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I'll correct it--but it's a simple mistake.
Often I type Hebrew using unicode.
Thus, if I want to write "וידבר ה' אל משה לאמר", and I don't have the text that I could just cut and past, I'll type wydbr h )l m#h l)mr and paste it into a unicode Hebrew converter. In unicode ) is א but ( is ע, and that explains this mistake: in typing quickly I typed (mt instead of )mt.
I use a Hebrew tab at the bottom of my screen, and I've gradually gotten accustomed to the Israeli keyboard layout. (It was painful, but worth it.) In Windows XP, you can set up so you have this language tab at the bottom of the screen. I don't know how the Windows Vista handles foreign language scripts.
I am sure you're right (that it's worth getting used the Hebrew keyboard layout).
But it's just easier to type unicode for me for now. : )
I've got an Israeli layout driver at the office, and I keep a little piece of paper with the keyboard layout on it taped to the frame of the monitor. At home I use a driver that more closely maps to QWERTY. A - aleph, B - bet, W - shin, etc.
Artscroll warning against dogmatism (and distorting its source, to boot)? That's just hard to believe.
They could say that, but we can't. :>)
S, I just sent you an email. Please check your mailbox. thanks.
I bet there is a way to get some kind of transparency you can place over the keys. I didn't need one, but I have a powerful memory. I still have no idea how to use nekudot, though, especially online (except by copy-pasting it from Morfix).
"(Actually, the Tiferes Yisrael (יכין) says here להיות (רעכטהאבריש) שהוא חסרון גדול בנפש האדם ומניעה גדולה מלבוא אל האמת .
רעכטהאבריש , rechthaberisch means all-knowing or overly opinionated.)"
"(and distorting its source, to boot)?"
The translation is not a distortion (I'm not sure if S was trying to say it was). Rechthaberisch means "I am right"-ic (i.e. someone who says "i am right"). It's translated by Leo as dogmatic:
http://dict.leo.org/ende?
lp=ende...=rechthaberisch
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende...matic&
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> I bet there is a way to get some kind of transparency you can place over the keys. I didn't need one, but I have a powerful memory. I still have no idea how to use nekudot, though, especially online (except by copy-pasting it from Morfix).
There are stickers but they are not comfortable and tend to peel off. The simplest way to learn is simply have someone buy you a keyboard in Israel and send it. They have both the Hebrew and English printed on the keys (it doesn't take long to get as fast at typing Hebrew as English)
Nekudot are a bit trickier, the basic way of doing it is holding shift+number while the caps lock is on. The following document tells you which number creates which vowel:
http://jwit.webinstituteforteach...n%
20Windows.pdf
Not sure how this is gonna sound, but in all my life learning, I have yet to meet a rabbi in Orthodoxy who was/is not dogmatic. Each one, be he from the Musar school, or Hasidic school, or Lakewood school, or the YU school, or anything else, knows what he knows---and sometimes doesn't know much about the other schools---and is convinced, absolutely convinced, that he is right, the others are not as right, and he is yes, dogmatic, about his rightness. Anyone else out there with similar experiences?
Not sure how this is gonna sound, but in all my life learning, I have yet to meet a rabbi in Orthodoxy who was/is not dogmatic.
It's not a trait of Orthodoxy per se. Most people are dogmatic and feel that they are right about things which cannot be objectively verified.
Artscroll's error here is in translating "עומד על" as "stand by." Actually, it's an idiom meaning "insist on." Once the phrase is translated correctly, Artscroll's comment becomes superfluous.
Anyway, one ought to "stand by" one's words, no?
Listen to Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz's lectures and you will be impressed by the erudition, organization, humility and lack of unneccesary dogmatics.
I'm with you on that one, Noam.
i'm with both of you about R' Breitowitz. I was in his shul this past Shabbat. He quoted Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rav Kook over the course of his drasha. Not bad for a NIRC musmach.
I'm more impressed with him every time i speak with him, and i've spoken with him a bunch of times.
"I have yet to meet a rabbi in Orthodoxy who was/is not dogmatic ... absolutely convinced, that he is right, the others are not as right, and he is yes, dogmatic, about his rightness. Anyone else out there with similar experiences?"
I have yet to meet a layman who spends way too much time critiquing rabbis who is not dogmatic about the rightness of his critiques.
A little less academic than the articles here, but http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2007.../
artscroll.html may also be of interest here.
but of course the correct reading is:
ולמה מזכירים דברי היחיד בין המרובים? לבטלן. וללמד לדורות הבאים וכו.
shmuel- one thing I have noticed is that most Rabbis or just people of faith have a tendency to discount what they feel is going to make things intellectually difficult for them. I a definitely have seen that across the spectrum of Judaism since I was 7 til my 30s. And in some ways I think I have been fortunate in living in a number of places, visiting many shuls, yeshivas, etc. so I could see the range of dogmatic approaches. What's funnier is seeing it in those who are actually trying to avoid it when they get so entrenched in the way they are getting their point across. Of course, they are less of an offender in many ways.
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