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| Comment | Post #276615 |
Having signal is good for many reasons; throwing away signal is bad. That's the affirmative case. What's the negative case? I have yet to see any indication that anyone wants a scope or standard that is more restrictive than MY. (On the contrary, it's almost like only those with bones to pick are spe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276718 |
The verse's reason for the command clearly excludes women וְקִדַּשְׁתּוֹ--כִּי-אֶת-לֶחֶם אֱלֹהֶיךָ, הוּא מַקְרִיב (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276756 |
It could still be the wife of a kohein needs to be respected like the wife of a talmid chacham does (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276554 |
When and how should be two separate questions. The answer below is really really long and won't be read by new users. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276688 |
Not reading aloud in advance seems ridiculous. What if the last sugya is very detailed and you spend two weeks on it? You can't say it out loud lest you lose your chance at a siyum? Clearly not. You're done when you decide you're done. If you prepare a dvar Torah today to give tomorrow and that's whe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276400 |
That would mean he studied 100 daf a day for 75 years straight. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276688 |
Are both celebrating Torah study? What's the problem? Are either just facades to ignore mourning the Temple and with no one caring about the Torah study? What's the heter? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276672 |
https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1063/ (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276683 |
Same reason it might not apply to velcro. Or magnets. Or snap buttons. Or glue. Just not the same thing and not similar to tefillin. Why would a tefillin rule apply to magnets? And seriously how do you lock strings? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276683 |
Does ינעול even apply to tying shoelaces? It's talking about fastening certain leather straps (which is obviously reminiscent of tefillin) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276625 |
Yizkor is a much much much later addition than most of the piyyutim. Even most of psukei dizimra postdates most piyyutim. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276671 |
CoTilmad כה תלמד? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276657 |
What is "a while"? Scope and standards can develop over years and are never really permanent. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276657 |
The feature I proposed to "import on duplicate" should still be implemented asap. Already a non trivial number of J.Codidact posts are just resummaries of Mi Yodeya posts. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276656 |
It may be worth avoiding any non-native-English consonants in a name. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276615 |
What is the big loss of importing some rough scaling? What is the big loss of a few double votes? I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish here. You're throwing away signal for no apparent reason (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276597 |
@manasse no, that didn't have to do with shmita (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276608 |
You are indeed correct we don't have to import anything, but you don't explain why we would turn down an opportunity to add quality content to this site. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276597 |
@manasseh it definitely didn't happen in the desert since it only applies when the yovel does. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276580 |
Seems from wikipdeia that felt was around in the days of the talmud. If so it would be odd for them not to mention it if it was different from regular fabric (I don't know if they mention it or not) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276554 |
@msh I saw there was a pending suggested edit, which is why I couldn't suggest one I assume. But I don't know how to see what it is. Hmm (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276554 |
"we should keep exactly the system we had on MY" Huh? Try "we should adopt exactly the system they have on MY". This site is not a derivative of MY. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276540 |
I think Mi Yodeya/Judaism is different from the sites you mentioned, where people are more asking about new problems they face as they come up with them. Judaism is, well, old, and the range of "basic" questions about halakha or tanach is significant and mostly already tackled at Mi Yodeya. Redoing a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
-1 I like the idea but I think it shouldn't be here at the Judaism but rather at https://meta.codidact.com/ No reason Hebrew couldn't be used there too. Please suggest it there! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276410 |
Consider https://lavlor.blogspot.com/2019/10/mission-accomplished-my-first-sefer.html (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276446 |
@monica classically, a starter is a piece of leftover dough from yesterday's bread. Do that every day for years and you get a starter effect naturally. If you forgot to separate challa from yesterday's dough, then you run into the questions in msh's source when you use the piece you saved for today. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
Oh I bet it's because I tagged two people @msh @Monica (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
I don't know what you mean by self consistent. It could also be self consistent to exclude questions about Pesach if you define your rules that way. This doesn't seem like a helpful metric... I don't even know what "marginally Jewish" means. The point of sectioning off Hebrew questions isn't because... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@msh210 did this ping you? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276385 |
Aliza, Mi Yodeya was de jure pretty non-Orthodox. Stack Exchange is (or was) optimized to attract experts. It so happens that most of the world's Judaism experts are Orthodox. (That's just an observation.) So de facto most of Mi Yodeya took place for and between Orthodox Jews. I don't expect this sit... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276442 |
@manasseh That would only address translation questions. What about the rest of language questions? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276442 |
I don't particularly like this suggestion. If this feels too loose to you or asking for trouble, consider the other answer which suggests isolating this scope-anomaly to a separate category https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276383#answer-276424 (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276435 |
Is there any difference between this suggestion and the policy at Mi Yodeya? I'm having trouble seeing one. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
I don't understand your response. What do you mean by "separate reasons"? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
If one doesn't have a correct good answer to post one can't feel something is wrong with what is posted? I very much dislike deflecting legitimate criticism with "I don't see you doing it better". That may not have been your intention but that's how your suggestion comes across to me. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@Monica Here I propose a scope difference (and potentially a language of discourse difference). (Ping @msh above) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
You see no reason to distinguish "Please translate this passage in this Hebrew Christmas tree store pamphlet to English" and "What's the best sukkah material that will withstand freezing temperatures" as regards their fitting on a Judaism QA site? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
You like msh210 are making a reductio ad absurdum argument. But then we get nothing. We have categories. Let's use them. Let's use them judiciously and not be so afraid of them that we don't ever gain from them. Separating out Hebrew serves a purpose too: it allows for maintaining a different set of ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276383 |
"Please translate this passage in Agnon into English for me" "Why did Agnon choose this image to describe X" "Which parts of Israel prefer conjugation X over Y in daily speech" "What does this slang term I heard from a cab driver mean" (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
"if they aren't 'Jewish enough,' the same argument could be made for all kinds of other categories of questions" I agree completely except that I don't know what other things you're talking about that aren't about Judaism but could be a good use of site resources. Product recommendations, at least fo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
This answer feels to me to be entirely missing the point. While clarifying what level of obligation hearing shofar during Elul is (and a custom can be obligatory, despite the apparent word games in this answer), the OP still doesn't know if a woman fulfills it if she blew the shofar herself. (Not to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276402 |
I don't understand how your logic supports option B more than A. Indeed it's generally forbidden to do work while saying blessings as it's distracting. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Calling out the notes is practiced on Yom Kippur at Neilah in at least some communities, even though that blowing is 'only' customary. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276404 |
I don't think we should host any Purim Torah at least for the foreseeable future. It gets out of control and is generally low quality. Let's focus on other things. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276392 |
Consider further a deaf person who blows but can't hear their own production. Does blowing for yourself do anything or is it just hearing someone blow that matters? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Why do you limit yourself to "there would seem to be no need to blow the Shofar during Elul without a Minyan"? All your arguments apply equally to a minyan as well (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Calling out the notes is not required on Rosh Hashanah as far as I know. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@msh I agree that we should use categories very sparingly but that doesn't mean we don't use them at all. Hebrew is often not sufficiently Judaism related to fit in the regular Judaism QA but the expertise is clearly sufficiently closely related that we can capitalize on shared expert attraction. Ser... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276410 |
"there is no view that holds that writing a single letter (or even an entire sefer torah), will achieve the mitzvah without ownership of the sefer torah itself." This is not true, though they are in the extreme minority. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276410 |
"One who participates in the Mitzvah of writing even one letter of the sefer torah, as an agent of the owner, it is as if he wrote it in its entirety." I don't think that's an accurate understanding of the Rambam at all. Most understand that line to be referring to fixing an Torah with a mistake that... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |