There are far too many mathematicians for me to name here, you only need to wiki a mathematician of note to find out he is Jewish. Are they taught to think logically and analytically from a young age? What are the possible explanations for this? Have their been any studies on this? Might there be...
......Judaism.SEdoes have a series of questions referred to as "mi-yodeya" for what things are numbered in Judaism [based off of the song "Echad Mi Yodeya," "who knows one?"] if you're interested — Tutor6 hours ago
@Shokhet did you just dispatch your first successful quail, or is that an old profile update?
Does close-voting only count towards the Reviewer badge if done in the queue, or does it count if I do it on the question? ping @MonicaCellio @DoubleAA
@YEZ I believe it only counts votes from the review queue. That is, I think all the review-related badges are wired into the review queues, so what you do outside of them doesn't get noticed.
A young couple is in love and intends to marry. She is Jewish and he is Christian. Each respects the other's religious beliefs and neither intends to convert.
She keeps kosher. OTOH, he eats pork and consumes meat with dairy. Again, neither is willing to change. Once married and living t...
^^^ This question has four close votes. I think it's a valid question about practical Jewish life. We're not only a halacha site. That we don't approve of what the asker is doing is, to me, orthogonal to whether the question fits. I'd like to understand the reasons for the close votes.
@MonicaCellio That kind of punishes you for being the one to notice a close-worthy question.
@MonicaCellio I voted keep open. I don't see the issue with it. And the comment doesn't make sense - it is asking how to keep one halacha in the context of not keeping another, not asking how to avoid a halacha.
@YEZ yes, it's true -- the first close-voter puts the question into the queue for everybody else but doesn't get a material reward. But you're still helping the site, so I hope you'll keep doing it. Think of it as voting lishma, so to speak. :-)
@MonicaCellio R' Yerucham Levovitz famously said that mitoch shelo lishma bah lishma (from out of doing with wrong intentions one comes to proper intentions) is a necessity, not a dispensation - I need the badge to get me to the point of lishma!
@YEZ ah. Well, most of your close votes are probably via the queue, right? And somebody put those questions in the queue for you, right? So you're just giving a helping hand to the person who helped you. Does that help?
I just broke up an argument between two of my kids over whether or not Power Rangers is stupid. I ended the argument by saying "Whether or not it's stupid is a matter of opinion, and I do not want to listen to arguments over opinions!" Then I went to see what's new on C.SE and shook my head.
Sounds like a good idea. I didn't know that different types of quail had different kashrut status. (Ok, I also didn't know there were different types of quail.)
A young couple is in love and intends to marry. She is Jewish and he is Christian. Each respects the other's religious beliefs and neither intends to convert.
She keeps kosher. OTOH, he eats pork and consumes meat with dairy. Again, neither is willing to change. Once married and living t...
