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I'll just assume going forward that you know to watch my talk page (and don't need these notices). Best. DMCer™ 22:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One day, I'll be fast enough to answer your posts before you figure out the answer yourself! :-) DMCer™ 19:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I am learning as I go along -- but I still appreciate having you as a point of contact and teacher! Floridarabbi (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agunah

Please see Talk:Agunah#Recent additions where I have explained the issue. -- Avi (talk) 17:35, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As you seem to be new, for the record:

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Agunah. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. -- Avi (talk) 17:50, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For Avraham/Avi, Please tell me if the changes I made are more satisfactory to you -- or if you could make even more until you are satisfied. I feel very strongly that all the sources I have cited, including recognized scholarly works and entire conferences, justify some inclusion of the information I have added.

If you feel that it should still all be deleted, even with changes you might make, please advise me in terms of how to ask for a dispute resolution. This is the first time I have encountered a problem like this, but I do not think it is fair that you are calling this an approach by one person, when the sources I reference indicate that many other orthodox rabbis considered the same solutions -- although none of them (except for some who might be considered to be on the fringe) have taken the position that these ideas should be implemented. Still, they are ideas that are cited and discussed.

I do not want to fight! I just think an encyclopedia article which does not show that there have been ideas put forth for halakhic solutions -- even though those ideas were ultimately not accepted -- is not a good article.

Floridarabbi (talk) 17:58, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS - I have gone back to the Irwin. H. Haut book, Divorce in Jewish Law and Life, and looked at chapter XV, Rabbinic Proposals, in which he deals with proposals to remedy the agunah situation from a number of sources, from French rabbis, to Mnachem Risikoff (to whom he devotes eleven lines in this article), to the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Israel. As it now stands, this article on agunah does not reflect the fact that such studies, discussions, proposals, and struggle go on on the part of orthodox rabbis, not just the women's groups or conservative rabbis mentioned in the article. I do hope there is an amicable resolution to our disagreement. I certainly do not want to add information that seems to say the proposals I am quoting are appropriate! I simply think that a good encyclopedic article on the agunah MUST include some evidence of orthodox rabbis who have advanced proposals -- especially proposals that are cited and discussed -- even if the struggle to find a solution to the problem of the agunah has certainly not yet been resolved....

Again, I hope you either find my new words acceptable, or you yourself could edit them, rather than simply deleting them.

Floridarabbi (talk) 18:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well done. Thank you for your editing and your civility. Joe407 (talk) 04:40, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Selma photo

Thank you for correcting the error. I was relying on the identification from the Duke website, but evidently it's wrong. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 04:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

please air your opinion

shalom, i saw your opinion regarding the proposed deletion of "category:kohanim contributors.." and i liked it. may i suggest you place your opinion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_September_27#Category:Kohanim_authors_of_Rabbinic_literature ..so your opinion is considered in it's proper place--Marecheth Ho'eElohuth (talk) 20:53, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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