@IsaacMoses judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/16330/revisions I wish there were a way to see how an edit you're in the middle of compares to one saved while you were making it, before committing. Or something.
The bracha on a mushroom is "shehakol" because the Talmud (Berachot 40b) correctly (I think) states that mushrooms do not derive their nutrients from the ground.
If a mushroom is growing in a vineyard, does that constitute Kilaei HaKerem (forbidden mixture of plant species in a vineyard) conside...
A robo-call is an automated phone call that does not involve a human caller. The majority of these are uninvited solicitations (either for money or votes), and these are the ones I'm asking about. Robo-calls, being automated, are much less expensive for an organization to make than conventional...
@IsaacMoses I haven't followed the links in the question, but assuming that this is a specifically-Jewish organization (i.e. sensitive to halacha) then I think it's on-topic. However, I think it's broad and at risk of attracting non-answers about the effectiveness of such approaches, so part of me wants to close as not constructive even though the OP seems to be asking in good faith and trying to fit to our format.
Perhaps a question specifically about JONAH's success rate would be answerable?
@IsaacMoses I think I'm getting hung up on the "such as". There's no global "this works" or "this doesn't", whether you're talking about behavior modification or fund-raising. We can talk about Oorah or JONAH, but I don't know if we can talk about the class.
Well, unless it's a survey question: does anybody know of an efficient tzedakah organization that uses method X (where "efficient" is defined).
@DoubleAA , @MonicaCellio suggested that there may be a distinction. Feel free to dispute.
In other news, I was going to seek outlet for my annoyance with goings-on in this question by searching Google Images for "No Stairway to Heaven," intending to reference Wayne's World and suggest we put at the top of the FAQ a "No Rock-that-God-can't-move question" rule. The first result from Google Images was to Jeff Atwood.
... I think, in context, that means that my impulse was correct.
When I became frum (around 2 years ago) I started wearing tzitzit hanging out. My grandfather just told me that he remembers that when he was a kid, he tucked his tzitzit in. He remembers his father and grandfather (from Galitzia) doing the same. Should I switch my minhag? I prefer to wear them o...
@IsaacMoses Nah. It's gibberish not offensive, and it does try to answer the question. Plus it has a -10 which will tell any viewer what the Community of Experts thinks.
@IsaacMoses Although I wouldn't mind if you got rid of my exchange with him in the comments to Menachem's answer. That was really irrelevant.
@IsaacMoses It's harmless but it is interrupting my addmittedly long exchange with Menachem. And it is not shayach to Menachem's answer. He basically jumped in and accused Menachem of trying to argue with him. I say those comments are off topic for that answer.
@MonicaCellio Stakes are low, yes. I'm tempted to do what HodofHod suggested and just grab the noun ("The Beit Midrash"), especially since I personally don't like it (and downvoted it).
Can a site like mi.yodeya.com be used for one to fulfill our sages mandate of "Make for yourself a Rav"?
Obviously I meant this facetiously. Of course a website cannot take the place of a rav, but did you see some of the halachic questions that are being asked and sound like they are being asked...
We've had a number of good suggestions for our chat room's name, and the upvotes and downvotes on each showed that there are five favorites (answers with net vote count greater than one standard deviation above the mean as of this writing, if you care). Here, you're being asked to vote among thos...
@AdamMosheh He participated here a little early on; I don't know how recently.
@IsaacMoses On "Orgs (such as X) who do Y..." versus "Y...", I'm not sure there's a difference. What would be different is "is org X effective at Z" without mentioning Y.
@IsaacMoses is being too nice here. The username you selected borders on identity theft, and misrepresents yourself. We're happy to have you here, but please be a mensch. — Dave45 mins ago
@HodofHod that would be impossible unless there's some kind of parser server-side that adds HTML tags around detected Hebrew. I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
@HodofHod The alternative would be larger text overall, or a different font (whcih shows Hebrew larger).
@HodofHod I'm not on a Mac now. If no one's done it by tomorrow (when I'll be on a Mac), ping me, and I'll bl"n do it. (It's easier to screenshoot on a Mac -- or, at least, easier for me.)
@HodofHod Using Ubuntu here. Macs take partial screenshots: they let you outline any rectangle you want. Here I have to take a whole screenshot and then crop.
A robo-call is an automated phone call that does not involve a human caller. The majority of these are uninvited solicitations (either for money or votes), and these are the ones I'm asking about. Robo-calls, being automated, are much less expensive for an organization to make than conventional...
Why is it we read Shir Hashirim on Shabbbos Chol Hamoed Pesach?
When you have a prefix, such as a lamed, before the name YKVK people pronounce it la | donai instead of la | a | donai. Why?
