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"Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism." wikipedia

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So, not a maximally tiny witch, then? Good to know, good to know.

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Yes, but usually a lot more local than "Judaism", back from the time when the customs of separate Jewish communities would drift slightly from each other over time due to distance and relative isolation. If Jewish law and practice is like a common language, minhag are like dialects or accents.

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Thanks for the clarification. Arnold's statement makes more sense knowing that.

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Some videos to look up for progress in AI robots (I'm now gonna call those with hands "Handlers") and multisensory learning from observation and imitation, "The Secret To THEIR Success."

Look up: "Figure Status Update - OpenAI Speech-to- Speech Reasoning"

"NVIDIA Project Gr00t" (or "2024 AI Event")

"Tesla Optimus Gen 2, Unitree H1 and Atlas Dynamic"

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Counterpoint: great, another interlocutor to argue with about what the Torah means, and this one doesn't get bored and tell you to get lost after a while, either. That's just what we need.

I'm kidding, but only partly.

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They should scan everything in Mizrahi's store in Marine Park into an AI as soon as possible before they crumble into dust. Great article about it last year, "The Fine Print", in Mishpacha.

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Fine comments -- after he and Arnold (and us peanut gallery!) talked, I saw these impressive notes as well.

Few understand that Israel is a democracy without a constitution, and no formal limits on the power of the judges. Who seem to be increasingly corrupted? (by their unchallenged and unchallengeable power?)

His work on Torah was really cool.

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