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- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project June 18, 2025Another one, tangentially provoked by this phrase in Micha's last message: "... shemeih de-"Qudeshah Berikh Hu'!" ... getting people not to put unnecessary "h"s at the end of transliterated Hebrew and Aramaic words. You can argue either way when the word ends with a "he" without mappiq (I have my own strongly held position, others […]
- [Avodah] AI-EOL June 18, 2025I believe I?ve heard r schachter say that when the family makes the decision for the patient, they are supposed to make the decision that they believe the patient himself would have made that situation If that?s the case, maybe AI would be in a better position than some families. Interesting to think about. Bsorot […]
- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project June 17, 2025Yet another one -- getting the Chazan for Mevorkhim haChodesh to call the months of "Av" and "Marcheshvan" by their real names! Both "Menachem Av" and "Cheshvan" are people confusing cute pshetlach with peshat. --- And: "Az, 'bekol raash gadol' adir vechazaq, mashmi'im kol..." Last, in Qaddish: "... shemeih de-"Qudeshah Berikh Hu'!" Just because Ashkenaz […]
- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project June 17, 2025On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:43:43PM +0300, Michael Mirsky via Avodah wrote: > I have another subscription. How about getting people to say "shiluach > haken". Or restoring the rest of the names of parshiyos whose names are also detatched semichot. Why is the parashah Shemos, "Names of", but the other is changed from […]
- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project June 16, 2025I have another subscription. How about getting people to say "shiluach haken". Michael Mirsky
- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project June 13, 2025> >> >>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> (My current futile life project is no longer that, because I have >>>>> changed it. My current futile life project is to get people to say >>>>> "sherut l'umit" since "sherut" is feminine.) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Why do you think sherut is feminine? The tav is a root letter, […]
- [Avodah] Amen June 12, 2025In the "when it?s so asynchronous that it?s not even toch kdei dibbur" case, I would prefer RAMiller's *derech* (try to answer everyone whom you've heard because "l'halacha, one ought to") over RJKaplan's *derech* (answer only the last because "the speedsters are simply being rude") -- making a blanket assumption like RJK made deserves its […]
- [Avodah] bli neder June 11, 2025On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 09:58:51PM +0300, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote: > > question? Because the word is Greek, "stollus". The yud-sav suffix isn't > > the Hebrew feminine one. If we act like it is anyway, the word would be > > "talliyos", otherwise, "tallisos". > > I don't accept your assertion […]
- [Avodah] Eilu Veilu June 11, 2025On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 03:04:21PM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Multiple Truths-The Ritva (Eruvin 13b) brought in the name of the French > Sages: HKBH showed Moshe 49 ways to rule pure and 49 ways to rule impure > for each and every matter. When Moshe asked how to know the […]
- [Avodah] AI June 11, 2025On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Rabbi Gil Student (aka The Big Boss Man) introduced an interesting issue in > his peace on AI and the golem. > https://www.torahmusings.com/2025/04/ai-golem-and-not-so-silly-questions/ There are two different conversations to be had... "AI" as it exists today, which is really a Simulated […]