V'dibarta Bam

« first day (1874 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (2860 days later) »

2:38 AM

An incomplete list: R' Meir Mazuz (on Shabbat) - source R' Herschel Schachter R' Yisroel Belsky (when wearing a long frock coat to cover it) R' Abraham Twerski (source) R' Zalman Nechemia Goldberg R' Simcha Kook R' David bar Hayim R' Yehoshua Buch R' Yoel Bin-Nun (only on his suit-jacket) R' Mo...

Is removing the names of now deceased rabbis appropriate?

3 hours later…

msh210

5:57 AM

@DoubleAA I guess they answered the OP's question of who influenced halacha (at the time the question was asked) etc., so it's probably better to leave them in.

Just MHO.

@MonicaCellio From a link to Worldbuilding Meta there, I got to this interesting query.

1 hour later…

Meta-Man

7:16 AM

-1

Q: Are you happy from your good questions or from wrong answers?

Rabbi Nachman Mibreslav wrote in Likutey moharan chapter 56: וּכְשֶׁהַשֵּם יִתְבָּרַך נִסְתָּר בְּהַסְתָּרָה אַחַת גַּם כֵּן קָשֶׁה מְאד לְמָצְאוֹ אַך אַף עַל פִּי כֵן, כְּשֶׁהוּא נִסְתָּר בְּהַסְתָּרָה אַחַת אֶפְשָׁר לִיגַע וְלַחֲתֹר עַד שֶׁיִּמְצָא אוֹתוֹ יִתְבָּרַך מֵאַחַר שֶׁי...

discussion

7 hours later…

Monica Cellio

2:23 PM

@msh210 fascinating. It seems fitting that you have the top tag score in mathematics. I didn't know we had a handedness tag until I saw it on your list. I'm also not sure if I knew we had an english tag before seeing it on Isaac's list.

msh210

2:39 PM

@MonicaCellio On that list for aliya-laaretz is someone whose "about me" says just "I live in Israel".

Monica Cellio

2:59 PM

@msh210 but doesn't say whether he's always been there. Hmm.

1 hour later…

Isaac Moses

4:23 PM

@msh210 Interesting. Looking at mine, I see that many of them are swung essentially by one answer that got popular, rather than by a superior body of work within the tag.

An alternative way to answer the same question would be to count a user's answers within a tag whose upvotes or net-votes exceed some threshold. That would probably be a better proxy for relative knowledge or even relative contribution-level by topic.

Double AA

4:54 PM

Q: Let's make Mi Yodeya more friendly to people and machines that can't see images: alt text fix

Background Today in the chatroom, we were discussing the practice of adding meaningful alt text to images on the web. Alt text is displayed when the image cannot be displayed and is therefore especially important for visually impaired readers who use a screen-reading device to tell them what's o...

discussion editing

Everyone please try and do a handful of posts.

Double AA

5:54 PM

You have a lot of characters to use in the post. There is no reason your question should ever only be one sentence and match the title. — Double AA ♦ 7 mins ago

What do people think of closing such posts as unclear? There is essentially no body to the post, so it's not entirely clear what they are asking

Y K

6:34 PM

Hi. I'm new. I had 2 questions. Is there any gain to me going through the back log of unanswered questions to find any I can answer and are answers based on general knowledge rather than sources useful or should they be avoided?

SAH

7:08 PM

Hi...I want to suggest that the "yahrtzeit" tag be renamed "yahrzeit" as that is (really) the standard spelling.

Isaac Moses

7:43 PM

@YK Welcome! 1) Sure, going through Unanswered questions, especially in an area you know something about or know how to research, could be quite valuable. The reason we keep them around is on the hope that someone will come along and answer them some day. 2) See these Meta posts:

Q: Answers - When is a source required?

Disclaimer: Sources are extremely important in Judaism, as (almost) every Halacha, or Minhag (custom) has a clear source. Additionally, Judaism places sources and tradition so high, that it is considered fundamental. The question below, is only discussing the purpose and definition of this site...

discussion accepted-answer citing-sources users

Q: Requiring sources for "tacit culture" and "common knowledge"

I have occasionally run into an issue where I am writing either a question or (more rarely) an answer and I haven't had any decent sources on hand, because I had viewed the elements of the question as being reliant on common knowledge or tacit culture within the Jewish community.* Should such co...

discussion citing-sources policy

Y K

Thanks a lot!

Isaac Moses

8:01 PM

@YK You're welcome. This too:

Q: Better to post an answer with no source, or not to post at all?

Sometimes I read a new question, and I want to provide an answer, but I don't have the time at that moment to find the appropriate source citations. Then, I will receive comments in my answer asking for sources. It's a legitimate request of course, but sometimes the questioner really wants a pr...