@SethJ egyptian arabic doesnt have a j doesnt mean that egyptian arabic is right. its just shows that egyptians are not real arabs and their native language is not arabic. but a mix of arabs and egyptians which made a mix of langauges arabic and egyptian
@msh210 joluth or not. it is burden on the yidden to learn to speak properly not on me to learn how ot speak improperly
@DoubleAA i pronounce it a chreemal and jeemal. not geemal. but that doesnt mean i hold j as 100%. i do it because thats how my shul says it. if i were at a different teimoni shul which said geemal and chreemal i would do geemal.
Hey, @Isaac - there are a pile of URL redirects floating around for this site / this chatroom: me.yodeya.com me.miyodeya.com bam.yodeya.com bam.miyodeya.com chat.yodeya.com chat.miyodeya.com
Hey @Shog9, any updates on RTL localization? (See the starred sidebar here, got some weird stuff going on). Also, I haven't seen or heard of the broken links review for over a year. Any news on that?
(Don't mean to bombard you with questions, it's just I don't see devs that much any more)
@HodofHod RTL text has always been a bit dodgy in chat, IIRC; fixing that would probably depend on the whim of balpha and/or it being fixed properly on the main sites first - which would be behind a bunch of other ongoing localization work.
Link review is still in the queue somewhere - there's a prototype available internally, but I don't know when it'll be finished.
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob This is, b'li neder, the last time I'm telling you that I don't understand you when you refer back to something earlier without identifying what that thing is. (The alternative, my plan for the future, is to ignore you when you do that.)
@Shog9 Fixing bidi in the starred-posts area of this window requires just adding a character to the boilerplate: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1322.
@Shog9 IMPO, *.miyodeya.com are unnecessary. miyodeya.com itself is an alternate URL, and I think it's unlikely that anyone would try to use subdomains of it as shortcuts. bam.yodeya.com and chat.yodeya.com are useful shortcuts to get to this chatroom; I'd be inclined to keep both. me.yodeya.com is a misspelling-catcher for mi.yodeya.com; not sure how important it is to maintain that.
^^^ P is for "Patriarchal," FWIW. I defer to anyone else in the community who makes use of any of these or otherwise has an opinon on the matter.
Asher Burrows, welcome to Mi Yodeya, and thanks very much for posting this answer! You could make it even more valuable by adding links or bibliographic information for all books mentioned, breaking it up into paragraphs, and separating speculation from ideas you have sources for (or even removing the former). I hope you'll look around the site and find other top-quality stuff, perhaps including our 13 other questions about inebriation. — Isaac Mosesyesterday
@Charlie sorry, very intermittent access at the moment. If you want real-time chat it'll have to wait, but feel free to leave me a question (@-tagged so I see it) and I'll respond next time I'm here. Sorry for the bad timing.
Anyone remember or have any idea how to search for that list of commonly occurring names in the Talmud (I've used a few different search criteria and come up short)?
I think there are different answers depending on the exact terms of the question; there are dozens of searches you could do on this one (e.g. "what value of X has the highest occurrences of amar rav X?").
As a first attempt, here are the most-common words in the Babylonian Talmud (using mechon-m...
Oh, thanks, @IsaacMoses. I searched for רבי יהודה finally.
My problem was I was searching under names and using the term "talmud" without its tag (among other methods).
@IsaacMoses True, though what a gadol hador said on any topic is arguably on-topic, and what one said on Israel perhaps more arguably so. Not sure, though, that even the latter is on-topic.
@msh210 what you mean MT is not practical. if you dont pasken form it thats your problem. but it is as practical as any other holocho book, even more practical...paskening in regards to new technological advances are not coming from thin air. the rabbonim base it on the fundamentals such as RaMbaM. by learning RaMbaM you can see things differently and might hold of a different opinion on modern day things. not to mention shulchon oruch paskens most of his holochoth like rambam anyway. to say it is not practical means you hold no respect for the gamoro either. — MoriDoweedhYa3gob1 min ago
@msh210 @MoriDoweedhYa3gob I have full respect for the g'mara but it is a very inappropriate book for deciding practical halacha.
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob It is inappropriate for the average reader, like the asker of that question on MY, to use the g'mara or the Mishne Tora in ruling on a practical question, yes.
If Rav Moshe Feinstein used the wording of the g'mara to rule on a practical question, fine. But I can't, I suspect you can't, and I suspect Ramin (the asker) can't.
@msh210 (Someone should come out with a full-blown sefer, with haskamot, called Torat Imecha, and pitch it as the only source for said teachings approved by the gedolim.)
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob I'm not comparing anything. You just implied that the Gemara, unlike msh210's immediate sources or the Rambam, is Sanhedrin, but it's not.
@IsaacMoses rambam looks in the gamoro and paskend. therefore we pasken from gamoro. to say we pasken from mishna barurah is to say you are an apikorus
@IsaacMoses to say that the mishna barurah paskend from the gamoro and you hold the way he paskend then ok
@IsaacMoses but to have a rov pasken from the mishna baruro and not from the gamoro is wrong
If Rav Moshe Feinstein used the wording of the g'mara to rule on a practical question, fine. But I can't, I suspect you can't, and I suspect Ramin (the asker) can't.
@IsaacMoses i was addressing @msh210 for he said rambam is not practical. if he says rambam is not practical so isnt the gamoro... they didnt have cars
@IsaacMoses and if you dont pasken from the gamoro you are doing it wrong
@msh210 Why is it highlighted? Is this a new functionality?
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob So you kicked off a whole argument, including calling him an apikores, because you took his statement completely out of context. Not cool.
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob Asking for a guide from which to learn practically how to conduct oneself Halachically is not, by any definition of the term, apikorsus.
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob You are interpreting "pasken from" in a way that is entirely inconsistent with the context at hand, in a way that's more like "pasken like" or "pasken according to"
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob What do you mean you can only pasken from gemara? Didn't Rambam sometimes go against gemara if he felt it was wrong? I believe he'd take the side of the Jerusalem Talmud over the Babylonian one in certain cases.
@MoriDoweedhYa3gob I just remember an instance where he paskened from Sifre... I think it was on the prohibition of women serving in positions of authority.