@DoubleAA I disagree, there are highly regarded books on the subject of etiquette. Post and Vanderbilt being the major poskim in the US on the subject.
@IsaacMoses Questions about Post's position about when to start sipping your tea are certainly objectively answerable. Questions about when to start sipping your tea seem not well suited for an SE platform.
Does anyone have a good ref on hand about rabbinic drashos/midrash halakha for judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/57486/…? I think that's what he's confused about (though I can't be sure).
@DoubleAA "When should I start sipping my tea when in a formal setting in Japan?" "When should I start sipping when at workplace tea break in Britain?" "When should I start to pretend to sip at a tea party with a little girl in America?" All potentially could have objective answers.
@DoubleAA more descriptive than prescriptive, I guess. There are clear rules, whether written or not, that govern at least some of these situations.
Above are etiquette tags on various launched SE sites. I'm not going to go through and evaluate all the questions now, but @NoachmiFrankfurt might want to take a look to see what works, what doesn't, what already has a home on SE, and what needs one.
Does anyone have a good ref on hand about rabbinic drashos/midrash halakha for http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/57486/where-does-the-funeral-tradition-of-burial-within-24-hours-originate/57489?noredirect=1#comment153856_57489? I think that's what he's confused about (though I can't be sure).
@IsaacMoses I didn't mean to suggest that I was looking for a way to reinterpret the g'mara; I was asking about other ways to understand the original passages in Vayikra (alternatives to that g'mara).
And I figured R' Hirsch would have something to say -- and so he did. :-)
@MonicaCellio This dupe is valuable in that it brings up the gemara and your objections to it, deepening and further motivating the question. You could de-dupe it perhaps by recasting it as asking for explanation of the gemara, perhaps specifically in the light of contemporary attitudes toward baby boys and girls.
@MonicaCellio I know. When possible, though, I like to see if R' Hirsch can fit with the relevant gemara passages. He certainly was aware of them, and he cites many of them in developing his interpretations in his commentary.
@IsaacMoses he was certainly aware of them, and quite possibly aware of other g'maras that contradict this one. Any individual g'mara cannot be assumed to be the last word on anything, after all.
@IsaacMoses I think I'll leave it as a dupe because it provides useful way-finding to the question with the answers. I used different vocabulary and, as a result, did not find the original before asking mine. Maybe I'll separately ask about interpreting that g'mara specifically.
@MonicaCellio I think i VTCed within the first 45 seconds or so. I remembered having seen the dupe before, and it was right there on the top of Related Questions.
@David I think we should leave it as it is in the question, since that's how the question is often posed. The answers can take care of defining terms properly. — Isaac MosesMay 17 '11 at 12:36
