V'dibarta Bam

6:26 AM

@IsaacMoses judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/30136/…

@MonicaCellio Nor I, but where's the old one?

Double AA

7:16 AM

@yirmeyahu Note that (non-mods) can't self delete answers if the answer is accepted or if they are unregistered.

@SethJ I think he might be offended at your comparison of his intellectual prowess.

@CharlesKoppelman Sooo many?

@msh210 I don't think we have access to it.

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12:09 PM

@msh210 trying to compete with the ~~master~~ patriarch? Never a good idea. Point @Isaac Moses.

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1:57 PM

@SethJ Compete! Compete! The more, the better.

@IsaacMoses I see nothing in that post about puns!

@SethJ The post is only the written notes.

Monica Cellio

2:43 PM

@msh210 it doesn't appear that the custom bounty text is kept past the bounty -- or, at least, it's not part of the edit history.

@IsaacMoses to accompany the oral tradition, yes.

3:26 PM

@SethJ I not so much competed as tried a variation on the theme, punning on the user's username (and 'home' SE site) rather than on the question.

3:38 PM

@msh210 Aha! I thought it was a reference to the subject matter that I didn't quite get. It turns out that it was something else that had just gone over my head.

Fixed point (mathematics)

@IsaacMoses Not very good coverage but (note the anchor link)

:Not to be confused with a stationary point where f(x) = 0. :Not to be confused with fixed-point arithmetic, a form of limited-precision arithmetic in computing. In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint, also known as an invariant point) of a function is a point that is mapped to itself by the function. A set of fixed points is sometimes called a fixed set. That is to say, c is a fixed point of the function f(x) if and only if f(c) = c. This means f(f(...f(c)...)) = fn(c) = c, an important terminating consideration when recursively computing f. For example, if f is d...

Can't load mechon-mamre.org. Is it just me?

@msh210 Thanks. Something something chaos theory something something fractals

@msh210 Me too

@msh210 I'm not sure how, but I managed to pick that up. :)

@msh210, in my comment, perhaps I should have said "material" instead of "content"

@IsaacMoses Could be. I know it from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… and related.

@IsaacMoses :-) Was that a request for an edit?

3:52 PM

@msh210 No, but sure, yes, please

@IsaacMoses Consider it done. Mostly because it's done.

@msh210 Easier done than said

@msh210 I've read about strange attractors at some point, possibly in fiction, possibly in Clarke's The Ghost from the Grand Banks

@IsaacMoses Not I. I've never read that novel, either -- nor, I think, anything by him. Have I been missing out?

@msh210 An imperfect novel, but like all of Clarke's work, thought-provoking. May have been my first exposure to the M-set.

Monica Cellio

@msh210 works for me.

4:00 PM

@IsaacMoses Mandelbrodt?

@MonicaCellio Me, too, now.

@msh210 That. As seen on the book cover.

@msh210 I read and very much enjoyed many Clarke novels when I was a teenager. The Rama series comes to mind.

@IsaacMoses Oh, the Rama series, sure: that has really had a strong impact on my life. More so than the Karo series, especially where they diverge.

@msh210 <woosh>

@msh210 גנרלי?

@IsaacMoses Hm... generally wouldn't be a good transliteration of any possible Hebrew word under my system.

4:18 PM

@msh210 Oh, got it. :) "Maran" would probably be a better parallel

4:34 PM

@msh210 @IsaacMoses I wonder if גנרלי is ever used as a transliterated form for gnarly.

@SethJ Google says : No results found for "גנרלי דוד"

4:54 PM

מסוקס, אחי!

... though I doubt that's a colloquial equivalent

@IsaacMoses I thought gnarled/knotted/twisted is m'subach. (Not that there can't be two words for it.)

Oh -- m'sukas seems to mean with gnarls/knots, like wood. Never mind.

Sounds like a job for

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Hebrew Language & Usage

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Currently in definition.

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Ali

6:27 PM

Double AA

7:01 PM

bye

ooh, it's Rhyme Time!

7:22 PM

Why?

8:09 PM

<sigh>

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10:44 PM

Helloes

@IsaacMoses @Monica

Hi!

@HodofHod Hi hi!

Monica Cellio

@Charlie hi! And apologies in advance; I need to leave in a minute. It's not you. :-)

@MonicaCellio No problem :)

@HodofHod I'd like to make a question, but I don't know if it was already made or it's too sily :/

@Charlie Shoot

10:52 PM

@HodofHod Is there a certain time to recite Shema? Can we say for the time we think is proper, slowly, to focus correctly, and is there any problem to say it too fast?

@Charlie To be sure, you're talking about the length of time you take to say it, not when you say it, right?

@HodofHod yes, yes

@Charlie Sounds like a good question to me. Let me do a quick search and see if someone has asked this...

@HodofHod Thank you :)

Q: How do you extend the sound of a daleth in Shema?

I can't find anything that I think it would be a duplicate of, but here are some related questions:

How does one extend the sound of the daleth in the echod of the shema as prescribed in OC 61 (6)?. The letter as we say it does not seem to allow extension. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalet which defines it as a "a voiced alveolar plosive" and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_pl...

Q: 'Kavannah' of Shem Havayeh in the first line of Kriat Shma

The requirement when saying the name 'Havayeh' to have in mind both the meaning of 'adon ha-kol' and 'hayah hoveh ve-yihyhe' takes me some time: longer than almost anybody I see in shul taking to pronounce the words, including people who are careful about mitzvot. So, is this really halakhically ...

halacha rashi shemos-sacred-names shema kavana-concentration

10:58 PM

@HodofHod it has to do more with how you pronounce , no?

A: Which parts of the prayer service must be said clearly out loud?

@Charlie Very related, and one of the answers may already answer your question:

It's probably better to come earlier so that you can say all of pesukei d'zimrah at your own speed. Most likely the chazzan is going pretty fast through pesukei d'zimrah, but then slows down a bit after that, saying keriat shema and its berachot at a tolerable speed for you.

@Charlie Right. See this last question though.

@HodofHod hmmmmmmmmmm I see

@HodofHod Thank you

@Charlie Even with this question I think you could still ask yours, but you may want to make sure you specify how yours is different.

@Charlie My pleasure! :D

@HodofHod okay :) I may do it :D

@HodofHod according to that answer, I understood that , as long as you pronounce correctly, respecting each sound, etc; you fulfill your obligation, then it does not matter the speed, but how you say it, no?

@Charlie That would seem to be the law, yes. However, it is considered beneficial to prolong the pronunciation of the word "echad", so perhaps there is more to it.