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1:24 PM
When someone says "Shekoyach!", you say back "Baruch tehiye!"
What do you say back when someone says "Chazaq Baruch!"?
 
1:37 PM
@IsaacMoses Jay Smooth. He's wonderful. He has an excellent follow-up to that video, I think as a TEDx talk, in which he explains what to do when the approach doesn't work.
 
@TRiG I just heard him on a podcast, and he referred to this famous video he'd made, so I watched it, and it struck me as a great articulation of the "address the behavior" approach I am a big fan of in general, and especially on SE. He links to the TEDx talk in the writeup for this video; I look forward to watching it.
@TheOne I think the same.
 
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Is there legal liability attached to giving rabi advice?
 
@TRiG I endorse your response.
 
1:53 PM
@IsaacMoses I do cross-reference conversations quite a bit. Another bit of my archival personality, I suppose.
 
2:15 PM
@TheOne I was taught to respond "Chazaq veEmatz".
 
 
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7:16 PM
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Q: Method for practicing Torah reading

Isaac MosesWhat is your method for practicing reading a Torah portion and thus memorizing the associated vowelizations and intonations? I'm looking for ideas for maximizing your effectiveness at performing a correct reading when actually confronted with a Torah scroll and for minimizing the total practice t...

I've heard that after 30 years, this becomes moot, because you can just do it cold. At least, if you're good.
 
 
2 hours later…
9:00 PM
Your final paragraph is key! Your years of education and week-by-week maintenance of familiarity with the text undoubtedly contribute greatly to your ability to memorize a given portion. — Isaac Moses Dec 1 '14 at 14:16
;-)
 

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