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12:17 AM

I just noticed this. Go to the "Popular Culture" section. Did one of us do that? :-)

Echad Mi Yodea (Yiddish: ווער קענ זאָגן ווער קענ רעדן ver ken zogn ver ken redn) (Ladino: "ken supyese i entendyese") (Hebrew: אחד מי יודע ekhád mi yodeá) (Bukhori: Yakumin ki medonad?) (Who Knows One?) is a traditional cumulative song sung on Passover and found in the haggadah. It enumerates common Jewish motifs and teachings. It is meant to be fun and humorous, while still imparting important lessons to the children present. Recitation varies from family to family. The song, first has versions in Yiddish and Hebrew, and many other vernacular languages. Sometimes it is played as a memo...

Apparently oneboxing does the top of the page even if you use a direct link to a section. Sorry about that.

Jon Ericson

@MonicaCellio Happens to me all the time.

msh210

@MonicaCellio Based on the URL in the footnote, I'd say @doubleaa most likely did.

Monica Cellio

@msh210 oh heh, I should have thought to look for a user number.

Isaac Moses

1:12 AM

@msh210 Or someone who wanted it to look like @DoubleAA did it.

@msh210 Ah. Got it. Just watch out and make sure that you don't hit any out through the Bam's plate glass windows.

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Charles Koppelman

5:14 AM

@MonicaCellio Can you tell me how to "onebox"?

@HodofHod I'd actually abbreviate it hod/hod.... hod^2 is HodtotheHod

Isaac Moses

@CharlesKoppelman paste a link without anything else in the message to anything on this list:

A: Which links and sites are handled specially in chat?

The current list of integrated (we call this onebox, or oneboxing, ala search engines) sites is: Stack Exchange sites: Questions / Answers / Users / Comments Stack Exchange Chat: Messages / Rooms / Bookmarked conversations Area 51 proposals Posts from the Stack Exchange blog, the Server Fault b...

... and it will be automagically expanded into an excerpt or other representation of what's on the other side of the link

HodofHod

@CharlesKoppelman It also works when its a reply to another message.

@CharlesKoppelman True :) But Hod^2 seemed more hod-ey to me

Isaac Moses

@CharlesKoppelman HodtotheHod would be Hod^Hod. Hod^2 could be HodsofHod

HodofHod

~~several bad hod puns~~

1 hour later…

Isaac Moses

6:55 AM

OK, getting started on:

Q: (How) should we re-purpose the mi_yodeya Twitter account to make it more interesting?

There are currently two Twitter feeds that automatically serve up links to Mi Yodeya and Mi Yodeya - Meta questions. One of them, @mi_yodeya, belongs to me*. I am (and apparently at least some other yodeyans are) interested in switching this account from automatically sending out links to all que...

I've set up scheduled tweets on HootSuite and scheduled the first few. One went out already:

When to say "LeDovid HaShem Ori" in a minyan with different nusach? #tefilla in #elul Q&A: http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/9738/when-to-say-ledovid-hashem-ori-in-a-minyan-with-different-nusach

Tweeted by mi_yodeya on August 19, 2013 at 6:35 AM

Here's a chat room for scheduling more. Suggested format TBD. I put in "suggestions" for the tweets I've already scheduled as well as my acknowledgements.

Mi_Yodeya tweet suggestions

Suggest timely tweets for twitter.com/mi_yodeya

If you want to help:

- Find Q&A that we should tweet out: seasonal, daf yomi, new and cool, headlines-related, etc., and post a link in the tweet suggestions chatroom

- If you want to help do the actual tweet writing and scheduling, let me know.

- If you are a veteran tweeter, give me/us feedback on the tweets. I'm pretty new to this. Am I doing hashtags right? Best practices I'm not doing?

- Follow @mi_yodeya on Twitter and retweet our tweets!

Meta post with this info more neatly coming sooner or later

Isaac Moses

7:13 AM

@CharlesKoppelman and there are three examples of oneboxing for you

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Monica Cellio

12:46 PM

@IsaacMoses great! Want to add a link to the room there?

Oh. I should have read everything before replying. Sorry. :-)

Charles Koppelman

1:31 PM

@IsaacMoses you're right. it was late.

Daniel

1:52 PM

@CharlesKoppelman No, HodtotheHod would be Hod^Hod

Menachem

2:37 PM

Any Lubavitchers (or anyone else) who can confirm that I understood the letter mentioned judaism.stackexchange.com/a/30638/603 correctly?

Charles Koppelman

9 hours ago, by Isaac Moses

@CharlesKoppelman HodtotheHod would be Hod^Hod. Hod^2 could be HodsofHod

Daniel

@CharlesKoppelman Ah I didn't notice that

3 hours later…

Double AA

5:25 PM

I would like to refund the asker's bounty and close as opinion based. — Double AA 32 mins ago

Daniel

@DoubleAA I don't think that can be done... Can it?

Double AA

@Daniel A mod can.

It's not for common use.

Daniel

@DoubleAA You learn something new every day

HodofHod

@DoubleAA I say edit out the subjective parts and edit in a request for sources.

Double AA

@HodofHod Which parts aren't subjective?

Isaac Moses

5:37 PM

@DoubleAA The fourth question, possibly the second, and maybe, if there's some sources jackpot, the other two

Double AA

@IsaacMoses The fourth question? I'm understanding it as: will this find prompt us to get things started again? How is that objective?

Isaac Moses

@DoubleAA I read it as assuming/requesting confirmation that lack of the Ark is a/the barrier to re-instating the Temple service, which can be addressed objectively

... which both answers did

Double AA

I have to run now. If someone can try and fix up the question while I'm gone, that would be great.

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Islam

7:48 PM

Related to this discussion , Can anyone explain how the verse in genesis can be used to prove multiune God? did past rabbis interpreted this way?

Plural of respect does not indicate multiplicity of God

2 days ago, 4 hours 10 minutes total – 15 messages, 4 users, 4 stars

Bookmarked 1 min ago by Islam

and is Elohim : plural of respect?

MoriDoweedhYa3gob

@Islam no

Islam

So what is meaning of Elohim does it refer to Multiune GOD like what the christians claim?

MoriDoweedhYa3gob

@Islam no

@Islam the singular is Aloah and the plural is Alloheem

Islam

Can you give a very old pre Jesus reference to the interpretation of Elohim?

Isaac Moses

Q: The Absolute Unity of G-d

As we all who know Hebrew can assert, the sufix "im" in the words usually means plurality. How can HaShem be Elohim or Elokim if He is absolutely One and the Only Lord?

theology words hebrew

Islam

7:59 PM

thanks

MoriDoweedhYa3gob

@Islam jews began using the plural because the pagans used the singular to refer to their pagan god. jews used the plural so show that all ur gods(stars trees w/e) are creations of God therefore he is above all of them. His power is like all the pagan gods attributed power. each pagan god was believed to have 1 certain power. and jews used Alloheem in plural to show He is One and has All the power

Isaac Moses

@Islam Note that the commentaries quoted in answers there are post-Jesus, accessing ancient oral traditions

Monica Cellio

@IsaacMoses good find. Ali, you should go read the answers there; yes they're later than you're looking for, but they have a strong foundation.

Isaac Moses

@MonicaCellio Islam = Ali?

Monica Cellio

8:14 PM

@IsaacMoses yes. Chat profile -> parent site (Islam) profile -> network profile -> Mi Yodeya profile.

Isaac Moses

@MonicaCellio Thanks

Monica Cellio

@IsaacMoses you're welcome.

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HodofHod

9:54 PM

@DoubleAA Sorry, had to run to a sheva brachos at literally that moment. I was going to say pretty much what @Isaac did. :)

Monica Cellio

@HodofHod never apologize for running to a sheva b'rachot. :-)

Isaac Moses

@HodofHod Baruch shekivanti leda'at gedolim

HodofHod

@IsaacMoses Baruch Hu ;)

@MonicaCellio :D This was possibly the best sheva brachos I've been to in a while, too. Or at least, it was a lot of fun. :D

@IsaacMoses First draft of suggested edit: "What will be the reaction of Jewish people if the *Ark of the Covenant* is discovered today? Objectively speaking, have any rabbinic authorities discussed what the consequences might be? Would it be a good thing? What would they do with it? Will it bring back the old practices of the Tabernacle System?"

Monica Cellio

@HodofHod glad to hear it!

HodofHod

Perhaps: "Would they reinsitute the old..."

Isaac Moses

10:06 PM

@HodofHod Sounds pretty good

@HodofHod Was there storytelling?

HodofHod

@IsaacMoses A little. Mostly just good old fashioned ribbing. Quite a few nice divrei torah (it helps when the father's a Rosh Yeshiva).

@IsaacMoses Tag suggestion: opening-the-ark