V'dibarta Bam

The title sounds like a personal question. CYLOR. — user6591 1 hour ago

Presumably a joke. @IsaacMoses

@DoubleAA If you think your presumption is strong enough, delete as "too chatty."

Q: How many undeletes does one have?

21

DoubleAA (a mod for over a year) seems to have to vote extra times to undelete a post. http://judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/8920/revisions Shouldn't it just say his name once? Week has passed and five more have been added... this is getting out of control!

@CharlesKoppelman Thanks! I didn't think that'd actually work. :)

It got to 20 times or so. Don't know if anyone screenshotted it @YeZ

@IsaacMoses You have a flag, sir.

3:37 AM

8^P
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or something

12 hours ago, by Isaac Moses

"Look, it's possible, through some decoding process that I consider intuitive, to decode a good [question | answer] from this post. If people are too lazy to do the decoding, that's their problem."

YeZ

@DoubleAA That's hilarious.

@IsaacMoses I don't see the flag for "Toochattyland" on that site.

. ___________
/Toochattyland!\
\Blablablablabla/
. -----------------
..\
...\

or something

5:28 AM

This is an SE flag. ;)

And another, though the first is better.

1:51 PM

@Scimonster Cool technique.

3:19 PM

@IsaacMoses Care to add Rfפ to the Slang meta question?

I like it

but it took me about 5 readings to figure it out

3:38 PM

@CharlesKoppelman OK

@IsaacMoses todah

@CharlesKoppelman bevakasha

3:50 PM

@IsaacMoses Oh, i meant to do that. Oh well.

4:03 PM

@IsaacMoses fortune | cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1)

I have that in my ~/.bashrc file, so every time I open a terminal I a random animal makes a random remark.

@TRiG cute

4:21 PM

@CharlesKoppelman PS - The only person who has said "Standard English" in Bam is @IsaacMoses (aside from the two meta-comments I have now made about this).

@CharlesKoppelman I guess I'm a linguistic reactionary at heart

@IsaacMoses prescriptivist

@CharlesKoppelman Not exactly. I think these invocations of "Standard English" tend to point to prevailing usages, not dictionary entries

@CharlesKoppelman Also note that I didn't, except when it was at the beginning of the sentence, capitalize "standard."

@IsaacMoses All of what you claim is true.

5:17 PM

@IsaacMoses I rearranged that sentence as I was writing it, and that second I was left behind as an artefact. I'm going to blame the fact that I'm in work, and someone was talking to me.

@TRiG Does your flavor of English not say "at work"?

@IsaacMoses Hmm. I'd say either is acceptable. Perhaps at work is more usual. I'd have to think about that.

Oh hi @TRiG. I left you a blog comment not long ago (no need to publish once you've seen it; it was really just a note for you).

@TRiG I've never heard "in work" before, FWIW.

TIL that I have the same Bar Mitzva parsha as Bob Dylan.

Does anybody know what parsha this would have been, 6/12/54? http://t.co/OptyZoWimx

Tweeted by adambrodsky on January 20, 2015 at 6:42 PM

I wonder if he did the mercha kefula in the haftara right.

@IsaacMoses do you happen to remember if you did? :-)

5:31 PM

@MonicaCellio Best I could. My B"M teacher didn't know how to do it, but someone else came up with a book that had musical notation for it, and my mother, who can read music, interpreted it for me.

@IsaacMoses sounds a lot better than the shaky tape recording (remember tape? :-) ) most kids probably got. I learned my first by rote that way; musical notation or actually learning the trope system would have been way better.

@MonicaCellio I was fortunate to have my mother and then a hired tutor to teach me the trope and then coach me through learning my parasha and haftara.

5:49 PM

I learned trop at age 6. I did my bar mitzvah parsha pretty much alone.

I didn't learn haftarah trop until a couple months before my bar mitzvah though.

Now i sometimes get "addicted" to haftarah trop and end up doing it for Torah!

@Scimonster I still haven't learned haftarah trope. :-(

I now also got a job doing bar mitzvah lessons.

6:25 PM

@Scimonster Nice.

@Scimonster Yeah; that can be tricky. See also switching back and forth between Esther and Eicha trup when reading Esther.

@IsaacMoses Or the haftarah Shabbat Chazon.

(Or was it Nachamu?)

@Scimonster There, at least, you don't have to go back and forth. When you get to the end, you pause, switch gears, and do the ending in happy trup.

@Scimonster No; that one's happy - "comforting" - from the beginning to the end.

@IsaacMoses The only tune i can think of for that right now is youtube.com/watch?v=vOUx2VV6bQY

7:13 PM

@IsaacMoses I suppose I wasn't working, so in the workplace or at the office are what I had in mind.

@TRiG Fair enough. I'm used to "at work" referring to either activity or location.

@IsaacMoses I think it should be used exclusively for location. "I'm working" is for activity.

@Scimonster "I'm currently at work on a summary of the conference."

@IsaacMoses Doesn't sound right, but that's just me.

7:35 PM

@Scimonster I really like how the haftora trop sounds :) .....call me a Litvak :P

Also, if you'll give me that passuk in Esther (והעיר שושן), I'll finish it "נבוכה," rather than "צהלה ושמחה"

msh210

I am very far from being caught up here in Bam (and hope to catch up at some point), but am dropping in now just to call attention to a recent comment of mine (as follows). cc @NoachmiFrankfurt

"questions about what others have written about Judaism, are off-topic on Mi Yodeya" reads the closure reason. How should we know what Wikipedia means by that? Ask Dovi, who introduced that notation to the article. — msh210 ♦ 5 mins ago

@msh210 Is WP the "others" meant in that closure reason?

... most likely, that article was written entirely by Jews, mostly for Jews, and it cites a pile of sources that look, at a glance, rather Jewish

... I think it's reasonable, as a matter of Jewish practice, to be interested in interpreting (and evaluating, though that's not explicitly part of the question) this particular resource.

Cash Cow, I've noticed that you've left comments on your posts, clearly addressing several users, but notifying none of them. If you want to be sure that someone will see your response to their comment on your post, you should write their username, preceded by the @ symbol. I'm not sure that @IsaacMoses say your response to his comment. See meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/2067/5323 for more info. — Shokhet 36 secs ago

....except that said user has 20K on SO .....I'm not sure if he doesn't know how to comment, or if he's avoiding talking to people, to be ensured the last word in a comment conversation.

@Shokhet Was just going to point out his 20k.

@Scimonster Yeah, I dunno.....

7:50 PM

@Shokhet Same here. :) What does Litvak have to do with anything?

@Scimonster There's this stereotype of the "kalte Litvak," a "cold Litvak," who doesn't enjoy being happy, and prefers being serious (and depressed) all the time.

@Shokhet Ah.

I'm pretty sure it's Greek, but I'm not sure. I'm not either sure that this question is on-topic, because, as it stands, it's purely a language question. — Shokhet 8 secs ago

^^^ thoughts?

@Scimonster (to be clear; I don't enjoy being depressed :P )

> Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין sanhedrîn, Greek: Συνέδριον,[1] synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council"

Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין sanhedrîn, Greek: Συνέδριον, synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council") was an assembly of twenty-three to seventy-one men appointed in every city in the Land of Israel. The Mishnah arrives at the number twenty-three based on an exegetical derivation: It must be possible for a "community" to vote for both conviction and exoneration (Numbers 35:24-5). The minimum size of a "community" is 10 men (10 vs 10). One more is required to achieve a majority (11 vs 10), but a simple majority cannot convict (Exodus 23:2), and so an additional judge is...

@Shokhet Her SO comments also appear to lack addresses.

Q: Should tags on a question include the presumed answer?

7:55 PM

@IsaacMoses Her?

Meta-Man

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This question I tagged as aishes-chayil because, although the questioner didn't know the tag when they asked, it seemed germain to the topic of the question and all related questions would be of relevance to this one. Another user disagreed. My subconscious motivation is well described here: ...

discussion tags

@Scimonster "Cow"

Usually, I think it's reasonable to presumptuously use the male pronoun for MY users, since the vast majority whose gender I know are, in fact, male. However, when the username (or other clues) indicate female, and there isn't other evidence to the contrary, we might as well use the appropriate pronoun.

@IsaacMoses I saw your response, and figured out that you were referring to "cow." Am I a mind-reader? :P

@IsaacMoses I know, but CC's knowledge base appears, at least to me, to be male. I could be biased like you are, though.

I know a few Yodeyans personally, and they're all male

@IsaacMoses Even more SOers are male than Yodeyans.

@Shokhet Honestly, I think CC probably is male. I was just being self-amusingly pedantic.

8:01 PM

@IsaacMoses I figured :)

8:17 PM

Hi everyone

Sep 15 '13 at 6:08, by Isaac Moses

@Islam I thought there was a chat room set up somewhere for explorations of this type

Islam and Judaism dialogue

8:34 PM

do Jews also have this difference between jews and bani israel islam.stackexchange.com/questions/10394/…

@IsaacMoses that room is dead

@Islam The reason for its creation apparently isn't. I'm sure you can either get it unfrozen or start a new one.

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@IsaacMoses I got caught up in that transcript...

Any news on this?

Sep 15 '13 at 6:30, by Isaac Moses

@SethJ OK; that tears it. I'm making 'aliya as soon as I can.

@Scimonster Still true

@Scimonster while you are at it also see the transcripts at this room:chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/8758/islam-and-judaism-dialogue

@Scimonster Remembered it! Too late to flush it out now, but i made a note so i can post tomorrow.

8:46 PM

This may be our first closure-war judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/52643/revisions

@DoubleAA If the OP closed as duplicate, why was it reopened?

@DoubleAA Only a skirmish so far. Don't you need more than two actions to be a war?

@Scimonster The engine doesn't give OP special status WRT closure. Five voted to close; five voted to re-open.

@IsaacMoses can you unfreeze that room

@IsaacMoses I know that. I mean, why did they oppose it?

@Islam I have no powers.

8:49 PM

@DoubleAA I find your delete war with Community funnier.

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@ray That's quite similar, but not a duplicate. For one thing, C. Ben Yosef reported that the doctor said that this treatment would "extend the patients life". — Fred Jan 14 at 8:14

TZT ppl

@Scimonster TZT

10:48 PM

A Jewish school in London cheated its pupils: not only did they not give them a proper education, they actually removed sections of the exam, so if the students had learned science in their own time, they still couldn't answer the questions.

11:05 PM

@TRiG Were the guardians of the pupils aware of what they were getting into?