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Rav Kafih was also the expert on the Rambam of recent times. Period. His edition of Mishneh Torah (with his own perush, giving every single source) is the most authoritative since he had many manuscripts some of which were in the Rambam’s own handwriting.
The only way to have a hope of understanding the Moreh is if you see it as a continuation of the relevant halachos in the Yad. Review hilchos yesodei Torah, Hilchos deios and hilchos teshuva. Write down all the stiros, and all your questions. Then start learning the Moreh. I haven’t done it, but the Rambam himself said that it was a deeper look at those subjects.
musser zogger: Could be. I’ll double check tomorrow. That’s what I get for looking at it at the 6 am minyan.
I’m currently learning safrus. Where can I buy supplies in Brooklyn? I especially want to buy those precut plastic tips for practicing.
I met one in a store yesterday.
Anyone know what ????”? stands for? It was on the Ezras Torah luach.
gefen: Ynet. You have to read around the slant, but they still have good coverage.
You’ll get to memory management eventually. Then you’ll understand (or be expected to understand :)) what should be at which scope. Your father is right about perl first, though if you didn’t have anyone teaching you I would recommend python instead. Easier.
In other words, you are telling me that we are in the middle of ki savo?
You want your loop to store each player’s average in an array. Then you want to call max to find the highest average.
Here are a couple comments on your program.
1- Where are your comments? Right now you aren’t dealing with production code so you don’t see how important documentation is yet, but it’s a good habit to get into and it makes it easier for people to understand your code when you need help.
2- Why do you create a new scanner on every method call?
3- Why are you dividing by the number of players times the number of games?
BTW, which school teaches Java as an intro language?
Let’s talk about the positive side. Here are some good things about the Jewnion in our own generation, in no particular order:
1- We have baalei teshuva coming back in numbers not seen since Ezra’s time. In fact, if you count absolute instead of relative, we may even have more baalei teshuva.
2- The Noachide movement. There has only ever been one other such movement in recorded history. That time they also thought it was a sign of mashiach. Yehi ratzon that this time it is.
3- Israel. Regardless of what you think of the medina, there is a larger percentage of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael today than there ever was since bayis rishon! In absolute numbers, thanks to population growth, there are more Jews today in Eretz Yisrael alone than there were at any other time in history including the height of Shlomo Hamelech’s reign.
4- Israel again. For the first time since the dissolution of the Sanhedrin, the acknowledged seat of Torah is in Eretz Yisrael.
5- The diaspora. Most of the large concentrations of Jews outside of Israel are in free countries. It is easy to come and go if necessary.
All in all, things are looking better, not worse.
Almost happened today. Unfortunately the police got their before her infantry commander boyfriend.
yitayningwut: No, that’s why we wear pants died with kaleh ha’ilan.
pba: Does a robot have to toivel?
If you do libun gamur wrong you can ruin the temper of the metal. In that case it’s a different grade of iron, so maybe you can call it a new kli?
Speaking of Korach, a fabric store in flatbush is having a sale. Any thoughts on korach tzitzis for purim?
In Spanish it means “one table is here”
DH: So you’re saying that we should support a kollel lifestyle for people who aren’t learning so that they can not learn in kollel instead of at work?
Don’t buy it. Let them not learn at work and support the kollel. Better yet, if the kollelim are smaller, more money can be given to each member and still have more left over for tzedaka
yitayningwut: Possibly.
longarekel: Define kadosh.
I’m going to post in this thread against my better judgment, but only to respond to DH.
You assume that most people who sit in kollel and learn for about an hour a day would not do that hour if they weren’t in kollel. Have you taken a survey? I haven’t, but I know that it isn’t true for me. I can’t learn for a twelve hour yeshiva day. (At least not on a regular basis. Every once in a while during intersessions I do it.) But I am koveah itim without any social pressure, and I am far from the only one, after all I do have chavrusas ;-).
Another factor, though mostly irrelevant, is that once someone is in a situation where his “me” time is the time he takes to learn as opposed to the time he takes from learning, he may learn more.
yitayningwut: Please do.
They have been semi-banned in Williamsburg, not by rebbes, rabbanim, or any sort of kol koreh, just some posters on street lamps calling it “maskilish.”
yahud: shaar blatt?
hachra’a is picking the one that makes the most sense, which automatically places you in disagreement with the shitos you didn’t pick. That is what the Rambam did, and what the Ramban called him out on. THis should really be part of the “how does halacha work” thread.
Shar 4 doesn’t address teh second question, which I believe is muttar.
Abelleh: You can’t help arguing with rishonim and acharonim, even if you don’t say anything not first said by a rishon. There are enough disagreements that you have on whom to rely for almost any reasonable opinion (yeah, that’s almost a tautology. So sue me.) For example, let’s say you take the approach that you can’t argue with anyone earlier than you and you even have a rishon to support you, though I don’t know of any. You are then arguing against the Rambam who says you follow ?? ????? ???? ?? regardless of when he lived.
pba:
1- I didn’t mean by a”z, I meant that you’d be more likely to know one that could be applied.
2- You aren’t serving the idol, you’re destroying it in a way that gives you no hana’a.
2a- You aren’t buring it, I am and I don’t serve it
2b- Side issue: what if the idol was made of hemp or some other thing that people burn deliberately not as fuel?
No it won’t. The pot would have gotten kashered anyway without the the a”z. (You know the list of places this svara works better than I do)
pba:
1- Mazikei hadas? Typo, intentional insult, or reform synagogue?
2- I’ve only ever heard the real version. Did someone set psukim to it or something?
pba:
1- In that case watch out for the wind. When I did it I used a bucket and probably way too much charcoal.
2- You can also do a mitzva with this project while you’re at it. We can hold an idol burning with the fire from the charcoal.
Health: I read most of Al hageulah and parts of V’Yoel Moshe. My rebbi told me b’shem Rav Schachter that you can’t be a real zionist until you know both sefarim. Guess I’m not on the level to be a real Zionist yet.
BTW, anyone who learns these sefarim for the first time will be shocked at the strength of the language. Remember that strong language to the point of hyperbole is standard in this kind of work and that certain statements have to be taken in the spirit in which they were made.
According to some studies chazara works best when you pig out on food while doing it.
I know this is not what was asked, but as a single guy, I would have no problem dating a Lubavitch girl.
pba: Keep at it. If you find a part that isn’t facetious, let me know.
pba: They are stuck two centuries ago. They dress like Jews did two centuries ago, not like Jews do today. Obviously the only true “way Jews dress today” is how I dress. 😉
Which seforim?
Sorry to hear what you’re going through. Refuah shleimah.
pba: I’m pretty sure I know the Mishpacha article you’re talking about. If we’re talking about the same one, it was a very misleading piece albeit unintentionally. It reported that a Yerushalmi tailor claimed that the levush he makes was the levush the avos wore. Then it reports that chassidish levush was banned (it was about 150 years out of style when that happened). There is no evidence, Mishpacha articles notwithstanding, that the avos wore striped caftans that buttoned right over left. They also probably did not wear shtreimlech made from the tails of animals native to northern Europe.
Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook defined Jewish Levush as “tzitzis and tefillin.”
It’s actually an old minhag yisroel. ???? ??? ???? ??? ?????? by turning din into rachamim.
IDK where you plan on doing this, but a word of advice if you don’t want to be switched to ‘majorly retarded’ — use a deep metal bucket.
pba: Any citizen of a country has the right to complain about government policy.
pba: In which case it is a mamashus? amiright?
pba: I think you should ask your shaila again and be clearer, maybe show him the pan itself. If the seasoning is “there” then isn’t that a mamashus? I can ask the same rov who paskened about the pan I mentioned earlier if you like.
pba: Once did something very similar when kashering a kitchen for somebody for the first time, except that his pans were already used with treif so we had to be m’laben the outside too.
Sukkot = Scenophegia (sp?)
Wolf:
And the hebrew word:
yibum — levirate marriage
coffee addict: paramour does not fit.
???? ??? hermeneutics
?????? phylacteries
???? pilgrimage
????? tort
Please do. I was told that once when asked why we didn’t burn such-and-such (embarassed to say what) when I was 16, but in retrospect the rabbi could have just been trying to shut me up. 🙂
By “not lishma” I meant printed sefrei kodesh. Things written by heretical sects and other religions were outside of the scope of that psak which I heard from someone who was gabbai seforim there about sheimos generated in his yeshiva.
Sam2: The din of Sefer Torah sh’kasvo min is a special din in a kosher Sefer Torah. If Phil Berg’s books are to be burned they would be burned as tashmishei a”z, not under the din you mentioned.
Rav Pam’s psak: Anything with an actual Name (the 7 sheimos sh’ainam nimchakim, plus the kinnuyim that we pasken are Kadosh cf RaMBaM yesodei Torah ch. 7) or a pasuk from tanach with or without a Name goes in sheimos. There is no din lishma. All other divrei Torah, regardless of language and ideological purity of the author gets disposed of respectfully but does not require geniza.
If I were you I wouldn’t go through the entire pile of reform scholarship to see what is Torah and what isn’t. Just dump the whole pile in paper recycling and be done with it.
Blockhead: True.
yitay: Yeah, but if you did read it properly… 😉
yitayningwut: Actually, for ashkenazim — or at the very least ashkenazi diqDHUQ geeks — a kamatz katan has it’s own sound, and it is almost exactly like the ???? (the OH cholam, not the oy, ey, or, ow). So they’re right after all if only by accident.
Please explain what “Goyish” means in this case.
Do you mean music written by a non-Jew? If so, tell go to Uman and complain to the Rebbe Rabbi Nachman. While you’re there go to Lezhensk. Oh, and skip Maoz Tzur next Channuka too.
Lyrics written by non-Jew(I doubt that since most Jewish music today doesn’t actually have verses)? So? There are poems in Tanach written by non-Jews — at least one comes to mind.
Do you mean that they took a passuk and stuck it to a tune that doesn’t fit it at all? If the latter, that’s not “goyish” it’s just annoying.
popa: Not Antarctica. There are sometimes Jewish researchers there.