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Activity for Monica Cellio
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Does "make for yourself a rav" normally terminate with the synagogue employment contract? I was talking with a US rabbi from a liberal movement who left a congregation after 30 years. He told me that he needed to disengage from his now-former congregants, out of deference to the new rabbi. This is strong guidance or policy from the CCAR (rabbinic body), not just him making his own evalu... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277246 |
Unless he was writing it for posterity, sort of like how one might wrote a post-dated letter. (That said, there's an opinion that Joshua wrote that part because how could he describe his own death and the events after?) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277242 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277227 |
Could you clarify your second bullet? Are you asking about a case where she doesn't dress modestly and yet he does not act improperly? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
Please import https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/64742/difference-between-%D7%90%D6%B2%D7%A0%D6%B4%D7%99-and-%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%A0%D6%B9%D7%9B%D6%B4%D7%99 so we can close https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/277191#comment-3115 as a duplicate of it. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277191 |
@AA works for me; I'll add it to the request list on meta. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
@DonielF I've asked a developer to (a) do the first round of imports (at which point we'll delete those comments and (b) discuss process improvements. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277192 |
You mean post-flood only? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277191 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
What is the difference between אנכי and אני in the torah? In the book of D'varim I've been noticing a lot more uses of אנכי instead of אני. Both words mean "I". I've heard that אנכי is more formal, and I know it begins the revelation at Sinai, though in that case I would expect to see it a lot more in all the passages (particularly in Vayikra) where God e... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277078 |
Good idea @DonielF. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277118 |
@manassehkatz ah, I didn't know that about hearing outside of davening (no personal experience with that). (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277118 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
At what distance may one hear the shofar on Rosh Hashana? Due to the pandemic, on Rosh Hashana[^1] some congregations will be blowing the shofar outdoors to mitigate the health risks. In an urban area, this means someone could stay safely far away and yet still hear it. How close does one have to be to fulfill the obligation to hear it? Close enough to h... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276613 |
Post edited: merging into the other RH tag |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
I would like to import https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/190, https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/11888, https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/27987, https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/33405, https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/33684. (I have no participation on the first two but think they're impor... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
@DonielF does it have answers there? Here? We don't have question merging yet, but if there's been divergence we could bring over the other question and then mark one as a dupe of the other I guess? I'm open for input on the best way to handle this situation. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276978 |
Once again, the act of writing a question led me to an answer and thus I did not post it. (I didn't understand how the keyring in the *heical* worked and now I think I get it.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277078 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Moving questions from MY to here We've now created a place to request import of specific questions. Please follow the instructions there. Right now this is a manual process so it won't be immediate, but if you make requests there, our devs will get to them. (Yeah, we should build a tool for this. I'll add it to the to-do list.... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276364 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277077 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Please post your data-import requests here. We've had some discussions about importing data from Mi Yodeya. The community hasn't yet decided what, if any, bulk imports to do, but we've had some requests to import specific questions and we'd like to support that. Importing is better than cutting and pasting -- it means you can bring over anyt... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
Yeah, I copied a couple of my unanswered questions early on and that was not a good idea. I'd prefer that we set up a way to request specific imports, as I suggested in an answer on the other question I linked. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
Related: https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276364 (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
One you asked, or someone else's? Do you want to bring answers too? (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277049 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277031 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276987 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276930 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@msh210 I added some negative examples (could probably use more/better ones). (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276906 |
Post edited: added some negative examples |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276906 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276899 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |