@AdamMosheh Yeah, I misspoke. The other 10 spies died immediately, not in due time in the midbar like the rest of the generation. So, like with Korach, the negative influence was removed from the community. Are you saying they should have continued to live in their tribes but just be blocked at the gate, so to speak? How is that a good thing?
@DoubleAA Thanks. I'm thinking a possibility might be that מאד מאד means more so and more so. IOW, we something is me'od me'od X if it becomes increasingly more X. So, for example, והמים גברו מאד מאד על-הארץ means that it rained increasingly harder and harder. Similar to the way that we would translate "מעט מעט" as "little by little". It seems to fit for a lot of the instances in Tanach, but we'll have to be a bit creative for some of them. What do you think? Plausible?
@AdamMosheh Why can't tefillin (et al) be English words? English is a language (entirely?) made up of words from other languages. It's true that they are actually Hebrew, but that doesn't mean you can't use them in English. Furthermore, the reason they are employed, rather than their English equivalents, is probably because they are much more common in Jewish conversation.
@jake You mean like high acceleration vs high velocity? Interesting. I'll have to look back through the examples again. BTW In terms of the מעט מעט I only see it twice in Tanach: Shemot 23:30 and Devarim 7:22
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@AdamMosheh Just in a different part of the world.
@DoubleAA IsaacMoses told me once that you can't @ someone who has not posted anywhere in that question/answer, so maybe that's why vram is not getting pinged by you all the time.
@AdamMosheh Wiktionary requires that a word actually be used as English (in published works usually). I'm not seeing that for this (except italicized, which marks it as foreign so those citations don't count). Sorry.
The introduction of multiple language-specific sites to the SE network has brought to light the shortcoming of the current tag system: lack of support for non-English characters. Non-English characters are either silently dropped or converted to the nearest English equivalent. I propose that the ...
@HodofHod Definitely of interest, but I don't know that that's really what we want. It will make it harder for many to follow what's going on and to choose tags appropriately. It seems more appropriate for language sites where there is an assumed knowledge of the topic language.
Tradition.
tl;dr:
You need the Rabbis' commentaries to understand the Torah correctly.
The Torah is a book that cannot be understood (and was not meant to be) unless you also have the oral teachings that came with it when it was given. These teachings were passed down verbally, until the t...
Without knowing what this ceremony is I would say that orthodox Judaism is averse to instituting any type of ceremony unless there is a valid, orthodox source that can be seen as a precedence (usually the older the better). If for no other reason than to adopt one ceremony would open the floodgat...
^^^ I can provide an eye-witness description of what this is. Would that help? If so, where should I do it?
@AdamMosheh They deserved to die, whcih they did. How do you get that they deserved to merely be excluded from Eretz Yisrael but otherwise to carry on as they had been?
So us mods have a cool new tool. Neat. But where are these neat tabs I've heard so much about?
Oh. They're eight miles to the right of the page:
This is what it looks like if your monitor is wide enough:
Or if you have two monitors and stretch the window really wide
The tabs are borked a...
@Jin the party was great! Thanks for your help in promoting it. I don't know how many radio listeners we had (is that data available?), but I saw up to 18 people concurrently in chat.
@DoubleAA Go for it, Ms. Cellio! By the way, are you familiar with this book?
@MonicaCellio Actually, they did get to enter the land when they went on their expedition. Why didn't I think of that? I had assumed that saying lashon ha-ra against the land would exclude them from the land, but not necessarily anything else. Does that even make sense?
@HodofHod You know how Ramban said during his disputation that "woe to the world if this is how it looks after Moshiach has come"? I'd say, by the same token, that woe to the world of Moshiach's times if I'm one of its top 71 Torah scholars.
@DoubleAA @MonicaCellio or without @AdamMosheh's permission, really.
@AdamMosheh Make sure you do italicize the other transliterated words, then, as if you don't italicize any of them then Wiktionary will just assume you don't italicize transliterations and won't count your transliterations as English anyway. :-)
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