Halachipedia:About: Difference between revisions

Our goal is to create the greatest, most useful, and readily available resource for Halacha on the web. Our intentions are leshem shamayim. We aim to police the site to keep contributions true to torah misinai. We envision that an undertaking this massive would only be done as a joint effort by klal yisroel, hence we chose to use the open code wiki platform. Obviously open code can be misused. Please help us in the effort. This project can use lots of help. If you have time to volunteer towards populating, cleaning or checking references, please contact us at support@halachipedia.com. Note this is not the same as [[Halachapedia]].

<p style="text-indent: 2em">The founder and editors of the site are students or graduates of Yeshiva University. My brothers and I came up with this idea a few years ago. At first, we thought it was impossible to organize and translate all of the halacha but thought perhaps it would be possible if it's done slowly and with the help of others. By the way, every edit or comment is greatly appreciated.</p>

<p style="text-indent: 2em"> In general, the site is meant to cater to Orthodox Jews of all types and minhagim. Therefore, irrelevant of my background, I'm happy to  to include as many Orthodox opinions as possible. However, as the site is growing and isn't finished it's very possible that a particular opinion on a particular subject was missed.</p>

 

<p style="text-indent: 2em">A question that I've gotten from many people is whether there's any Posek or Rabbi who looks over everything on the website and how do you know that everything on the site is reliable. So to address this I want to ask clearly that although there's no Rabbi who's officially in charge of checking over everything on the website, every edit that's made on the site is checked thoroughly for accuracy. Almost every day I check a special page that collects all the edits for any page on the site and whenever I see a new edit, especially, if it's a new user or someone I don't know, I make sure to read it over and see if it's accurate. If I have the time or if I'm skeptical I look up the sources for the halacha that was added and go from there. I'm not biased to anyone's edits but I'm just interested in maintaining accuracy and if you have good sources, all the better, however, if there's no source, Halachipedia's policy is that the halacha has to be taken down. </p>

<p style="text-indent: 2em">Just to clarify, there are one page halachic articles that are put out in Yeshiva University from the contributors of Halachipedia and these one page articles have been looked over by Rabbi Mordechai Willig. To view these articles, see the [[Halachipedia Articles]] page. However, the content on the website that does not appear in those articles was not looked over by Rabbi Willig.</p>

<p style="text-indent: 2em">"Ask your local Orthodox Rabbi" is a common phrase but doesn’t mean that you need to find a posek, usually it means that you need to find a competent Rabbi that will be able to find the relevant established opinions and judge the situation appropriately. If it’s an intricate question which one already investigated and concluded that this question has not been addressed previously, then either go to the posek which you have totally accepted or go to a local Rabbi who will suggest a resolution or refer a specific posek. </p>