@RolandiXor, @IsaacMoses - I received the flags at the same time you did. Ali has been warned repeatedly about this behavior. I have just kicked him out of the room and suspended him from chat per previous moderator warnings on three sites.
@IsaacMoses I did (again), but I suspended him before kicking the first time so I'm confused. @RolandiXor, have you done this before? His chat profile shows he's suspended; maybe it's a caching thing?
@RolandiXor wait, don't answer here; I'm about to ping you somewhere else.
@IsaacMoses we're making good progress, and today was my day when I could crank through a bunch so I'm delighted to see others jumping in now (@Fred and @HodofHod, thanks again and keep up the great work!). This is going to be great! And I'm looking forward to using it at my own seder -- just established critical mass so I'll be holding it, yay.
@YannisRizos sholom, are you jewish? i see you are from saloniki, and i would like to know if you know any jews still living there, and if you know their customs?
@MonicaCellio I suggest that when it goes live, the mods send a courtesy email to everyone who has a byline but hasn't been to Meta since the project started. We don't need their permission to re-use their words thus, and I think shouldn't ask for it, but they might like to know about it, in part so they can tell their friends and families. It might even induce some of them <coughalex> to peek back in.
@DhoweedYaAgov Hi. I do have a lot of Jewish friends in Thessaloniki, but I can't really say I know their customs. I'm an atheist and all my friends (Jewish or not) are polite enough to not discuss religion when I'm around ;)
@YannisRizos i know there were quite a few jews in saloniki before ww2. unfortunatley alot perished in aushwitz. however, i really would like to know their customs because i heard they are truely amazing customs which predate alot of "our" customs.
@DhoweedYaAgov Assuming that a question can be answered only by certain personalities is a mistake. Anyway, we serve the long tail. You never know when someone acquainted with the customs you're interested in, either by practice, by observation, or by study, will show up or find your question on Google and come in and answer.
@DhoweedYaAgov FTR, at least one user who self-identifies as a Karaite has indeed participated on MY recently
@DhoweedYaAgov The city historically had a very large and vibrant Jewish community. Before WW2 there was another unfortunate event that forced a lot of the city's Jews to relocate, an accidental fire in 1917 that destroyed 2/3 of the city. It started in the Jewish quarter and most of the city's Jews lost their houses. Those that returned to the city shortly after fell victim to WW2. Today, the Jewish community is still the more significant in Greece, but very small compared to before WW2.
@YannisRizos there is only one synagogue in the wester hemisphere which is theirs and they barley have enough people there fore services even on holidays and sabboth
@HodofHod ... and BTW, if WAF hadn't already lessened his MY activity significantly back when he was still a mod, you'd probably not be chatting about the good old days in TL now :)
@HodofHod good point. Have they just not participated in haggadah-related questions, or did we miss some good stuff?
@msh210 I didn't include that answer in the meta post (yet) because it sounded like you were going to add sources. When you do, either add that answer to the meta post or ping me and I'll do it. Thanks!
@MonicaCellio, what do you think of my edit? I moved the command to the end of the line (so it would work), and I changed it to <sub> to set it further apart from the body.
Perhaps I'm biased, but, based on the Minchas Chinuch, I don't think this should be the accepted answer: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/7591/603 - The Minchas Chinuch explicitly negates this answer @gershongold
@Menachem You say in your answer that most opinions hold like the MC. Who else is that? We're talking pshat gemara/rishonim vs one rabbi in the 19th century. Not that his opinion isn't valid, but it would seem the pshat reading is valid too.
@DoubleAA That is a quote from the footnote. I didn't llook up that talk inside, so I don't know what other commentaries discuss this issue. I restructured my answer a little bit.
I'm just saying that if you look at the accepted answer it would seem that we don't bring a pesach sheni if the Beit Hamikdash was built after the first pesach. All the other answers indicate that at the very least it is not that clear cut. It is an argument in the Yerushalmi, the Minchat Chinuch says that that halacha is not referring to the situation we're asking about
@msh210 Alright. I'll email some particular people I've corresponded bilaterally with before.
@MonicaCellio, Yeyasher kocheich on another Announcer badge. Yeyasher kochacha to vulcandeathgrip and everyone who participated in our first question to be the object of two Announcer badges (and over 1000 views altogether to date).
@IsaacMoses wow, I hadn't noticed that this was our first double! (I figured the Samoa question for sure...) Let the record also show that Isaac is a way better publicist than I, having gotten his Announcer badge for that post weeks ago. :-)
@MonicaCellio, I just checked with my friend about those rolls. Seems I did misunderstand. She only makes/serves them for dairy meals and wouldn't know how to de-dairy-ify them.
@msh210, re: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/27025/5 I was misreading it. It's talking about eating dairy after meat. According to my notes, there's a Zohar that says you should wait an hour (some wait half an hour) and bentch, but that isn't seen as Halachah LeMa'aseh. My bad.
