@CharlesKoppelman I'm not saying it's not appropriate

@MonicaCellio I think it's pretty widespread, but I don't know to what extent

I've just only noticed it that way

@Daniel I think @CharlesKoppelman meant appropriate for the site.

@msh210 Oh probably just because I don't even really know if my observation is accurate or not

@Daniel I think your brain made it up. I'm not sure what you mean by Conservative or Orthodox Talises, anyway. Conservative ones tend to be the really small ones, whereas the Orthodox ones tend to be much larger. Is that what you mean? I tend to notice the Berachah on the more generically decorated ones, meaning not the ones that are totally plain and undecorated, and not the ones that are personalized or very elaborate in their decoration.

@Daniel (cont) But I would not break that down to Conservative vs. Orthodox.

@SethJ Interesting. Ok. Although my experience has not been that Conservative Jews use the small "scarf talises" as I like to call them. I grew up in a Conservative shul, and pretty much all of the men wore the regular full-sized talises

@Daniel A quick search online at a bunch of Judaica web stores yields a lot of more ornate ones of all sizes that most Orthodox Jews would likely be uncomfortable wearing, and are probably geared more towards the liberal streams, yet still a large number of "scarf talises". One thing I'm noticing is that we both seem to be right. The scarf talises seem to have the Berachah, but the full size ones seem to vary, largely along the lines I mentioned, but not entirely....

@Daniel (cont) It looks like there's a tendency to keep the Berachah on the 'Atarah as a "traditional" nod for the ones that are aimed at the Conservative crowd, with a few exceptions, like several with "'Etz Chaim" instead (which is a common Conservative theme).

@DoubleAA, I wonder if annex studies in the same Yeshivah as shulem.

@SethJ somebody upvoted that?

I recommend that we spend more time analyzing the contributions of Alex and Shalom than those of annex and shulem.

@MonicaCellio I considered upvoting it for the comedic value.

@IsaacMoses I first read that as recommending we spend more time analyzing the contributions rather than the personalities. Which would have been apt criticism.

@IsaacMoses would that we could all be as knowledgable and articulate as Alex and Shalom.

@SethJ Yeah, I was going to say something like that, or maybe nothing, but then I came up with a rhyme and couldn't resist.

Totally random change of subject:

So that's what happened!

@SethJ :) Even his curse of the autocorrect itself was tempered. Where'd you get this?

@IsaacMoses A friend posted it on Facebook. He credited his wife, and his is the only 'share' I've seen. I'm not sure if she received it by email or made it herself.

I don't recall seeing this resource linked here before: daat.ac.il/daat/olam_hatanah/index.asp It's got the text of Tanach by chapter, with links to all kinds of commentaries and other resources relevant to the chapter, some of them in text on the same site. All Hebrew.

Nicely-formatted Midrashim

The parent site has all kinds of other interesting resources, too numerous to list here.

@IsaacMoses I've seen the site before. I actually kept it open in a tab on my browser for months at one time because I didn't want to just bookmark it out of fear that I would forget that I had it bookmarked. Fear realized, by the way. Thanks for posting, and Shabbath Shalom!

@SethJ Speaking of URLs to bookmark and not have to dig up again:

@Isaac heh.

@SethJ you know where the gamoro is of the tanna and his 2 sons davening for moshiahH to come

@SethJ and someone stopped them because if they were to pray moshiahH would certainly come

@SethJ i think maybe HaShem did something i forget