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My understanding is that sefaria has curated material that they organized and also ability for users to upload their own material. The latter is of course, buyers beware. If you read a sugya on their site, it is clear what is what.

Equating Karaims to MO clearly comes from someone who met neither, but listened to some speaker.

Karaims were also different from individuals violating something: they were centuries-old communities that followed their tradition. Maybe modern Reform is a better comparison, as they follow generations of their leaders. I had once a reform person helping me out with a ride during the summer trying to make sure I’ll be at the destination by 5pm as he thought that shabbat starts 5pm sharp every week they way they celebrate at his temple – and he was intent that I don’t violate it. Glad we cleared it on the way, or he’d get a speeding ticket.

Also, are Karaims mehalel shabbos miduaraita? I picture them sitting in the dark, eating cold pizza without their wives. Weird, yes, but what malochos do they perform in the process?

fan dang> Biden “withheld” arms to Israel’s Gaza effort…. so that they could be used against Hezbollah in more important ways. The bombs he withheld wouldn’t have done anything effective in Gaza.

You are tying yourself into a pretzel, hope there is someone else in your flat to untie you. You seem to be saying that Tzahal does not know how to allocate the bombs correctly, so it needs US State Dept to come and force the right policies … The same ones that advise Ukrainians not to waste missiles on Russia proper, and the same ones that advised Afghani government to commit suicide by continueing holding on without US support for several months to avoid
a PR disaster. Nice, maybe Staties should just appoint an Israeli prime minister that they think is good for Israelis.

> I doubt they are so sophisticated.

Most decisions are based on machine learning that uses both manually crafted and automatically generated features, so it is not usually possible to find out what the decision is made on. But count of supporting and contradictory statements seems like a reasonable feature to use.

As to how far someone would go in optimizing the system – one high-end web designer went public complaining about his work for google some years ago. He designed a good-looking blue line on the google main page. Google engineers tested his against another hue and found out that the other hue gets 5% improvement in something, so they changed the hue to the more plain-looking one despite the protests of this artist.

If you have a mother in law that can figure out where you are at 1000 km and send Iranian drones at you, you should have more common saychel when choosing in laws.

Good to see that the only defense is to double down on insults.

I am curious is it a personal issue or there are actual rabonim that equate mo talmidei chachamim with conservatives?

Pony, right, so the original Hatzolah might call the new one to beis din. Bava Basra discusses that a professional guild can regulate their members, but if there is a Talmid Chacham, they should go to him for a ruling. Maybe, Hatzolah will be limited to their own losses, and they do not have a standing to defend community standards?

YS, right. At the same time, many established machine learning methods have non-magic properties, such out-of-sample error and generalization capabilities (such as VC dimension).

why are we dealing with letters from Rabonim instead of getting a psak from a beis din?

> car-blocker

toonaphish – do you live on my block?! Because I know him too! Shazsheri is surely jesting that it is a “one time annoyance”. Mine is doing it repeatedly with confidence – replying to an “am haaretz” who wants to drive out that this is “davening time”. I tried reproving him indirectly, such as visible avoiding shaking his hand publicly immediately after his rude behavior, hoping for Pavlovian effect, but this did not help. I find it beyond my capabilities to do a proper tochacha and cop out with the halocha that if you are not able to, you don’t have to.

To bring some sholom here – Dennis Prager says that he does not want to discuss future with his non-Jewish political partners – as long as they are our partners right now, when M comes, we will then discuss whether he came first or second time. Similarly, ma nafka mina of the debate of whether a particular Rebbe will be a Moschiach? If my local Rav is destined to be a moschiach – will other Rabonim oblige to follow his psak now? Lo b’shmayim hi…

Now, if this belief leads people to drive on red light on the way to ohel, then we can deal with that directly.

Started in 1853, Samson Raphael Hirsch School was a Jewish Orthodox school in Frankfurt am Main . It was a secondary school for boys and a lyceum for girls of the Israelite Religious Society .

Mizrachi Yavne started in 1902 in Vilno, girls school was in Slobodka, Kovno; not sure of the founding year.

BY schools had 50,000 students in 1934 Poland. Seems like BY achieved mass attendance comparing with other smaller schools. that probably means poorer girls. But the idea of girl education was clearly there before. And note that better off people might have used private tutors.

Be careful what you write in public domain. Your grandchildren will be learning from LLMs that were trained on your posts.

modern, true, I neglected to say – talking about where Sara Schneirer lived. Chofetz Chaim wrote several letters addressed to women in general and women assemblies in 1920s Poland – he asked them to support kosher hedorim for their sons; he asked them to learn halochos niddah; and to read this halochos (that he summarized in 1-2 pages of the letter) to other women who are not fortunate enough to know how to read. In none of these letter I found him suggesting to teach those women alef-beis or to open schools for poor girls. As he obviously valued women literacy, maybe he saw no hope in calling for women’s school or thought that limited resources should be spent on boys. That resources were severely limited is demonstrated in his other letters where he asks Polish authorities to suspend sanitary regulation on mikvaos explaining that Jewish communities will not be able to afford having clean mikvas.

> would agree it is best for the wife to remarry after becoming an almana

I think halakha directs men to remarry, and at the same time assumes that the woman would like to be married. I don’t know whether halakha taki directs women to look for another husband.

> circulated the notorious canard that Gedolei Yisroel were responsible for the destruction of many communities because they did not urge immigration. This charge is, of course, a gross distortion of the truth,

Could someone clarify what the Rav meant here by “distortion of truth”? Especially in light of the poster’s further quotes.

Could we not compare learning with working (on both or more sides of this issue).

A working person works as much as he, and his wife, wants him to. In my opinion, most, including myself, should work less and spend more time learning and raising their families.

A modern learning person is usually supported by someone else. If he is supported by the working wife or a shver or a Zevulun, he should learn as much as they demand from him. If he is supported by the kehillah, then CR posters can question his time, as much as they are part of the kehillah … If they are, fully or in part, supported by US or Israeli taxpayers (directly or thru their wives and sponsors applying for various programs), then they should make sure they are not violating any laws and creating any Hillul Hashem by channeling funds for poor people into their learning. In this case, shteiging 24 hours a day will not help, same as cooking pork for 10 hours will not make into kosher beef.

What about a katlanis who had a zechus to be married to three tzaddikim? Do they form a beis din and vote on her fate?

Non> how LLMs (Large Language Models) AI work,

Well, first, nobody, even LLM, knows how exactly it works, of course …

Note that while LLM is not fully coded by the programmer, it is dependent on the training data that programmer fed into LLM. One hypothesis from an expert is that the current generation of LLMs is the best we will have (contrary to the usual always-improving tech). Explanation: LLM learns from publicly available texts. Next generation of human writers will be writing with the help of current LLMs, directly or indirectly, leading to decreasing quality while increasing quantity. Thus, next generation of LLMs will be essentially learning from the noisy data it generated. This is an AI version of “yeridas hadoros”.

This is somewhat believable as we already see now that people using Internet are not always smarter than people reading seforim… I am hopeful, though, that we still have enough of informed individuals who will understand the problem and start training LLMs on a combination of Plato, Aristotle, Gemora and Rashi.

First, Ms Schneirer did not offer olam habo to anyone. She tried to help others the best way she could. Some rabonim, like Chofetz Chaim (*) and Beltzer Rebbe, favored her efforts, many others did not and made it not easy for her. Be realistic – she is not supervising BY brand min hashmayim, the way McDonalds Corp does with their franchise. So, a school claiming BY label is run by specific people the way they see fit, within certain limits. OOT BYs are different from in-town ones, for example. And what is “asur by gedolim” in one, would be OK in others.

So, the main lesson from Ms Schneirer is that educating girls is important. To clarify the problem she was solving: boys went to schools that were paid for by relatively affluent Yidden and poor ones got included. As there were no established schools for girls, rich Jews used tutors and poor ones were left ignoramas. So, maybe apply the same approach today. Find a small group of girl parents who can afford paying tuition and want companionship of several other girls and start your own classes. Find a kollel yungerman who will teach them chumash and Rashi, his wife to teach them davening and middos, enroll online to get English and Maths. This will not be a full-blown BY with entertainment, but you can always enhance it later, maybe apply for Jewish Federation grants to help you or find a Rav who will be willing to give high quality classes a couple of times a week. This is way better that sitting around, complaining about out-of-control school admins. Think what lessons you want your children to learn.

Why not spend your time helping widows and widowers, and others, to find shiduchim b’olam haze instead of speculating? The only issue l’maase I see here is that some widows were reluctant to re-marry to 2nd husbands who were not at the level if their first ones. If anyone here is such a lady, please press on. If you are a bachelor wooing such a lady, the solution is simple – be a better mench… Although gemora warns about second marriages – not all etzavim shavim, four people in bed, etc

qwerty, I understand your feelings, but am not sure I understand your argument about Avraham. How’s caring about other people an insult to him, given that he was arguing to save Sdom, etc?