daf bit: Ketuvot 40

(Preface: instead of doing another year of parsha bits I decided a few weeks ago to do teachings from the talmud, following the daf yomi cycle (even though I'll be doing this weekly rather than daily).)

In discussing laws related to marriage, the talmud raises the question of the precedence of positive and negative commandments. Rav Kahana says the positive commandment always supersedes the negative one, but Rabbi Zevid of Nehardea says this is only true when performing the negative commandment would make it impossible to perform the positive one. He gives the following example: it is forbidden to remove leprosy by surgery, but should it occur in a certain place, we are nonetheless required to perform the positive commandment of circumcission. (40a)

[LJ] Finally!

Not long after LJ introduced security filters, people started asking for the ability to see all entries posted to a particular filter. I'm really surprised they didn't see that coming at the time. I mean, how else can you rationally audit your own security settings and answer questions like "when did I actually use this?".

Well, they finally did it, at least for paid members. (I don't know when or if this will roll out to everyone else.) The magic URL is:

http://journalname.livejournal.com/security/level
(replace level with: public, friends, private, or group:groupname)

Details here.