@Daniel yup. So long as reputation divided by number of years is at least 200, you get it once a year. So Alex is good for another 300 or so years, and counting. :-)
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@Daniel indeed. He knows a lot and could have contributed here. He needed to get past some "style" hurdles; it's a pity he didn't stick around to work on that.
The way I understand it, when a user's account is deleted, so are all his posts that have a negative score (see #8 here). This makes a lot of sense to me on a main site. But as we know on meta voting means something different than on main, and a negatively voted post can still be worth keeping ar...
If shulem had any negatively-scored questions with answers that we want to keep, somebody please flag those questions. (I don't know if this is the case. People who answered his questions might.)
I was praying with my kid in a synagogue wherein the aron was against the eastern wall, and most of the seats were facing north or south. My kid wondered why, when "Alenu" started, the people around us turned to face east to say it. I had (and have) no idea. Anyone know?
A question asks about case A. All the answers explain the rule with respect to cases A and B which have the same rule (or at least no one has yet to find a distinction). Is it appropriate to generalize the question post facto to ask about A and B, or leave the question alone because it is technic...
@SethJ I suspect the answers will be the same. Either there is no reason to turn, or they turn because both involve bowing (yes, bowing during kaddish used to be much more common).
The latter might not be to the exclusion of the former.
You can trust me by now without me having to bother finding sources. You can be sure they exist. Perhaps some lubavicher now learning sotah according to the rebbe should have almost finished it can provide it. — shulem3 hours ago
Yes, conversion is possible. The Talmud discusses it, Maimonides' Code of Jewish Law (around the year 1200) discusses it, and there is a section on it in Shulchan Aruch, the main code of Jewish Law that was compiled in the 1500s.
Besides the book of Ruth, see for instance Numbers 9:14:
If a...
@Charlie yes, as you'll see there, there are some minor differences, like a woman who's a convert can't marry a kohein (priest), but for the most part, a convert and a born Jew are treated the same under Jewish law.
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I was praying with my kid in a synagogue wherein the aron was against the eastern wall, and most of the seats were facing north or south. My kid wondered why, when "Alenu" started, the people around us turned to face east to say it. I had (and have) no idea. Anyone know?
Yes, conversion is possible. The Talmud discusses it, Maimonides' Code of Jewish Law (around the year 1200) discusses it, and there is a section on it in Shulchan Aruch, the main code of Jewish Law that was compiled in the 1500s.
Besides the book of Ruth, see for instance Numbers 9:14:
If a...
