User talk:Yaakov Wa.

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As regards your recent email

As regards your recent email to me (by the way, glad you at last figured out the "email user" feature instead of openly disclosing your email address to the whole internet), yes, I have added Messiah in Judaism to my watchlist and will continue to monitor the article and make improvements where I can. As others have noted, there is still a long way to go to bring the new sections up to encyclopedic quality, and in my view, the priorities are improving the diversity of secondary sources (the new content is heavily dependent on primary sources) and ensure WP:RNPOV is followed. However I regret very much that I don't have the capacity to provide translation services for non-English sources. And lastly I reciprocate the wish for a happy remainder of Pesach! Ibadibam (talk) 05:50, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ibadibam,

I know this is a little late, yet I want to thank you for showing teaching me the "email user" function as well as your requesting suppression for me. Also, do you have the ability to transcribe hebrew texts without translating them? If you can, it will help a lot!

Blessings,

Yaakov W.

Glad to help! Most people at Wikipedia have good intentions but I wouldn't want someone malicious to get your email address. Anyway, at an encyclopedic standard, I can transcribe with nekuddot, but without I don't think my transcription would be accurate enough to be useful to others! By the way, the page Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) outlines which transcription schemes are used in which contexts (the gist is that mostly Modern Hebrew pronunciation is used, except when it pertains to certain topics, especially galus culture). Ibadibam (talk) 03:50, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving talk page sections

The system for archiving talk page discussions does not involve outright deleting them, as you did at Talk:Messiah in Judaism. Instead, automated processed move these discussions to archive pages such as Talk:Messiah in Judaism/Archive 1 when they have been inactive for a certain period of time. Please don't delete content from talk pages as we try to keep a record of all discussions! Ibadibam (talk) 05:58, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ibadibam,

Thanks for informing me about how this works, I really appreciate you taking the time to teach me about these aspects of Wikipedia!

Blessings,

Yaakov W. Yaakov Wa. (talk) 16:59, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Judge favorably.

"There is a yet more fundamental flaw in criticizing the conduct of one’s fellow man. No person has the right to sit in judgment over his colleagues. Maimonides writes[1]: “The reckoning [of sins and merits] is not calculated on the basis of the mere number of merits and sins, but on the basis of their magnitude as well. Some solitary merits can outweigh many sins. The weighing of sins and merits can be carried out only according to the wisdom of the All-Knowing G‑d: He alone knows how to measure merits against sins.”

Can any mortal presume to be capable of assessing a colleague’s ultimate spiritual worth “according to the wisdom of the All-Knowing G‑d”? This is particularly true in the present generation. In our days, a Jew whose performance of the commandments of the Torah is imperfect must be judged leniently, according to the principle of tinok shenishba. (In its original context, this phrase describes an individual who for no fault of his own was deprived of a childhood environment conducive to Torah observance.5 ) If, then, though pressured by tensions of time and place, a person does fulfill any mitzvah — and, of course, every Jew has numerous mitzvos to his credit — how dearly must it be cherished in the Heavenly Court."

Community banned - April 2021

Per the clear consensus at this noticeboard discussion, you are now community banned from the English Wikipedia indefinitely.
Daniel (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1. Hilchos Teshuvah 3:2