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Purim Torah!

Purim Torah season started on Mi Yodeya tonight-ish. Here are a few questions currently on the front page (some new, some from past years):

May Sauron's ring be used for kiddushin (marriage)?
Is money-laundering permitted during the Nine Days? What about airing dirty laundry? (the question refers to a period of mourning during which wearing freshly-laundered clothes is forbidden)
Can my gravatar wear clothes from the "wrong" gender? (this one is mine and currently has a bounty up for grabs)

There are more, and I'm sure there will be many more over the next two weeks. Look for "PTIJ" ("Purim Torah: in jest") at the beginning of question titles.

There's also this answer, which I can only kind-of sort-of read but I see my name in there (made the mishna, apparently!). Um, I hope it's good? :-)

And a couple from past years that I enjoyed: one about losing an hour of Purim because of DST, and one about accepting the messiah.

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I also came here to say that your response to the Zaphod question was golden! And now I'm thinking about space colonization and Judaism. What direction do we face when praying when we finally have a minyan on the moon?? (Not to mention Mars?!) Is "the general direction of Earth" or "up" enough?

And now I need to find a physicist friend to ask if there are any places in the solar system where your relative position to Jerusalem changes quickly enough that you have to rotate over the course of a service....

Edited 2019-03-07 15:52 (UTC)