Isaac Moses‭

I would probably be interested, at some point, in importing Q&A in which I've either asked or answered, with rules something like: My post is scored above N. Question isn't closed. (Or is c...

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R' Etan Gilkarov lays out evidence for and against requiring tzitzit on a felt garment in Footnote 5 of a responsum entitled "בדין חיוב ציצית בתלית ניילון בצבע ירוק"‎1, originally published in Kotl...

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I think we should reserve this category explicitly for original writing by community members. Some people might be interested in republishing pieces that they've read elsewhere, but I see little va...

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On Mi Yodeya, questions about Hebrew that aren't clearly about Judaism are considered out of scope. Should that be the case here, or should questions about the Hebrew language be ipso facto on-topi...

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In a message on the Codidact network Discord channel, msh210 pointed out: https://judaism.codidact.com/help/faq This page -- its title and some of its text -- sound like it's introducing people to...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

We need to work on defining our mission. There are a bunch of questions to resolve about particular scope boundaries. (The first is on language questions, and more should come.), and we also need t...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭

We need to think carefully about editorial standards and process. We don't want to become a platform for people to post crackpot ideas to the internet without restriction. In Q&A, the structure...

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The theme of the "Adama mei-arer" Hoshana-prayer that we say on Hoshana Rabba appears to be asking God to protect our agriculture. With one possible exception, every element appears to be about the...

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Perhaps, to hew close to the "Codidact" brand, we could consider: CoTalmid That is, Latin for "together" plus Hebrew for "student." I thought about "CoMelamed" ("together" plus "teacher"), but that...

posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭

Mishnayot Tamid 6:3 says that the kohen who wins the right to offer the daily incense brings a buddy with him to hold one of the vessels and help him retrieve any dropped incense: מִי שֶׁזָּכָה בַ...

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In an apparently-open letter dated October 3, 1984, R' Moshe Feinstein urged Jews in the United States to vote as a means of expressing hakaras hatov (appreciation) for the democratic system in the...

posted 8y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Isaac Moses‭

2: Given the size of our population and the maturity of our community, I recommend avoiding premature optimization of the rules. There needs to be some mechanism for segregating non-sincere content...

posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭

One way in which I see this platform excelling for Judaism Q&A is through the platform team's responsiveness to feature requests to enhance the Judaism Q&A experience, in particular. As we'...

posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭

A slightly different take on AA's idea to use the Categories feature: Maintain two categories of Q&A with the same scope and rules, but with the language of discourse in one (Q&A) being Eng...

posted 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭