Is this in scope? It strikes me the wrong way. judaism.stackexchange.com/q/15791/759

@DoubleAA why not?

Stack overflow has a Homework tag

@ShmuelBrin See judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/4959/bracha-for-quinoa/…

@DoubleAA so?

@ShmuelBrin Look what I'm replying to. And look at the date of the comment in the link.

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could anyone familiar with Hebrew help me with a short translation?

@DanODay I can try.

it is a couple lines written on a photo

some of it is using standard hebrew alphabet

@DanODay If it is indeeed short I can try to help too

other parts appear to be using the phoenician alphabet

that is the main part

I can make out Cohen and key words, Shalom, etc.

but not sure what it means

nor am I sure what the Phoenician(?) says on the bottom line

@DanODay Either its very poetic or very bad grammar (I think, I'm no expert). Can you provide some background?

@DanODay Don't feel bad. I can recognize every word there and I still don't know what it means :) Someone wasn't writing very well.

ok then I am not off base

i was making sure i am not going crazy, i thought it was nonsense

@DanODay The last two words means "The House of Israel"

what about the phoenician? or what about if my translation is poor?

oh yeah, duh lol

@DanODay (Its also the name of a neighborhood in Jerusalem)

@DanODay I would say: brothers to ask for/because you sat with

for the first line

not that that makes any more sense :)

no no

please translate as you would

@DanODay The first word (-ה) perhaps is shorthand for God's name? Its sometimes used as such.

i would like to hear your translation even if it makes no sense

@Vram I was wondering that as well. Very unclear.

so what might the sentence mean if it was God (contextually that would make sense)

or give me a broken translation with God in it

@DoubleAA Or perhaps the person is unfamiliar with proper prefix use, and the ה is supposed to be attached to the following word (which I think fits better contextually)

God. Brothers. Because you sat with / God. The priest blessed God. Brothers which / to sit God after the House of Israel.

please... could you offer a full translation, even if poor?

somethign like that. very odd

thank you

what about the phoenician on the bottom?

Also, I presume this is "TO: Habakkuk"?

If it's a prefix then: The brothers to ask because you sat with / the priest to bless the brothers which / to sit [dwell?] the after House of Israel

@DanODay Yes.

That last version I wrote seems to be the most sensible (but it's still unclear).

@DanODay To: Havakuk

@DanODay Sorry but nothing I can do about that

ok, but it is definitely not extended/cursive Hebrew?

hmm... I was hoping to delete the main message from the chat stream when done... is this possible?

@DanODay Definitely not anything I've ever seen.

well I am confident it is Phoenician, it was how Hebrew was written prior to the 11th century BC

@DanODay Not if 5 minutes past. Perhaps you can flag it for a mod

oic

no biggie

@DanODay you can try and use this chart to decode it

I already did ;)

I have a possible translation, but I wanted to see if anyone else can read it

I'm pretty confident I know what the statement on the bottom says, but there is another statement that is more private I would like decoded from the Phoenician if someone can read it. I would email it to them.

(it is someone's full name)

well, thanks everyone for your help, i really appreciate it

@IsaacMoses Who came up with the name "Jewish Life and Learning"? I've noticed an interesting parallel: here and here.

@Jin, I'm just now catching up on several days' worth of chat. That's beautiful! And I second (third? fourth?) the idea that when we get to site swag, a print of that should be included. UX.SE did nice moleskin blank books with their logo for top-user swag; I wouldn't expect a nice color print to cost more than that to produce.

On the wine-stains thing... I was suggesting that in the context of a haggadah-themed site design; if you made the page look like a page from a haggadah, it wouldn't really be complete without that addition. But you're not doing a haggadah theme (and that's totally fine!), so I wouldn't do the wine thing. It doesn't fit with other books, just that one. You can get nice, subtle color variation through the natural variations in parchment.