@Daniel He posted an answer and it was subsequently deleted.

If you had 10k you could see it.

OFCOL! Why can't he just go back to posting his favorite divrei torah as source requests?

@IsaacMoses yeah. Thank you for your help there.

@msh210 What happened to the Markup here?

@DoubleAA Huh. Didn't know that.....any way to do that in comments (on posts on the main site)?

@Shokhet You can always use *slashes* (\) to escape your __markdown__

@CharlesKoppelman Like **this**?

@Shokhet Yep

(That's annoying that you have to do it for each symbol individually)

@CharlesKoppelman Thanks for the tip!

@Shokhet Otherwise, how do you italicize your *asterisks*?

@Shokhet no problem

@CharlesKoppelman Makes sense. (I always thought of the ** for bold as one symbol, but I guess it's really two....)

I was just here to see if anyone was talking about the DC rabbi.

@CharlesKoppelman Hadn't heard about it, but doesn't look good.....

@Shokhet Not at all. Especially knowing folks who frequent that mikvah.

@DoubleAA Return might be hard, but it's important - especially this season.

@CharlesKoppelman FYI - there is a book written by the Chofetz Chayim on the laws of Loshon Hora.

@GeminiMan ....which does not prohibit talking about something known by three people.

.... especially something that's in a major newspaper.

...at least as far as I understand

@anyone, wanting to pick your collective brains: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/1540/…

@BabySeal I don't know Sefer Yirmeya all that well, but Shalom's answer there seems to do it.

^ the answer in the above question draws on a verse from Jeremiah. If you look at the verse, couldn't Jeremiah be cajoling Hananiah in order to be freed from bonds he is in: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/1540/… Also, RAshi on the verse:

... says that this idea is based on a drasha on bilam's prophecy in numbers, see 13: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/1540/…

The way Rabbi Shmuel Bar Nahman is treating the verse is clearly not a literal interpretation, or certainly does not have to be, nor is it, per Onkelos or Targum pseudo Jonathan. HE is saying that at first the verse says "God is not a man that he lies" and then the verse contradicts its self by saying "He says things and doesn't do them", but that is not how it reads, really. It reads, "he is not a man that he lies..." Then asks rhetorically "Does he say but not do?"

It would seem then that the midrash is in fact a expounding, as rashi says: chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16025/jewish/…, in which case the midrash could very well be a homilee, that is saying that even when we hear prophecy for evil, we must repent, be case "It doesn't have to happen" meaning we must behave as though it could be over turned. But really prophecies for evil do ultimately come true.

@Shokhet see ^^

@Shokhet my vote is to drop salt

Ahh Hananiah isn't freeing Jeremiah, apparently: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah#Conflicts_with_false_prophets

here is the link to Rabbi Shmuel's drasha, number 13 is it: tsel.org/torah/tanhuma/vayira.html

I just have a cognitive dissonance with some prophecies happening and some not. I don't think that the midrash the idea in the question is based on contradicts that, as I explained above, and I though the verse could be understood differently too, but may be it can't

@BabySeal *takes out a Jeremiah, starts reading*

@CharlesKoppelman I disagree. salt is a major component of salting chicken. If you don't use it there, where would you use it?

@Shokhet More to the point, why use it? What's the use case for someone searching for every post that mentions salt and being unsatisfied with the results of a text search for "salt"?

@CharlesKoppelman Hm.....I might not have created the tag myself, but once it's here I won't destroy it.

@Shokhet Why not? Look at the results of the text search and the tag search and tell me which is better

@CharlesKoppelman Not all of the questions from the text search are about salt or salting.....like the ones about Lot's wife and putting stuff in a salt shaker.

( that was supposed to be an edit, not a new comment. )

@Shokhet i'd actually say that if there's a salt tag, the salt shaker one should be preeminent. Also the salting newborns and the salting out blood questions are certainly about salt.

@CharlesKoppelman IMO, the salt-shaker one is about a kli, rather than about salt/salting .....I agree that those questions should probably be tagged.....small tags often get under-used because people rarely see them.

... generally speaking, tags make sense to me, when there are either a lot of specific subjects under a category (food is a great example in the same genre), when there are a lot of ways of writing the word (moses), or when the tag is significant but not always explicit in the question text (devarim)

@CharlesKoppelman So you're not a fan of overly-specific tags?

@Shokhet I am a fan of tags when they help someone find the question later

@CharlesKoppelman Just went looking for the discussion here the other day about the new schach .....what do you think about that one?

I think it will help people find questions about schach, whether they're looking to ask or answer.....but not everyone agrees.

See

and following.

@Shokhet not a huge fan. If schah, why not gelilah or akdamut?

...or lo-yisa-goy-el-goy-cherev?

@CharlesKoppelman I think schach makes sense.....gelilah no, because we already have torah-service and hagbah.....I don't think akdamut would get so many questions

@CharlesKoppelman If you really feel like we need that tag....:P

@Shokhet It's arguable that anything there's an entire tractate of talmud about is perhaps too broad

So sukkot is too large. But sukkah feels about the right scale to me

@CharlesKoppelman Sorry, would love to continue this sometime later, but I gtg

@CharlesKoppelman But what about halacha?

@Shokhet great for framing a question and for reporting - how many halakha questions vs. mihag vs. how tos?). pretty useless for anything else

@Shokhet it's sort of like the discussion or feature-request meta tags

@CharlesKoppelman Also for combos, e.g. searching for [shabbat]+[halacha] for the laws of Shabbat.

@IsaacMoses great point! a search for navi-prophets + halacha is very different than searching for navi-prophets

I retract the useless bit entirely.

Chag sameach all, and an early Shabbat shalom!