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Activity for Isaac Moses
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
— | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Why does the incense offerer get a chosen buddy? 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 בַקְּטֹרֶת, הָיָה נוֹטֵל אֶת הַבָּזָךְ מִתּוֹךְ הַכַּף וְנוֹתְנוֹ לְאוֹהֲבוֹ אוֹ לִקְרוֹבוֹ. נִתְפַּזּ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? I'm honestly not sure what I'd prefer in this area, but I'd like to try out specifying an extension of the "Judaism is core" standard proposed by Monica Cellio to a yet broader scope, and see what people think. Questions about people should be in scope if their Judaism, their status as a notab... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What is our policy regarding using non-English languages in a post? 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 English, and the language of discourse in the other (`שו"ת`) being Hebrew. Whatever accessibility rules we hav... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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What is the mission of this community? 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 to come up with an overarching understanding of what our community is trying to accomplish. I think we ca... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How will Judaism Codidact be better than Mi Yodeya? 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're one of the first handful of communities on this still-developing platform, whose code is being developed as a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Make it clear that our FAQ is about this community, not all of Judaism I edited the FAQ page to refer to this site/community as "Judaism.Codidact" rather than "Judaism." (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How will Judaism Codidact be better than Mi Yodeya? Without directly answering the question [yet], I'd like to point out that for Judaism.Codidact to be worthwhile, it doesn't have to be better than Mi Yodeya in an absolute sense; it just has to be capable of attracting a community of people who are willing to contribute here to worthwhile Q&A about J... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Custom Community Name? 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 string could be incorrectly parsed as "Come Lamed," which isn't big deal, but may be a little ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? I think we should delay importing from Mi Yodeya for a while, while we figure out what our scope and standards should be. What we import and how we treat it could be affected by those decisions, and importing is presumably an operation that won't be reversible. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Custom Community Name? The Judaism term that comes to mind immediately in association with "codidact" is chavruta/chavrusa - "study partner." The obvious domain names with that word (chavruta, chavrusa, havruta, havrusa .com) are all taken. Chaverai (or Chaveirai).com = "my friends" / "my study partners" is available, a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Make it clear that our FAQ is about this community, not all of Judaism 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 Judaism rather than to Judaism. Here's how the top of the FAQ page looks now: > # Judaism FAQ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should imported posts retain their original votes? Another proposal: Award at most one vote on import per post. If we're importing a post that had a net-positive score at Mi Yodeya, indicating that the community there considered it valuable, it would seem wrong for it to show up here with a zero score. So give it one upvote "from the community." ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Do Felt Garments Require Tzitzit? 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 Kotleinu #15 by Yeshivat HaKotel, in 5754 (1993 - '94). 1. The Levush, in Levush Hatecheilet 10:4,... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? 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 closed and can be determined to be in a category that's off-topic on MY and on-topic here, or is Purim ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? 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-topic? Questions to consider (please edit in more if you see fit): - Is Modern Hebrew treated diffe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Has anyone proposed to recreate the system of 24 ma'amadot, since the Dispersal? The Mishna, in Ta'anit 4:1-4, describes an institution called ma'amadot: Just as the Kohens and Levites were divided into 24 clans, which each handled the Temple service for two non-holiday weeks of the year, the non-Levite Israelites were also divided into 24 groups, called ma'amadot. These groups a... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Who got to have the leftover flour from the Omer? The Mishna reports in Menachot 10:4 that, after the required amount of premium flour had been extracted from the barley set aside for the Omer, the considerable amount tof leftover, mixed-quality flour would be "redeemed and edible by anyone." It seems to me that such flour, which had been processed ... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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What prompted the absent-Sanhedrin-head decree in Rosh Hashana 4:4? R' Yochanan ben Zakai, in leading the Jewish people during and immediately after the Destruction of the Second Temple, issued many decrees aimed at responding to the new post-Temple reality and preserving Judaism. When I see one of these decrees recorded in the Mishna, I find it interesting to think ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: If voting doesn't do anything, should one vote? 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 United States, which allows for a safe haven in which Jews can live and practice Judaism. The letter di... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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Source for not referring to Chanuka lights as a "menora" Following up on this question about the use of the words "menora" or "chanukiya" to refer to Chanuka lights: I find it interesting that the use of "chanukiya," popularized in 1897 through a secular lexicographic effort, seems to embody a distinction that is religiously valuable: between the seven-br... (more) |
— | over 11 years ago |
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Experience-based advice for focusing and slowing down prayers? I tend to daven (pray) without sufficient focus and very quickly. In particular, I find that most of the time that I'm praying, my mind is on things other than the words that I'm saying. And, not that comparison with others is ideal in this realm, but for what it's worth, I frequently find that I am ... (more) |
— | over 14 years ago |