Shneur Ribner

Avid #Gamer, #Zionist, #PhilosophyNerd, rabbinical student turned #Agnostic, insatiably curious. Introvert/borderline hermit. #TwoStateSolution ✌️

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@mstreiffer There certainly are reform Jews who are doing so (I'm personally acquainted with a few), but I'm unconvinced that the *typical* reform Jew has anything close to the Jewish knowledge base that their Orthodox peers possess.

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@YossiGoldstein8 This video appears to be hinting at the Bayesian prior but fails to appreciate its significance - that the very distinction between a ridiculous and a non-ridiculous belief is merely a matter of the respective proximity to their priors.

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@yairmenchel The discovery and exploitation of halakhic loopholes has always been as much a part of Judaism as the practice of halakhah itself.

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@HebAcademy מה החלופה העברית למילה קרינג'?

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@Laura_E_Adkins Any attempt to demarcate the two is illusory, the cultural and theological are intertwined by their very nature.

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@krotchetygaon In my experience nikud slows me down because I'm used to reading without, and I suspect this is the case for most people.

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@DBashIdeas I'm skeptical that it is what it claims to be, more likely it's a thinly veiled kiruv project.

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@Helenreflects Intels tend to be better, provided that the other specs are right. So if you're considering a higher spec laptop then go with Intel, but if you're going for a budget laptop then other chips will be able to marshall weaker specs more effectively.

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@HymynH @orshprintsin וְלֹא־יָדַ֥ע אִישׁ֙ אֶת־קְבֻ֣רָת֔וֹ עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה

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@Helenreflects I believe this is from Simon Schama's "Belonging: The Story of the Jews." I'm not an expert and cannot evaluate the merits of this position.

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@Helenreflects ... of heretics caught the attention of the Christians and the leaders were afraid that harboring members with heretical views (to Christians as well) could jeopardize the tolerance and freedom that the community was (quite inexplicably, for the time) experiencing.

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@Rachel_Solomon7 In my experience, even highly educated Israelis are surprisingly ignorant when it comes to reform and conservative Judaism.

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@annsplaining While I don't personally object to intermarriage, the argument that one shouldn't because "in my individual case my goy husband adopted Judaism" is not a particular convincing one.

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@Plinz Doctrine of the mean

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@shdeen @yudel @a_a_viswanath Interesting take. I'd have assumed that for Tanach and the siddur vowels we're included because proper pronunciation was considered important from a halachic POV

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@a_a_viswanath thank you!

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To the Yiddishists in my feed - can anyone translate this word? “האָרעפּאשנער„

I'm doing some research that requires interacting with Yiddish texts and this word keeps coming up. Seems to be something related to socialist lingo.

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@ShlomoFelber Great thread, thank you for sharing.