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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](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/29) 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.