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Activity for msh210
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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A: Custom Community Name? 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 introduce a proof of or against a position. While that's not an exact match to Q&A, it's thematically sim... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276654 |
Worth noting that (AFAIK) no one says a ברכה on the הפטרה on יום העצמאות. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276605 |
Oh, sorry, I'd missed that, @MonicaCellio (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276422 |
I refer to this your answer in my own answer here. You may want to see it. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276605 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276605 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Dictionary/Encyclopedia of Terms We'll need to decide whether we want - a glossary of terms people may come across on the site without other explanation (which I'll call a "glossary") or - a dictionary/encyclopedia of any and all terms (which I'll call a "dictionary"). The difference is profound — in philosophy, in sco... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276598 |
I wonder whether Joshua 5:1 is relevant. The fact that it's there at all -- it seems out of place -- may (I'm conjecturing) be to answer just your question. _Edit:_ Oh, never mind, I see Rashi there says the verse is referring to the western side of the Jordan. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276554 |
@AA that comment didn't ping me, FYI (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276554 | Post edited | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276554 |
@AA I've suggested an edit. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #276554 |
Suggested edit: not everyone necessarily has been on MY (more) |
helpful | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
@manassehkatz re your last comment: I agree that if we're to have a Code Golf SE -type sandbox then it should be a category of posts. (But I don't think we need one.) My "one post should suffice for it" comment was about the kind of sandbox described in part of this answer: one used for trying out fo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
I like [this approach](https://meta.codidact.com/a/276537/276541) as applied to Purim Torah: It should be a tag, not a category. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276544 |
I don't know any kabbalah, but, for what it's worth, "זעיר אנפין" is almost a word-for-word translation of "קצר אפים", which sounds a lot like the opposite of "ארך אפים", which means "patience". (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276521 |
I like the idea of a sandbox but I think one post should suffice for it. Or one question and its answers and comments, let's say. So it can be in our meta category. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276450 |
"This also means that pages on this site should gradually start to be listed on Sefaria as having linked to specific bits of scripture." I didn't know Sefaria has such a feature. Will it really work even though these are JS-based links? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276450 |
Bravo! Many thanks! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276446 |
@Monica Cellio @A A I've edited to account for a small starter. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 |
Post edited: & more of the same |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 |
Post edited: comments on the answer indicate that starters are small; editing therefore |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276377 |
Wow, thank you! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 |
Post edited: clearer |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276446 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: For taking challah, (how) do you account for the flour in sourdough starter? Shulchan Aruch, Yore Dea 324:11, discusses what to do if the starter is tevel (has not had chala taken) and the dough is not (viz, it has had chala taken) or vice versa. So clearly chala must be taken from the starter if it's made of enough flour. If the starter has not had chala taken though it shou... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@A A yes it did. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276425 |
Upvoting for the content recommendations, not for the vote-count recommendations. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@A A FYI your pings to me didn't. And I'm really not sure about a Purim Torah category. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276422 |
@Monica Cellio, [done](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276441). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276432 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
What is the purpose of comments? I suppose my question is twofold (and is about the Q&A category only). - What purpose are comments meant to serve? - Should we have them at all? The former question is one of information. What is their purpose? Or is that still being worked out? The reason I ask the latter question is as foll... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276422 |
I would love there to be automatic linking of some sort without a userscript. This would be useful not only on Judaism but on any Codidact site that has a glossary -- or indeed that has other sorts of canonical references. `It's considered [[muktzeh]]`, `with a [[merge sort]]`, `first [[separate the ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276429 |
Thanks! That was very clear. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276427 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
What types of pages are available? 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 selector for post type in that case.) What types of posts are available to us? The list will be helpful whe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
I know there's already a subject-matter category (meta), but I nonetheless am very wary of having more subject-matter categories (like Hebrew). Where does it end, then? How are categories different from tags? I think anything that fits as a tag in Judaism Q&A should be included in the Judaism Q&A cat... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #276367 |
Suggested edit: testing editing on this platform (more) |
declined | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276379 |
I should note that I meant loops of two varieties: A is a descendant of itself, or A is a descendant of B via two different routes. Even the latter case may lead to bugs if care isn't taken; e.g. the same post may appear twice in search results for B. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276379 |
That sounds about right to me fwiw. I think one additional requirement would be that the code either enforces no tag loops or accounts for their existence when (e.g.) searching. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276376 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
ISO: hierarchical tags 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 find also questions in the former (or will optionally). As another example, having the labor-of-writing ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
I think Purim Torah can be Q&A or post-only just like real Torah can. How to organize it, then, I'm not sure. It seems a bit over the top to have two Purim Torah categories. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
A year with eight Sh'minis is plenteous? I've heard an idea that a year (like 5772) in which parashas Sh'mini is read eight times[^1] is a particularly auspicious one: the wording of the maxim is something like "sh'mona Sh'mini sh'mena" ([a year with] eight Sh'minis is fat [=plenteous]). Does anyone know the provenance, wording, or mea... (more) |
— | about 12 years ago |