In Shemot 16:23 we read:
אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־תֹּאפ֞וּ אֵפ֗וּ
That which is with tofu you should bake.
Why does the Torah require us to specifically bake products containing tofu?
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I thought everybody here seemed like a nice bunch, and I had nothing to be afraid of, but I discovered in Tehillim I was wrong!
מִֽי־י֭וֹדֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗ עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ
Mi Yodeya, your anger is furious, and your wrath matches the fear of you.
Why are you so upset? Shoul...
Last year, 5779 was a שנה מעוברת - a pregnant year. If the year became pregnant in Tishrei, then, I would expect that we would have seen its child around Sivan 5779.
It's way past that point, and I haven't seen the year's kid. What happened to it?
This question is Purim Torah and is not int...
Every time we daven Shmonei Esreh, we say the following:
וְתֶה חֱזֶינָה עֵינֵינוּ בְּשׁוּבְךָ לְצִיּון בְּרַחֲמִים
Translation: And Tea shall see our eyes when You shall return to Tzion with mercy.
Apparently, in the time of the Geulah, there's going to be a kind of tea.
What kind of tea wi...
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The Torah warns us that we should not accumulate too many Dr. Seuss books, as it states in Deuteronomy 17:16
רַק, לֹא-יַרְבֶּה-לּוֹ סוּסִים
One should not amass Seusses
Being that one should only get a minimal amount of Dr. Seuss books, I was wondering which ones are recommended to get...
^^^ There's a good example of a question that prompts for others' creativity (and is also based on a silly pun itself).
@DoubleAA I think it's hard to predict which silly-pun-with-a-question-mark questions will spark a variety of creativity and which won't. A lot of the most successful posts on that list would be hard to distinguish, a priori, as such.
@DoubleAA The one thing that distinguishes it as generative is that it clearly asks for answers of a particular form, unlike many pun questions, which are just posing a difficulty or asking for confirmation of a silly notion. That's not the good way to induce a bunch of fun answers, but it seems a good example of one.
@DoubleAA 100%. Perhaps we should tweak the policy language to strengthen the idea of "try to spark others' creativity in answers."
@IsaacMoses this is after all a Q&A platform. Questions that just say what the questioner wants to say with a question mark at the end are usually closed as 'rant'.
The FAQ currently says "you know, the kind that invite answers"
@DoubleAA So we should (and I think do) close the ones that really don't invite answers. But there are plenty of posts that pass that bar and are of varying quality with respect to that. Your message that opened this conversation was encouraging people to aim more for the higher end of that spectrum.
I think in particular bad translations and Hebrew words read as English are not good for questions, but good for answers
but to be honest, I'm not really sure exactly what the rule should be. I look back at some of my previous highly-rated PTIJ questions and a number of them fall into those exact categories
Unrelatedly, whenever a humorous idea comes to mind for PTIJ, I always write it down and save it for the proper season. But this year, here we are and I have nothing written down
Kol Mekadesh Shevi'i is one of the zemirot traditionally sung in the ashkenazic tradition at the Friday night meal.
It contains the following perplexing lyric:
כל שומר שבת כדת מחללו
Whoever observes shabbat according to the rules, desecrates it.
What on earth does this paradox mean? H...
I thought everybody here seemed like a nice bunch, and I had nothing to be afraid of, but I discovered in Tehillim I was wrong!
מִֽי־י֭וֹדֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗ עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ
Mi Yodeya, your anger is furious, and your wrath matches the fear of you.
Why are you so upset? Shoul...
Last year, 5779 was a שנה מעוברת - a pregnant year. If the year became pregnant in Tishrei, then, I would expect that we would have seen its child around Sivan 5779.
It's way past that point, and I haven't seen the year's kid. What happened to it?
This question is Purim Torah and is not int...
Every time we daven Shmonei Esreh, we say the following:
וְתֶה חֱזֶינָה עֵינֵינוּ בְּשׁוּבְךָ לְצִיּון בְּרַחֲמִים
Translation: And Tea shall see our eyes when You shall return to Tzion with mercy.
Apparently, in the time of the Geulah, there's going to be a kind of tea.
What kind of tea wi...
According to site policy, Purim Torah In Jest (PTIJ) questions are closed after Purim.
I was browsing some older, closed PTIJ questions (for example, this one), and found that the close message now typically appears as such:
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting a...
The Torah warns us that we should not accumulate too many Dr. Seuss books, as it states in Deuteronomy 17:16
רַק, לֹא-יַרְבֶּה-לּוֹ סוּסִים
One should not amass Seusses
Being that one should only get a minimal amount of Dr. Seuss books, I was wondering which ones are recommended to get...
