I have heard an explanation, that since only 1/5th of the Jews were liberated from Egypt in the Bible, so too only 1/5th of us Jews will survive the eventual redemption. Is this true, and if it is, what source is there for it?
There seems to be a consistency in tefillah (prayer) that the attributes חן וחסד ורחמים - (my translation) "grace, kindness and mercy" - appear specifically in this order. Five samples that I can think of:
First bracha of Benching (Grace after meals)
Fourth bracha (Hatov vehameitiv) in Grace af...
@DoubleAA Isn’t that what the tag wiki is for? We can always edit the tag wiki to reflect @Loewian’s intent and remove the tag from questions which don’t fit.
@DonielF we should edit it to make sense and be useful and consistent across the different tags, independent of his intent.
Can anyone come up with such guidance for all these tags or a different set of tags that better represents a useful categorization for our site for these gender related questions broadly speaking?
@Loewian The current wiki for gender-identity is pretty broad:
> Questions regarding the laws and ideas of Judaism regarding issues of gender roles, choices, and identity.
> Gender, gender-identity, masculinity-femininity, gender-roles, sexual-identity. Questions regarding the laws and ideas of Judaism regarding issues of gender roles, choices, and identity.
@IsaacMoses at the bare minimum, then, the label should be "gender" rather than "gender-identity" which is a much more specific, politically charged topic.
I think there is value, though in having a separate label for that topic as well.
Though perhaps it could be more appropriately merged into the prohibitions of beged isha/kli gaver and possibly homosexuality.
1) I propose that gender and gender-identity both be merged into a new tag: gender-sex.
With essentially the same stated scope as gender-identity has now. Basically anything to do with the concept of gender or sex categories.
2) I propose that grammatical-gender be replaced with the combination of gender-sex and grammar-dikduk. In other words, I see that as the intersection of these two concepts that doesn't necessarily need its own tag.
3) We should look at questions that are presently tagged both women and men-male and see if those two tags were used to indicate that the question is about gender/sex, and if so, replace the two tags with gender-sex, meaning that generally, we put up a mechitza between those two tags.
It seems the bulk of the 22 questions with the [gender-identity] label do indeed focus on gender identity/gender dysmorphia - so I'm not sure it makes sense to obliterate the tag, rather than migrate the 2 or 3 outliers to [gender] (since gender is still quite a broad topic). But I'm on the fence.
4) To the extent that it's not clear, we should make clear that sexuality refers to all kinds of sexual relations, as opposed to gender/sex categories.
(Not that those two issues don't intersect, but that's what multi-tagging's for)
@Loewian Perhaps questions about transgender/transsexual and questions about homosexuality should all be under one lbgtq tag, with the former presumably also carrying the gender-sex tag, and the many of the latter also carrying one of either women or men-male.
There seems to be a consistency in tefillah (prayer) that the attributes חן וחסד ורחמים - (my translation) "grace, kindness and mercy" - appear specifically in this order. Five samples that I can think of:
First bracha of Benching (Grace after meals)
Fourth bracha (Hatov vehameitiv) in Grace af...
