a great outlet for it, if done correctly.

Kazi bácsi‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Lately I've been thinking about your idea, and I suppose we should rather create a dedicated blog-like section next to Q&A/Challenges/Meta, where people could volunteer to write a derashah about a weekly parashah etc. Below these posts we also could engage in a discussion. I suppose this would be a better structure for this type of content. Shall we create a new meta post to elaborate on this idea?