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| Edit | Post #276958 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about the State/Land of Israel in-scope? I think archaeology should be in scope, but I'm not sure that talking about every monastery that the Crusaders built, for example, is in scope. Similar to what I wrote in Jewish/history, I think that questions about Crusaders' impact on Jewish communities in Israel, perhaps even myths about connectio... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276949 |
@rosends, I highly appreciate the explanation. In fact, it may even explain why Nun is so often mentioned along with Yehoshua. I picture a scenario around something like: Elishama had lost hope of leaving Egypt, and so decided to at least attempt to prepare his son for assimilation into Egypt. His so... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276949 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Why does Nun have an Aramaic name? Nun, the father of Yehoshua, is apparently named after a word for fish in Aramaic (for example, Beresheet Rabbah 97:3; Divrei Emet, Matot). His father Elishama (according to Divrei Hayamim 1:7:26-27) had a Hebrew name. His son Yehoshua had a Hebrew name. Arguably, all of Ephraim's descendants (prior ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276916 |
@AA yes, but he doesn't live in Israel, in which case, I figure he should be tried by a hypothetical state-sanctioned Iranian Noahide court. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276911 |
@sabbahillel is this what they do nowadays or all of the last 16 years? Also, מסתמא it's not an official judicial act as they aren't an official court. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276916 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Is the Sanhedrin supposed to serve as an international court? Related to this question. Someone told me today that the nascent Sanhedrin, at one point, held a trial for Achamadenijad for crimes against Israel. Is the Sanhedrin ever meant to serve as a kind of international court, Hague-style? I was under the impression (no sources at the moment) that its ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276909 |
BTW, it seems Rabbi Steinsaltz quit after a few years. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276911 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Does the nascent Sanhedrin in Israel sanctify the new moon with witnesses? I was not even aware of this group (and I live in Israel...). Some digging brought the jackpot: The Israeli New Moon Society. Here's what they have to say on the matter: >On 7th May 2008 the Sanhedrin reenacted a reconstruction of receiving eyewitness testimony of the crescent Moon used for fixing t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276904 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? > History questions about events which impacted Judaism without making direct reference to Jews themselves (ex. "What motivated the Khmelnitzky Massacres?") I think these types of historical questions are too much of a stretch. This is something that should go in a purely historical Codidact site ... (more) |
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A: Why didn't Yitzchak help his father? Chizkuni writes: >Avraham built an altar;” Yitzchok did not participate in that activity; the reason that he did not do so was not that he would not have been willing to do so, but his father had hidden him so that Satan would not be able to tempt him, as he had tried to tempt Avraham not to carry o... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276875 | Post edited | — | over 4 years ago |
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Suggested edit: Changed didnt to didn't. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem you make a very fair point about the metaphor. On your other questions, I need to think on some more. However, it still seems strange to me that Rashbi in your version could have rectified the situation easily by crediting the other sage. Why kill him? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276858 |
@MonicaCellio thanks. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem the root of the problem with your interpretation, in my understanding, lies in the metaphor Rashbi brings, with the prostitutes: In the second option, it makes sense: both the chachamim and, l'havdil, the prostitutes are usually competing but from time to time must come to agree on somethin... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem it seems to make more sense, considering the punishment. It seems to be a much greater chilul Hashem. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276858 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Creating New Tags What is our stance on creating new tags? On MY it was preferable not to create new ones, but what about here? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276846 |
Thanks @rosends! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276846 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Where is 'Khina'? Malbim on Beresheet 6:4 writes: >"הנפלים. עתה יפרש מ"ש ויראו בני האלהים את בנות האדם, מי היו בני האלהים, הם אלה שאמרו שהם בני אלהים ונפלו משמים, והגדות כאלה היו בימים האלה וגם אחרי כן. כי נודע שבכל ספורי העמים הקדמונים יספרו שבימי קדם מלכו על מדינתם בני אלהים שבאו משמים אל הארץ ומלכו עליה ונשאו נשים... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276837 |
Thank you for the very informative answer. With this and with what @Mithical brought on Rashi in the now-deleted answer, it makes me wonder why Ibn Ezra wrote so harshly against other rabbis. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem and you see this as a legitimate reason to turn the other guy into a pile of bones? Mainly because of this, the English Sefaria understanding and that of commentators brought by Sefaria, which you brought as the 2nd option, seems to me to make more sense. (more) |
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Who was Yitzchaki? In his commentary on Beresheet 36:31, Ibn Ezra writes: >"ואלה המלכים. יש אומרים כי בדרך נבואה נכתבה זאת הפרשה. ויצחקי אמר בספרו כי בימי יהושפט נכתבה זאת הפרשה. ופי' הדורות כרצונו הכי קרא שמו יצחק כל השומע יצחק לו. כי אמר כי הדד הוא הדד האדומי ואמר כי מהיטבאל אחות תחפנחם. וחלילה חלילה שהדבר כמו שדבר ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276656 |
Paraphrasing Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky, O'Chavruta? What are we, Irish? (The original joke is about the translation of the Shema, O'Israel) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276811 |
@msh210 Rabbi Dan (Danny) Eliner הרב דני אלינר in Hebrew. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276811 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What did the Kotzker mean by "If I am I…"? A few years ago, one of the rabbis in my yeshiva spoke about this and the explanation he gave was more philosophical than the options you presented. According to him, the statement is more about your inner identity, what makes you you. He brought by way of explaining one of Rabbi Nachman's stories... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276797 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Custom Community Name? How about: Codida'at Combination of Codidact and da'at (knowledge/wisdom/however you want to translate it). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276793 |
Just a suggestion, but perhaps a point of difference was that with the meat, the instigators were the asafsuf and Bne"Y sort of got dragged along with them, but with the spies, it was entirely Bnei Yisrael's fault, which is the same as other events that happened on Tisha b'Av. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276731 |
I didn't quite understand your own take on the gemara: Is Rabbi Shimon angry at the sage because he gave R"S all the credit, thus making it seem as though R"S is taking all the credit for himself? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276774 |
@JoelK that's the feeling I got, but of course I may be completely wrong. You've got more experience than I on MY. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276774 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How will Judaism Codidact be better than Mi Yodeya? Per @AA's suggestion, I'll attempt to put my thoughts into words about my hopes for the site: I'm with @manassekatz on MY's elitist feeling. Though I've only been on MY since the winter, for most of the time I've had that feeling. When people comment, it is often unclear if they're attacking you o... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276742 |
I agree with @AA. It seems to me to be the same people, doing the same things, with more or less the same rules and guidelines. Only key difference I see so far is the platform. When the suggestion for the site was launched on the Meta a number of weeks ago, I had high hopes for something different. ... (more) |
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