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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Edit | Post #292875 |
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— | about 2 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) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292875 |
Hmm, apparently a bug is preventing me from moving this. Sorry for the inconvenience. (more) |
— | about 2 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) |
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| Edit | Post #281119 |
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| Edit | Post #279913 |
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| Edit | Post #279926 |
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| Edit | Post #292799 | Initial revision | — | 2 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) |
— | 2 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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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292693 |
Evening kiddush does include "asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav" (re #2). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292659 |
Thank you, for myself and for the other members of my minyan who had the same question. (more) |
— | 3 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 |
— | 3 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292341 | Initial revision | — | 4 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) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292156 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292157 | Initial revision | — | 5 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292044 |
Post edited: fixed formatting problem that interfered with image example |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292024 |
Post edited: fixed duplicate title... |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292024 |
Post edited: replace generic slug with our network's policy |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291924 | Initial revision | — | 6 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) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #276485 |
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— | 9 months 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) |
— | 10 months 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) |
— | 10 months 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290653 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: Should a Noahide convert to Reform Judaism if no Orthodox community is accessible? As a Noachide wanting to convert to Judaism you are already on a journey. Such journeys are by their nature incremental, so even though your end goal isn't currently available to you, you might be able to get some intermediate improvements. Community is central to Judaism and it sounds like that's ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290468 |
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— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290468 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach? Rosends pointed out a related question elsewhere with a variety of answers. Here is a compilation of what I learned there and by following links from there: - Chabad says (without citing a source): "When praying for a non-Jew, we mention the person's name along with his/her father's name." Anoth... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290353 |
Interesting, thanks! I did not know about the dropped-nun interpretation there. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290353 |
He does, but it doesn't say whether he took anyone with him. I would have assumed he wouldn't have, because he says "I" not "we" and also because a man's wife and children belong with him, not with his father-in-law. But the sons' absence from the counting is puzzling if they stayed. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290353 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Did Moshe's wife and sons remain with Yisrael during the time in the wilderness? In Shemot 18:2-4, Yitro comes from Midian to join the Israelites after the exodus, bringing Moshe's wife Tzipporah and his sons Gershon and Eliezer. This appears to be the torah's last mention of Moshe's family.[^1] Later, in Bamidbar 3:38 when the Levites are being given their assigned roles and e... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290310 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach? Ploni is the child of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. The father is ill and Ploni would like to say Mi Sheberach for him in a minyan. How should Ploni form the name for a non-Jewish relative? "Christopher ben Lisa" would stand out (probably not what Ploni wants). Maybe Ploni should in... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290265 |
Do traditional congregations lein Sh'ma in the liturgy? I'm used to hearing non-trop Sh'ma plus trop v'ahavta etc, but I've had limited exposure to orthodox services and have no idea what's normative on this. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290241 |
I wonder if kashrut and tevillah are different. If I eat in someone's house and it turns out there's a problem with that person's kashrut, I've erred once. If I incorrectly assume that tevillah has been done, I'm erring every time I use it, right? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290019 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Halachically, what is bread? I was recently doing some baking, and it led to a household discussion: what makes bread bread, as opposed to mezunot? I wondered if it might be about ingredients. Bread, fundamentally, is made of grain, water, salt, and a leavening agent (setting aside the special case of matzah). Bread can als... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289791 |
Here's a non-paywalled [article](https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/in-first-leading-kosher-authority-orthodox-union-certifies-lab-grown-meat/) from Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, where I read about this. (I haven't yet compared it to the NYT article.) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288032 |
Post edited: Fixed a tangential comment: Sivan 15 would have been after the giving of the torah. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289519 |
Specifically [here](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.56b.16?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en} in Sanhedrin. Thank you! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288726 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Should posting on Meta affect reputation? When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288444 |
I like that interpretation. Is it your own? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |