@TRiG heh, full circle indeed. (I think the author of that article did not know the phrase chas v'shalom, which idiomatically means something like "heaven forbid". One of the examples feels off there -- "Here is a special way to wish someone ‘Mazal Tov’ or, lehavdil, express your condolences,”", I think I would say chas v'shalom there, not l'havdil.)

It's not that it's "from" the havdalah service that ends Shabbat, per se, but that the root means "separate". So havdalah separates Shabbat from the week, and l'havdil separates one thing being talked about from another thing being talked about at the same time.

@msh210 @MonicaCellio I still think it should be deleted: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/26263/…

@IsaacMoses given the new question, I agree. goldPseudo made a valiant effort to fix the question but we'd have to at least annotate the answers for applying to an out-of-date version of the question. I think a fresh start is better. (Also, the current form of the original question seems to depend on a distinction that I'm not sure exists, a special class of people who are "more lawful" than others. The new question takes that on directly, which is good.)

@MonicaCellio Well, there is a phrase"yibadel bein chaim lechaim" (lit. "let Him separate between the alive and the [eternally] 'alive'") used when mentioning one person who's deceased and another who's alive.

@TRiG An interesting observational meditation on this phrase. Thanks for bringing it up here. Incidentally, it looks like his research probably also turned up this question, since he mentions the concept and links directly to the source linked to in the answer.

@MonicaCellio It's really a mess at this point.

@IsaacMoses indeed it is. :-(

I love how Alex was just awarded a badge.

@DoubleAA ... and he earns [reputation]judaism.stackexchange.com/users/37/alex?tab=reputation) almost every day.

@MonicaCellio thanks

@MonicaCellio but now the question is closed on BH too , the moderators recommended me to move the question to mi.yodeya , so i would be posting it as new question here

@IsaacMoses

thanks

Does anyone have access to the sefer Chikrei Minhagim and want to fill in the information for this answer. judaism.stackexchange.com/a/8257/603 . Answer it as your own answer if you wish.

@Menachem I assume it's not on HebrewBooks (yet)?

@IsaacMoses nope

Oddly, judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/26343 is a Stack Exchange 'hot question' (i.e., listed at stackexchange.com/questions and in the list of'hot questions' that appears when you have no notifications but nonetheless click the thing in the top-left corner of each page). (Hence my comment on it.)

hi my question was deleted

may i have the old text?

so that i can modify it completely please?

@IsaacMoses

@Ali, I know the URLs Judaism.stackexchange.com and Islam.stackexchange.com are similar, but I think the color scheme when you arrive at each site should sufficiently tell you which site you're on: Judaism has a brownish color scheme and Islam has a bluish one. (Or do you have a monochrome monitor? You can also check the URL carefully.) You may also wish to read judaism.stackexchange.com/faq and judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask, both helpful pages.

Anyone here know if/where I can order Kapach (or Qapich's) Mishne Torah online?

@LuxuryMode Have you tried searching at nehora.com? They have a pretty good selection.

@MonicaCellio Me too.

ah thanks @IsaacMoses i'll check it out

@IsaacMoses, i can only seem to find the rambam's perush hamishna on there

same goes for other sites.

@LuxuryMode This? net-sah.org/he/node/1373

awesome, thanks @HodofHod

how much is that in $? :)

if that's shekels, im confused. theres no way a whole set of that is ~$17

@LuxuryMode 65 is for one volume. Set of 25 = 1500 shekels

= 407.44 US Dollar

According to google.

haha ok thats more like it, thanks @HodofHod

@LuxuryMode Pleasure. It seems Otzar has it scanned too, and there are editions with that incorporate and adapt R' Kappach's commentaries.