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12:17 AM

I have no idea what this question is talking about, but it does mention the word phylactery in a non-Tefillin sense

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Q: Will petrification prevent lich from being reborn near phylactery (possibly forever)?

If I am not mistaken, liches now aren't immune to being petrified. Granted, they have Legendary resistance and high CON save, but spamming petrification by Prismatic Spray/Wall: Indigo, Flesh to Stone, Beholder' Petrification Ray, Gorgon's Petrifying Breath or Medusa's gaze can make them a nice...

dnd-5e spells monsters

I've never seen that before

12:35 AM

@Daniel To be fair, that OP would probably feel the same way reading most of our questions.

1:08 AM

@Daniel huh. I last played D&D version 3.5 and I don't recognize this (in this context), but they're up to v5 now. According to the spec, the lich's phylactery holds its "life force" (so you can only destroy the lich by destroying this too), and it usually takes the form of a "sealed metal box containing strips of parchment on which magical phrases have been transcribed". Huh.

@DoubleAA My creepy chat search frequently turns up instances of people pointing this fact out humorously. <Homer> "Look! They're talking funny talk!" </Homer>

@IsaacMoses I've heard things like "I don't even know what half the words in that title are" (usually in reference to something on the Hot Network Questions list).

But that's fine; I feel the same way about questions from some other sites.

Experts use specialized vocabulary and SE aims for experts, so it's not surprising.

1:23 AM

@MonicaCellio Shouldn't be, at any rate

2:17 AM

@IsaacMoses how often are we on the hot network questions besides Purim Torah?

2:27 AM

@Daniel the Orthodox-bat-mitzvah question was there a few hours ago. (Might still be; haven't checked.) I notice our site in the sidebar every few days at least, and that only shows a few of the currently-hot questions.

2:38 AM

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11:28 AM

@Daniel Often enough. Just look for the questions with 100 views that are a day old.

in English Language & Usage, Jul 24 '14 at 13:02, by RegDwigнt

You always know if a question is from Judaism, because every second bratchl is something you've never hlompered before.

12:31 PM

@MonicaCellio What are the criteria for a hot question? That question only has one answer!

@IsaacMoses btw when you do your creepy search, how do you see the latest results first?

12:55 PM

@Daniel By clicking on "newest," or just by typing "cha" into my browser, which brings up chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=judaism&page=1&pagesize=50&sort=newest

@IsaacMoses Ahh I always thought you did a Google search

I didn't realize you do a search in the SE itself

@Daniel That's the other creepy search

@IsaacMoses what's the other creepy search?? I'm so intrigued

I search for (yodeya OR "judaism.stackexchange" OR miyodeya) -arqade, then click on "Search Tools" and choose "past 24 hours" or "past week," depending on how long it's been

I have to start doing thing search too, by the way

I can't believe I've been missing things like this all this time

1:03 PM

One is for external mentions of our stuff; the other is for mentions of us in chat

@IsaacMoses Right, I just thought you were using a Google search for site:chat.stackexchange.com

@IsaacMoses Why -arqade?

Most of the results of my Google search are spam, including auto-generated PDFs containing stuff from around the Internet, but every once in a while, there's something fun.

@Daniel Effectively excludes in-SE pages, many many of which link to MY in the footer.

@IsaacMoses ahh got it

1:57 PM

@IsaacMoses oh, clever! I was wondering about that too -- why would Arqade be talking about us and, if so, why wouldn't we want to know about it?

@Daniel I think the formula is a secret (and I don't know it), but factors that I've been told affect it include velocity (how quickly does stuff happen on the question?) and pre-hot views. So if a question is getting a lot of activity from within the site, it's more likely to go hot. Beyond that I don't know; I thought having multiple answers was pretty important but that doesn't apply here.

2:38 PM

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A: How do the "arbitrary hotness points" work on the new Stack Exchange home page?

Basically what's documented here: What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions? We have a few tweaks: Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. So, the first question from SO in the list gets multiplied by 1.0, the second by 0.98, the third ...

What is “piggul”? A question on the Bartenura is currently hot, for example.

3:12 PM

@Scimonster oh, it is documented. Cool! Thanks for finding that.

Oh, right -- voting is an important factor, and a lot of early votes makes a big difference.

3:52 PM

I just edited the cross-dressing question. Does the room think the edit is too far off from the original question or is it good?

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5:17 PM

@Daniel You've made it very non-specific.

I mean, this is a really really generic question.

5:33 PM

@TRiG That's the point

it was too specific before

We don't give halachic advice

@Daniel "specific" and "advice are correlated, but not 100%. The following would be closer in concept to what he originally asked and would not be asking for advice:

@Daniel "are there sources for allowing cross dressing as a way to enhance marital relations" and/or "is cross dressing deoraita or derabanan" — andrewmh20 3 hours ago

May 18 at 17:02, by TRiG

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Q: What is the origin of a phylactery as a soul jar?

The original use of Phylactery is from Ancient Greek phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning "to guard, protect" ~Wikipedia and was originally meant to refer to 'Tefillin', boxes that contain script from the Torah. The first time I heard of it though, it was as the 'soul ja...

souls undead phylactery

@IsaacMoses They are closer to the question that he originally asked, but I'm trying to make the question what the OP really wants which is advice.

He originally asked a halachic question, but really what he wants is advice

So I rewrote the question to ask for advice in a way that is on-topic here

5:49 PM

@Daniel I agree that what he clearly wants is not something we can offer here. It's not obvious which direction of retreat is better, especially without input from the OP. Dealing with the concepts as concepts is what we deal with mostly here, so without input from the OP, that's the direction in which I'd err.

@IsaacMoses That is how we generally work here but I think the point of the SE model is to provide useful answers to practical questions

that's why "accepting" an answer is a way of indicating that an answer was "helpful"

@Daniel The SE model generally frowns on "look over there" for that purpose

@IsaacMoses true

I think that might be the best we can offer, though

we explicitly don't give that kind of advice here

@Daniel Generally, we provide useful answers to practical questions of the form "I want to understand ____."

@IsaacMoses Right. But that's not what the OP is asking for here

5:52 PM

@Daniel He's also not asking for a referral (yet)

(Well, now he is, because you edited his question that way.)

@IsaacMoses fair enough. I guess maybe this should be a meta post

Darn. Set bounties on three MY questions a week ago, and got only one answer.

@msh210 That's probably about average for bounty yields. (No, I'm not about to run and make a SEDE query. No, I'm not about to run and make a SEDE query.)

@IsaacMoses Ah gowan. You know you want to.

@TRiG No, I'm not about to run and make. a. SEDE. query.

5:59 PM

@IsaacMoses Repetition for emphasis? :-)

@msh210 To humorously represent internal conflict spilling over to external expression.

@IsaacMoses Yeah, I gathered as much once you posted the third time. A little slow on the uptake.

Didn't you already make a SEDE query for effects of bounties? I seem to recall as much. (Or maybe I did?)

I wonder if bounties are less effective here where we have a small enough volume of questions that most people are able to see most questions that they could potentially answer the first time they come around

@msh210 I thought so as well. I searched through my "edited" archives for "bount" in the "title" text showing there and came up with nothing.

@IsaacMoses Maybe you could make a SEDE query to find out.

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@IsaacMoses I have a really hard time searching for previous queries that I wrote

6:02 PM

@Daniel Is the DB of SEDE queries exposed to SEDE? 8^O

I just favorite them if there's any chance I'll ever need it again

@IsaacMoses I meant that comment in ref to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/23066907#23066907

@Daniel You'd have to consider the effect of age of the question at time of bountying, due to the presence of new users.

@msh210 Yeah. I'm sure they're not ineffective

It's just that on a site like StackOverflow I could be monitoring the site all day and still miss a question that I could answer

so a bounty might help me notice it

@Daniel Oh, then I take back my star.

@msh210 I was wondering if I would lose that star :)

6:05 PM

@Daniel If not, someone should make a SEDEDE

@IsaacMoses data.stackexchange.com/judaism/query/123779/…

@IsaacMoses That was the perfect opportunity for a self-link

@IsaacMoses ... and should allow SEDEDE to query its own DB, so no one has to make a SEDEDEDE

@msh210 I get an error when I try to run that query

@Daniel Yeah, the SQL assumes that there's only one bounty per question, which is not true. (At least I think that's the problem.) I'm not fixing it now.

No, wait, I don't think it does assume that. I don't know what the problem is, then. Not taking the time now to figure it out.

6:10 PM

@IsaacMoses Reminds me of the class Metaclass in Smalltalk

(Unrelated to the foregoing.) We have a whole bunch of questions of the form "halacha [or: some specific source] says to do such-and-such; what if any communities do so now?", some of which may have no answer. Just sayin'.

@msh210 Is that a problem?

@Daniel No. Hence my sayin' "Just sayin'".

@msh210 okie dokie

2 hours later…

8:00 PM

Seems to be a popular request. If anyone else wants my rebbi's English translation of Simla Chadasha, it's here

@hazoriz It's on Google Books here: books.google.com/… — Shokhet 14 mins ago

...and now that I found that translation online, I'm wondering if I should edit past posts to include links to the translation....I will likely do that for future posts, for sure.

@Shokhet But it seems to be incomplete on Google Books.

@Scimonster I didn't even notice that...you're right. My pdf copy has 127 pages, that link only has 49. Odd....

8:18 PM

@IsaacMoses I cast a fifth (i.e. non-moderator) reopen vote because the OP did ask for the name of a posek even in the earliest version of the question.

@msh210 Fair enough. I'd missed that aspect.

8:42 PM

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Q: Shechita Material online

Does anyone have links for Shechita material. Like the pdf of Simla Chadasha translated and pdf of Shechita knife and stones from R' Loike? Thanks

slaughter-shochet-shecht

@Scimonster @Shokhet looks like someone's lurking our chat transcripts, not that there's anything wrong with that

Hi, 9841, and welcome to Mi Yodeya. Please consider registering your account, to enable more site features, including voting. Also, I suggest that you edit your profile and give yourself a name!

@IsaacMoses Wrong textbox. :P

@Scimonster Just in case 9841 is paying more attention to chat transcripts than to Mi Yodeya. Stranger things have happened.

1 hour later…

9:53 PM

For a start, try the Simla Chadasha in the original Hebrew from hebrewbooks.org. Here is part of Rabbi Loike's English translation of that sefer (though be warned that it's incomplete) — Shokhet 17 secs ago

@IsaacMoses @Scimonster Also, 9841 doesn't have enough rep to chat, yet (min is 20, IINM)

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