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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #277068 |
One you asked, or someone else's? Do you want to bring answers too? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277055 |
I had no idea the Mikdash had a lock! (I'm a little confused from your quoted description by how the keychain worked, but I can ask a separate question about that.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277049 |
@IsaacMoses that's what I meant, yes. I am open to the possibility that there are subject areas that should be excluded and that, for those that are permitted, we would require certain language. (I just can't think of any that should be excluded no matter how they're asked and that would otherwise ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277049 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What should be our Modesty Policy? Allow them, but require clinical (or at least euphemistic) language. Allow them: These topics are as important as any others in halacha and rabbinic tradition, and anyway people will naturally encounter them in learning (or just hearing the weekly torah readings!) and will naturally have questio... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277031 |
@robev how could he have written the torah at God's command and not known its contents? (This is why I included the possibility that God then caused him to forget some of it.) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277031 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Did Moshe have free will when he struck the rock in the wilderness? We know that God told the entire torah to Moshe (with Moshe writing it down the second time) at Har Sinai. This must include the book of D'varim, because I have learned somewhere that there is a dispute about whether Moshe also wrote the last eight verses about his death. (I've seen two opinions: e... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276987 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What should our policy be on Kabbalistic discussions? I should say up front that I am not learned in kabbalah. Like, at all. I recognize some of the words and names of sources. From the text you quoted, it sounds like the danger of studying kabbalah is to the one studying it, not to other people. This is different from, say, a modesty policy, wher... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276982 |
(How) are these topics addressed in yeshivot when teaching teenagers? (I'm not saying that's what we should do, but it seems like that could inform what we do and I have no personal experience to draw on.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276899 |
@AA by "his" I meant the Satmar Rav. If my "nobody" neighbor Moishe appeals to a govt' official for something, that's not especially interesting. If a prominent Jewish leader, acting *as* a prominent Jewish leader, uses that influence, that seems more relevant. I agree that the question should provid... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276930 |
@DonielF yes, "all of us will die otherwise" versus "one of us will die and I'm willing for it to be me rather than you" seem like different cases. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276892 |
@magicker72 right now it's just by most recent activity. But if we edit the outgoing challenge before creating the new one, the new one will naturally end up on top -- just a little extra work for the organizer to remember. (There I go, creating work for you DonielF. :-) ) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276930 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Can a terminally-ill patient give up his ventilator to save another? Last week I took a class on priorities in triage -- one ventilator, two people who will die without it, who gets it? We reviewed sources in talmud and later commentaries, some of which I remember from a class on self-driving cars and how they should be programmed in the case of impending accidents. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@AA oh, I misremembered; that first one was mine and I thought it had been closed. Maybe I'm remembering a discussion about closing it. Thanks for the links. If Mi Yodeya is as permissive as what I've described here then great; I had thought there was more resistance. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@AA I think my first three would have been closed on Mi Yodeya, and I'm unsure about the rest. I vaguely recall asking one like my first one that *was* closed. I think all my negative examples would also be off-topic on Mi Yodeya. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@msh210 I added some negative examples (could probably use more/better ones). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276906 |
Post edited: added some negative examples |
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| Edit | Post #276906 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? > What was life like for Jews in [region] during [time period/historical event]? These should be on-topic so long as Judaism is a core part of the question. Some examples: - Were Jews living in al-Andalus able to pray publicly and safely? (Was it legal and was it reckless?) - How did (some... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276899 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? I'm going to separate out some of my thoughts into multiple answers for the sake of clarity in voting. Questions about people should be in scope if their Judaism is core to the question: - "Who was the first Chassidishe Rebbe to settle in America?" -- marginal; "...to establish a Jewish communi... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
The license would require it from a third-party translator. If the author decides to post it in both languages the license wouldn't require linking, but it's good practice and something we could set as a site policy. That's actually the easier issue; the harder one, I think, will be conveying that th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
We'd need to make it clear that the two categories are not merely translations of the same content, as a naive browser might assume otherwise. (And should somebody be motivated to translate a question to the "other" language, we'd want them to be linked together.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276858 |
We don't have a large body of existing tags here like Mi Yodeya has, so we're going to need to create new ones. (And then when we import questions later we'll need to reconcile differences -- another reason to do imports in smaller batches.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@magicker72 sounds like a new question to me. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
@manassehkatz better to add date-range support to search, and then anybody can use it to populate this list *or for other purposes*. (On other sites I've sometimes wanted to constrain a search by time.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276839 |
@manassehkatz thanks for the data points. I hope someone will be able to bring sources for the various positions in an answer. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276839 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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What is the status of a-capella music during the three weeks? I've heard (but don't remember where) that the music that is prohibited during the three weeks is one or both of: music with instruments, recorded music. I've heard conflicting things about a capella music. What is the status of a capella music? Does it matter if it is live or recorded? Does it... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@rosends my question is more about whether you can use the trop *in* shul in this context. I've edited to clarify, thanks. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276800 |
Post edited: clarified that the public aspect is a factor, versus chanting in private study |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276794 |
Post edited: just deleted a post and noticed it affected this too |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@manassehkatz I assume we can do this privately, but, as you said and I tried to get at (maybe not clearly enough), doing it in public as part of a service might be different. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276429 |
@DonielF looks like! Please let us know if you encounter any issues with this. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276800 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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If a Zoom minyan reads torah (without blessings, as study), should the reader still chant? Due to the pandemic some communities are having weekday services on Zoom. (There seem to be leniencies that support this. That is not what this question is about.) We can't read from the torah scroll except in the presence of a minyan, and the communities I know about who are meeting on Zoom are h... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276422 |
@DonielF I think we need to address the question in @msh210's answer: are we building a glossary or a dictionary? Once we know what the goal is we can decide how best to implement it. That question might need to be raised more prominently. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276794 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: "Last Activity" Last activity tracks changes to (or creation of) posts -- asking a question, adding an answer, editing, or deleting. I'm not sure about closing and reopening questions, which are also events affecting posts. It doesn't track comments or votes. On SE there is a bot that also randomly bumps some... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
@manassekatz I don't think meta-tags like challenge-1 on main-site questions are a good idea. Q&A is for posterity; challenges are interesting for a short time. I think it's better to build an index to record the challenge. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276779 |
Post edited: suggestion from AA in a comment |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276779 |
@AA that's a good idea, especially about not bumping. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276779 |
@Dani I don't think we need a category or even one post per request -- a single list that everyone edits would be ideal, or, worst case, one list per requester. I want to make this easy on the developer who's going to say "give me the next 50" or whatever. I think we can do this on meta. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276779 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? Regardless of what general criteria we come up with for importing data, we should accept requests for specific questions to import. I re-asked a couple of my unanswered questions here, because we didn't have data import, but that's not ideal (and will create duplicates if we ever do import the origi... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276775 |
This is beautiful. Thank you for your servitude, both past and future! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276742 |
@Harel13 I think people are defaulting to "like Mi Yodeya" because it's a baseline many here share. But that doesn't mean that's static; it means things haven't been worked out yet. There are several meta threads (in addition to this one) on various aspects of this question. Please help shape the o... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |