New close reasons are live, and SE gave us four (not three) starting reasons. They took our p'sak one as we wrote it (yay!), and added ones for comparative religion, Hebrew, and... Purim torah. Yeah, I guess that does represent a significant portion of our closed questions. :-)
Let me be clear that I am not criticizing; I'm just amused. They came up with starting reasons for all the sites, as I understand it, based on some analysis, which sounds like a huge amount of work for somebody. Good job Community Team!
@AdamMosheh let me rephrase: you will find no significant argument within the Jewish community, writ large, about the status of karaites or J4J. You can't say the same about Conservative, Reform, or Reconstructionist Judaism. We'll never all agree on who's in, but when there's actually uncontested consensus on who's out, that's significant.
@ShmuelBrin, many thanks. Why don't you write it up as an answer? (If you did, but, due to its brevity, the software converted it to a comment, maybe expand it. For example, you can explain the scope of your personal experience.) — msh210Jun 21 at 5:59
@Menachem Nice work on the links. I started working up a small script to detect references and automatically link to them. Now I just have to brush off my JS...
@HodofHod are you saying that you want it to go through the questions and answers here and automatically add a link to Book and Chapter when it finds a reference to it?
@IsaacMoses: With the help of your advice, a bunch of digging around on the internet, and a lot of experimentation, I was able to create a crude form in my spreadsheet that takes the Sefer and Verse and spits out the content of the cell, the URL. docs.google.com/spreadsheet/…
I had to change the permissions to let everyone edit, so that everyone could use the dropdown boxes. I protected the data to prevent it from being edited. I also added another worksheet that only has the Page ID, instead of the whole URL. This can be used to generate the URL in the future.
At the moment it doesn't prevent you from choosing non-existent chapters (i.e Bereshit 67) but it doesn't display anything either.
@DoubleAA Why? It makes sense that this question would have broader appeal than most, since funerals are one of the aspects of Judaism that people outside it are most likely to come into contact with.
If you go to Google and type in "How long is a Jewish," Google suggests that you complete the question with "wedding," "funeral," "year," or service. If you replace "Jewish" with the name of various religions, you get very similar results (excluding "year").
@DoubleAA That it's the only one? Kind of par for the course. That it was earned on that particular question? I guess it's something people search for. I'm proud of @IsaacMoses for earning it, though.
@AdamMosheh I remember this discussion once before. @DoubleAA will surely have the answer. I knew of one Reish (but I forget where ATM), and I think I was told there were more.
@SethJ I thought that aleph, chet, hei, reish, and ayin cannot receive a dageish. mapik is different though. but doesn't only hei receive mapik when it's at the end of the verb and there is a feminine direct object, or at the end of a noun and is possessive?
@IsaacMoses Yes, it was 1.0 and is now 2.0 AFAICT (though I don't know when the change occurred precisely). The difference is that MO is used for research-level math only and math.se is used for math in general (I'm guessing henceforth non-research-level-only, though maybe not).
In other words, (no offense, but) you probably won't be asking any questions on MO.
No. They have somewhat different audiences (there is overlap, but of course you can have accounts on both sites and participate as you wish). — Shog9yesterday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game
What happens if you remove the order of seniority? Whenever a pirate dies, you randomly pick the next pirate to propose a distribution.
It's not hard to solve using expected value but I am wondering if it corresponds to anything in Game Theory (ex: the P...
Now every time @MoriDoweedhYaAgob writes something like "bil3m" we should try to things that it can be short for: fill in any three letters to make a word, or something funny.
I have heard that Rashi said that there are three requirements for conversion: brit milah; mikveh; korban in Beit Hamikdash. If this is true, why is it that this is not rendering modern conversions invalid until the Beit Hamikdash is rebuilt?
@IsaacMoses It would entail logging into a Web site, clicking to the "schedule a post" page, pasting the MY URL, typing a summary, choosing a time for post to go through, and hitting Enter? Or what?
@msh210 Sounds about right, plus the actual curation - searching for / noticing Q&As on MY that are relevant to something current. I haven't prototyped a process yet. I suppose I could renew the call for volunteers once I have a more specific idea of the mechanics. Ideally, though, some experienced twitterers (a group I do not consider myself a member of) will step up earlier to help get things started.
@IsaacMoses you know how with the haggadah we separated curation from preparation, so people who felt comfortable finding questions could propose them and other people could then take them and edit them? I've never used Twitter and don't know its norms, which is why I haven't signed up to be one of the tweeters, but I'd happily add candidate questions to a list from which tweeters could draw.
@MonicaCellio Thanks! Nice idea. Perhaps we could open a dedicated chat room for this purpose. Would you care to post this methods suggestion as an answer to the meta question?
@IsaacMoses chat room or perhaps meta post (CW), so anybody can edit. In chat you have to figure out tracking through suggestion - accepted - done states. I'll try to add a meta answer later; thanks.
@MonicaCellio The reason I think I'd prefer chat to meta is that this would [hopefully] involve more volume and frequency of changes than the latter is designed to keep up with gracefully. I don't think to much formal tracking of suggestions is necessary if the twitter team is small (my intention). A simple chat reply of "scheduled for MMDD HHMM" is sufficient acknowledgement, and if a tip is missed or a tip is used twice, it's no big deal for a daily link feed, as opposed to a published work.
@IsaacMoses I have next to no experience tweeting, myself.
@IsaacMoses This sounds very good. The proposer can also propose text to tweet with the link, and the tweeter can use it or modify it or supply his own if the proposer didn't.
@IsaacMoses A chat reply may be too hard. (It's not all that simple to find a reply when looking at the parent message.) An edit would be easier. I'm not sure whether all owners of a room can edit others' posts. If so, if the curators are made room owners, that might be a better way.
@msh210 The edit tactic is worth a try. If that reply is on the same page, you can see it when you roll over the parent. And like I said, tracking is not that big a deal here.
@IsaacMoses But if the format is that moving = dealing with, and is done before replying or using, then that'd work. That might be too counterintuitive, though.
@Daniel Not that I know of. What would you say if someone posted: There are a lot of questions here on Mi Yodeya about specific restrictions during the 25 hours weeks between sunset on Friday and nightfall on Saturday, but I would like to know all of the things that are forbidden during Shabbat.
@Charlie ah ok :-) That's not what Google Translate tells me
@DoubleAA How about "There are lot of detailed questions about Shabbat prohibitions. Can someone tell me a summary? What are the sorts of things forbidden?"?
(Even that I wouldn't like much tbh, but maybe it can be massaged into somehing meaningful and answerable.)
@Daniel How do you know? I don't see that in the question.
@DoubleAA @SethJ @monica-cellio the hHeith is not a glutteral letter. It was lost to Ashkenazi Jews and they began pronouncing it as a chaf. However the hHeith sounds nothing like a chaf. Same with hHawa n yisShHoq. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qj0v-qJhjlo listen to this for how the later nevee'eem spoke up to about the talmud period. m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=Rra36Jphs5Q this is how Jews pronounced letters during Mosha Rabbeinu's time before n a little bit after him. The double letters came letter as seen in the gamoro that nevee'eem brought them into the hebrew language from bovel I thi…
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob not until you tell me how we know that this one group, and only that one group, has the "correct" tradition after thousands of years. But thanks for at least supplying some context, as I automatically ignore link-only posts.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob there you go again. So anything not in accordance with your tradition is "made up"? As with past comments, this is about your logic and approach, not about language in particular. I'm not a linguist and I bet you aren't either.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob you jumped from pronunciation to vocabulary. That some of the latter changed in recent centuries doesn't say anything about the former.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob When you say "made up" I assume you mean that some modern words had to be added. So what? That has nothing to do with pronunciation.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob you claim to have perfect knowledge of how Hebrew was pronounced from the beginning. That is what I am challenging. Nobody can know that.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob what do you mean by that exactly? Remember we got here from your assertions about pronunciation and everybody but you making things up.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob then answer my question: what exactly are you claiming about the correctness of your pronunciation? Another evasive response and I'm done.
@DoubleAA Yeah, I agree. I think that it is probably true that biblical Hebrew sounded more like teimoni pronunciation than any other current pronunciation, but the arguent "Because I said so" makes me want to argue that it's not true
@MonicaCellio Actually, there's quite a history (not much in the Talmud, however) of rabbinic writings describing how various sounds are made with the mouth.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob 'G' (as in 'good') with a Dagesh, and 'Gh' (or 3' if you prefer) without, is how I believe the ancients pronounced the letter known today in Hebrew as Gimmel.
@SethJ I wouldn't be surprised. But since Dhoweed's goal seems to be to assert that he's right (or "teach" without sharing his credentials), I can't tell that from anything he says. If he provided a citation that would be useful. Not a video lecture that you have to listen to to dig info out of; a simple citation. Oh well. I don't actually care that much; it's just that bad "logic" makes me cringe.
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob 1. Why does it matter if we pronounce things exactly the way adam harishon did. 2. How do you know that this is exactly how he pronounced things?
and 3. Even if this is the necessary way of pronouncing Hebrew, why do you need to use numbers to write it out?
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob you say it's in the g'mara (or j1moro or however you write it); can you tell me where? Just a simple masechet and daf.
And yeah, I'm not generally interested in watching videos, and even if interested I can't always do so (public places, corporate network where youtube is blocked, etc)
@Daniel 1. because this is how the language is supposed to sound like. 2. some sort of masoro 3. we dont have to use numbers but there is not english letter which sounds like our letters
@MoriDoweedhYaAgob a demonstration is very helpful, but not useful until it has been validated. Just because some guy on the internet says that's how to pronounce it doesn't make it so. Show me a source and we've got a place to start.
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what are the essential requirements of conversion to judaism such that if one of these requirements is not fulfilled the conversion is invalid
I have heard that Rashi said that there are three requirements for conversion: brit milah; mikveh; korban in Beit Hamikdash. If this is true, why is it that this is not rendering modern conversions invalid until the Beit Hamikdash is rebuilt?
