msh210‭

One thing sorely missing from Mi Yodeya is a tag hierarchy. For example, having the Book-of-Judges tag be a sub-tag of the Books-of-the-Prophets tag, so that keyword searches among the latter will ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Monica Cellio wrote in a comment: @msh210 categories and post types are orthogonal. We can create a Purim Torah category that supports both Q&A and articles. (The "create post" page has a sele...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

The Purim Torah category is scheduled to disappear at the end of Adar. All its posts will disappear also: not even their respective authors will be able to see them. (Moderators will.) I recommend...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Isaac Moses‭

Chaye Adam 138:5 writes: וראוי לכל אדם לטבול במקוה או בנהר ולא יקדים לטבול עד שעה קודם חצות היום In my own translation: It's seemly for every man to immerse in a ritualarium or a river [on the d...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by DonielF‭

Normally in my experience, a baby girl is named in the presence of a minyan, generally at a Torah reading. If her parents are not expecting to be with a minyan for the foreseeable future, should th...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by msh210‭

From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a segol. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and...

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Suppose someone started reading a haftara for a different week, or according to a different custom for the same week, or a piece of navi that's not a haftara at all. What should the community do? ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ploni‭

Sh'miras Shabas K'hilchasah (5739 edition) 26:25 says it is not muktze and can be moved.

posted 2y ago by msh210‭

I think Ta Shema has a few things going for it: It's a very common phrase in the Babylonian Talmud so will be easy for anyone who's studied Talmud to remember. In the Talmud, it's used to introduc...

posted 2y ago by msh210‭

At the very least,  5. Questions about individuals who happen to be Jewish (Isaac Asimov, Sandy Koufax, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Disraeli). without more going for them should be off-topic. They ...

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I bought a package of frozen salmon filet pieces in Israel; they'd been imported from Poland. The package reads, in part: מטעמי הכשרות חובה לשטוף את העור או להסירו לפני השימוש.‏ In my own tra...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by msh210‭

A bunch of posts in the Divrei Torah category are tagged "dvar-torah". Taggedness with this tag is wholly duplicative of category membership, so I recommend detagging (perhaps it would be easier se...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

The Shoel Umeshiv was asked the question even stronger: according to Rashi (Suka there), the concern is that he'll take it to an expert to learn "its shaking process or the benediction" to recite; ...

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I commonly see "החג" (or "חג"), literally "the holiday", explained as referring to the holiday of Sukos. I wonder whether it's correct or whether, as I suspect, it refers to the combined celebrati...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by msh210‭