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| Comment | Post #276943 |
a) I understand the different opinions regarding a Siyum, but I have most certainly had meat & wine at a Siyum - shortly before shutdown my Shiur (I didn't start it, but I took over when the original leader of many years left town, though he was able to return and speak at the Siyum, which was awesom... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276943 |
@AA That is really **not** the same. I have heard this particular topic discussed **many** times before. (My LOR even noted in the Shiur that for many years when he discussed it, I would use the example of whichever one of my kids was the "right" age; now mine are older but the Rabbi has kids in that... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276921 |
I think an improved source reference would be helpful. Some may not know that "Rambam Tefilla 5" is the same as: Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing 5 (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276924 |
@AA I presume the intent (though the question could use more context) is that the Ketubah is supposed to be available in order for husband & wife to have relations. That (hopefully) doesn't apply in the grocery. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276893 |
@AA The change was fine. When I added the translation I realized the Pesukim included Shlishi for both oil & wine, which makes it a double win. But I like having the translation in there, so I added that. FYI, in case you didn't figure out, for a Baal Koreh the Rosh Chodesh comes to mind more readily... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276864 |
Hard to distill down to a few words, which is the way (usually) mission statements work. I am open to suggestions. Or you can post an entirely different Answer. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276864 |
I have to think about it a bit. But generally speaking, I see those as covering *most* of the content in broad strokes. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@AA I just checked with my LOR and he said no need to say/read along with Zoom Eicha. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276840 |
@robev I agree. But sources would be helpful. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276839 |
On the other hand, another local (two blocks away) Orthodox Rabbi, sent in his Shul email: *It is the custom to abstain from listening to any music; whether live or reproduced - including acapella.* and included exceptions for certain things but not any general permission. YMMV (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276839 |
My *general* understanding is that it is "anything with instruments", generally considered to include recorded music but not a capella. However, my Rabbi this year stated (publicly, I sent it to the Shul list): *In light of the unique challenges that so many of us are experiencing due to COVID-19, it... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
along with "Where do you start Layning on the first day of Chanukah?" (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@AA There are actually a few Nusach Sefard-ish customs in my Shul for historical (60+ years ago) reasons. But until this conversation, I had no idea that this particular custom was not standard Ashkenazi practice. I know Artscroll is not an absolute - our rules are essentially "If it isn't in the Gab... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@AA My Shul (Ashkenazi) uses the alternate Trop for **both** Shabbos and Shavuos, as noted in the Artscroll Stone Chumash page 415. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276811 |
Beautiful. Though (my own fault), in the middle I started thinking "Who's on first". (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
Brilliant idea: We don't need an extra tag. @ArtOfCode can *easily* add a function (words no developer wants to hear...) to collect the posts based on: *date/time range* + *tag(s)*. Anything 7/15 - 7/21 (or whatever) + (three weeks | nine days) == in the list. No fuss, no muss. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
@Aliza They definitely can be Divrei Torah. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
And not quite the same, but possibly related: Our Shul is planning on Eichah via Zoom. Unlike Torah reading (or even Megillas Esther) there are no Brachos or Minyan issues. But I assume it will be with the traditional Trop. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
Anecdotally, so just a comment: I routinely read Pesukim with Trop. It comes naturally for me and I find it easier to remember things as well. I know at least one of my Rebbeim from High School (an excellent Baal Koreh) definitely did (and I assume still does) the same. The only place I see a real is... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
Actually there would be an additional benefit, of sorts. In addition to going to the Challenge page and seeing, together with the Challenge topic, all the questions with links, they could *also* go to the main page and search b tag *challenge-1* and see everything (in normal Question List format inst... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
*Is your suggestion only to make it easier to collect the entries in the first place* Correct. By using a special tag, all OP would need to do is add that tag. The challenge page would automagically show the list - i.e., not "all 'three-weeks' tagged questions" but only (and exactly) every question t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
Putting the challenge entries here would effectively hide them from people who only look at main Q&A, which doesn't make sense, especially if (as is the case this time) the challenge is a timely topic. Hierarchical tags could help: *challenge* as the top level and *challenge-1* etc. below it. A littl... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
The problem is "build an index". If you ask me, in general, to build an index, I will figure out a way to automate the process. With a tag, that's super easy. Without it, it is not. I am trying to think outside the "Here is how it was done on SE" box. The difference from Photo or Cooking contests, of... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
Suggestions:
1 - Include the relevant time/date range in this post, rather than relying on indirect reference to the main post to derive the time/date range.
2 - Add a challenge tag - "challenge-1" for this week, "challenge-2" for the next one, etc. Then there would be no need to link over here, as... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276741 |
discourage comprehensive, well-sourced, well-written answers. There is just something about my interactions on Mi Yodeya - and what I saw with other people's Q&A there - that left a bad taste. I can't really put a finger on it at the moment. But it was a much less "Haimishe" feeling than some other S... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276741 |
@AA I hear what you are saying - you are asking reasonable questions. I'm just not 100% sure of the answers! As far as comparison to the other sites I mentioned: I am not an expert in either of them but I have personal experience plus I learned from others on the site and elsewhere. If anything, my J... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276741 |
No specific policies/rules that I can think of at the moment. It seems, to me, more of an *attitude* issue. Which, to be honest, is something that can't (realistically) be legislated. Rather, it is something that evolves over time based on many different things. More something to think about than to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276740 |
-1 This belongs in Purim Torah, which isn't here quite yet (may be time-specific or may be a separate category, to be determined). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276727 |
To that example, it becomes a question of: Was that legitimate - e.g., a doctor answering a potentially life-saving call (I've seen that, and my own Rabbi will make those calls himself if he feels someone's life is at risk) or was it someone blatantly disregarding Halacha. The answer is not always as... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276727 |
I have heard that there are many Shuls where the talking is far worse than in mine. In organizing Minyanim recently, I had a request from one person to move him to a different Minyan because the Minyan he was assigned had too much talking for him (I did move him and he was satisfied). But is this a p... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276727 |
The question **as stated** is not about **a specific kollel**. It is "everyone". If the problem is **a specific kollel** then I suggest you speak to the Rav in charge of that kollel. If it is a general "people everywhere" problem then we disagree but at least have something to discuss. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276713 |
Assuming "without or without" is really "with or without", there are 4 different scenarios here: with permission before death ("normal"), without permission before death (sperm bank misuse?), with permission after death (normal conception, but died before birth of son), without permission after death... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276688 |
@רבותמחשבות I think a lot depends on the specifics. If the Siyum is a big crowd (e.g., at tables at a Seudah, or seated in Shul) with one person getting up in front of everyone, then it won't be "see the Shiur and/or Chavrusa go through their regular learning process". But in any case, I wouldn't stu... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276688 |
*although practically speaking, and much to my chagrin, many people study the final part of the Masechta before the siyum...* From personal experience (a Siyum of my own group shortly (fortunately!) before the COVID-19 shutdown; and from experience with many others), I suspect the vast majority of pe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276682 |
It was deploy timing. My comment is 8 minutes before the current Version timestamp. Force reload did not work before but did work now. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276682 |
Still looks the same. Deploy? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276677 |
Which raises a fascinating (to me, in my strange geek mind) idea: Build a custom font from a pair of appropriately licensed fonts - using the traditional Hebrew characters from one together with 'everything else' from the other. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276677 |
For whatever reason it seems that to get what I consider a "traditional" Hebrew font almost always means a serif (typically Times Roman-ish) font for the English part of the font (or in my terms, 7-bit ASCII, though I know it is more complicated than that). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276677 |
I agree. I was actually the one who picked the font for the body text. I did notice that it didn't apply to the titles, but I have seen similar problems elsewhere so I didn't bring it up. The problem is that different font designers have different ideas about what a font should look like. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276672 |
It would be a perfect name if this were on TopAnswers... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276654 |
@msh210 I admit that I don't know. The Yom Haatzmaut (and Yom Yerushalayim) extra stuff is only said in my Shul at one Minyan, and for a bunch of reasons (but **not** political or philosophical - I am not in any way opposed to these practices) I have never attended that Minyan. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276666 |
I suspect that isn't so easy. The ability to browse would require that at least metadata of questions is imported first. But since we don't have a direct database connection, that really means "import and then choose", which is a mess due to the batch nature of importing. There have been suggestions ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276597 |
@AA You're right - or at least a quick look at the Pesukim in Artscroll & Rashi all seems to say "6 years, go free in 7" with no mention of Shemitah. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276616 |
Though today many synagogues are requiring BYOB - Bring your own book - due to COVID-19 concerns. Except for Shabbos, that often means Bring your phone win a Siddur App. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276605 |
support Q&A). There are certainly plenty of other projects - e.g., I don't propose building our own library of texts - [Sefaria](sefaria.org) has done a great job of that. But there is a certain Jewish flavor that we can apply here that may not apply in Wikipedia (though I do go to Wikipedia quite a ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276605 |
Your are correct, OP (hmm, OP can talk about himself in the 3rd person) is indeed referring to Dictionary or Encyclopedia based on your explanation, and as stated in the Title. A Glossary is the absolute minimum that we need to have. But I think a Dictionary/Encyclopedia is something worth considerin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276597 |
The ones with the debts are Jewish people sold into slavery. Arguably that should not have happened in the Midbar because they had no expenses! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
"One question and its answers" for Sandbox was the only way to do it on SE. I didn't like it there, and I don't like the idea of doing it that way here. Categories are a much cleaner way to do this *on a community where sandbox makes sense*. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
That is not to say there isn't a place for Sandbox - if we ever have Code Golf, that absolutely needs a Sandbox, because of the need to get a question *nearly perfect* before anyone starts Replying. But that is not the case in Judaism or most other Codidact communities. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
I think something along the lines of (but definitely a bit *different*) SE's "this is a new user, be nice" is really all we need. For a new but serious user, it really doesn't take long to get the hang of how to properly ask a question. The non-serious user isn't going to bother with a sandbox - they... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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