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Activity for Isaac Mosesâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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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) |
— | 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 |
| 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) |
— | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Comment | Post #278481 |
@robev using multiple sources together in some way that interacts (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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276955 |
There's "too generic," not "too broad" that I can see.
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276907 |
The written Torah is old enough that it's unlikely there are any teachings in it that have never been adopted/adapted by any younger religions. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276903 |
@AA This post explicitly widens the standard to "Judaism, status as a notable Jewish figure, or membership in the Jewish people is core" and applies that standard. I'm not ready to claim that this is optimal or the right degree of precision, but I think it's clearly distinct from "Judaism is core." I... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
@msh210 I'm not sure I agree about the relative prevalences, but good point. I suspect that fluency in written Rabbinic Hebrew would be easier to find among primarily English-speaking Judaism scholars, anyway. What concerns me is making sure there's a mod who can rapidly and fairly understand and res... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
@MonicaCellio I think the CC license would require such a link anyway (on the derivative side), but yes, I agree that it would make sense to have an explicit rule that intentional translations of content from one side to the other must be linked. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
@AA I don't think we should segregate scope into Categories. I agree that if we did segregate out Hebrew language scope as a Category, that would conflict with the plan in this answer. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276895 |
@AA I'd recommend editing to make that clear: You're proposing a category with a different language *and* a different scope. I'll post a separate answer advocating for a separate category with a different language and the same scope. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276895 |
The answer you point at seems to be about a Category for questions about Hebrew, while this answer seems to be about a Category for Q&A about our overall scope, in Hebrew rather than English. I think the latter is an intriguing idea for use of the Categories feature. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276891 |
Note: The accessibility requirements contemplated here are related to those contemplated in [this post](https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276554#answer-276591) about sourcing. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276876 |
This would be particularly helpful given that: 1) Partial usernames in comments don't seem to generate pings. 2) Usernames are allowed to (and on Mi Yodeya, some do) contain non-English characters, which are difficult to type in many environments. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276874 |
I don't necessarily agree with every one of these proposed rules, but I upvoted the principle that we can come up with some rules to restrict language questions to the non-trivial. We could look at what policies the language communities have evolved on SE for best practices. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276864 |
I think it would be valuable for you to expand more on what you mean by "practices, history, and philosophy," and why you choose those terms to sum up the content. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276742 |
@AA I see this post as about collecting aspirations - visions - rather than mechanisms or policy prescriptions. It's not at all surprising that people's behaviors are going to default to what they're used to elsewhere. Whether by deliberation over policy or by evolution, it will take time for the rul... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276615 |
@AA I think that if we're going to mix together two different kinds of information from two different contexts, an affirmative case needs to be made for mixing the data, more than for not doing so. This is not the same community as MY, and the scope, standards, and mores may all be different here, as... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276718 |
@Monica I assumed, based on the basis of the question, that it means "female who can eat *teruma*," which includes both a kohen's unmarried daughter and a kohen's wife. Perhaps DonielF should edit to make the population in question explicit. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276682 |
Looks fixed to me at https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276676
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276656 |
@AA *haverai* or *hevraya*, perhaps with a dot? ;^) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276657 |
@AA I agree that "import on duplicate" would be helpful to have. Maybe even just to import the *answers* from the MY post into the new question here (i.e. "merging"). I can't quantify what I mean by "a while," but I suppose it's something like "long enough that there's a core community here of active... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276656 |
@MTL "Chevraya"'s nice, and it almost rhymes with "Yodeya," FWIW. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276656 |
@DonielF I like that we both picked up on the resonance of the word "codidact" with Judaism's "learning together" value. We should keep brainstorming in this direction. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276653 |
@Mithical I agree that this particular name is rather obscure. In general, if this site does get a distinctive name (which would probably end up being non-English), I think care should be taken that in every context in which it's displayed to people who aren't already community members, it's made cle... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276622 |
@MonicaCellio [done](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276640) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276622 |
@MonicaCellio In discussion thus far, has a convention emerged in the Codidact dev community as to how to refer in conversation (or external outreach) to individual CD communities? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276613 |
I have a feeling that quite a few congregations and other institutions will be publishing a guide matching that description in a couple of months. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |