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Hi Bill: Welcome and thank you for your work with the Parsha pages, they needed help and you are doing it! Would you mind keeping track of Portal:Judaism and changing each week's Prasha in it? Also please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism that you could join. Be well. IZAK 11:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Bill, I just came across this at User:Jnothman/Parshiot templates and I thought it may be of some help to you. Best wishes, IZAK 13:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Dauster,
First, I would like to thank you for the excellent work you have been doing by adding all of the parshiyot. However, I noticed that you placed the succession boxes at the top of the articles "to avoid conflict with category box". This is not the Wikipedia convention where the succession boxes are at the bottom of the articles. I have moved them back to the bottom for you.
Thanks again, YUL89YYZ 13:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
You may be interested in this vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/A_wife_confused_for_a_sister. Yoninah 22:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dauster: Thank you for your regular, reliable, outstanding and meticulous work with keeping the Parsha segment in Portal:Judaism updated each week! I have noticed some small recurring issues, that I keep on "correcting", and that I wanted to bring to your attention and hopefully it will assist you and ensure the continued high quality of your edits.
I hope that you will find these pointers of help as you continue your very helpful efforts with the project. If I notice anything else I will try to alert you to it in the future. Feel free to contact me at any time. Best wishes and thanks again! ShabbatShalom, IZAK 06:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bill: Shavua Tov ! It is important that you see the following proposed Wikipedia policy pages and their discussion pages at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Verses of 1 Kings 4 and 5 AND Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text. Thanks for giving this matter your serious attention before discussion is closed and the "policy" is set. IZAK 09:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Good work on the Parsha summaries. I noticed that you directly link verse to machon mamre. There is a very good template Template:bibleverse that will do that for you. Also, if in the future machon mamre shuts down, or changes it system, having a centralized template allows all the links to be changed easily (instead of tracking down hundreds of links). Have a good shabbos. Jon513 09:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Dauster! I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism. Please put it on your watchlist, and please add relevant AfD's as you find them. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bill: See the following at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template: Torah portion, it touches upon your "weekly work". Best wishes, IZAK 09:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi everyone:
User:msh210 has disagreed with me (see User talk:IZAK#Maftir) about placing {{Torah portion}} on each of the following articles. He has placed the following basic objection on each page: "What is {{Torah portion}} doing on this page? Completelt irrelevant.—msh210℠ 19:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)."
In response I am centralizing the discussions here. I am also providing the full text of my first response on each article's talk page here, listed as point "Reason/s (1)" for each article, the other three reasons were the same on/for all the articles: That: (2) The template {{Torah portion}} is at the bottom of the Maftir article's page, so essentially it's part of the "See also" section which is a legitimate way of connecting related and connected topics on an article. (3) If a reader finds the {{Torah portion}} to be "too intrusive" then any reader is free to click "Hide" on the top right section of the template's heading which shrinks it to an unobtrusive one liner. Finally, (4) the {{Torah portion}} is presently diligently updated weekly by User:Dauster early each Sunday so that any readers may learn more about the weekly Parsha. User:Dauster summarizes each week's Parsha and adds some interesting graphics which surely adds life and color to a page that may gain the attention of readers who don't know much about this subject and may want to learn more. Please refer all further comments and discussions to one centralized location at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template: Torah portion Thank you. IZAK 08:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
The following were not mentioned by User:msh210 on User talk:IZAK, but should be included here to show their relevance:
Thanks for the Parsha summaries. It seems like a lot of work. Good job. Onethang 03:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
You have done an unbelievable job assembling summaries, pictures, links, and commentaries of each parasha. I am so happy that Wikipedia became an avenue to spread valuable teachings of Torah. Keep up the good work!David Betesh
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Hi Bill: You have not enabled your Wikipedia Email feature in your "tool box" on the left hand side of your user page. Sometimes editors overlook that when it's a useful way of staying in touch with other editors. Best wishes. Great work with all the Parshah articles, I am sure that you must have learned tons! Shabbat Shalom. IZAK 14:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was hoping we could collaborate on cleaning splitting and writing up more articles related to 7mBn. I've tagged Noahide laws for a cleanup. I'm not rushing in, I've read them all up, I'm waiting for the readiness of a few others so we can take this on together, and have it featured on the main page sometime. Its possible, there are quite a few of us and will potentialy be a subject of interest. Again, I'm one for words and think the parent article should be Seven Laws of Noach, as in 'Sheva Mitzvas Bnei Noach'. Anything that is should be another 'ism'. Chavatshimshon 01:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
What does one make of the new Category:Palestinian rabbis and Category:Talmud rabbis in Palestine, should they be renamed to something like Category:Rabbis of ancient Palestine? so that it does not connect, and become confused with, the way the word "Palestinian" is used today (meaning the very unJewish modern Arab Palestinians, who have nothing to do with these rabbis!) Thanks. IZAK 09:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Note: Many articles about the rabbis of the Talmud and Mishnah are derived from the archaic Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906, over one hundred years ago (when the Middle East was still under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks) and which used the archaic expressions "Palestine" when referring to the Land of Israel, and to the Jews living in the areas of the historical Land of Israel as "Palestinians." This is a big mistake that requires constant attention and correction, especially when copying and editing articles from the Jewish Encyclopedia or from similarly archaic sources such as Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897). At this time, no-one uses the term/s "Palestinian/s" (in relation to anything associated with Jews or the land they lived in and which they regarded as their homeland) nor by any type of conventional Jewish scholarship, particularly at the present time when the label "Palestinian" is almost entirely identified with the Palestinian Arabs who are mostly Muslims. Finally, kindly take note that the name Palestinian Talmud is also not used and it redirects to the conventional term Jerusalem Talmud used in Jewish scholarship. Thank you. IZAK 13:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Makes sense, I'll try to remember. However, there was a period when everyone referred to the land of Israel as Palestine. Therefore, to say something like "in 1940 Shlomo Pines emigrated to Israel" would appear to be an anachronism. Don't we have to use the term "Palestine" during a certain period for historical accuracy? What is this period? From Roman conquest until 1948? Thanks. Dfass 15:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion FYI: Hi Tomer! A Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion has asserted itself in the Korban article. The project indicates that it is an umbrella project for all of religion and that the current religion projects are subprojects of it, yet its member directory lists only six members. Where is the project coming from? Is it a broadbased project, a very small group with a very big reach, or what? If you know some background or some of its people, would be much appreciated. Best, --Shirahadasha 03:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion#Judaism. Thanks, IZAK 10:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
NOTICE and OBJECTIONS:
Thank you for taking this matter seriously. IZAK 09:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
I mentioned this once, but I will mention it again. I would really like to commend you on the beautiful parasha pages. I visit it each week, I print it out, along with other divrei torah that you provided the links to (the JTS, OU, URJ, Judaic Seminar etc.). My family and I enjoy it a lot and appreciate all your hard and creative work. Thank you.David Betesh
Bill, I wanted to ask you: are you familiar about The Weekly Maqam? The Sephardic Jews each week, base the songs of the services on the content of that weeks Parasha. Would you be interested in including that each week to your parasha pages. For example concerning last week's parasha. "For Sephardic Jews, Maqam Ajam, the maqam that expresses happiness, is applied to Parashat Beshallach commemorating the joy and song of the Israelites as they crossed the sea." Would you be interested if I develop one sentence on each parasha to be included on your parasha pages? David Betesh
Ok, it'll take a week or two, and I will not be doing every parasha, only those that have a clear connection between the story/theme of the parasha and the maqam of the week. I will insert them into each respective week. David Betesh
Ok, I did what I can for the time being. Let me know if you like it. I have only inserted the Weekly Maqam into the parashas in which I am certain 100% that the maqams and the explanations are undisputed. I will provide the maqams for the rest in the near future. Let me know what you think. Thank you. David Betesh
Wow. And, like, wow. What a wonderful job you're doing there. I'm stunned. --Dweller 23:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey, thanks a ton! It's still a work in progress, as you can probably tell. But I really appreciate the kind words! —Dfass 19:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
I translate every week the work you have done on the parshiot on fr.wikipedia. Like everybody, I think that it is just one of the best things that can be done on wikipedia, and cleverly uses wikipedia's resources.
May I however suggest you to add in the further readings sections the parallels of the parshiot in the Book of Psalms? I think it is for example at this point that events in Egypt and the Israelites' attitude towards God and Moses are interpreted the way we know it nowadays. I mean : by reading Exodus' first parshiot, one could still contend that these are natural events reinterpreted and explain thus the defiance of the people against Moses until the Sea of Reeds; whereas Psalm 105 clearly presents these events in a way that admits no denial, safe by heresy, and Psalm 106 actually denigrates Israelites for having been of so little faith. In short, I think that in this way, Book of Psalms is a rereading of the Torah, a step further in religious thought
What do you think? --Inyan 12:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC) (Also available here)
Thank you
At the moment, it is just at start level form most all of them, containing but a résumé, hafatarah, mitzvot, maqam and external links. I am planning to develop the further references in the text, in order to point to the specific reading each faith is making (we have the midrash, muslims have the Qur'an, christians the New Testament and christological interpretations, which are sometimes underlying their translations). I have started with Bereishit. Tell me what you think about it.
Yours--Inyan 12:41, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Bill: Please see the present discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks#WikiProject Judaism needs help - geographical bias concerns. Your input would be greatly appreciated. (They are the result of discussions that unfolded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Concern about duplicating Reform and Progressive labels.) I believe that you may be uniquely qualified to give some sound advice and input. There is a struggle between some editors whether the term "Progressive" should subsume the term "Reform" across the board. Thanks so much, IZAK 08:48, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Could you join the discussion on the Talk:Genesis about moving the article and share your thoughts.--Rtphokie (talk) 07:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
The Jewish Barnstar | ||
Dear Bill: It is a true honor to present you with this Jewish Barnstar award, particularly for your diligence and skill in writing up the vast majority of the Weekly Torah portion articles and for the weekly upkeep of each week's Parashah in the Template:Torah portion. See Wikipedia:Barnstars: "The Jewish barnstar may be awarded to editors who greatly and positively contribute to articles relating to Jews and Judaism-related topics" -- you most certainly qualify and deserve recognition. Mazel Tov and thank you and keep on going strong! IZAK (talk) 15:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC) |
Yes, your work is fabulous and admirable. I'm wondering, have you brought any of your articles up to GA level? Perhaps we could work on getting something for GA, e.g. Shoftim? Pls reply to my Talk. Thanks, HG | Talk 12:49, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Dauster, I just stumbled upon the parsha template and noticed that you manually update it invariably each week. Would you be interested in some system that will automatically update it? I have an idea in mind that would involve just one edit each year. 930913 (UTC) ד' {{subst:hebrewmonth}} תשפ"ד 22:37
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