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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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How am I supposed to pay *half* a coin? This Shabbat we read Shekalim (Exodus 30:11-16), in which we're instructed to pay a half-shekel to avoid plagues. I'm not very skilled at cutting silver, so I want to know how exact the half-coin needs to be. If, after I cut my coin, I find that the two pieces aren't exactly the same, can I just pa... (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 |
| Edit | Post #280693 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
(When) can halacha with a stated reason be revisited in light of new information? I saw the following question, asked by David Ziants, on mail-jewish today: > In Daf Yomi, have just started chapter 7 of Mesechet Pesachim, and the first Mishneh talks about on how the Korban Pesach should be roasted. The Mishneh says only a branch from a pomegranate tree can be used for a spit an... (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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280627 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Disposing of a Christian bible written in Hebrew? As noted in this answer, even a sefer torah, if written by a heretic, does not have holy status and needn't be buried. Further, Rambam (Laws of Tefilin, Mezuzah, and Sefer Torah 1:13) writes: > יג ספר תורה תפילין ומזוזות שכתבן מין, יישרפו. כתבן גוי, או ישראל משומד, או מוסר, או עבד, או אישה, או ... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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 |
| Edit | Post #280556 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Disposing of a Christian bible written in Hebrew? While sorting through boxes of books in the attic, I came across a Christian bible written in Hebrew. (Some family member was apparently given it by a missionary when living in Israel and didn't dispose of it then.) The book is only their second volume; it doesn't include Tanakh. If the book wer... (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 |
| Edit | Post #280339 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278011 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280339 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Automatic draft-saving plus Sefaria auto-linker leads to the post taking too long to save We weren't able to solve the problem directly (something something Javascript is single-threaded something), but there is now a preference to disable auto-saving, which is a work-around. Go to your user profile and then to the "preferences" tab. The preference is community-specific, so you can disa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280257 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Why do we destroy t'rumah and challah instead of giving it to a kohein? I was thinking about t'rumah, which historically was designated for a kohein but today we destroy, and similarly taking challah, which we burn. Why isn't this a violation of bal tashchit, do not waste? If you're an active part of a Jewish community you know how to find a kohein -- one always gets... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280250 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
(How) does the home gardener tithe? This past year I grew some vegetables for the first time. I don't live in Eretz Yisrael, so I know I don't have to tithe my produce, but it made me wonder: what if I did? How would I go about that, practically speaking? Or is there a minimum amount below which tithing laws don't apply, and my coup... (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 |
| Edit | Post #280082 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279882 |
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— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #280082 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: ban the dvar-torah tag in the Divrei Torah category The tag can be removed server-side. I agree it's a pointless tag in that category. The Divrei Torah category shares tags with the Q&A and Challenges categories, so removing the tag would affect all categories that use it. It doesn't look like any other category does use it, and I would expect a que... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279904 |
Post edited: Revised per comments. The list itself is easily found, but what the other flaws are still eludes me. |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #279904 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
What are the flaws in the ten kal vachomer arguments in the torah? This d'var torah discusses kal vachomer arguments in torah: > Rashi is bothered that these two arguments have some sort of flaw. He wants us to realize that this isn’t so difficult, as there are ten instances of kal vachomers in the Torah that have a flaw. He is stressing that despite this flaw, t... (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 |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
Interesting question! I'd never heard the distance explanation, just the *tumah meit* one, but never thought about the implications that you've pointed out. I wonder if there's an element of "can't make it worse"; the temple was already defiled, after all, and maybe their actions at least moved thi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279726 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Do you say Baruch Dayan Ha-emet immediately, regardless of where you are when you learn the news? Upon learning of someone's passing, I have been taught, we immediately say baruch dayan ha-emet. I have also been taught that we don't say blessings (or learn torah) in inappropriate locations. My question is about which of these principles takes priority. This situation can arise if you overhear ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279604 |
Importing is a little fragile right now; I have an open request for one-question-at-a-time import (self-serve) but it's not implemented yet. It might be better to do it the old-fashioned way, copying/adapting with attribution. I'm sorry we don't have better import tools; when we did that batch of ~... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279266 |
@curiousdannii oh I see; you're thinking of psalm settings that are specifically used in Christian worship? (It makes sense that there would be some, just as there are some that are used in specific places in Jewish prayer. I just didn't make the connection.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279266 |
@curiousdannii that's a good (different) question -- if the text itself is clearly fine (I mean, we had the psalms first :-) ) but the *source* is Christian, is that a problem? Does it depend on how prominent the source is -- everybody recognizes that famous setting but obscure is different? Does ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279266 |
Y'know, I never thought about what "a capella" literally means. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279266 |
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— | over 3 years ago |