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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #284627 |
Welcome to the community! Torah Shleimah is a large collection; could you edit to add one or two places where this reference occurs? This might make it easier to compare to the original version. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284547 |
I don't own a copy of Davka Writer. Looks like they do have a Mac version, for $159.
Did you mean to post this as an answer (instead of as a comment)? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284535 |
Thank you for this pointer, and also for mentioning SBL Hebrew (a font I didn't have, but have now downloaded). And yes, I'm looking for text with *niqud* and *ta'amim*, just like in your links. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284313 |
Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding about the requirements. That said, how did we get from the text saying "do this for seven days" to the halacha being "do this for one day"? The text seems to be clear, so obviously I'm missing something. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283913 |
Thanks @#8062; I did not know that. So the *b'racha* might not be required for the *mitzvah* to count, but don't we still have to worry about a blessing made in vain? If you say the *b'racha* and *don't* do the *mitzvah*, either "at all" or "in time", haven't you made a *b'racha levatalah*? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283676 |
Are you saying that all the letters were revealed at once and then the high priest had to assemble them in the right order? I'd been assuming, without much basis, that the letters were revealed one at a time. If it's all at once, does that mean answers couldn't repeat letters? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283673 |
That last one is the one I linked in my question, and what led me to ask the question: they say that, but when I looked it up in Yoma, it didn't seem so clear to me. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283644 |
Thanks for the link. How do I select more verses than fit on the screen at one time? They don't seem to support multi-select, only click-and-drag, but the page also don't scroll to show more text during a drag. What am I missing? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282418 |
True. I asked it the way I did because the length of *this* paragraph is unusual, and in chat someone asked me why this one shouldn't be the baseline and maybe I should be asking about shorter paragraphs. Either way, this one is out of sync with, say, creation (one paragraph per day instead of one ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281865 |
The fox is lying to con the fish, yes, but is it a plausible lie (they actually *did* previously hang out together somehow, so maybe the fish is more likely to believe it) or a bald-faced lie (that never happened)? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281785 |
@msh210 oh, one of the stones on the *choshen*? I didn't realize. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281336 |
If a list is too long to manage or isn't getting traction, what about compiling a post with an organized list of useful links (it could be a wiki post) and then adding a link to *that* post in the sidebar? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281340 |
@rosends I haven't read the linked sources, but I would have thought the consultation would be "is this too leavened" -- like, I baked it within 18 minutes but it looks puffy anyway; is this ok (hands over piece of matzah). (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281324 |
And it's Shabbat *Ha*Chodesh, too. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281292 |
@robev the chronology suggested by the text is: Paro summoned Moshe and Aharon "in the night" and told them to get out, the Egyptians urged the Israelites to go, and the Israelites took their dough. It doesn't sound like they set out to *make* dough after the order to leave; they must have already h... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281292 |
@manassehkatz weren't they gone by morning? And even if not, we would expect it to take at least a few hours to leave Egypt and get to a place where they could start baking that day's bread, no? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281266 |
Fixed now. Thanks Mith and luap! (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281266 |
I'm seeing the same thing -- 20 Nisan (so it's rolled over), but Wednesday night (Thursday). Mac, Chrome. (Also, yes: timezones are a pain, DST makes it worse, and approximating the time is *just fine* for our purposes.) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281266 |
Nice -- thanks luap42! (I'm guessing the API doesn't know about daylight saving time, as it hasn't rolled over for me yet at about 8:30PM. Not a complaint; I'll check back in half an hour. I'm mentioning it in case anyone else is seeing this and is confused like I was.) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281230 |
@msh210 oh, thanks -- let me check more *haggadot*; maybe this is a local quirk. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281213 |
Thanks for the source and explanation. (I eat *matzah* every day, as it seems in keeping with the commandment and isn't forbidden.) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280926 |
Is Mordechai *relying* on a miracle, or just arguing? How do we know when someone is relying on a miracle? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280923 |
Thanks @rosends. I didn't realize it was optional. (It wasn't just because current conditions press for doing it as quickly as possible; it was printed in the books.) I hope somebody will answer with the *halacha* and a source. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280889 |
And what of finalizing? Are mere humans allowed to do that? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280810 |
@Aliza but what does "has not taken heed" mean, practically speaking? Do we say that if it gored again he obviously didn't take heed (enough), or is there a threshold that counts as taking heed and if somebody breaks into his barn and sets it loose despite his precautions, or taunts it to agitate it... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280815 |
@David I haven't seen it myself, but [this translation with expanded commentary](https://www.feldheim.com/midrash-shmuel) is from a reputable publisher. What I can't tell from the description is whether the separation between the translation and the commentary is clear -- can the reader distinguish ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280816 |
Alternatively, 27 Elul is when Amalek set things in motion. But 3 Tishrei is good too. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280811 |
Thank you! I did not know this Rashi, which seems key to understanding the half-shekel. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280807 |
This post prompted a non-PT question: https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/280810. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280796 |
Oh, of course! I'm surprised that HKBH wants chewed-upon coins, but who am I to question His intent? (I, uh, might have follow-on questions. :-) ) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280783 |
I sometimes want to look up some specific piece of PT that I remember out of season, so I'd also prefer that it remain visible but read-only. (I agree things should be flaggable, and probably votable too.) I will talk with the team to see how feasible this would be. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280591 |
I just tested access restrictions on a dev server to confirm: when a category is hidden to a user (for example, and this was my test case, visible only to logged-in users and you're not logged in), then in addition to the category not showing, the posts also aren't visible (if you have the URL) and t... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280591 |
@DonielF mods can move posts between categories so long as the receiving category accepts the type of the incoming post. (For example, you couldn't move a d'var torah to Q&A because those are articles and Q&A doesn't include articles.) This should not be a problem for the case you have in mind. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280643 |
(I haven't voted.) We can't remove only downvotes. We could remove *all* votes (like on the wiki post type), but I suspect the community wants to be able to upvote. We can give people voting guidance in the category description text (the text at the top of the question list) if the community wants... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
@AA *oh*. You know that thing that happens sometimes where you're reading an answer, try to upvote it, and find you can't (because you can't vote on your own posts)? I had completely forgotten about that. After Shabbat, B"N, I'll try to adapt that in an answer here. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280583 |
One more: should purim torah be only Q&A, or are PT *essays* (divrei torah, articles, etc) welcome? I sometimes feel like half the problems we had with PTIJ arose from trying to fit *posts* into *questions*. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280556 |
@Harel13 thanks. If you can cite/link one of those places, that'd make a good answer. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280559 |
I assume it was printed in Hebrew because that's the primary language of Israel, where the book was being distributed. Whether it was intended to mislead Jews, or was general proselytizing in a Jewish-dominant country, I don't know. Likewise, I don't know whether it was printed by the proselytizing g... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280508 |
I like this! And some of the things people share might lead to follow-on questions, too. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280339 |
@msh210 I don't know what would be involved in making it per-session as opposed to per-user; all our preferences so far apply to that user in any browser (on that community, unless global). I wonder if a userscript could help in this case, since by definition you run a script in a particular browser... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280082 |
@ploni synonyms are on the to-do list; we just don't have them yet. I agree they're important. (When we have synonyms, I expect we'd then allow a choice to either just merge -- useful for fixing typos -- or merge with synonym.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280090 |
I have a theory. I've seen three edit suggestions now that don't show diffs, and all of them are on articles. I'm wondering if we missed a place when doing the work on post types recently. I've asked the dev team, but they're not Jewish and so might be celebrating another holiday today, so there m... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280090 |
Thanks for the link. That's very strange. I've asked someone to see what's going on in the database there. Sorry for the inconvenience! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280082 |
@IsaacMoses request received and awaiting someone with the right access to get to it. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280090 |
Ouch, that sounds wrong. Can you link to the edit suggestion so we can take a look? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279882 |
Thank you for sharing these excerpts! I appreciate reading them here (even though I can also read them in the book). This post prompted me to ask [this question](https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/279904). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279904 |
I feel like this needs better tags but I'm not sure which ones. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279768 |
This seems to affect some people and not others, making it hard to track down. Can you add information about your environment (browser, OS, does it happen if you disable userscripts)? If you are able to check the console for error messages, that'd help too. Thanks! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279767 |
Ah, one decimal place would explain the problem! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279767 |
Tangent, but how do you get from 135 *amot* to 729 meters? Isn't an *amah* a cubit or a step, neither of which is as much as even one meter? (Obviously the number here is extreme in any case; I'm just wondering about your unit translation.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |