https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Halachipedia:About&feed=atom&action=historyHalachipedia:About - Revision history2024-03-29T00:05:30ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Halachipedia:About&diff=32566&oldid=prevYitzchakSultan1: /* This is not a place for your opinion */2023-12-21T03:46:29Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">This is not a place for your opinion</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">Halacha is a production of a very long and serious process. Being involved in the process requires work but much more importantly requires a proper attitude towards Halacha. Someone who is filled with the appropriate fear of heaven and serious study is capable of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">actually </del>learning a halachic topic from the background of the gemaras through the Rishonim, Shulchan Aruch, and Achronim until the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lastest </del>Achronim. After completing serious study, then, it’s worthy to try understanding certain opinions and halachas and if need be ask additional questions (after serious thought). Nonetheless, under no circumstances should someone in this situation come to the conclusion that a certain opinion is incorrect and should be discarded. Only a posek who is certified from reliable and reputable Rabbis with Semicha, can come to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>halachic decision after arduous study of the topic <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(as described)</del>. Even so, a posek is only able to come to a decision for himself or a questioner <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(see Choosing a posek) </del>and a single pesak does not clarify the ultimate halacha objectively. Therefore, if an individual feels that he has a opinion on the matter, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">halachipedia </del>is not the place; if you’re a qualified posek please write it down for yourself and those who ask you<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, if </del>you’re not a posek, please write down your question and hold onto it until one finds a satisfying resolution <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">either </del>by learning the topic or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through </del>inquiring a qualified posek. </p></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">Halacha is a production of a very long and serious process. Being involved in the process requires work but much more importantly requires a proper attitude towards Halacha. Someone who is filled with the appropriate fear of heaven and serious study is capable of learning a halachic topic from the background of the gemaras through the Rishonim, Shulchan Aruch, and Achronim until the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">latest </ins>Achronim. After completing serious study, then, it’s worthy to try understanding certain opinions and halachas and if need be ask additional questions (after serious thought). Nonetheless, under no circumstances should someone in this situation come to the conclusion that a certain opinion is incorrect and should be discarded. Only a posek who is certified from reliable and reputable Rabbis with Semicha, can come to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his own </ins>halachic decision after arduous study of the topic. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="text-indent: 2em"></ins>Even so, a posek is only able to come to a decision for himself or a questioner and a single pesak does not clarify the ultimate halacha objectively. Therefore, if an individual feels that he has a opinion on the matter, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Halachipedia </ins>is not the place; if you’re a qualified posek please write it down for yourself and those who ask you<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. If </ins>you’re not a posek, please write down your question and hold onto it until one finds a satisfying resolution by learning the topic <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">again </ins>or inquiring a qualified posek. </p></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halachipedia's role is to collect and organize halacha as accurately as possible. Halachipedia in no way <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">means nor should be involved in </del>arbitrating between accepted opinions of halacha. Therefore, regarding any dispute in Halacha, even if Halachipedia reaches a point where it has amassed a great deal of sources and opinions, the bottom line of Halachipedia will remain double sided. Nonetheless, there are many ways to portray a given halachic dispute, and examples include: </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halachipedia's role is to collect and organize halacha as accurately as possible. Halachipedia in no way <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a tool for </ins>arbitrating between <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>accepted opinions of halacha. Therefore, regarding any dispute in Halacha, even if Halachipedia reaches a point where it has amassed a great deal of sources and opinions, the bottom line of Halachipedia will remain double sided. Nonetheless, there are many ways to portray a given halachic dispute, and examples include: </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==A possible argument against Halachipedia==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==A possible argument against Halachipedia==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One of the main concerns about Halachipedia is that it threatens asking the local Rabbi. However, after thinking through the issue, the challenge can be addressed adequately. A very common misconception is that any question about how to act in a certain situation requires a pesak from a certified posek and anyone who tries to find the halacha autonomously is arrogant and mistaken. However, one should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there has been two main streams of halachic literature. The essence of Halacha is the body of literature, spanning from the Gemara to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">achronim</del>, comprised of books that are devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha. Over the centuries, communities and even the whole of the Jewish people have accepted certain books as more authoritative. Determining which books are definitive is not a science yet certainly is not guesswork. Practically speaking certain books that are widely accepted become accepted practice (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Minhag</del>) of a group, community, sect, and sometimes all of the Jewish people. </p></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One of the main concerns about Halachipedia is that it threatens asking the local Rabbi. However, after thinking through the issue, the challenge can be addressed adequately. A very common misconception is that any question about how to act in a certain situation requires a pesak from a certified posek and anyone who tries to find the halacha autonomously is arrogant and mistaken. However, one should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there has been two main streams of halachic literature. The essence of Halacha is the body of literature, spanning from the Gemara to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Achronim</ins>, comprised of books that are devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha. Over the centuries, communities<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and even the whole of the Jewish people have accepted certain books as more authoritative. Determining which books are definitive is not a science yet certainly is not guesswork. Practically speaking<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>certain books that are widely accepted become accepted practice (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minhag</ins>) of a group, community, sect, and sometimes all of the Jewish people. </p></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">Therefore, if someone asks whether I can light a fire on [[Shabbat]] I don’t need a posek I just tell him that it's forbidden<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, it’s </del>obvious<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, it’s </del>a פסוק in the Torah! Similarly, many opinions permit relaying the rulings of Shulchan Aruch as is because of how widely accepted the opinion of Shulchan Aruch has become. Similarly, the Mishna Brurah is one of the most widely accepted books among Ashkenazim, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav among Chasidim, and occasionally the Ben Ish Chai or Yalkut Yosef among Sephardim. Without a doubt each of the above do not have a monopoly on halacha and there are countless opinions that could be considered in any ordinary halacha. Nonetheless, relaying the opinions of established authorities is not considered pesak, it’s just called finding the appropriate page to answer your question. In learning halacha, it’s clear that a person does not need Semicha or ordination in order to collect opinions on an issue and even to a certain extent find some conclusion. Nonetheless, it’s certainly not the job of Halachipedia to arbitrate between the major opinions of our day and all the more so to arbitrate between the authorities of old, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but rather it’s </del>to collect the relevant modern day opinions which are most widely accepted, organize them, and allow the public to gain significantly in Torah and halacha. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yehe Ratzon Milfanecha </del>that all those who put effort into this site with a pure heart be blessed with continued success in learning, and merit to reap the benefit of their labor in the world to come. </p></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">Therefore, if someone asks whether I can light a fire on [[Shabbat]] I don’t need a posek I just tell him that it's forbidden<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It is </ins>obvious<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It is </ins>a פסוק in the Torah! Similarly, many opinions permit relaying the rulings of Shulchan Aruch as is because of how widely accepted the opinion of Shulchan Aruch has become. Similarly, the Mishna Brurah is one of the most widely accepted books among Ashkenazim, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav among Chasidim, and occasionally the Ben Ish Chai or Yalkut Yosef among Sephardim. Without a doubt<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>each of the above do not have a monopoly on halacha and there are countless opinions that could be considered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">significant </ins>in any ordinary halacha. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="text-indent: 2em"></ins>Nonetheless, relaying the opinions of established authorities is not considered pesak, it’s just called finding the appropriate page to answer your question. In learning halacha, it’s clear that a person does not need Semicha or ordination in order to collect opinions on an issue and even to a certain extent find some conclusion. Nonetheless, it’s certainly not the job of Halachipedia to arbitrate between the major opinions of our day and all the more so to arbitrate between the authorities of old, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rather it is </ins>to collect the relevant modern day opinions which are most widely accepted, organize them, and allow the public to gain significantly in Torah and halacha. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">יהי רצון למפניך </ins>that all those who put effort into this site with a pure heart be blessed with continued success in learning, and merit to reap the benefit of their labor in the world to come. </p></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==What’s acceptable for Halachipedia content?==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==What’s acceptable for Halachipedia content?==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there’s been two main streams of halachic literature. The vast majority of halacha is found in books devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha and the other major group of primary sources are Responsa. In our day and age a third type of halachic source has become much more popular and that’s oral rulings. (It’s probably so popular because of the impulse we have in our generation to find immediate answers which are clear and definitive.) However, it’s very important to notice that in regards to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the last group there’s </del>minimization of the proper learning and in-depth understanding of the halacha and a maximization of the name and numbers of opinions. Besides the accuracy of many of these rulings, because of the lack of primary sources and connection to the process, use of these sources are discouraged. Nonetheless, in a day and age when there’s an abundance of such rulings available these rulings shouldn’t be ignored but rather gathered and coupled with a background of real primary sources that stem from studying the topic thoroughly. Furthermore, based on some of the above and other practical concerns, Halachipedia gives less credence and value to such oral rulings that are not documented in published articles or books.</p></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there’s been two main streams of halachic literature. The vast majority of halacha is found in books devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha and the other major group of primary sources are Responsa. In our day and age a third type of halachic source has become much more popular and that’s oral rulings. (It’s probably so popular because of the impulse we have in our generation to find immediate answers which are clear and definitive.) However, it’s very important to notice that in regards to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">oral rulings, there is inevitably a </ins>minimization of the proper learning and in-depth understanding of the halacha and a maximization of the name and numbers of opinions. Besides the accuracy of many of these rulings, because of the lack of primary sources and connection to the process, use of these sources are discouraged. Nonetheless, in a day and age when there’s an abundance of such rulings available these rulings shouldn’t be ignored but rather gathered and coupled with a background of real primary sources that stem from studying the topic thoroughly. Furthermore, based on some of the above and other practical concerns, Halachipedia gives less credence and value to such oral rulings that are not documented in published articles or books.</p></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even if there’s difficulties it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s </del>crucial to realize one’s shortcomings and at the same time view the halacha with great esteem. Chazal teach us that Hashem doesn't challenge a person except within his abilities and he's only expected to excel using his abilities. A God-fearing Jew should continuously work to try to achieve an uncompromising attitude towards Halacha even if the road to observance is difficult and long. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even if there’s difficulties it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </ins>crucial to realize one’s shortcomings and at the same time view the halacha with great esteem. Chazal teach us that Hashem doesn't challenge a person except within his abilities and he's only expected to excel using his abilities. A God-fearing Jew should continuously work to try to achieve an uncompromising attitude towards Halacha even if the road to observance is difficult and long. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><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. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">So to address this I want to ask clearly that although </del>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. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Almost every day </del>I check <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a special page that collects all </del>the edits <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for any page on </del>the site and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whenever I see a new edit, especially, if it's a new user or someone I don't know, I </del>make sure <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to read </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">over and see if it's </del>accurate<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. 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</del>. I'm not biased to anyone's edits <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>I'm just interested in maintaining accuracy and if you have good sources, all the better<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, however</del>, if there's no source, Halachipedia's policy is that the halacha has to be taken down. </p></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><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. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Although </ins>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. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Regularly, </ins>I check the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new </ins>edits <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </ins>the site and make sure it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </ins>accurate. I'm not biased to anyone's edits<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>I'm just interested in maintaining accuracy and if you have good sources, all the better<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. However</ins>, if there's no source, Halachipedia's policy is that the halacha has to be taken down. </p></div></td></tr>
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</table>YitzchakSultanhttps://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Halachipedia:About&diff=16571&oldid=prevYitzchakSultan at 05:19, 20 March 20152015-03-20T05:19:02Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">The founder and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">administrators </del>of the site are students or graduates of Yeshiva University. Another great website that we started years before this one is [http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. 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></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">The founder and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">editors </ins>of the site are students or graduates of Yeshiva University. Another great website that we started years before this one is [http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. 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></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One of the main concerns about Halachipedia is that it threatens asking the local Rabbi. However, after thinking through the issue, the challenge can be addressed adequately. A very common misconception is that any question about how to act in a certain situation requires a pesak from a certified posek and anyone who tries to find the halacha autonomously is arrogant and mistaken. However, one should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there has been two main streams of halachic literature. The essence of Halacha is the body of literature, spanning from the Gemara to achronim, comprised of books that are devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha. Over the centuries, communities and even the whole of the Jewish people have accepted certain books as more authoritative. Determining which books are definitive is not a science yet certainly is not guesswork. Practically speaking certain books that are widely accepted become accepted practice (Minhag) of a group, community, sect, and sometimes all of the Jewish people. </p></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">One of the main concerns about Halachipedia is that it threatens asking the local Rabbi. However, after thinking through the issue, the challenge can be addressed adequately. A very common misconception is that any question about how to act in a certain situation requires a pesak from a certified posek and anyone who tries to find the halacha autonomously is arrogant and mistaken. However, one should notice that halacha is a process which has developed over time and there has been two main streams of halachic literature. The essence of Halacha is the body of literature, spanning from the Gemara to achronim, comprised of books that are devoted to clarifying and organizing halacha. Over the centuries, communities and even the whole of the Jewish people have accepted certain books as more authoritative. Determining which books are definitive is not a science yet certainly is not guesswork. Practically speaking certain books that are widely accepted become accepted practice (Minhag) of a group, community, sect, and sometimes all of the Jewish people. </p></div></td></tr>
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</table>YitzchakSultanhttps://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Halachipedia:About&diff=15986&oldid=prevYitzchakSultan at 15:31, 19 December 20142014-12-19T15:31:54Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em"><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I'm not interested in taking any credit but because people asked I just wanted to clarify who I am. I'm currently a student in </del>Yeshiva University <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in Rav Schachter's shiur and previously I went to Shaalvim Yeshiva</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">My older brothers also went to YU and were involved in another </del>great website <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">called </del>[http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. 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></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em"><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The founder and administrators of the site are students or graduates of </ins>Yeshiva University. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Another </ins>great website <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that we started years before this one is </ins>[http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. My brothers and I came up with this idea a few years ago. At first<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>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></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">I'm not interested in taking any credit but because people asked I just wanted to clarify who I am. I'm currently a student in Yeshiva University in Rav Schachter's shiur and previously I went to Shaalvim Yeshiva. My older brothers also went to YU and were involved in another great website called [http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. 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></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><p style="text-indent: 2em">I'm not interested in taking any credit but because people asked I just wanted to clarify who I am. I'm currently a student in Yeshiva University in Rav Schachter's shiur and previously I went to Shaalvim Yeshiva. My older brothers also went to YU and were involved in another great website called [http://www.berachot.org/index.htm www.Berachot.org]. 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></div></td></tr>
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