If you've got a more reliable source for this information, it would improve this answer to edit that in. That site contains a lot of misleading and/or mistaken information. It's telling that they conceal their identity and affiliation. (Or, at least, I can't find anything on their site admitting to who they are.) — Monica CellioDec 19 at 21:28
That site is registered to one Carol A Valentine. (whois)
Her email address is @public-action.com, a Holocaust-revisionist and 9/11 conspiracy website, that seems to be her's as well.
That site also seems to be dedicated towards what they call the "Waco Holocaust"
Personally, I think it best if we remove any links to her site, and avoid using them in the future. Those wishing to link to a Soncino translation might be better off if they use halakhah.com, registered to one Tzvee Zahavy who seems to be more reputable.
@HodofHod I agree that linking to that site is bad. Moshe cleaned up that one, right? I'm not sure if we can search for links to see if there are any others, but everybody please be on the lookout. And yeah, halakhah.com is the place to go for Soncino; it gets used a fair bit here.
All: about this question (which I don't want to onebox in here), the personal aspect makes it rightly on hold now (thanks @Seth, @DoubleAA). My question is: if it were reworded to be (a) general (what are the relevant halachic sources for...) and (b) more modest (dominance-related sexual activities), would that be ok? Should we advise him to do that or just shut this down? I want to be modest but only as restrictive as we need to be. Thoughts?
@MoshePeston oh, oops -- let me go look. Usually when I hold off on a flag it's because I'm waiting to see if the author will respond to a comment requesting a change (or some such).
@MoshePeston ah, I see now. Opinions are mixed on that one and the post has since been edited; could you take a look to see if your objection has been addressed? If not, would you be willing to bring it up in here for discussion?
@MonicaCellio I don't really see a way to generalize that question that wouldn't either totally compromise the original intent, or violate our policy on modesty.
@MonicaCellio Shmule Brin also agrees that what he wrote has nothing to do with the question being asked, and as for the additonal stuff he added afterwards...שתיקה עדיף
@MoshePeston would you permit me to indicate here which post we're talking about for a broader discussion? I see comments there on both sides so I don't want to make a unilateral decision (especially since this area is far from my strong suit).
All: the following answer has received multiple "not an answer" flags and multiple disputes. There are also comments for and against. Could we have some discussion/consensus?
Saar Ha-Panim is Metatron, my source is Rabbi Yoel D. Bakst from Colorado. The Gaon of Vilna mentions Metatron in Kol Hator.
edit:
http://www.yedidnefesh.com/kaballah/kol-hator/1.htm
I think the phrase translated as "minister of the interior" is from the Hebrew phrase "Saar Ha-Panim". Kol Hator...
My therapist advised me in front of my wife not to repress my inclination to female domination but to carry it out with my wife. My wife is open minded. Both are looking at this option that makes lots of sense to resolve a long standing marital dysharmony. What is the position of Torah regarding ...
@MonicaCellio I'm one of the original disputers. I thought in its original it was an answer, if a bad quality one. I thought it was deserving of a downvote, but not deletion. After the latest edit, I'm not sure.
@MoshePeston Durak is the Russian word for idiot/fool.
@HodofHod the guidance I've seen on NAA is that it means "doesn't attempt to answer the question". Answers can be wrong, otherwise bad, downvote-worthy... yes there's also "very low quality", which Shog once described evocatively as "steaming cowpies". This doesn't appear to be that. So the question is, is it a bad answer or a non-answer?
@MoshePeston which is what Google Translate did with your Hebrew word (when in doubt transliterate, I guess).
@MonicaCellio The original question was what is the identity of Yeshua the minister of the Inner Chamber. The answer he gave originally was that the minister of the Inner Chamber is Metatron, thus not remotely answering the question since there 70 names listed in the Sifrei Kabbalah who are/were ministers of the Inner Chamber, and the question was who is Yeshua.
@MonicaCellio He then added a load of stuff which por little me couldn't understand aword, and in the end he some sort of leap of faith that Metatron is Yehoshua, which even if true still doesn't answer the original question
@MonicaCellio At the beginning I understood that he was answering that Yeshua was Metatron, making it an answer, of dubious quality. His edit has confused me as well, I think it is now much lower quality, perhaps even worthy of deletion.
Saar Ha-Panim is Metatron, my source is Rabbi Yoel D. Bakst from Colorado. The Gaon of Vilna mentions Metatron in Kol Hator.
@HodofHod BTW, I found this on the halakha.com website-"The entire Soncino English translation, reformatted and available as PDFs. יישר כחך to Reuven Brauner for the work he has put into this site, freeing us from having to use that other site. והמשכיל ידום."
That's halakhah.com
The site you mentioned earlier
@HodofHod Sorry, I meant that I found it on this website - jkuperman.com
@hachamgavriel please use the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page to contact the team about this. If you can provide them with enough identifying information about the other account they might be able to help you get back in. (That's not something mods can do; you have to ask them.) — Monica Cellio18 secs ago
There's a Shi'ur I organized in my Shul, and we meet on Tuesday evenings. Because this year "Nittel Nacht" is Tuesday night, I asked the rabbi of the Shul, who teaches the Shi'ur, if he had any thoughts one way or another about learning tomorrow night...
He answered, "WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD LEARN. Thanks very much." I just thought I'd share. :-)
@msh210 The phrase "יקוב הדין את ההר" - means let the judgement pierce the mountain" - which means to take a tough stance in the matter of law. I saw in a drasha recently that this was Moshe Rabbeinu's shita, as opposed to Aharon's shita of "lover of peace and pursuer of peace". And I'm a Moshe!
@msh210 I don't understand your comment " Because I was seeking not only p'shat- but also d'rasha-based answers". Please clarify.
@MoshePeston What I understand by that (and maybe I'm alone) is the study of Tanach without d'rashos -- just reading the text and understanding it without g'zera shava or ma matzinu or the rest of the midos. This is more commonly called "p'shat" -- I don't know why it'd be called "parshanut", but it's what "interpretation of parts of Tanach by close reading, not derivation" sounds like to me.
@MoshePeston I was the original asker of the 2 questions whose retaggings I reverted. I thought tagging as pashanut-torah-comment implied to potential answerers that I was seeking only p'shat-type answers, which was not the case.
@msh210 I already saw that earlier discussion about this and similar tags, and it looks like even then things were a bit hazy. This is what @IsaacMoses said there: We have parshanut-torah-comment, whose wiki says "interpretation of the Torah by close reading, not derivation", but whose current de facto meaning, I think, is more like a general "interpretation of Tanach."
@msh210 I wrote in my meta question that I am not sure how useful this tag is anyway, since we have the parsha tags.
The purpose of tags is to find subjects of interest, so I don't know who would seaerch using this tag.
I would prefer an all encompassing chumash tag so that it brings up all the questions on the chumash - my main area of interest, instead of having to go through parsha by parsha.
Rabbi Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee Jerusalem will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will
signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
I (a non-Jewish Christian), recently heard about this incredible Rabbi of the 12th Century who correctly...
This question links to this article about plans to, l'havdil, put up a giant jesus statue on JNF land in Israel. Most of that site is blocked for me at work & I've never heard of them; does anybody know them, or about this from another source? (From Google excerpts this site sounds a little questionable, but that doesn't mean they're wrong.)
@Caleb it's on-topic here so feel free to send it over. The author sounds a little, err, volatile?, though, so do you think the migration will be ok from your end? (We would remove most of the comments on arrival.)
Saar Ha-Panim is Metatron, my source is Rabbi Yoel D. Bakst from Colorado. The Gaon of Vilna mentions Metatron in Kol Hator.
edit:
http://www.yedidnefesh.com/kaballah/kol-hator/1.htm
I think the phrase translated as "minister of the interior" is from the Hebrew phrase "Saar Ha-Panim". Kol Hator...
Rabbi Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee Jerusalem will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will
signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
I (a non-Jewish Christian), recently heard about this incredible Rabbi of the 12th Century who correctly...
