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Posts by msh210‭

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Meta 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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta 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 sele...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Purim Torah should be visible year-round

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭

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Divrei Torah Vayera and its haftara: a connection

posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Are flowers muktzah on Shabbat?

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

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Read the wrong haftara. Now what?

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ploni‭

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Q&A Why is cholam sometimes pronounced like segol (Chabad, Yom Kippur)?

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...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Naming a daughter when there's no minyan around

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Why not immerse in the early morning on erev Rosh Hashana?

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DonielF‭

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Meta 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 introduc...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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Meta Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope?

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 ...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Why aren't worried about carrying matza on Shabas?

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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Q&A What's wrong with salmon skin?

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Meta ban the dvar-torah tag in the Divrei Torah category

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A If one designates a gift for another person, is it committed or can it be retracted?

Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 241:1, in my own, free translation: If someone gives a gift… the recipient acquires it only by one of the standard ways of acquiring property.… But by a verbal ag...

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

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Q&A Which haftarah when Rosh Chodesh Av is on Shabbat?

The Rama (to OC 425:1) cites both customs: the usual rosh chodesh reading, and the usual weekly ("punishment") reading. He says "in a place with no established practice" read the rosh chodesh read...

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Q&A Why marry at eighteen if one's reasoning isn't great yet?

Although I can't seem to find it now, I recall a rule that says that no one under the age of twenty can sell real property that he's inherited. Why? Because people under the age of twenty are not t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What does אלוף mean in the context of Eisav's family tree?

Onkelus to Genesis 36:15 says it means "great one". Rashi there says more specifically that it means "head of a family"; Sifse Chachamim clarifies that this is the leader or ruler but not necessari...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What's the difference between רָדַף אֶת and רָדַף אַחֲרֵי?

The kal verb רדף, "chase", appears many times in Tanach. But the preposition that follows it, to mark the object of the verb, varies: Sometimes it's a direct object: it's marked either with no pre...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Why "את אבי מורי בעל הבית הזה" when inapplicable?

Toward the end of ברכת המזון (the prayer after a bread meal), we include a litany of short prayers that start "הרחמן" ("May the merciful one do such-and-such"). In the Ashkenazic version, one of th...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What did the Kotzker mean by "If I am I…"?

Frequently attributed (e.g. by Aish and Chabad) to R. M'nachem Mendl of Kock is: If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because y...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Harel13‭

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Q&A Why did Yaakov propose his payment scheme?

In Vayetze, Genesis 30:25–43, Jacob and Laban come to and execute a strange agreement: Jacob agrees to tend Laban's sheep under a payment scheme as follows: First (as explained by Rashi to verse...

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

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Q&A Does "החג" include שמיני עצרת?

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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Why is the birth of Kayin written strangely?

Haamek Davar (to 4:1) answers that the wording by Cain implies that even without being named, it was obvious that that should be his name… because when a person devotes himself to his subsistence ...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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