@Menachem I recall seeing a list of questions (or posts, flags, comments, somethings) -- I don't remember where -- onsite, and some had rules between them and others didn't. I shoulda screenshot it.
@msh210 to her, not to me -- glad to see she's answered a few questions and asked one of her own, all in the first day. I'm nobody special in the social-media world, so was pleased to see that someone followed me here. @Jin's beautiful ad probably had a lot to do with that!
@MonicaCellio this is a little different - a) sometimes the line shows up and sometimes it doesn't. b) this isn't showing up in the preview or the final, but sometimes it does.
@Menachem I seem to remember a source in Chassidus about sitra achra being associated with the number 11. Something to do with a lack of unity in its sefiros. Do you have any idea what I'm thinking of?
@HodofHod I seem to remember something connecting it to "Kol Hamosef Goreah" - whomever adds, subtracts. A quick google search found this so far, lib.kabbalah.info/…
from there: Indeed, you should know that as they are four Olamot ABYA in Kedusha and their Shoresh is only Eser Sefirot that expand in them sort-by-sort and degree-by-degree, so it is in ABYA de Klipot. They are all rooted in the sorting of the Melachim that could not be sorted, and they are eleven Sefirot.
It is written in the Zohar (Parashat Truma p.164), “The Sitra Achra is given an extra count, and it is counted as a deficit, such as eleven.” It means that when it is given the extra count, it is a demerit, since they are ten in Kedusha and eleven in the Klipot.
I think this is too trivial to ask on the site, so I'm posting in chat: Does anyone know where the phrase "פושט צורה ולובש צורה" comes from originally?
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Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
Since when do comments on questions and answers show up on the main page? I don't mean that they can be read there, but that the question is bumped up on the main page, and that the last activity noted on the right side below the title is the comment (or, rather, the time of the comment and the ...
I have a small followup from last week. Somebody (don't remember who) asked why sefer b'midbar begins where it does, when a logical break would seem to come a bit later after the mishkan stuff in this week's portion. I heard a drash that argued that sefer sh'mot is about people-building (making us a coherent people), sefer vayikra is about holiness, and sefer b'midbar is about nation-building. (cont)
That doesn't address the mishkan stuff; my own thought there is that the nation and the priesthood must go hand-in-hand, to "entwining" them at the beginning of sefer b'midbar reinforces that. We can't just be a nation but we also can't just be God-facing and never interact with each other or with the other nations. Just a thought.
@MonicaCellio Oh, no, the facebook post is an excerpt from another place. Here's what facebook says
>The Reading of the Nesiim on Chanukah Destroys Yishmael On each day of Chanukah, we read the Torah’s description of the sacrifices of the twelve Nesiim (leaders) of the tribes from Parshas Nasoi. The ‘Targum Yonoson Be Uziel’
states that the sacrifices of our twelve Nesiim destroy the twelve Nesiim of Yishmael. The Zohar explains: If not for the sacrifices of our twelve Nesiim, the world would not be able to endure the persecution of the twelve Nesiim of Yishmael. On Chanukah, with the reading of the sacrifices of our Nesiim, the Nesiim of Yishmael
@jake the idea was that we go from this group of slaves that just exists to a people that, unified, stood at sinai. (Ok, so we were also near-unified with the calf; nothing's perfect.)
@MonicaCellio Ah, I see. Indeed. In fact, Abarbanel at the beginning of Shemot brings several reasons why Bereshit and Shemot are separate books. That is one of them, IIRC: Bereshit is about the making of great individuals; Shemot is about the making of a nation.
@jake Does he say anything about Vayikra and Bamidbar? There does seem to be a difference in the people/nation in Sh'mot and the nation in Bamidbar and I'm wondering if that's real or just suggesion bias because I heard this drash.
@DoubleAA Thanks. I haven't heard anything more specific than Arab either.
@jake Huh. I wonder if he left it out or if it just wasn't memorable.
So going back to Naso, does anybody know what's special about the age of 30 for Levi'im? At 20 you're fit for military service but you're not fit for the mishkan until 30. It makes sense that spiritual readiness comes later than physical, but is there any significance to these particular ages?
@MonicaCellio The Mishnah in Avot 5:21 says 30 is the age of כח - Koach = Strength and 20 is the age לרדוף = to pursue.
If I had to guess, 20 has a wild physical strength which is useful in the army, but 30 is already more mature and controlled which is useful for divine service.
We see from the rules of not using metal on the Alter's stones, that we try to distinguish military and divine services.
Another question. What did it mean to be sent outside of the camp (lepers etc)? Was this just "take your stuff and go", or was there community infrastructure? Did the manna extend outside the camp so they could eat? Were they responsible for their own defense? I'm wondering how this worked in practice.
@MonicaCellio The Talmud (Yoma 75a) says that for Tzaddikim the manna fell on their doorsteps, for In-Between-ers it fell just outside, and for Reshaim they had to go scavenge for it. So presumably there was manna that fell some distance from the people, and I think it is reasonable that the same would apply for the lepers.
@DoubleAA Yoma is talking about inside the camp (even a tzaddik can be exposed to tumah) and you're applying that more broadly? Makes sense, just checking.
So what about shelter? If a family lives in a tent and one person has to go out, are there communal tents for this or what? (Maybe I should ask this on main but we're chatting parsha here, so...)
I think this is too trivial to ask on the site, so I'm posting in chat: Does anyone know where the phrase "פושט צורה ולובש צורה" comes from originally?
by aliyah rishon (19:1) sheni (19:15) shelishi (19:23) revii (19:33) chamishi (20:1) shishi (20:8) shevii (20:23) maftir (20:25) haftara (Amos 9:7) haftara, according to Sefardim, Italians (Yechezkel 20) by perek perek 19 ; perek 20 meforshim Judaica Press Rashi in English and Hebrew (France, 1040 - 1105) -- ואני לא באתי אלא לפשוטו של מקרא ולאגדה המיישבת דברי המקרא, דבר דבור על אופניו Chiz…
by aliyah rishon (25:1) sheni (25:14) shelishi (25:19) revii (25:25) chamishi (25:29) shishi (25:39) shevii (25:47) maftir (25:55) haftara (Yirmeyah 32:6-27), with Mahari Kara, Abarbanel and Malbim by perek perek 25 ; perek 26 meforshim Judaica Press Rashi in English and Hebrew (France, 1040 - 1105) -- ואני לא באתי אלא לפשוטו של מקרא ולאגדה המיישבת דברי המקרא…
by aliyah rishon (Vayikra 26:3) (missing that pasuk, but starts at 26:4) sheni (26:6) shelishi (26:10) revii (27:1) chamishi (27:16), shishi (27:22) shevii (27:29) maftir (27:32) haftara (Yirmeyahu 16) by perek perek 27 meforshim Judaica Press Rashi in English and Hebrew (France, 1040 - 1105) -- ואני לא באתי אלא לפשוטו של מקרא ולאגדה המיישבת דברי המקרא, דבר דבור על אופניו Chizkuni (Fra…
I'm guessing http://judaism.stackexchange.com/users/1255/none = http://judaism.stackexchange.com/users/1552/bchol-beisi-neeman. The former's original name was Moshe, and the latter is clearly a Mosaic reference. Both asked lots and lots of questions. And the former promised to stop using as a registered user. (We've had a number of unregistered short-term high question askers in the interim as well.) Also, the latter seems too comfortable with the features of the site for a new user, using edits and reward bounties right away. Finally, the latter's bounty on this question http://judaism.st…
@DoubleAA none's poor experiences seem to have been on three different sites, or at least he copied his profile. Does anybody know whether these poor experiences are something we should be paying attention to? (I guess I didn't notice them at the time.)
@DoubleAA Maybe because it's the first time that feed is being posted here? If it happens again, I'll kill the feed bl"n. Or if it continues to post things a week late.
@DoubleAA IMO your points are good ones except your last. Bounty on a specific question can easily be due to interest even if not the asker. I've done it myself a few times.
@msh210 I've seen that sort of thing with setting up RSS feeds elsewhere; the first fetch gets everything posted within some time window, and then you get new and edited posts after that.
@DoubleAA That reminds me. I was sitting lel Shavuos next to a couple of people learning together, and among the things they did was review maseches Nida from daf 2 until wherever they were up to. They way they did this was [cont'd]
[cont'd] to recall a mnemonic they'd made up using the number of the daf. So for example (I certainly don't remember any of the mnemonics, this is just an example), they'd recall "nun vav -- stands for 'nearby veses' -- the g'mara speaks of a r'ia that occurs on the day before the veses; and this is what it says...". They told me they'd done this for nida (up to where they were up to) and a few other masechtos -- and I could see in practice that they remembered the g'mara
(Of course I don't know that they remembered it correctly.)
I just thought that that was a cool idea.
@DoubleAA I once wrote a 200-odd-line summary of perek Hakones (BK) in poem (meter (though not iambic pentameter) and rhyme)
If I recall correctly it starts: On daf nun-he we saw who was our mishna's author: it was Rabi Y'huda 'cause or else it would say shor. ...... and doesn't get any better thereafter.
The last two stars --> I see: @Dave, do you have my e-mail address? The server is gmail.com and the mailbox is msh210 - 2d ago by msh210 *Avadeh.* - 2d ago by Dave
@HodofHod @ShmuelBrin @MonicaCellio Did we forget Parasha Chat? - 2d ago by Double AA
Ironic, isn't it? I suspect that Memorial Day (in the US) is partly to blame; it may not feel like Wednesday already to people. - 2d ago by Monica Cellio
The date and post title overlap on the tumbleweed badge page, as well as other post-related badge pages.
According to @balpha, he SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
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Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
Other than the Ramchal have any other gedolei yisroel written plays? If so please provide links to the text.
