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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #293834 |
It was Conservative. (Among the local Conservative synagogues, it's the one that seems closest to Orthodox in practice.) (more) |
— | 3 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293962 |
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— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293962 | Initial revision | — | 16 days ago |
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A: Participate Everywhere Ability Bug Sorry for the confusion! We should adjust that wording, beyond correcting the typo. What's going on is that normally you have to earn that ability as described, but we have a "young site" mode (or "new site", though this one isn't so new any more) where we automatically grant that ability to help t... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293960 |
Thank you! This community is still having difficulty growing, so I am definitely interested in further answers. I hope you'll try asking and answering some questions here; I think you'll find that the people here are friendly and eager to help. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293950 | Initial revision | — | 17 days ago |
| Question | — |
What does halacha say about avoiding jury duty? Where I live, juries in civil and criminal trials are made up of ordinary citizens, who are summoned for this purpose ("jury duty"). Being judged by a jury of impartial "regular people" (not judges, not lawyers, etc) is an important part of the (US) justice system. If everybody avoided jury duty th... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293834 |
I'm not sure. There were several short phrases *before* the shira where the congregation read along with the *ba'al koreh* (not in shira *trop*), but by the time yom tov was over and I could make notes, I'd forgotten where it happened. I'm hoping that somebody who recognizes this practice can fill i... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293679 |
Most of our celebrations and prayers are rightly focused on what God does for us (even when we do not merit it). One thing about Pesach that jumps out to me is that it required *public, positive action* from Yisrael. We didn't just have to ask or pray, or even just have a special meal inside our hom... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293834 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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What's with the congregation joining in for a few phrases in the torah reading on Pesach (7th day)? I visited another synagogue for the seventh day of Pesach, and noticed that during the torah reading (which is from B'shalach), there were parts that the congregation read along with the reader. These phrases weren't marked in the chumash I was using to follow the reading, and I don't now remember w... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293499 |
If you click on your name here (or your avatar at the top of the page), you'll see the main page of your profile. There are several tabs, one of which is "edit". If you go there, you can add a web site or something about yourself in the text boxes there.
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— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293526 |
Post edited: formatting |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293526 |
Post edited: formatting |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293499 |
Great, thanks! By the way, if you edit your profile you can add a link to your blog.
You have a broken image at the beginning of this post; that and the blog reference in the last line made me wonder if this was copied. Copying your *own* work is of course fine, but just needed to ask in case it... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293499 |
Welcome to our community. Interesting post -- is it copied from somewhere else? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293497 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: New with understanding of some principals. Want more Torah talk. Questions about Judaism are welcome from anyone who wants to know more. This community is not limited to Jews. (I welcomed you in a comment but failed to post an actual answer that would be more visible, sorry.) The community here doesn't do "personal advice" questions, the sort that you would a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293126 |
Post edited: removed wrong comparison (misread a source) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293126 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Question | — |
How heavy were the bowls the high priest carried in the Yom Kippur service? I'm learning mishna Yoma, which describes the high priest's service on Yom Kippur, and I was struck by some of the logistical challenges. I am wondering, in particular, about the bowls of blood. The misha says that after the bull is slaughtered its blood is collected in a bowl, and likewise for the... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292875 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292877 |
Could you say more about why you expect a year to be an even number of weeks? A year has an exact number of months (12 or 13, depending on whether it's a leap year), which are measured by new moons, which are lunar not solar. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292875 |
Hmm, apparently a bug is preventing me from moving this. Sorry for the inconvenience. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292875 |
Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact! You've asked this question in the main Q&A section, but I'm going to move it to Meta since it's a question about the site. But to directly answer: everyone who wants to learn more about Judaism is welcome here; you don't have to be Jewish. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281119 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279913 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279926 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292799 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Why is a tallit worn at night on Yom Kippur? A tallit is normally worn only during the day, yet there is a custom to also wear it for all services of Yom Kippur including Kol Nidrei. Why? I've heard that it's because we take the torah scrolls out of the ark at Kol Nidrei, but we also take out scrolls for the evening of Simchat Torah, when a... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292693 |
We have borei pri hagafen at the beginning, the chatimah at the end, and other text including asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav in the middle. I've never thought about whether only a subset of that makes it "official", so to speak. Hmm.
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— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292693 |
Evening kiddush does include "asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav" (re #2). (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292659 |
Thank you, for myself and for the other members of my minyan who had the same question. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288592 |
Post edited: moving the contact link out of the footer (doesn't apply on other networks) and putting it here |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292360 |
Welcome to Codidact! We have a community for [Language & Linguistics](https://languages.codidact.com/) where this question would be a better fit. While Hebrew is the language of Judaism, the focus here is more on Jewish texts, practices, history, etc. We don't have a way right now to migrate quest... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292341 |
Yeah, that's part of what got me wondering -- *did* we have thematic readings and they were later replaced when the haftarot of consolation were established, or are these the original haftarot and connecting Tisha b'Av to Rosh Hashana was more important than per-week thematic connections? Both seem ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292341 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Were there other haftarah readings before the Tisha b'Av readings were set? After Tisha b'Av we have seven special haftarah readings, which always align with the same torah portions. Every chumash I've seen gives these special readings for those parshiyot. I was taught that we started reading haftarah during times of oppression when public reading of the Torah was forbid... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292156 |
Post edited: added link |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292157 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Why move from discussing Jews to non-Jews The g'mara takes this up on 105a. The discussion in the g'mara suggests that gentiles can enter the world to come: > [The mishna] is in accordance with the opinion of Rabbi Yehoshua, as it is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Eliezer says: It is written: “The wicked shall be turned back to the nethe... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292044 |
Post edited: fixed formatting problem that interfered with image example |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292024 |
Post edited: fixed duplicate title... |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292024 |
Post edited: replace generic slug with our network's policy |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291924 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: Can you make a Siyum if you learn the material in a different order? Halachipedia says it is not necessary to learn the material in order: > What Learning Entitles One To Make a Siyum > 1. If one learned an entire Maasechet except for one paragraph, it’s sufficient for a Siyum. > 2. It is not necessary to study the entire masechet in order. > 3. (unrelated point... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #276485 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290871 |
Does chinuch require a teacher? A parent teaching a child, or possibly an observant Jew trying to get a non-observant one to do a mitzvah, might be a different case from the latter acting on his own. On the _other_ hand, sometimes doing leads to accepting -- seems like this is one way we get *baale... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290871 |
I don't have resources to suggest, but is this perhaps the same underlying case as training a child to say b'rachot? A young child probably doesn't have kavannah either, but the training instills the habit and (we hope) leads to development of the proper kavannah later. Isn't the three-year-old who ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290653 |
So much depends on the individual Noachide and individual congregation. I'm sorry it isn't for you, and also not completely surprised that, for someone whose connection to halacha is stronger, it disappointed. There are probably some Reform congregations that could be reasonable stepping stones, bu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |