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Aug 31	comment	Psalms 31:5 or 31:6 - beyadcha, etc To clarify and repeat, Christian Bibles are not generally based on the Greek. Their structure (book ordering) may be, I don't know, but the actual translation is generally done from the same Masoretic Text that you use.
Aug 31	comment	Homosexuality is “worse than murder”? @SethJ. Wrapping bigotry in religion does not make it less bigoted. Nor does history hallow hate.
Aug 16	awarded	Yearling
Aug 6	revised	a wheelchair user's taking “steps” before sh'mone esre Removed offensive language, as suggested in a comment.
Aug 6	suggested	suggested edit on a wheelchair user's taking “steps” before sh'mone esre
Jul 29	comment	Psalms 31:5 or 31:6 - beyadcha, etc Christians originally used the Septuagint; nowadays most Christian translations are based on the Masoretic text. This includes the King James Version.
Jul 29	comment	Arba'a Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya? The King James says nothing of the sort. That's Bishop Ussher you're thinking of.
Jul 29	comment	Hot water tap at work I wouldn't drink water from a hot tap, or water from a bathroom cold tap: that comes from a tank in your attic. The water's been sitting around for a while in not-perfectly-clean pipes and tanks. Kitchen cold taps come from the rising mains, and are generally safe to drink from.
Jul 28	comment	Hot water tap at work In Ireland, water from the hot tap is usually considered non-potable anyway. You take water from the cold tap, and heat it in a kettle.
Jul 27	comment	Jewish views on patriotism/nationalism It was an Englishman who defined patriotism as the last refuge of scoundrels, and an American who called it the first.
Jul 22	comment	Do JONAH and similar organizations successfully help those with same-gender attractions? There's plenty of evidence that sexuality is innate, and is fixed well before birth. I don't know much about JONAH, but it looks like they've thrown their hat in the ring with NARTH, who are known pseudoscientific frauds.
Jul 20	comment	What is the halachic source for objection to gay (civil) marriage? By the way, @ArielK. That article you link to contains at least one lie. I've not checked the other statements there yet. Moderator edited out bile.
Jul 19	comment	May I discuss my friend's unabashed un-Halachic behavior? There's some very nasty abelism in this answer. Schizophrenia is an illness, not a character flaw.
Jul 19	comment	Forgiveness: differences between christian and jewish traditions It's a good question. Not sure where it should be asked, though. It's perhaps technically on topic at Christianity SE, at least if you're willing to restrict yourself to Judaism of that time-period, but you probably won't get good answers there as there aren't many Jewish experts there.
Jul 19	comment	Is a Jew allowed to participate on Christianity.SE? @IsaacMoses. There's a rather different atmosphere on Christianity SE than there is here, and the posts on meta about the secular nature of the site are actually taken quite seriously.
Jul 19	comment	Werewolf in the Torah @GershonGold. There are lots of different versions of the werewolf myth.
Jul 19	revised	Why twins? Why not just Yaakov? Capitalisation and grammar. I'm not sure what "sadeek" is supposed to mean, and Google is unhelpful.
Jul 19	suggested	suggested edit on Why twins? Why not just Yaakov?
Jul 19	comment	Bris vs. critical thinking? @AviD. I'd say that performing any form of elective surgery or body modifications on an infant is just morally wrong. I'm also very uncomfortable with inducting babies into a religion (I'm not a fan of infant baptism, for example). Circumcision combines two ethically dodgy practices in one easy bundle. I'm not impressed.
Jul 17	comment	Is the passage describing an approximation of pi or is it one of the miracles of Bais Hamikdash? Inner diameter; outer circumference? Or a curved in lip on the bowl with the circumference measured around the middle of the bowl, and the diameter across the top? Frankly, I've never seen the problem here.