@Jin How about making the branches into shapes that suggest Hebrew letters instead of the Star of David? As someone suggested in an earlier conversation, the letters would symbolize Jewish learning, while the Star just symbolizes generic Jewishness. Also, instead of all of the letters of "Mi Yodeya," a possible alternative would be to just do the first letter of each word, mem and yud
@AmHa'aretz I wasn't offended I just didn't want anyone to accuse me of anything I didn't do. I'd imagine that the sudden breakout of Arabic-letter names might be suspicious.
@هه It is, however, annoying to many other users and results in addresses in comments and chat that are confusing to people who aren't familiar with the situation.
@IsaacMoses k we'll compromise. You let me keep my name, and in turn I'll stop posting here in chat and on the website. The only difficulty will be replying to old posts (which shouldn't be TOO bad). Thank you, and good luck with the new site
@DoubleAA Thanks for trying to edit the Parasha Chat notice. featured behaves a little weirdly, in that it disappears from questions it's on after some expiration period without actually being removed. Also, it can only be applied by mods. Those two things together were probably what foiled you this time.
Dear Fellow Yodeyans1,
I have exciting news for those of you who haven't been following chat for the past few days. It seems that Judaism.SE is slated to launch out of beta within the next few weeks! That means that we'll become a full-fledged member of the Stack Exchange network with, among oth...
To promote our impending launch, I think it would be cool to have a launch party. Some elements that it could include:
Live text chat
Live audio
A ribbon-cutting in which we count down to a SE staff person throwing the switch to launch the new design, and we all reload and see the new site at o...
From the things I heard in yeshiva category:
Are we allowed to place less revered seforim on top of more revered seforim? I believe that the consensus is that you are only allowed to stacks seforim in chronological order from top to bottom (e.g., Mishnayos above Gemara, Chumash on top of a Navi...
@msh210 This seems like a classic case of two slightly different questions whose answers give slightly more information than the basic requirement and end up answering each other. I'm under the impression that around here we base duplication on differences in question not differences in answer.
@DoubleAA I agree we consider question duplicates based on questions not answers, but in this case the newer question (which I linked to first) itself seems like a special case of the older. No?
@msh210 The latter is searching for a general source, while the former is asking the specific issue of how a siddur fits in (which wasn't really dealt with properly in its answers). Neither the latter question nor its answers deal with a siddur.
Maybe someone can still come along and source/discuss "Modern day Siddurim are a little more complicated, as they contain (often at the back) weekday and other Torah readings." I know I would find that interesting (at least in theory, as I happen to hold like the Aruch HaShulchan).
@DoubleAA The latter (i.e. the older question) doesn't mentioned sidurim specifically but includes them by dint of speaking of "seforim" generally. No?
@ShmuelBrin (and @msh210) - about R' Moshe and mochin rechavim: it's actually in reference to R. Moshe Vilenker, one of the prominent chassidim of the Alter Rebbe. The note that @DoubleAA quoted actually comes from here - Hayom Yom for 18 Tammuz.
From the things I heard in yeshiva category:
Are we allowed to place less revered seforim on top of more revered seforim? I believe that the consensus is that you are only allowed to stacks seforim in chronological order from top to bottom (e.g., Mishnayos above Gemara, Chumash on top of a Navi...
