J. C. Salomon

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I’m an engineer, graduated with a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union, and working in that field in the Greater NYC area.

My interests are varied and include computers & computer programming, science fiction & real-life space exploration, politics, and religion; see my active accounts on Stack Overflow.

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Jan 16	comment	Did Pharoah have free will? See also <aishdas.org/asp/2013/01/2-kinds-of-law.shtml>.
Dec 30	comment	How are we to take the fact that Lot offered his daughters for rape? @MonicaCellio, you ought to turn that comment into an answer. Jewish tradition does not consider Lot to have been righteous; the Midrash makes much of the fact that he chose Sodom, where the people were so wicked, as the place to live after he separated from Avram.
Oct 25	comment	Did women contribute to the temple in exodus 35:22? Much of the jewelry mentioned were for both men & women: rings, nose-rings, and others depending on how the nouns are translated. (I hope, @RonMaimon, you’re not claiming your translation of the nouns is better than anyone else’s too.)
Oct 23	comment	What do the days of Obadyahu's youth concern us? Emphasis. It’s one word in Hebrew, and an easy way to emphasize what he’s saying.
Oct 22	answered	What do the days of Obadyahu's youth concern us?
Oct 21	comment	A woman is not to put on a man's dress? Not an answer, but on this topic: In the halachik understanding of this verse, the prohibition extends beyond cross-dressing to either sex taking on the gender rôles of the other; specifically, women are indeed forbidden from going armed to war.
Oct 21	answered	Did Moses have an Egyptian name?
Oct 10	answered	Did King Achashverosh (or his court) know that Mordechai was Esther's relative?
Oct 10	comment	What is the significance of Methuselah's name? R.S.R. Hirsch has an interesting take on the names of both antediluvian lines, referring to stages of deviation from and return to God’s will, and the attitudes of the leaders towards the hoi polloi. If I can find a copy handy I’ll write this up as a full answer, but from what I recall Hirsch translates Methuselah as “casting aside [shelaḥ] the ignoble masses [methu]”; i.e., while some in that generation were righteous, they ignored their responsibility to teach others.
Oct 5	comment	Satan: Stumbling Block or Accuser? Do you have a source for the root set ([שט] or [סט])?
Oct 3	revised	What is the translation philosophy for tachash skins in Exodus? corrected hebrew word
Oct 3	suggested	suggested edit on What is the translation philosophy for tachash skins in Exodus?
Oct 3	answered	Satan: Stumbling Block or Accuser?
Sep 27	comment	Ecclesiastes 4:12 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken Looks good to me.
Sep 27	comment	Ecclesiastes 4:12 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken @Kazark, I've up-voted your answer based on the first two paragraphs. I also commented to note my disagreement with the third. Would you accept an edit to add the qualifier “From a Christian perspective…” at the beginning of that last paragraph?
Sep 27	comment	Ecclesiastes 4:12 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken Jack & “swasheck”: Agreed. Somehow we ought to distinguish the applicability of a verse (which will often vary greatly between Jewish, Christian, & academic interpreters) and its meaning (which will sometimes vary too, but usually not as far).
Sep 11	awarded	Cleanup
Sep 11	revised	Why does David mourn the death of his adult son Absalom and not the death of his baby son? rolled back to a previous revision
Sep 10	revised	Why does David mourn the death of his adult son Absalom and not the death of his baby son? Moved doctrine-specific part of answer to comment
Sep 10	comment	Ecclesiastes 4:12 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken As @MonicaCellio points out, the trinity reference is not needed in the answer. From a Jewish perspective, this verse is Midrashically taken to refer to the Patriarchs. Not all of Abraham’s sons were worthy, similarly for Isaac, but Jacob’s sons had three righteous forebearers and so all turned out right since “a cord of three strands is not quickly broken”.