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Discussion on question by Mendy: Is M…

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Menachem

Jul 24, 2024 15:29

The S'dei Chemed has a couple chapters on this issue. It was also published as a separate pamphlet called, "A Collection of Laws - S'dei Chemed, Pamphlet Metzitza and Miluim", subtitled "Which talks about the laws of Metzitza, which must be done for the Mitzvah to be performed properly, and specifically with the mouth." I haven't read it, but it looks like it addresses the question.

Menachem

Jul 24, 2024 15:29

@DoubleAA: I don't disagree (although I'd say Yeted has an agenda), and I'd love to see some independent verification, here is a response from the city: thejewishweek.com/news/short-takes/… -- Here is an article from Dr Berman (mentioned in the Yated piece about Metzitza B'Peh) from a publication called Dialogue: matziv.com/pictures/drbermanarticlemetzitzah

Menachem

Jul 24, 2024 15:29

See this article in Yated, which claims that there is a vendetta against Metzitzah B'peh and that (at least some of) the cases of herpes related fatalities have nothing to do with Metzitzah B'peh: yated.com/content.asp?categoryid=0&contentid=686

V'dibarta Bam

"And speak of them" (Deut. 6:7) This is the main Mi Yodeya com...

Menachem

Nov 28, 2018 22:05

@Leopold books.google.com/books/about/… -- according to google books, there is a 2003 edition with 563 pages

Menachem

Mar 28, 2018 14:25

@IsaacMoses probably a post in meta is the way to go. I'll see if I can find the time to do it before pesach.

Menachem

Mar 28, 2018 13:39

@IsaacMoses there may not be that many of them. judaism.stackexchange.com/search?q=chabadlibrary.org only has 8 results, and some of them look like they're already correct (just based on the search results page, I didn't open the questions)

Menachem

Mar 28, 2018 05:58

chabadlibrary.org recently changed their page structure, and as such any links to that website have to be updated. For example (from here: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/10750/how-to-pronounce-the-name-of-the-sefer-bnei-ysoscher/11663 ) http://chabadlibrary.org/books/default.aspx?furl=/admur/lkus/30/14/5/287 has become
http://chabadlibrary.org/books/admur/lkus/30/14/5/287 . Seems like a pretty easy search and replace "default.aspx?furl=/" with "". Is there a way to scour the site for such links and update them?

Menachem

Jan 15, 2018 06:16

@IsaacMoses sounds like an interesting talk. If you choose to write it up, please share it here (It sounds like the talk may be converted into an article for some kind of jewish publication as well)

Menachem

Nov 5, 2017 15:14

any opinions about these two eruv books in english: amazon.com/Contemporary-Eruv-Revised-Expanded-Metropolitan/dp/… OR amazon.com/comprehensive-review-Eruvin-practical-applications/… . If I'm buying one, which one would you recommend?

Menachem

Jul 11, 2017 04:27

@MonicaCellio hebrewbooks.org/37965 -- here's a high quality scan of Bava Batra

Menachem

Jun 21, 2017 15:49

A: How does one improve memory?

Horiyos 13b - olive oil is good for the memory. Also dipping the fourth finger in salt prior to Birchas haMazan and licking off the salt. Yerushalmi Brachos Chapter 5 Halacha 1 - learning inside a Sefer is good for the memory. Otzar Segulos page 9 - saying Zicharon L'Maaseh Braishis at Kiddush...

Menachem

Jun 21, 2017 15:49

usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/21/…

Menachem

Mar 19, 2017 01:19

I'm positive we had this question before, but I can't find it now: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/81026/…

Menachem

Feb 22, 2017 02:03

is it possible mi.yodeya.com is not redirecting properly? This link doesn't work for me: mi.yodeya.com/questions/3211/…

Menachem

Feb 7, 2017 22:42

@DoubleAA rambam links to chabad.org's translation. meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/1765/603 -- no english translation for Gemara

Menachem

Jan 26, 2017 03:26

@MonicaCellio That record is a little skewed. Most of my flagging happens after I delete my response to someone else's comment because I've addressed their comment, to let someone know that the comment can now be deleted. I'm not on the site regularly enough to be a moderator

Menachem

Jan 22, 2017 21:01

@DoubleAA thanks

Menachem

Nov 7, 2016 02:30

Can anyone try this and see if they can replicate it?

Menachem

Nov 6, 2016 20:11

@DoubleAA I tried editing, but it didn't make a difference

Menachem

Nov 6, 2016 19:29

can someone double check this: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/77385/603 -- did the MiYodeya Referencer stop working? It correctly shows up in the edit box, but when I post it it just shows the shortcode - meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/1758/…

Menachem

Oct 31, 2016 22:43

I'm almost positive I posted this link somewhere on the site, but can't find it now, is there a way to search for it: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37946&pgnum=378
--

Menachem

Oct 14, 2016 22:18

@Meta-Man I'm not quite sure what happened here. judaism.stackexchange.com/a/10632/603

Menachem

Sep 22, 2016 18:36

From the paper: As we will see, the
two outer segments contain the text of Lev 1–2, with Lev 1 wrapped inside
Lev 2, while the innermost segment that has been analyzed is a large blank
area. We can therefore conclude that the scroll was rolled from its beginning,
and the outer layers contained subsequent passages.
Furthermore, figure 1 shows that there are not many additional layers
rolled inside the scroll. This implies that the exposed sections are close to the
beginning of the scroll (since the scroll was rolled from its beginning). -- http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1474480873.pdf

Menachem

Sep 22, 2016 18:16

I couldn't figure out from the articles. Was it just a scroll of Vayikra, or was it a complete torah scroll that only Vayikra remained? The it was in the inner part of the rolled scroll, but I wasn't sure what that meant. (If it was just a scroll of Vayikra, why would the beginning be in the inner part. Wouldn't it be like a megilla, where the outer part is the beginning?)

Menachem

Mar 6, 2016 03:35

Yosef Kara. I can't find the question now. Anybody able to find it? I can't remember how I spelled "Kara"

Menachem

Mar 6, 2016 03:34

I once asked a question, trying to find out who this was: he.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Menachem

Oct 29, 2015 08:45

Interesting article about the amount of meat found in some vegetarian hot dogs: edition.cnn.com/2015/10/26/health/…

Menachem

Jul 2, 2015 04:57

It's probably the same family

Menachem

Jul 2, 2015 04:56

@IsaacMoses this is from a couple years ago: collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=24581

Menachem

Jul 1, 2015 03:42

@ShmuelBrin have you tried it? It doesn't seem like it is scale-able. What do you do when you've learned enough that you can't review it all in one sitting? Is it two days of review to one day of learning something new? Do you stop reviewing the old stuff and move on to the new stuff?

Menachem

Jun 30, 2015 21:46

Has anyone here tried Rav Meir Pogrow's Master Torah program? mastertorah.com/newsite/general/home.php - If so, I'm interested in what you thought about it.

Menachem

Jun 30, 2015 18:38

@IsaacMoses: Showed up in one of my RSS feeds

Menachem

Jun 30, 2015 18:31

Just saw this: io9.com/…

Menachem

Mar 30, 2015 05:24

@Shokhet I live in Costa Rica, but I don't really know anyone in Panama

Menachem

Feb 4, 2015 03:07

Some new scans from Hebrewbooks.org -- This one in time for Purim: hebrewbooks.org/53068

Menachem

Jan 19, 2015 05:57

judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/52784/… -- The questioner is looking for a "Shibboleth" -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

Menachem

Jan 12, 2015 05:24

I rolled back this edit -- judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/8466/revisions -- for 2 reasons: 1) It was a quote, and editing a quote and changing it would make it not a quote anymore 2) The edit was wrong. According to the edit, there would have been no space between the plague of darkness and the death of the firstborn, and there was at least half a month. -- I wasn't sure where to put this reason for the rollback, so I'm mentioning it here

Menachem

Dec 29, 2014 08:03

if we go by intent, perhaps this one as well: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/37374/…

Menachem

Dec 29, 2014 07:59

Q: Can a prophet add to or change the Torah?

Is it possible for a prophet to add to the Torah, or change any of it? Can a prophet say that God has told him that certain parts no longer apply or are wrong? How do we know?

Menachem

Dec 29, 2014 07:54

@msh210 you too

Discussion on question by DanF: What …

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Menachem

Mar 5, 2018 22:23

It is not unprocessed, just uncooked. It is still butchered and packaged there. @DoubleAA

Menachem

Mar 5, 2018 22:23

@DanF. Exactly. The wine is certified for pesach the whole year, which is why the mashgiach is vigilant. The butchery is not, and therefore the mashgiach is not.

Menachem

Mar 5, 2018 22:23

when something is not forbidden you aren't careful about it. In the middle of Tishre the worker doesn't think twice about bringing chametz in. If you want to ensure that the food has no chametz, clean it for pesach before you start selling it for pesach.

Discussion on Mi Yodeya Userscripts

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Menachem

Nov 10, 2016 23:34

@HodofHod thanks!!

Menachem

Jan 14, 2015 05:07

I use this a lot because I have a slow internet connection. I download the books, and then search them offline. I then have to generate a link, and my script is a lot faster than trying to find the page online in order to link to it. I don't know if many other people would find it useful

Menachem

Jan 14, 2015 05:06

[hb 16091] could generate http://hebrewbooks.org/16091

Menachem

Jan 14, 2015 05:05

Perhaps we can do the same thing with the uploader: [hb 16091 55] could automatically generate `http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=16091&pgnum=55
`

Menachem

Jan 14, 2015 05:04

#!/bin/bash
#
# We want to be able to input hebrewbook.org information and output a URL

ID=$1
PAGE=$2

echo "http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=${ID}&pgnum=$PAGE"

Menachem

Jan 14, 2015 05:03

@HodofHod - I just had a crazy thought, which might be out of scope for the Referencer. I have a little script to automatically generate a hebrewbooks URL from the book ID and the pdf page number:

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Menachem

Aug 2, 2015 13:20

chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/82728/jewish/…