Y'know, I've seen many weird Christian reinterpretations of Jewish law, but eating the weasel is a new one! (Well, it's an old one, but it's new to me.)
It is true that as a fox, I should know this, so consider this a spoilers warning.
In a recent post, Geek Girl mentions that the mating call of the fox is a series of sharp, eerie barks and that this is called gekkering. This is supported by a citation in Wikipedia, but the reference is not one ...
@IsaacMoses If I knew how to do one of those neato burrito postings of a screenshot into the chatroom I would do one of my reputation changes, but here's the best I can do:
שם - a name refers to reputation, or how something is known. טוב שם משמן טוב (Koheles 7:1) means a good reputation is better than oil. One who is מוציא שם רע - וְשָׂם לָהּ עֲלִילֹת דְּבָרִים, וְהוֹצִא עָלֶיהָ שֵׁם רָע (Devarim 22:14) - has created a bad reputation.
The idea of a name is that w...
@YEZ chat rep is the total of your rep across all linked sites. For example, my 60k gets 14k from here, 12k from Workplace, 12k from EL&U, 8k from MSO, and several smaller ones.
I wonder if there is a minimum threshold or something, since yours doesn't seem to add up. Though maybe that's caching. :-)
I've heard that the acronym in a sefer usually appears in the sefer in its full form somewhere before the acronym does, and in many cases I find this, but sometimes I do not, and cannot figure out the acronym, and others fail to know also. How do you know what it means? Is there a dictionary or w...
Wow. Two people in my relatively small frum community are currently in the ICU. ("Leah bas Chaya" and "Sarah Raizel bat Hada" are the names I was given. The owner of the latter name is, I hear, improving, baruch Hashem.)
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if you're in England, both coasts are not too far apart. If you're elsewhere in Europe, there's no real east coast. If you're in Asia you only have an east coast, no need to identify it as such. If you're in Israel, we have better names for that area, if you call it a coast.
And while I'm at it, Canada and South America will have the same problem.
@YEZ Also Australia, for that matter. The west coast of Australia is home to the Jewish community that is the most distant from any other Jewish community.
Here on Mi Yodeya, one can earn the "Fanatic" badge for visiting the site for 100 consecutive days.
Is it halachically possible to earn the fanatic badge in the Diaspora?
@MonicaCellio If this discussion was on Mi Yodeya and I was aware of it, I would be clever and link it now, but there is a famous question of what someone who isn't sure if they are Jewish should do on Shabbos, since a Non-Jew is forbidden from keeping Shabbos, and one of the answers is that days for non-Jews are day then night - Yomam valayla lo tishbosu. So they do work on Friday afternoon and Saturday night and they are covered.
According to one rav, a goy can keep shabbos without doing a single melecha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUWtj1qiFcM
I just thought I'd throw this out there.
Let's say that a person has a reason to think his mother might be Jewish (there is some evidence, but only a little), and it is likely that the person will never be able to know for sure. In such a case, does he sin if he is Jewish and does not keep Mitzvot?
Is there a precedent or a standard r...
שם - a name refers to reputation, or how something is known. טוב שם משמן טוב (Koheles 7:1) means a good reputation is better than oil. One who is מוציא שם רע - וְשָׂם לָהּ עֲלִילֹת דְּבָרִים, וְהוֹצִא עָלֶיהָ שֵׁם רָע (Devarim 22:14) - has created a bad reputation.
The idea of a name is that w...
If you downloaded or read "Purim - Mi Yodeya?," we would love to hear what you thought of it.
Are there any improvements you'd suggest?
Is there anything about it you specifically hope we don't change?
Do you have any interesting stories about using it on Purim?
Anything you can tell us along...
Here on Mi Yodeya, one can earn the "Fanatic" badge for visiting the site for 100 consecutive days.
Is it halachically possible to earn the fanatic badge in the Diaspora?
Let's say that a person has a reason to think his mother might be Jewish (there is some evidence, but only a little), and it is likely that the person will never be able to know for sure. In such a case, does he sin if he is Jewish and does not keep Mitzvot?
Is there a precedent or a standard r...
