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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #280082 |
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| Edit | Post #279882 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #280082 |
@IsaacMoses request received and awaiting someone with the right access to get to it. Thanks. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280090 |
Ouch, that sounds wrong. Can you link to the edit suggestion so we can take a look? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280082 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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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) |
— | almost 4 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. |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279904 |
I feel like this needs better tags but I'm not sure which ones. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279904 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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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) |
— | about 4 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279767 |
Ah, one decimal place would explain the problem! (more) |
— | about 4 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279726 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279266 |
Y'know, I never thought about what "a capella" literally means. Thanks. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279266 |
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| Edit | Post #279266 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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If the words come from Christian worship but aren't otherwise objectionable, can you use them for secular music? Asking this question reminded me of another. As part of my (past) musical studies, I've studied historical compositions that set the "ordinary" of the Christian mass to music. The "ordinary" consists of five key prayer texts that are frequently (always?) part of the mass. Four of them are blatan... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279263 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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(When) can one listen to Christian music, according to Igrot Moshe? A post elsewhere cites Igrot Moshe (Yoreh De'ah 2:56) as saying that listening to (hearing?) Christian music is forbidden (asur). A comment there elaborates: > He states that the restriction is related only to those areas that they use as part of the Christian prayer service. However, he is lenie... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278960 |
This challenge prompted me to ask a question on Languages & Linguistics: https://languages.codidact.com/questions/279052. Not the point of the challenge I know, but I thought you might want to know. :-) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276681 |
Post edited: fixed a while ago, never tagged |
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| Edit | Post #277839 |
Post edited: this got fixed as part of another cleanup of imported posts; just noticed I never tagged it |
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| Comment | Post #278964 |
To your second question, isn't there a midrash (that I can't find now) that Eretz Yisrael was exempt from the flood? If so, then the ark wouldn't be able to float to a resting point there. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278923 |
@AA import is a little glitchy right now, so while I'd like to get that fixed, the last batch introduced a lot of database weirdnesses that had to be cleaned up so I'd rather not. I'd *rather* bring it over, but in the absence of better import, I'd rather have the answer here than not. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278923 |
Interesting! @Dani, please feel free to write an answer here that draws from what you found there (with proper attribution of course). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278167 |
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| Comment | Post #278923 |
Is this a *klaf* for writing a mezuzah? (Inferring from the presence of the name.) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278866 |
@user8078 it depends on how you bind "with Lot" -- does it mean that Avram and Sarai came out of Egypt and Lot joined them as they headed to the Negev, or that Lot was with them all along? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278859 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Where was Lot during the famine? In Lech L'cha there is a famine so severe that Avram has to leave Canaan and go down to Egypt for food. He leaves Egypt with great wealth, and then in Bereishit 13:1 he continues traveling with Lot. Lot isn't mentioned in the Egypt part of the episode. Did Lot go to Egypt too? If not, how did h... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278839 |
@msh210 true. How might I rephrase the last sentence to work better? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278839 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Was Sigd part of historical Jewish observance? I noticed that my (paper) calendar reports that 29 Cheshvan is "Sigd". Curious about this day (on the Jewish calendar; they style secular stuff like Election Day differently) that I'd never heard of, I did some searching. The Wikipedia page has some basic information and also several "dubious sourc... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278781 |
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| Edit | Post #278781 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Can a sick pet eat food that would otherwise be forbidden? I have heard that when dietary laws and serious medical conditions interact, there are grounds to be lenient on the basis of pikuach nefesh. I'm pretty sure I've heard this with respect to ingredients, for example if the medicine you need has gelatin in it, and I've definitely heard this with respec... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278011 |
[GitHub issue tracking this](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/213), in which I propose several approaches to what sounds like a general problem and not *just* the Sefaria linker. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278663 |
Nice. Any thoughts on what women, who can't look at their *t'filin*, should do to rise up out of those ashes of despair? (Also, did Israel lose its slave mentality at the *yam suf*, or just temporarily? Didn't they long for Egypt later too? I guess one lesson is that these things rarely happen al... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278618 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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After being expelled, did Adam and Chava build tents or houses for themselves or continue to live outdoors? I've always assumed (but can't prove) that while Adam and Chava were in Gan Eden, and had they stayed, they lived out in nature -- they didn't require tents or other shelter. When they are expelled they're told that the ground will be inhospitable (they'll have to work for food), but it doesn't say ... (more) |
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