@DoubleAA koreah is on the knees however you need to bow. koreah is not bowing. therefore you koreah then al apayim although literal al apayim is not a must for shamona asrei just a bow al apayim but without touching the ground. al apayim is a must for tahHanun though. that is where kidah and histahHawoyoh come in.
@DoubleAA academia.edu/825628/From_Private_Devotion_to_Communal_Prayer look at what i found. i just finished reading it and it is not so poshut and i have a lot of add to it that disagrees with this paper. i will print it out tomorrow and make my notes on it.
@DoubleAA genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/manuscript/… this is the siddur he brings down. unfortunately i cant view the pictures on it. i will try my best to see if i can get around this problem
We've got some pretty important (to my mind) site-definition meta questions out there already, with more to come, but there hasn't been very much community participation on them to date. What can we do to get more of the community to come over here and help define how this site's going to work?
@AlUmmatمجاهد So, apparently, this has indeed been a concern here. ^^ was from shortly after we migrated to SE 2.0. I don't know if there's anything special we did to resolve the issue. It may have just been that we were fortunate enough to attract a bunch of people with the mix of characteristics that made them feel like getting involved in meta discussions.
@AlUmmatمجاهد I'd point out that there's a certain peculiarity here, which is that this community started as an SE 1.0 site controlled autocratically by me, and I recruited people to join it and to help moderate, starting with people that I knew personally. That has had various impacts on the way the community evolved from there. Still, I'm not sure how meta-participation now, which includes many people who have joined since we migrated to SE 2.0, is influenced by that aspect of our history.
In conclusion, your answer is useful and now provides relevant information. The burden was placed on me, the original asker of the question, however, to make your answer useful and relevant. And without a proper citation in the Chida, none of what you said can be substantiated (re: the names of the Rishonim, this is speculation). -1 from me. — Seth J1 min ago
@HodofHod Thanks! I hope your birthday was wonderful. We had mostly good weather and a lot of outdoor activity with friends, so we quite enjoyed it.
@SethJ No, IMO. Dude is knowledgeable and interested in contributing, so it seems worthwhile to invest in trying to educate him about how to contribute most valuably.
It has long been the case that negatively-scored closed questions with no answers get auto-deleted after a month. (That's what "deleted by Community" usually means.) As part of recent changes to deletion, auto-deletion is now more likely. This is not a bad thing, but we've gotten occasional fl...
@msh210 And I was never that good at spelling in the first place.
(I was actually in a remedial English class in primary school for my poor spelling, but everyone else in that class was there for poor reading, so I never got much out of it. I learned to spell later, when I got interested in etymology.)
@msh210 Yeah. There's actually some consistency to it when you learn it that way. (There are still exceptions. Did you know that the s in island has no etymological basis, but was added by analogy with isle?)
QUESTION: "If the Torah is a book of laws, why does it start with Creation?"
ANSWER: "Rashi asks your question in his commentary on the very first verse. In short, it is so that if the nations say 'You (Jews) stole the land,' we will be able to reply, 'The entire earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whomever He deemed proper. When He wished, He gave it to them, and when He wished, He took it away from them and gave it to us.' See here for more."
@IsaacMoses We can try to get another 10000 user to edit it also.
Er... @SethJ ?
@SethJ, can you please see whether there's an edit link at meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1623 and whether editing the question works? In the interests of science.
@IsaacMoses as regards meta participation, don't forget that we used to have events and weekly things that encouraged participation. Weekly parsha challenges had to be suggested there, chat scheduling, etc.. After/with graduation, chat room naming, site customization. Chat room could gave been done before, though.
Is it possible to edit a deleted question?
This question is its own answer.
The following text was added by a mod, by the original author, and by another 10K+ user, while the question was deleted, indicating that:
It's possible for mods, and the original author, at least.
EDIT: It turn...
After enjoying this question and the responses it prompted, I thought, "It'd be great to have more questions about interpreting the Shabbat songs. I bet people think of them all the time when singing and then forget about them."
What if we featured a weekly topic challenge - a call for questions...
Our first Parashat Hashavua' (weekly Torah portion) Chat, despite the fact that it was advertised only minimally, turned out to be a lively, interesting discussion. So, why not do it again every week?
Where: The Mi Yodeya chat room
When: Wednesdays at 17:30 UTC (20:30 in Israel; 13:30
in New Yo...
@Daniel I recommend clear, polite commenting; helpful, exemplary editing when possible; and patience. We have had users get our point about these matters in the past. Not always, but it's worth trying.
@Daniel One more recommendation (definitely not meant to imply anything about anyone's conduct to date): Distance yourself as much as possible from personal-level bickering. It can be easy to fall into, bilaterally, when both sides feel that the other just doesn't get it, but that, more than any other effect of an excellent-user-to-be, can really result in pollution of the site and distraction of the community.
I agree with Isaac. Shulem in particular seems to know a lot and I hope can grow into a valuable contributor here. There are some things about SE that he doesn't seem to understand yet and I see the rising frustration in some of his comments. Patience, setting a good example, and avoiding personal-seeming fights are the way to go. I wish we could get there faster, but it takes as long as it takes.
@Daniel come work for my company; I they know my SE name. :-) And we might send you to exciting places overseas! (I work for a government contractor. My unit's biggest contract is with the US army.)
@Daniel, I've actually heard from a Rov (non-Chabad) that no wrapping at all is necessary (Unless there's actual mamoshos) since there's no zeiah in modern ovens.
@msh210 Yes indeed. The footnote to that even says that it is not necessary to wait 24 hours, and if meat residue becomes charred, that is counted as if the oven is clean
"Meat and Dairy—A Kosher Consumer's Handbook", by the Star-K, indicates:
Uncovered dairy in a clean fleishig [=meat] oven — If one cooks fleishig in an oven and ensures it remains clean (i.e. the oven has no meat residue), one may bake an uncovered dry dairy product in the oven. This may be d...
@DoubleAA I won't be able to see the image until I get home, but just from the text it sounds like a worksheet (like school homework). Is it really? What is the actual question?
@Daniel what? I thought from context it was a marked-up copy of the daf or something (I dunno, with circles and arrows and question marks or the like?).
a joke: What did Noach's wife bake him in the tayva?
a "mabul" cake
Q: What is the halacha regarding someone who is playing golf on Shabbos (where there is an eruv) and whilst he is on the green hitting his ball towards the hole, he accidentally pulls up a blade of grass?
@Daniel You know the one about the man who slips out of Yom Kippur services to play golf? He has an amazing day -- well below par, hole-in-one on that really tricky hole, etc. The heavenly court is aghast -- "Ribbono shel olam! How can you favor him so?!" And HKBH says "it's not a favor -- who can he tell?"
@Daniel I think she's a very knowledgeable troll - and the best trolls are. They are hard to ban since they never do anything super obvious, they try to push the line as far as possible without breaking it.
@Daniel And look at the second to last line of her mountain answer - there's no way this is a serious user. (And her rape answer seems to have just been deleted??)
@Ariel the answers all strike me as weird (like Daniel said). They're all downvoted and might merit deletion. Her one question is reasonable. We'll be keeping an eye on her. Thanks.
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I wish we had more users with the "vote to delete answers" privilege...
@Daniel, that's kinda hilarious. I didn't think people put much effort into trolling. What's the motivation?
I have absolutely no idea what to make of this comment:
@SethJ Strongs #6739 suggests it is related to #6760 which ends with the ayin, phonetically so similar to the words you gave ending in vowels.
Genesis 32:32 says ויזרח־לו השׁמשׁ כאשׁר עבר את־פנואל והוא צלע על־ירכו so that can mean to wobble or limp, very similar to the dovening motion. So I had been considering them all the same word, with an ambiguous final aspirant. — Gnarlodious21 hours ago
It has long been the case that negatively-scored closed questions with no answers get auto-deleted after a month. (That's what "deleted by Community" usually means.) As part of recent changes to deletion, auto-deletion is now more likely. This is not a bad thing, but we've gotten occasional fl...
"Meat and Dairy—A Kosher Consumer's Handbook", by the Star-K, indicates:
Uncovered dairy in a clean fleishig [=meat] oven — If one cooks fleishig in an oven and ensures it remains clean (i.e. the oven has no meat residue), one may bake an uncovered dry dairy product in the oven. This may be d...
