I'm a BT of just over 5 yrs now, struggling but studying hard (50 yrs of 'catch-up'!). I think of myself as a Chassidic Jew. I'm still intrigued, yet in a quandary about the validity of the 2nd Temple. It didn't survive very long, and, there was no Aron HaKodesh. Also, the Temple was designed/bui...
I'm projecting, but the OP doesn't seem to be returning to make changes, so I figured I'd read into it what I feel like makes an ok question. Any better?
@SethJ Better question IMO. The question then is whether it reflects the OP's intent. My own instinct is to give it more time and see if she returns. I'm not sure.
@MonicaCellio :) Thanks. Unlikely, given that I probably won't be able to contribute on the same order of magnitude as the pack-leaders. It's a great project to take even a tiny part in, though.
Joel Spolsky tweeted [for the second time] about Purim - Mi Yodeya?, and minutes later, Twitter went down, probably due to the instant hoards of frenzied retweets of that tweet. Oh, well. Anyway, thanks largely to Joel's tweets, we've passed 450 views of the landing page since P-MY went live.
SEO gone right: If you search Google for Purim Torah (or "Purim Torah", for that matter), the first result is WP, and the second result is MY. (Tested in private mode, so the search isn't colored by my cookies.)
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Do we have the biggest/best repository of Purim Torah on the Internet? Quite possibly. Is there any other genre/topic for which this is true, or for which this could be true, if we try?
Related to this conversion question, I remember reading somewhere in g'mara that one of the rabbis (named, but I forget who) said something to the effect that he envied converts because they got to choose and that put them on a higher level, or something to that effect. If this rings a bell with anybody, I think it'd be a valuable addition there.
