<insert "ask" link here> ;)

:)

Hi all!

-1?

Is there some way in which I can improve the above question?

@Pops If you don't want to use a menorah again, go with a dreidle. It is the second-most recognized Chanukah symbol.

@msh210 Sounds correctable to me...

@HodofHod I don't know that Asking here is a great solution, since it's highly unlikely this particular mistake was ever discussed explicitly in a source. It has all the problems of a RFפ post.

@DoubleAA It doesn't look too difficult to generalize

@IsaacMoses Right. Maybe I should ask it.

@DoubleAA I thought so also. The only reason I didn't correct him is that I figured it'd accomplish nothing without a several-minute-long explanation on my part (to both the baal k'ria and the principal of the school I was praying in).

And maybe not even then.

@msh210 Maybe explain after davening.

@Scimonster Good point. The same baal k'ria will (presumably) read again Thursday. Alas, I no longer remember who it was. Doubtless the gabay can tell me.

@msh210 I'm picturing such an explanation shouted by people from around the shul, simultaneously

@IsaacMoses :-) I'm probably the only person who was there this morning and thinks about this kind of thing. (Not necessarily the only person who knows to correct it: others who were present may say "oh, yeah, good point, that's probably correctable". But the only person to think of it.)

(This was an elementary school, by the way.)

@Scimonster That's a complicated suggestions bc then the rabbi of the minyan may decide to take out the Torah and read again (correctable means do it again, even afterwards), causing more hassle and embarrassment all around.

@DoubleAA Luckily, it'll be tomorrow (or tonight) before I correct him, so no fear of that. Or unluckily, I guess.

@Scimonster All I'm going to say is that a choice has been made.

Thanks for helping though!

@Pops cool. Now we wait. :-)

@MonicaCellio No, now we use Talmudic reasoning and examination of @Pops 's wording to figure out what that choice was. :-)

@msh210 I wasn't sure whether we could start that right here in front of him. :-)

@Pops, on an unrelated note, that other project has been stalled for rather a while now (not at me) and I'm not sure what, if anything, we can do about it. If you have a sec, can you catch up on the other room to see where we are? Thanks.

@MonicaCellio Well, I'll give you credit, that was certainly one of the more creative ways I've been asked to leave a classy establishment.

@msh210 From the fact that he said it in passive VOICE, the choice must have been made by someone eh-else. ...

@MonicaCellio Will do. Sorry!

@Pops we're not asking you to leave. We can talk any time. Also, @msh210 might be suggesting that it's totally cool to have you here for it. Besides, then we can monitor your reactions. :-)

@MonicaCellio Are you talking about DoA?

@IsaacMoses no, sorry, a SEDE thing.

@IsaacMoses AFAIK we don't need to ping Pops for anything DoA-related.

@MonicaCellio Good

@IsaacMoses sorry to give the wrong impression there.

@MonicaCellio Nah. just making sure

@MonicaCellio Was just attempted humor.

@Pops good. We like you; you should always feel welcome here.

@Pops ... especially given that you're probably the first person to call this joint "classy."