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| Comment | Post #285033 |
I'm glad to hear that you're attempting to have broader inclusion here. That's one of the biggest flaws of MY in my opinion. I'm Orthodox myself (and prefer not to define myself as Modern Orthodox though some might see me as such), but also get frustrated seeing the super-Orthodox members over there ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285033 |
(4) I'm not posting this to be 'that disgruntled ex-member (in fact, I never deleted my account) coming back to flame everything'. I'm not mad at the site, just a bit sad. Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not mad at anyone in particular, nor do I think there was some conspiracy to make the site thi... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285033 |
(3) On that note, during the summer, a friend who's doing his MA in archeology explained that one of the reasons he decided to major in his BA in geographical history instead of archeology a decade ago was because when he did his student excavations, he was sent to a site where the veteran students a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285033 |
(2) I started out on Mi Yodeya about three years ago, around the time you left/were kicked out, so I don't have that sense of betrayal in terms of the site like some of the older users, but I also don't really know how the site gained popularity. But I became frustrated by some things, such as the co... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285033 |
(1) Hi and Shanah Tova [pardon for the long post split into parts; I'm not posting this as answer both because it's not an answer and because I expect it will be downvoted, see below]. I haven't been here in quite a while. If I'm not mistaken, I had joined the Judaism Codidact before it even had a na... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #280782 |
I Agree. (15 char) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
Genizah (Ginzei Hakodesh 101). http://www.havabooks.co.il/sms.asp?cat=128 (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
Found it also on his website: ברית חדשה וקוראן
ש: מצאתי ברית חדשה וקוראן ורוצה לזרוק לפח. אפשר?
ת: ברית חדשה כן, כי זו עבודה זרה (שו"ת אגרות משה יו"ד א קעב). בקוראן, יש גם שם ד' ודברי אמונה, לכן לעטוף טוב ולשים בגניזה (גנזי הקודש קא). Translation: Q. I found an NT and a Koran and want to throw them... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
@MonicaCellio He's often asked this in his weekly responsa which appears in the Dati publication Olam Katan. I'll see if I can find one where he addresses this. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280575 |
Or...the custom didn't come from that? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner has written multiple times that such books should just be tossed out into the trash, without fishing out the holy parts. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
https://www.ykr.org.il/question/2896 https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F (2nd reply) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279800 |
@DonielF More to the point, you probably know more about calendars than I do. It was my impression that the comparison made by UCA was of a "perfect" Julian calendar, meaning - when it was first started, before shifts and leaps were made. Which is why I also thought that the Julian could still be com... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279800 |
@DonielF I suppose you should write UCL and tell them that. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280057 |
There are also two other R"T: כבוד מעלת רבי and כל מום רע. Likely it's not the latter... :D (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280090 |
@MonicaCellio All good. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280090 |
https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/280 @MonicaCellio (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
@user8087 Highly appreciated. Shkoyech! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
@sabbahillel Thanks. Yes, I know of the spear version too, but forgot about it. But I recall another version that used non-spear torches. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
@rosends The version of the story I'm familiar with is that the Greeks did, in fact, loot the Temple. The Menorah used then was a temporary one made out of torches held aloft somehow (perhaps by kohanim, at least part of the time). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279737 |
We had something a little similar in shul once. The bar mitzva teacher of a non-religious kid had gotten the haftarot mixed up (there was some sort of special haftarah that shabbat, perhaps מחר חודש?) so to not embarrass the kid, they let him read the haftarah he prepared. Most of the people in shul ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279469 |
@DonielF Thanks. Yes, that's a good question. It seems to me that Yaakov saw greatness in Efraim and gave him the better blessing, but on the other hand, that may have been because Yaakov literally saw into the future and saw multiple leaders chosen from Efraim - Yehoshua, Avdon ben Hillel, Yerov'am,... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279430 |
@curiousdannii, thanks for the tip. And yes, from what I've gathered, these are all missing from the LXX - there are many others, but these are the ones that had Talmudic era texts that seemed relevant to my theory on the subject. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279430 |
For some reason all the list's numbers changed to 1. In edit mode they're still 1, 2, etc. Anyone know how to fix that? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279314 |
very central to Jewish beliefs, which in my mind raises a red flag as to what went on in the minds of the authors of the Septuagint. This is actually makes me optimistic that I'll find similar stances (about the importance of these verses, as opposed to removing them) in the Talmud and Midrash. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279314 |
@curiousdanii, I commented yesterday on the answer below that there's a chance that the sages referred to the differences in an inexplicit manner, as there's evidence that they inexplicitly referred to other parts of the Septuagint. As long as there isn't yet a comprehensive answer that examines this... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279335 |
@robev Was David fully king at the point or only king-in-waiting/next-in-line? He was only crowned by Yehudah after Shaul died and only crowned by Yisrael after the death of Ish Boshet, after all. Was the anointing by Shmuel the חלות of the crowning or the official ceremony? Secondly, shouldn't this ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279329 |
@user8078 No, chas v'shalom, I wasn't hinting you were ignorant. I added it as a helpful comment. I myself only discovered the essay a couple of months ago. Sadly, he doesn't bring any Jeremiah examples in there. It would take a ton of work to sift through all of the chazalic texts referring to Jerem... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279329 |
Rabbi Reuven Margaliyot wrote a short essay called "חכמי התלמוד ותרגום השבעים" (The Talmudic Sages and The LXX). In it he brings eight examples of inexplicit references he found to the LXX in the Talmud and Midrashim. All are cases in which the sages asserted a certain understanding, spelling or vowe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278964 |
@MonicaCellio after some thinking, I would say that aderabah, why not tell Noach to build a ship and not an ark and to set sail to Yisrael? But even if one prefers the purpose of an ark, which seems to be the aimlessness of floating in water without knowing what will happen next or whether things wil... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278731 |
Links could be things like online essays about interesting subjects that haven't necessarily been asked about in the Q&A section and aren't relevant for use in the DT section. For example, links to sites of Jewish quarterlies and essays, or links to specific essays or articles that may be useful for ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278731 |
"things like that" may include something that may otherwise be considered a half-finished idea for a DT, like: the geo-political ramifications of the War of the 4 & 5 Kings, but in this section would simply be that idea, standing on its own, without the need of some Torah-based, moral twist or chiddu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278731 |
@msh210 well I don't know what would be considered "edge cases" here, but I'll try to give some examples. That chart you put in DT, in my opinion, is something that one wouldn't just show at a shabbat table and be יוצא ידי חובה of saying a DT. It's a useful thing to have around when studying the rele... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278839 |
Sigd may very well have been a special day that was lost to Am Yisrael at some point, as are a number of different customs that Ethiopians have that may have been preserved from pre-exilic times. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278839 |
Interesting article (in Hebrew) https://www.srugim.co.il/389043-%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%92%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%92%D7%93-%D7%9B%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278662 |
@Dr.Shmuel maybe סדר הקורות בתנ"ך? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278521 |
@manassehkatz maybe. Just a thought I'm having now: water, as rain, comes down, while oil, when burned, goes up (the flames...). Needs more work... :D (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278520 |
@MonicaCellio I suppose that could work too. :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278481 |
Awesome! :D 15 ch. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278321 |
Traumatic? In what way? (and please don't say: oh, how would you feel if your dad c"v tried to slaughter and sacrifice you? Because that minimizes greatly the character and greatness of the two people we're talking about here) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278286 |
During Israel's first wave, there was a shacharit minyan broadcast on the radio every weekday and on Mondays and Thursdays they would announce newborn girl names sent to them. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278045 |
There are several answers to what it means to confuse Satan, so I recommend putting that as a separate question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278033 |
@DonielF no, but the source would still be welcomed, to check out. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277987 |
https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=2590&st=&pgnum=327 Some more background info on Tarshish. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277865 |
@Alaychem shameless self-promoting, I see...;D (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277865 |
@Alaychem "Elohim" also means "judges" so.......maybe not? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277663 |
@Alaychem those must be illnesses that weren't around in the time of the gemara... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277849 |
@MonicaCellio thank you. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277849 |
@msh210 are you suggesting that names that are short forms are meaningless? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277849 |
@msh210 sorry. I'm looking for the meaning of the name. If it's a short form of Dodvahu, it means that David means Dod (friend) of Hashem. Random example for meaning: my name, Harel, literally means mountain of Hashem, but is also the name of a part of the mizbe'ach in the Mikdash, as described in th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |