I'm learning g'mara with an adult without much experience doing so. It's opened my eyes in several respects. One is: I never before realized how many times the g'mara includes the object of a verb before the verb itself.

We've begun perek "Sh'nayim ochazin", and on the first amud alone there's "חדא קתני" (twice) and "ומצאתה דאתאי לידיה משמע" and again "ומצאתה דקרא דאתא לידיה משמע" and "תנא לישנא דעלמא נקט" and "זה וזה קתני".

Then right at the top of amud bes: "חבראי לאו מידי חסר בה" and "חבראי דמי קא יהיב ואנא דמי קא יהיבנא". (That's as far as we've gotten. :-) )

@msh210 Tagging in titles is discouraged only when it doesn't help clarify anything, no?

@DoubleAA The Official SE Policy (or BCP) is to omit them anyway: see meta.stackexchange.com/a/105991 and meta.stackexchange.com/q/19190. And it seems to me it should be discouraged in this case especially as the question isn't about PTIJ. Lemme clarify: A title should relfect/summarize the Q, not tag it: a title like "Halacha: Is handwashing necessary after a haircut?" at least serves to summarize the question [cont'd]

[cont'd] (he's asking according to only halacha not kabala) whereas "PTIJ: Is handwashing necessary after a haircut?" does not serve that purpose, as the Q is (as worded) according to real halacha/whatever and not in jest. The tag is more of a tag (meta-info about the Q) than most tags are, if that makes sense, and thus belongs in a title less than most tags do.

> But what if someone accidentally consumes something that isn’t kosher. What happens then? The traditional response is to treat is as a “mistaken sin,” says MiYodeya, a Q&A site on everything Jewish. Acknowledge your remorse, and take steps to re-educate yourself so that it doesn’t happen again.

Creepy search result: mitzuyankoshercatering.com/kosher-life-style/…

@TRiG ^^

That article answers that, a little.

@MonicaCellio I haven't given up on the Reform conversation from many days ago; just lazily back-burnered it. Apropos of that conversation, would you say that questions based on "I learned this at The Kabbalah Centre" are on-topic?

to the point:

It is terrible to go from the fast to groggers.

Like, i'm hungry, thirsty, and have a headache from getting up too early (to eat), and then not drinking. Then Purim starts and all that noise is just awful.

@Scimonster Maybe you should find an "efficient" minyan where they severely limit grogging.

@IsaacMoses That would be nice.

Last year i was fine, but i got a headache this year.

And made worse by the person who decided to use a whistle practically in my ear...

@Scimonster Or you could temporarily relocate to Yerushalayim

@IsaacMoses Like, go to Yerushalayim for the 14th, and leave for the 15th, thereby skipping Purim??

@Scimonster No; go there on Ta'anit Esther and stay through Shushan Purim, thereby separating the fast from the Megilla requirement.

@IsaacMoses Ah. Ah!

@Scimonster oof, yeah -- I still remember the first year I did that. Groggers and screeching kids with no freaking 'off' button. Grr. I was thinking "wait, I'm supposed to be celebrating? How??"

GTG; TZT

TZT!

@Scimonster Purim Sameyach!

@IsaacMoses You too! (soon)

I have a certain Purim movie to watch. ;)

@IsaacMoses that's a good question. What exactly should the yardstick be? Now I just noticed that nowhere on their about page does the Kabbalah Centre claim to be Jewish, and maybe a claim of Judaism is a necessary lower bar. But a mere claim isn't enough because we don't let J4J (l'havdil) in. OTOH, J4J is outright fraud, and maybe a sincere-but-mistaken claim is different.

I can't articulate a rule yet. Factors that seem relevant: (a) an actual claim (Reform does, KC apparently doesn't) and (b) numbers (lots of people consider Reform to be Judaism; numbers for KC unknown to me). What else?

@IsaacMoses I haven't dug into all the discussion on this kabbalah question, but I see you've been part of it and the question has changed a lot since it was closed. What are your current thoughts on it?

@MonicaCellio I think it remains a mess, and I think I have not succeeded in helping OP understand how it may be possible to fix it.

@IsaacMoses thanks.

Is there any connection between Haman and barbers? Because i didn't get that joke.

What joke?

From Megillas Lester. Haman's previous job was a barber.

Oh. No idea, sorry.

^ direct link to that part

Thanks. Later, from home -- not sharing with my coworkers. :-)