@IsaacMoses I haven't read through it carefully either. I also suspect our unanswered questions are hard and such efforts therefore might not help -- but it might be worth trying.
@IsaacMoses Book of the month with a capital B? :-) I dunno... sifre Tanach and masechtos are long, and hard. It's not lik reading a novel (l'havdil). And I'm not sure of the value of a book-of-the-month anyway (value for a Q&A site, I mean).
@msh210 If we do it, I'd recommend trying to schedule it when people can be near their [personal/communal] libraries, to enable in-depth research as necessary. I agree with you and @TalFishman that the yield of such an event may not be worth the coordination costs.
@msh210 A month is a long time. Smaller chunks could work too. You don't think that a whole bunch of us learning the same material for a month would result in some great Q&A? (Not to mention actual, real life learning.)
We've been trying a bunch of different initiatives to grow the community and content base, including the Ingathering Contest, the weekly topic challenge, and Parashat Hashavu'a Chat. Right now, the only means we have for advertising them to the community are those listed here, none of which are p...
@IsaacMoses Smaller chunks, yes. Actually, a maseches mishnayos might be small enough. Maybe. Perhaps a perek Nach? [...] On third thought, this is very similar to the weekly topic challenge: both might be too much.
@msh210 They're similar, but distinct in the time scales and also in that this would be telling everyone to learn a particular thing, while the challenge is more trying to get people to notice questions that naturally come up. It could be the topic challenge once a month to reduce overload.
... it could also replace or be superimposed on the Parasha Chat if two chats in the same week would be a problem.
@ShmuelBrill (Supplementing not supplanting Isaac's answer above,) there are a whole bunch, some with 'parashas' (with some spelling) in the name and some without.
It says in the Baal HaTanya's Hilchos Talmud Torah that one fulfills his obligation to learn Torah only if he says the words. Moreover, a Chavrusa fulfills his obligation only because Shomeya Keoneh.
Most Poskim do not consider a person listening to a tape as Shomeya Keoneh. So does one fulfill ...
@msh210 I'll merge them the other way. I thought we had something like that, but didn't remember what it was
@msh210 Actually, I'm going to rename sound to hearing. It seems like loud-quiet is distinctly about sound production, and sound consumption can well be a separate concern.
