V'dibarta Bam

1:29 AM

The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a 2012 American fantasy drama film co-written and directed by Peter Hedges and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on a concept by Ahmet Zappa, the film is about a magical pre-adolescent boy whose personality and naïveté have profound effects on the people in his town. It received mixed reviews from critics and had modest ticket sales in its debut weekend. Plot The film is told from the perspective of Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), as they explain their experience with Timothy (CJ Adams) in an effort to persuade an adoption a...

@trig You didn't tell us you were a movie star :)

Seth J

2:53 AM

@SethJ - I very much disagree with what you just wrote. Historical ignorance may be the problem here (assuming that the OP wasn't actually intending to refer to the inquisition), but correcting people's misconceptions is not. Do we not have a responsibility - on this site especially - to clear up such errors?? Historically, when Jews described the mass conversion and the exile, they used words like שמד and גירות. They did not call it אינקוויזיציה. This is a recent problem, and I don't think historians should just let it go. — Shimon bM 12 mins ago

Discuss.

Double AA

(notification ping @shimonbm that your comment is being discussed)

Seth J

@Isaac Moses, @msh210, @doubleaa
is this our job?

Double AA

@SethJ Refuting an assumption of the question seems to be considered acceptable for an answer.

Seth J

(@doubleaa fair)

@doubleaa I wholeheartedly agree.

Double AA

@SethJ (you couldn't have pung him. i used my all powerful mod superping :) )

@SethJ Ok, so correcting that should be acceptable. Perhaps the way to do so is via comment and edit, but if the OP made such a historical overlap, perhaps they need to rethiink exactly what they mean to ask

Seth J

2:57 AM

But I think that only applies when it's relevant. Otherwise common practice seems to be, "I think you meant to ask about X when you asked about Y. Here's the information you're seeking, because your intent is still pretty obvious."

Double AA

I'm distinguishing between where someone said yayin nesach when they mean stam yeinam, and more major misunderstandings like this

@SethJ Maybe he's asking why the Conversos were persecuted?

Why did God make the Conversos's lives so difficult when they were trying hard to keep Torah in secret?

ping @IsaacMoses I'm guessing you have some input to share

Seth J

@doubleaa I think he's asking why the devastating era of persecution that threatened to wipe out Sephardic Jewry occurred.

Double AA

FTR it's worth noting that the answer in question so far has 4 upvotes, 4 downvotes and 1 NAA flag

Seth J

@doubleaa would you like to see another NAA flag? That can be arranged.

Double AA

@SethJ I have no particular desire to, but I'm guessing such a flag will end up being marked helpful whether we keep the answer or not.

Seth J

3:05 AM

Aiight., I'll have to catch up on comments in the AM.

@doubleaa, @et al, guten time zone.

Double AA

@SethJ I think the answer is saying that's like asking why the Jews were hit with Hurricane Sandy/Katrina etc.

It's a global issue not a Jewish one, so looking for Jewish specific reasons is harder.

@SethJ TZT

Seth J

@doubleaa the Holocaust and Hurbanim throughout history were part of larger events, too. Including the Batei Mikdash.

Ttyl

HaSofer

4:10 AM

Chabad.org Omer Counter: Count 37 Days on Wednesday Night, May 1, 2013

posted on May 02, 2013

Today is thirty-seven days, which is five weeks and two days of the Omer. Today's attribute: Gevurah ShebeYesod

Double AA

4:31 AM

@SethJ revision 4 judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/28222/revisions

Daniel

@HodofHod, is that your name because lag b'omer is your birthday?

shulem

I thought of withdrawing the question. No one seems to have given any thought to answer it.

By looking at the answers I gave one could easily determine I was referring to the shmad and expulsion

Daniel

@shulem I agree. I think Jason was making a kind of silly distinction

Double AA

@Daniel It's a very important historical one. The fact that we understood what shulem intended doesn't change that.

And now that you know, you can be more precise in the future.

Double AA

5:03 AM

@HodofHod ALEX IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

5

WOOOHOOOOOO

HodofHod

5:20 AM

@DoubleAA WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!

...indeed

I can see why he came out of retirement, too.....

Jul 24 '12 at 18:18, by HodofHod

Just spoke with Alex, he's in the other room. He's been having a grand time without us, but he should be back on site relatively soon.

.....or not.....

Double AA

Collection of fun @alex related chat messages from his vacation:

Feb 11 at 5:13, by HodofHod

Just commented on one of Alex's answers and it occurred to me: If and when he does visit again, he'll probably be immediately scared off by the huge red number of inbox messages.

Feb 17 at 19:11, by Monica Cellio

@IsaacMoses I miss Alex. :-(

Nov 22 '12 at 18:33, by Shmuel Brin

@IsaacMoses We lost a lot when Alex left :(

Sep 27 '12 at 6:33, by Double AA

Mazel Tov Alex on 60K! Ad Meah V'esrim!

Feb 17 at 5:16, by Double AA

I love how Alex was just awarded a badge.

Jul 18 '12 at 17:16, by Shmuel Brin

Mazal Tov, may he be a Chossid Yerei Shamayim and Lamdan.

Jul 18 '12 at 17:17, by msh210

@ShmuelBrin Amen! Mazal tov, @alex!

Jul 18 '12 at 17:23, by Double AA

@ShmuelBrin And an Anav like his father.

Shmuel Brin

5:53 AM

@DoubleAA Can we pin this?

:)

First Mekubal and then Alex. We still need Yahu to come back for a true reunion :)

msh210

6:56 AM

@Daniel Just made it up? Don't you know the story with... the Shpoler Zeide I think it was? hang on, I'll Google it bl"n when I've caught up on backread....

@HodofHod @Daniel chabad.org/2144006

HodofHod

@msh210 I..... may... vaguely remember this....

....maybe

msh210

Great story.

HodofHod

7:22 AM

@msh210 That reminds me: I can't tell you how much I wish we could have chabad.org's glossary hover-pops.

msh210

7:49 AM

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A: Does this site have a glossary?

In my opinion… Short term: I think that the right place for this type of information is the tag wiki. For example, if you want to know what muktzeh means, just hover over the muktzeh tag on main: Longer term: The NY Times web site has a feature where, when you select a word or phrase, a...

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A: Does this site have a glossary?

We should have a glossary. Every user should be able to send words they don't know to the glossary, and the knowledgeable users can write a definition. This way only words that are actually used on the site will appear in the glossary. There would also be a way to link words, so that (for exam...

TRiG

9:10 AM

@DoubleAA I never even got around to watching that one.

Daniel

1:19 PM

@msh210 hmm never seen that one

Here's a remarkable Alex fact. Even with more than 1000 posts, Alex averages 6.275 upvotes / post

Seth J

1:44 PM

@DoubleAA Good enough, but it's still (or perhaps more so now) not a valid answer.

Monica Cellio

2:08 PM

@DoubleAA woo hoo!!!!

Seth J

2:21 PM

@shulem Don't withdraw the question. It's a perfectly good one, and as valid as any other asking about similar historical events. Just because some people are more focused on terminology than on answering the question, is not a reason to delete it. It's been edited, I think fairly, and, in my opinion, the edit invalidates the non-answer (not that I thought it was valid in the first place).

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