What should be done in the event that two competing answers are both valid, well-written, and correct, yet state opposite things?
For example, I may ask an halachic question of heter/issur, and get two answers, one saying its permitted, one saying its forbidden. Both bring valid proofs and are...
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Okay, so maybe I'm nitpicking. And it's probably got something to do with a 0 in a denominator. But it's still a bug...
I am 25 years old and I am truly interested in converting. I too also only believe in G-d. I live my life to certain rules that others I see aren't strong enough to live by. I want to know what I can do be part of this great religion. I know I wasn't born chosen but I feel such a connection t...
@IsaacMoses I don't know. The whole thing is vague and terribly worded, but "I want to know what I can do be part of this great religion" sounds like a real question to me. And it's not too localized AFAICT. What do you (all) think?
@NeilFein , I learned CYLHA back in the Usenet days on soc.culture.jewish; it and CYLOR were both common there. I didn't think to Google it so didn't know how localized it was there. That said, I think the reason it arose on scj was to avoid an O-vs-rest tussle. Conservative Judaism holds itself to be halachic too, after all.
@msh210 my regular hangouts there were scj, rec.arts.sf-lovers, rec.org.sca (medieval/renaissance re-creation etc), and I know there were others but I appear to have re-purposed those brain cells. :-) SCJ was invaluable to me when I was trying to figure out this whole Judaism thing.
@IsaacMoses I think I can provide a reasonable answer (to the edited version -- nice job there) later tonight, which should give the OP time to object to the edits. I assume with the edits you're not looking to close?
@MonicaCellio I recall knowing about SCJ and SCJ.moderated but choosing not to hang out there as I had other fora to spend time in. One was torah-forum, which I was active in until it changed from e-mail-based to Web-based. IIRC.
@MonicaCellio Oh, and I was born in 1978, incidentally.
@msh210 I didn't know about torah-forum at the time, just scj and (a little later) mail.jewish, which is still around as a mailing list (digest). And you're right; I was probably reading .moderated; I'd forgotten that both of those existed.
@msh210 I used email for the first time when you were one year old. :-)
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Why do we have the plata and shabbat-food tags? Both seem unnecessary to me.
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I am 25 years old and I am truly interested in converting. I too also only believe in G-d. I live my life to certain rules that others I see aren't strong enough to live by. I want to know what I can do be part of this great religion. I know I wasn't born chosen but I feel such a connection t...
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