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Activity for Isaac Moses
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| Comment | Post #280782 |
We don't have the technology yet to make a non-prominent, read-only category, so we're going to do a full hide this year and consider a more nuanced approach in future years. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280935 |
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| Edit | Post #280934 |
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| Edit | Post #280934 |
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| Edit | Post #280891 | Question closed | — | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280817 |
This question will, of course, be much stronger if you can find and add the source for the assertion in the first paragraph, which is the core rule that you're presenting in tension with the guidance toward marrying at 18. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280783 |
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| Edit | Post #280783 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Purim Torah should be visible year-round I don't know if the technology exists for this yet, but I agree that keeping the category readable but not writeable and off the top-bar through the year would be a viable way to keep the feature and its attendant distractions effectively limited to its season, without relying on precisely legislatin... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280773 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Purim Torah Discussion The Purim Torah category is live! (Thanks, Monica!) Complete documentation for this category is at the top of the category: > Joke Q&A and essays about Judaism. Please don't take anything in this category [completely] seriously! Our Code of Conduct remains in effect. This category will disappea... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280643 |
Votes are one of our main mechanisms for helping readers decide what's worth reading. They also provide valuable feedback to authors regarding what is deemed useful by the community. In the case of Purim Torah, both of these functions of voting are important and essential to the value Judaism.CD can ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280591 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Purim Torah Discussion 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 from sincere content. If there's that, it's not so important that we have a clear definition of what co... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280057 |
Post edited: imported the rest of the attribution from the comment |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280082 |
I agree with all of the reasoning presented here and request the removal of this tag. If it's possible to blacklist this tag from the DT category, I request that as well. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276383 |
@Aliza We haven't established a consensus about this yet. I encourage you to post your question, and we'll see how the community handles it. The more explicitly it has to do with Judaism, the more of the proposals here it would likely satisfy, and the better reception it will likely get. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278533 |
Post edited: Typo: Yisreal |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278502 |
@MonicaCellio in most services I've been to, the Chazan and the congregation mostly mumble the Avoda poetry to themselves at top speed. I was home this year for the first time in my adult life, and I got to spend more time reading it at my own pace and supplementing, which I enjoyed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278502 |
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| Comment | Post #278481 |
... I suspect that a similar ratio of quotation/restatement to "novel" application is fairly common among divrei Torah in the wild and will likely be fairly common in our D"T collection (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278481 |
I posted [an initial entry](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/278502). Let me acknowledge that a great deal of it consists of quoting R' Hirsch and otherwise restating his ideas in my words. However, as the idea of the devar Torah is to then apply his ideas about the Temple service as suggestions... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278502 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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The Kohen Gadol's wardrobe changes and your Yom Kippur prayers Adapted from a devar Torah delivered before Yizkor at Congregation Ohr Simcha on Yom Kippur 5767 (2006). I’d like to share with you a beautiful comment of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch that I think can be applied to a few parts of our Yom Kippur prayer service. Four verses in to R’ Hirsch’s comme... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278481 |
@robev using multiple sources together in some way that interacts (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278443 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Why is "life from confusion" included in the agricultural Hoshana-prayer? 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 cultivation of plants or animals. The one possible exception is what I'm curious about. "נֶֽפֶשׁ מִב... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277323 |
@msh210 And many examples of the type of case you describe - "in a book that almost no one has or is likely to come across" - would be ripe for one of the categories of novel work that I explicitly encourage - "Translation of a classic source that isn't already available in English [online]." (2/2) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277323 |
@msh210 I think that *republishing* someone else's work, in particular, is something we should especially avoid. In the last paragraph of this answer, I recommend *emphasizing* contributions that are more novel than "simple re-transmission," but not necessarily forbidding simple re-transmission of a ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278187 |
Whatever the rule is, it should not require consulting a lookup table to apply. It should make *simple* use of as few as possible readily-available metrics, such as Wilson score, upvotes, downvotes, and age. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277947 |
Mod note: The main point of comments is to discuss potential improvements to the post at hand. For tangent discussions, consider using [chat](https://discord.gg/bv2aaGa). UPDATE: This note was based on a concept from Stack Exchange that I had in my head, but that hasn't been firmly adopted here. We'l... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277299 |
@interested Essential to productive participation in a community like this is understanding the difference between criticizing a particular community-written post on the internet and criticizing authorities that are cited in such a post. If you don't agree that there's such a distinction, then this c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277299 |
@interested ... Anyone is welcome to take on the responsibility of transmitting Torah without such assistance by starting a personal blog. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277299 |
@interested This is a community-based resource, and one of the core mechanisms that make it valuable is community-based peer review. If a writer takes on the awesome responsibility of transmitting words of Torah or rabbis, that author takes on the responsibility to do the job well, in a way that will... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277323 |
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| Comment | Post #277317 |
@eliyahu Good point. I purposefully didn't specify a particular threshold; it could be 0 or even (but not likely) a low-magnitude negative. How a deletion policy ought to work would depend on the posting policy. If only timely responses to particular prompts are invited, then it becomes more reasonab... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277323 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Divrei Torah Category 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 value in our providing a forum for such republication. In addition, of course, such republication without ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277317 |
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| Edit | Post #277317 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Divrei Torah Category 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 imposes some inherent limitations on what people can post. Every question needs to be a clear and appare... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277242 |
We're back up now.
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
@DonielF there are only a few of them. We can handle them on a case-by-case basis, with help from local posters (all three of us). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
I would like to import the following unanswered questions I posted at MY, please: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/101840/ https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/103861/ https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/82071/ https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/113353/ https://juda... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277055 |
Well [this](http://www.har-habait.org/articleBody/31424) looks pretty cool. Seems that they were a standard architectural feature. I'll leave it to someone who can deal with the Hebrew more fluidly than I can to write an answer. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277049 |
@manassehkatz Are you proposing that our rule here include a filter for inferred intent? If so, I think that's distinct from this answer and deserves an answer of its own. At Mi Yodeya, I've seen multiple cases that my gut told me were in your latter category but that were written in technical-enoug... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
@AA I think the community could choose to interpret either "too generic" or "not constructive" as including open-ended, opinion-based questions like this. The community could also choose to include a statement in our scope to the effect of "objective questions only," which would make questions like t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
@msh210 Thanks. Can you expand the motivation beyond ~"this is something I've had smaller conversations about before"? Surely there's some relatable reason why you've had such conversations at home and why you therefore want to expand the discussion to random people on the internet. Or is the motivat... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
I'm inclined to close this question, since it's asking for purely subjective opinions. However, as we haven't firmly established community standards, and as I'm serving in a pro tempore role, I hesitate to set precedent without discussion. First, requests for improvement. Can you edit this question t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277049 |
This standard says that *all* questions in this domain are allowed, provided that they use the right language. So, that could include questions that are very explicit, albeit in technical language, such as "Is it permissible for ____ to bring ____ into contact with ____'s _____ for the purpose of ___... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |