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Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact!

Will you help us build our community of learners? Drop into our study hall, ask questions, help others with answers to their questions, share a d'var torah if you're so inclined, invite your friends, and join us in building this community together. Not an ask-the-rabbi service, just people at all levels learning together.

Posts by DonielF‭

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Meta Custom Community Name?

For those of us who were or still are a part of the Judaism StackExchange community, you'll know that they don't call themselves "Judaism Stack Exchange" – it's Mi Yodeya. Here, we're just "Judaism...

17 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Harel13‭

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Meta Proposal: Weekly Topic Challenge

As we’re building up this community, I thought it would be a neat idea to feature a weekly topic challenge, similar to when MY was getting started (see here). The idea would be as follows: A new c...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Welcome to our new pro-tem moderators!

I first discovered Mi Yodeya during the 2016 PTIJ season; I was a senior in high school running the school newspaper looking for good content for the Purim edition and had about zero creativity in ...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Meta What should be our Modesty Policy?

Judaism Codidact is founded on being a site where people can turn to learn more about Judaism. While our heritage has what to say on intimate themes, it also emphasizes the importance of modesty. W...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alaychem‭

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Meta Divrei Torah Category: LAUNCHED!

An oft-requested feature for this community is a forum in which people can post their own Chiddushei Torah, their own Torah novelties — their own Divrei Torah. We are excited to announce that the D...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Dani‭

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Meta Double Posting here and on Mi Yodeya

והתנא האריך להגדיל תורה ויאדיר And the teacher expanded to spread Torah and glorify [it]. (Tosfos, BK 2a) Codidact and Stack Exchange are two independent sites. They may have similar functionalit...

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Meta Sefaria linking is now installed

A previous draft here had an experiment. After digging through the code for the Linker I can confidently say that a complete answer to the question of "what can I link to" is "anything on Sefaria,"...

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Meta When is a source required? How should sources be quoted or linked?

כל האומר דבר בשם אומרו מביא גאולה לעולם שנא׳ ותאמר אסתר למלך בשם מרדכי Whoever says something in the name of the one who said it brings redemption to the world, as it says (Esther 2:22), "And Esth...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why is Shlissel Challah permissible?

In ancient times, the Roman pagan holiday of Saturnalia included a practice of baking some type of cake with a fava bean hidden inside, with a prize for whoever got the piece containing the bean. I...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What happened to the end of the Aleph-Beis in Kol Mekadesh?

One of the songs commonly sung on Friday night, which begins Kol Mekadesh Shevi'i, follows an alphabetic acrostic. After the introductory stanza, each stanza contains four phrases: the first three ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ploni‭

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Meta Divrei Torah Category

It's been previously suggested to create a Divrei Torah category. With Elul coming up I'm sure there's lots that the community has to share — should we create this forum in which people can do so? ...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A What is the difference between Islam and Judaism, given that the Torah is also one of Islam's holy books?

Starting with your main question of what distinguishes Judaism and Islam: Judaism holds the Torah as part of its Biblical canon, also accepting the books of the Prophets and Writings (that’s the b...

posted 3y ago by DonielF‭

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Meta Purim Torah Discussion

It's almost that time of year! Who's ready for some Purim Torah? Before we begin the season, we need to set some ground rules. In this thread, I'd like to discuss how exactly this will run. Below ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭

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Q&A Which of the Asseres Hadibros is most important?

Makkot 24a: בא חבקוק והעמידן על אחת שנאמר (חבקוק ב, ד) וצדיק באמונתו יחיה Habakuk came and established [the 613 mitzvot] on one, as it says (Habakuk 2:4), “And a righteous one will live with his f...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Meta Automatic draft-saving plus Sefaria auto-linker leads to the post taking too long to save

If I write up a post on any other Codidact site, the auto-save feature isn't too bad; every time I click around in the text box, or pause for a moment, it briefly autosaves. If I write up a post o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Is there any connection between the Sotah, the Mizbeiach, and the Beis HaMikdash keychain?

In exactly three contexts, the Mishnah notes that there was an amah square marble slab with a ring, using exactly the same language each time. The first is in Sotah 2:2, regarding the Sotah procedu...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A What is the status of a human-mermaid offspring?

Bechorot 8a discusses a species called dolfinim, which, in Rashi's understanding, are merpeople and can bear viable offspring with humans. Let's suppose that merpeople actually exist as Rashi descr...

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Q&A Can a Rabbi lose his ordination?

Suppose Reuven is ordained as a Rabbi (receives semicha). His teacher, Rabbi Yaakov, decides that he is learned enough and of the right character to serve as a Rabbinic authority and proclaims that...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Challenges Weekly Topic Challenge #8: Rav Steinsaltz z"l

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Challenges Weekly Topic Challenge #7: Lashon Hara

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Meta Divrei Torah Category

Summary of Proposals The consensus seems to be strongly in favor of pursuing this idea, so long as there's strong quality control in place as well. To summarize the idea thus far, and putting some ...

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Q&A Is one in violation of Lifnei Iveir for setting himself up to sin later?

Avodah Zarah 6a.16-6b.1: והתניא: אמר רבי נתן, ״מנין שלא יושיט אדם כוס של יין לנזיר ואבר מן החי לבני נח? ת"ל (ויקרא יט, יד) ולפני עור לא תתן מכשול.״‏ It was taught in a Braisa: R' Nassan said, "Fro...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by robev‭

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Q&A Why is "chinam" translated as "baseless"?

Everywhere that the term חנם appears, as far as I can tell, it always means "without personal benefit": a שומר חנם (Bava Metzia 7:8) watches an object without receiving anything in return; a Jewish...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Dev-iL‭

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