Do we have a policy about talking about public individuals in question or answer posts? I recently posted an answer in which I cited a rabbi who mentioned the reactions of other rabbis to a question they were all asked. I later noticed that someone edited out the part where the first rabbi spoke...

The term established itself in one way or the other in many different languages as early as the dark age. The question: why is that? I thought it to be somewhat of a misnomer. After all, Yaakov had 12 children that formed the 12 tribes of Israel. Why is it that we are (pretty much) globally kno...

The Talmud says: Rabbi Tanhum stated in the name of Rabbi Hanilai: A man who has no wife lives without joy, without blessing, and without goodness. [Yevamot 62b] Is there a parallel quote anywhere about a woman who has no husband? Note that, unlike a man, a woman is not commanded to get marrie...

The Sources include dozens of statements of the form, "He who does such and such is called a sinner.". Why "is called a sinner"? Why not "is a sinner" or "sins"? (For examples, just put "called sinner" in Sefaria. Inconvenient for a traveler with a smartphone -- me.)