@Shokhet In some sense all questions are riddles. This seems like an honest attempt at finding potentially useful information with standard defined rules and goals.
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@MonicaCellio Nice! :) ....I'll have to set it up after restarting my browser, so that probably won't be until a little later tonight. Those two, I think, will be the first.
@Shokhet installing a userscript shouldn't require a restart; do you have to install Greasemonkey first and that requires a restart? Anyway, it'll still be here when you get back. :-)
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@DoubleAA - At the risk of sounding juvenile: that is freaking boss! I will have to look into this more. I am willing to bet that the Temani world today rules much like the Sefaradim - le-humrah - in this regard in order to avoid further chastisement from the rest of Judaism. In fact, Makhon Mosheh just published recently a sefer dealing with the laws of taharath ha-mishpahah and decided to include the laws of ALL `edoth to stave off critics. In fact, they were hesitant to even publish it for fear of major backlash. Rav Yisshaq Abadi also faces this type of criticism for his rulings also. KT. — Maimonist2 hours ago
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@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob Can you document that to me for the record?
There is a group that teaches that analyzing the words in Genesis 1:26 :
And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the
heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the
creeping t...
^^^ How odd. Last week I was approached by a pair of young women on my way out of the office who politely asked me if they could ask me a question. I said sure, thinking they were lost or something. They asked if I knew where in the Bible it says God is a woman. I decided I had a few minutes, so I said it doesn't -- at least not in the actual Hebrew bible, I said; what those other guys have added I couldn't say.
The conversation took an odd turn (they reached for this verse) and after a few minutes I extricated myself, but I'd completely forgotten about this question. So, sounds like I met some of those cultists?
They seemed to be new at it; they also got hung up on the plural-seeming word, I explained enough Hebrew grammar to point out singular verbs in B'reishit (which is what they were using), and then they went to the "image" thing. I said God doesn't have a physical form so, q.e.d., it's not a female form (nor a male form). They wanted to argue on that and I left soon after. I still have no idea where the plural fit into their pitch.
@MonicaCellio Odd. I don't know what I would tell them.
@MonicaCellio ....there were a bunch of comments on this question that I just went back to find; they discussed the asking of the same question on BH, which lead to a different question that asked about what "image" means in Genesis, "God created man in his image."
....the answer by Gone Quiet cited Rashi; I just wanted to say that the Rambam discusses that question at the beginning of Moreh Nevuchim.
(though I can't claim to know what he says there, because I only skimmed it and it's been a while)
@Shokhet I just deleted those comments because that link didn't lead to the cross-post (which I guess got closed as a dupe?) and the rest of the conversation was about cross-posting. Do you think I was overzealous?
@Shokhet oh, if you meant you wanted to comment over there, I can get you that link. (I didn't think you had an account over there.) Or if you meant you wanted to comment here, you can do that directly; the Rashi was on "b'tzelem/kidmateinu", so you can find it easily enough.
@MonicaCellio No, I don't think it was a problem; I was just complaining because I wanted to discuss those comments, which I was able to do anyway. Leaving that last comment was a good move, because it is still relevant, I think
Yeah, that would work. You could also comment on that user's blog, where that answer has been separately posted. (That user, not some other user you might be thinking of.)
It seems that the blog never took off after early 2014 -- a few new posts here and there, but not a lot of activity. Still, I understand the user to be happy to have a way of keeping, reviewing, and occasionally improving the work that was already done, in a better venue.
And Mi Yodeya is a much better place for such questions than either a blog or another site, so the ones that are on-topic and not too basic belong here. That user realizes that now.
@MonicaCellio I see. MY is also a lot better at gauging which ideas are correct, and how they can be fixed, through votes and comments. I don't think most blogs have those features.
@Shokhet absolutely. I think the blog was chosen because so many of them seemed too basic for Mi Yodeya.
Or rather, too basic to be asked and answered. We serve people at all levels, and if somebody happens to ask a question that can be addressed by looking up the Rashi, somebody should do that and answer. But bringing it in as a self-answer might not go over so well.
@Shokhet well, if you happen to see anything there that you think would be appropriate here, let me know -- I think we could make the right things happen. I just wouldn't want to bring in a bunch of basic self-answers on my own.
@MonicaCellio I asked the question because I knew it had an answer, but I couldn't think of it. A few minutes later, I decided to look at Rashi, and found that I was able to use Hod's script for that also. I did, however, leave a comment on the question requesting further answers, which didn't come :(
@Shokhet this reminds me that I recently received private email with some fairly basic questions, some of which I "self-answered", and I think there's one or two more there that I need to get back to. ("Self-answered" meaning I posted the submitted, anonymous question and declared its provenance.)
(I had been planning to just send the guy email, but I mentioned it in here and others thought it would be ok to post here instead, so I did. Since I had several, I queued them up for that "answer five questions on Saturday" hat. :-) )
Oh, hi @BSteinhurst! Welcome to Mi Yodeya and V'dibarta Bam!
@MonicaCellio Oh, that works. I was thinking about trawling the unanswered section, and writing five answers, and then saving them to my computer ( cough @YeZ cough ), and then posting them all in the short amount of time after Shabbos. That turned out to be too much work, though I ended up #2 in hats, anyway :)
@MonicaCellio Right, but you had them answered already. I would have had to write an answer. ....one of them was my cutlass answer, but that took longer than "Saturday" did, so I was out of the race for that hat.
@DoubleAA this might be slightly faster than the comments under my question. So a poseik can make the changes that they want to but if they are really a poseik they are not going to make any that would make the resulting siddur unusable. Fair enough so far. But how would they make those decisions? This is what I meant by pushing the question back.
@MonicaCellio Not even a private project, just an idle curiosity at the moment.
@BSteinhurst You may have to ask one :) I'm guessing things like manuscript evidence, differences in old Siddurim or other earlier machlokot are going to be the main place for poseik to choose (paskin) between different options, though there is always the possibility that sheer conviction will dictate to him that a certain change must be made.
@Shokhet it would. His started as a project to make a personal siddur that was easier for him to use -- then when he mentioned it to others he found out that he's not the only one who was interested. :-)
@DoubleAA That is not the kind of answer I am looking for since that is an answer to "how have siddurim be made differently?"
An earlier version of the question I had in mind was "how much of the text of a service (weekday morning for specificity) can be changed?" I decided to enlarge the question to a siddur so it wouldn't get bogged down if I picked a service with little variation.
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@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob The powers at be are hesitant to let me do so. If it is pressing, may I suggest leaving your email on an old post of his that no one is looking at and deleting it the next day?
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There is a group that teaches that analyzing the words in Genesis 1:26 :
And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the
heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the
creeping t...
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