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May 17	comment	What do you have to check for Shatnez? -1. A) R' Yirmiyohu Kaganoff disagrees with your first point. See his article "When Must I Check for Shatnez?". He looks at the sources and finds that, regarding garments, they aren't choshesh only for a mi'ut hamatzuy. B) See this post, s.vv. "It usually differs even from one identical suit to the next". C) Dear Ariel: Could you please edit your post and remove your theory about identical suits? D) Also, can you cite any rabbi to support your remaining points?
May 17	comment	What do you have to check for Shatnez? Dear Ariel: Can you cite any rabbi to support your post? Because R' Yirmiyohu Kaganoff disagrees with you. See his article "When Must I Check for Shatnez?". He looks at the sources and finds that, regarding garments, they aren't choshesh only for a mi'ut hamatzuy.
Apr 19	comment	While playing a computer game, may I “worship” one of the game's “gods” to help me win? @MonicaCellio: In the game, I do not play myself: I play a fictional character, such as a warrior or an archer. But when the game asks me to name the character, I might enter my real name: this makes the game assign a sensible filename to my saved game data file.
Apr 19	comment	While playing a computer game, may I “worship” one of the game's “gods” to help me win? Note: I have already tried various Google searches, such as [ halacha computer \| video game idol \| deity \| zara \| zarah ]. None have helped.
Apr 17	comment	Should I wear tefillin during Chol HaMoed? @DoubleAA: I don't know; good question. Dear all, and dear Double AA: Does anyone know?
Apr 17	comment	Should I wear tefillin during Chol HaMoed? Dear all: Sam lives in the United States. Theoretically: He could think about where his father lived, and his paternal grandfather, and his paternal great-grandfather, and so on. Then, he could make a decision based on what the custom was in their countries. Would this be a good way for Sam to make a decision?
Mar 28	comment	May I vote Stack Exchange answers up or down during Chol Hamoed? @sam: You seem to be saying that if typing is allowed, then clicking should be allowed. Did I understand correctly? Well, based on past conversations I've had with R' Yacov Felder, I think typing isn't always allowed on Chol Hamoed.
Mar 28	comment	May I vote Stack Exchange answers up or down during Chol Hamoed? @HachamGabriel: Absolutely not.
Mar 28	comment	May I vote Stack Exchange answers up or down during Chol Hamoed? @sam: Ariel K writes elsewhere that many consider typing to be melacha. But melacha is sometimes allowed on Chol Hamoed.
Mar 22	comment	Does a cotton blanket for daytime use need tzitzis? @DoubleAA: Yes. Thank you for your edits.
Mar 22	comment	Does a cotton blanket for daytime use need tzitzis? @DoubleAA: I looked at the link. But regarding a daytime-use cotton blanket, I'm still not sure what to do.
Feb 26	comment	What does R' Feinstein say about eating kosher food in a non-kosher restaurant? @SethJ: Is this question a subquestion of that one? Sort of, yes. But still, they shouldn't be merged: the answers are too different. Plus, some amount of duplication on the site is fine.
Feb 7	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? @HodofHod: Upon reflection, I think you're right for many reasons. • College students can generally turn to their local food-services department and maybe also Hillel. They often live in housing shared with non-Jews. • Non-students are in a different situation. Non-students might work for a company with a corporate cafeteria that will help them. But they also might not. Non-students also tend to have private apartments with kosher kitchens. And non-students are less likely to be able to go on the Grandma meal plan. • In summary, being in college may indeed change the situation a lot.
Feb 7	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? The wait sounds like it was very frustrating. Why did it take 40 minutes for them to heat up an airplane meal for you? At your school, could you phone the cafeteria ahead of time every day? Better yet, could you put in a standing order for the staff to heat up a kosher meal for you at the beginning of every cafeteria shift?
Feb 7	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? Thank you for this useful post, and thank you for the edits. One tip: When eating an airplane meal, if you add fruit, bread, toast, or a sandwich, you'll end up more full.
Feb 7	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? @HodofHod: Feel free to do so.
Feb 7	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? Dear both: Fair advice. Points taken.
Feb 6	comment	How can you get hot kosher food on campus? @MonicaCellio: This question is not for me: I've graduated already. It's for someone I know who's living in such a situation. I don't know what his budget is.
Feb 6	comment	Is there a way to find proximate words? A regular expression ("regexp") is sort of like a mini computer program whose purpose is to do fancy searches through a corpus of text. I don't know if one can do the search you want using regexps, but maybe one can. First, try to find a copy of Tanach where the typist didn't press Enter at the end of each 80-character line. I don't know if such a copy exists. Then, open it in a program which supports regexps, such as gVim or MS Word. Finally, look online for a regexp for what you want. stackoverflow.com can help.
Feb 1	comment	What does a tahara accomplish for a dead person? Good question. But I didn't upvote it: what research have you done already? Have you even checked Wikipedia? Could you please edit the question and show us your work?