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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 AA ‭

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Q&A Is it preferable to not say Mincha early on a fast day?

Regarding your concern about Anenu for the Ashkenazi practice of omitting it in the morning lest you come to eat, the Magen Avraham (Orach Chaim 565:3) felt that was not a problem even at an early ...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭

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Meta What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya?

I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about pos...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭  ·  edited 3y ago by AA ‭

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Q&A Avinu Malkeinu as part of Tachanun

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing, 5 שמונה דברים, צריך המתפלל להיזהר בהן ולעשותן; ואם היה דחוק, או נאנס, או שעבר ולא עשה אותן--אינן מעכבין. ואלו הן--עמידה, ונוכח המקדש, ותי...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭  ·  edited 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why do we destroy t'rumah and challah instead of giving it to a kohein?

The issue is not that the priest is impure as much as the food is impure. Even a pure priest cannot eat impure holy food from Israel, but any priest can benefit from it (either by burning it for wa...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Meta Welcome to our new pro-tem moderators!

Good choices! May God bless and keep the trolls far away from them. Amen.

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta Asking questions that have answers on MY?

If the same question is already on Mi Yodeya and it hasn't for whatever reason been imported yet, you should request it be imported. This may take a day or two to process for now but it helps keep ...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Q&A Shehecheyanu on Purim

You've misunderstood the announcement. All the blessings on the megilla reading are for the megilla reading. Each reading is a mitzva and gets blessings. Some communities view the daytime reading ...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope?

We should allow any Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic questions with no restrictions, even ones that clearly have nothing at all to do with Judaism as chances are we won't get so many of them t...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta Should imported posts retain their original votes?

What distinguishes us from a blog is mostly the scores on the posts. That's one of our main advantages for people seeking quality content: they have a rough measure of the average interested intern...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta Categories - Divrei Torah, Purim Torah

I propose a category called Hebrew Language. This could be for anyone studying the language, whether Biblical or Modern or anything in between. No Judaism connection would be needed for questions i...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Q&A (How) does the home gardener tithe?

How do you establish valuation -- compare to what's for sale in the grocery store? The other answer and plenty of online resources discuss the lists of what portions to designate and in what o...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope?

One solution is a Hebrew Language category. See here. Potentially all your examples would be in scope in that category.

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta What is our policy regarding using non-English languages in a post?

People should be allowed to post questions in Hebrew if they want. How that affects how many potential answerers engage with their question is just a consequence of that choice. A great question is...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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Meta What is our policy regarding using non-English languages in a post?

Questions about Judaism written in Hebrew could potentially find a home in a Hebrew category as described at https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276362#answer-276423 Roughly half of Jews speak H...

posted 3y ago by AA ‭

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