User:IZAK

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[edit] "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem..."

[edit] Introduction

Main contributions to wikipedia so far: Of course, with all due respect to edits . (Meaning, I either initiated or gave the first contribution to, and in some cases contributed to, the following topics, BUT because this is Wikipedia and others may freely add/subtract/change/cancel/modify/redirect/and otherwise perform a variety of editorial functions which is their right in this forum , I DO NOT undertake to GUARANTY or provide a GUARANTEE whatsoever for their Kosher contents ["fitness" according to certain people's conceptions of Halacha - Halakha - Jewish Law] of the ones below and of others not specifically mentioned here, and, ALL readers must use their own personal discretion as to what they would agree or disagree with, and, must assume their own FULL responsibility for whatever they may read here or in related outside links provided in the articles themselves.)

[edit] Famous rabbis

• Meir Berlin (1880 - 1949) Leader of Mizrachi Religious Zionism.
• Nosson Zvi Finkel (1849 - 1927) Founder of Slobodka Yeshiva, the Alter.
• Yitzchok Hutner (1906 - 1980) Rosh HaYeshiva (Dean) Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.
• Aryeh Kaplan (1934 - 1983) Writer and mystic.
• Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) First Chief Rabbi, of pre-state of Israel (then Palestine).
• Norman Lamm (1927- ) Rosh HaYeshiva, 3rd President of Yeshiva University.
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902 - 1994) 7th and Last Lubavitcher Rebbe.
• Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880 -1950) 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.
• Joseph Soloveitchik (1903 -1993) Rosh HaYeshiva (Dean) RIETS, Yeshiva University.

[edit] Judaism issues

• 613 mitzvot, got the list going.
• Agudath Israel of America.
• Baal teshuva movement, Returnees to Orthodox Judaism.
• Chabad Lubavitch.
• Children of Israel.
• Davidic line, relating to Davidic Monarchy.
• End of the world, Jewish(Orthodox)portion in.
• Ger, the Polish Hasidic movement now in Israel.
• Jabad, Spanish for Chabad.
• [1] Jerusalem in Judaism, wrote this.
• Jew, added lots of historical material.
• [2] Leviathon in Judaism, wrote this.
• [3] Jewish religious figures, added most here.
• List of rabbis, collected these names from all over Wikipedia.
• Resurrection, short paragraph on Jewish (Orthodox) view.
• Religious conversion, Mid. segment on Torah's view: Abraham/Sarah/David .
• Schneersohn / Schneerson.
• Seventeenth of Tamuz, introduction to minor fast.
• Silent Holocaust, the ravages of assimilation and intermarriage.
• Tenth of Tevet, introduction to a minor fast.
• Western Wall , The Kotel in Jerusalem, Israel.
• Yibbum, Jewish/Torah version of "levirate" marriage.

[edit] Torah

• Eliezer, Moses' second son.
• Esau, twin brother of the patriarch Jacob in Genesis.
• Korban, Torah sacrifices.
• mohel, religious ritual circumsisor.
• Niddah, Torah laws of Family Purity (menstruation and purification).
• Tabernacle, took a few lines and turned it into an article.

[edit] Famous (Jewish) people

• Paula Ben-Gurion, wife of Israel's first prime minister.
• Arthur Chaskalson, South African Chief Justice.
• Ivan Chernyakhovsky, General of the USSR.
• Richard Goldstone, South African Judge.
• David (Mickey) Marcus, US Colonel who became Israel's first General.
• Haym Solomon, financier of the American Revolution.

[edit] General subjects of interest

• Bantustan, Black South African homeland under Apartheid.
• Guttural languages.
• Modern World.
• Nuclear navy that was created by Hyman Rickover.
• palate.
• patient got it going.
• Subconscious mind.
• uvula.
• Caspar Weinberger, most of this.

[edit] Israel

• Midreshet Sde-Boker, the educational institition located in the Negev, founded by David Ben-Gurion.
• Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, modern Israel's national cemetery.

[edit] As of October 2005 I was in the top 50 of number of edits

• See Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits (presently not active)

[edit] Filled in the gaps (can't remember all of them...):

• Abraham D. Beame, Mayor of New York City.
• Zealot, filled in some Jewish gaps.

[edit] Wikiprojects

I am a member of:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish history (interested, but not always there)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism (it's the oldest one, the best, and my favorite one)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages (dormant)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel (new for me)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history (new for me)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism (not much activity on it lately)

[edit] Welcome to the Military history WikiProject!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• The announcement and open task box is updated very frequently. You can watchlist it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including {{WPMILHIST Announcements}} there.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has several departments, which handle article quality assessment, peer review, and project-wide collaboration.
• We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, periods, and conflicts.
• Our requests page has extensive lists of requested articles, images, maps, and translations.
• We've developed a variety of guidelines for article structure and content, template use, categorization, and other issues that you may find useful.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill Lokshin 14:13, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you! IZAK 14:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Useful templates and pages

• Primarily templates that are useful and important to me

[edit] Deletion watch

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel or Palestine

[edit] Categories

I do believe that I have been the primary creator and builder of most of the categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories, under the two main category groupings of Category:Jews and Judaism and Category:Israel and Zionism and at the present time (May 2005) I monitor the close to four thousand articles in those two main categories as best I can.

[edit] My views about lists and categories of Jews

See: User:IZAK/Deleting lists and categories of Jews

[edit] Portal:Israel and Portal:Judaism

I contribute to Portal:Israel and Portal:Judaism.

[edit] Created templates

I created the initial:

[edit] Templates

• "Jew" template: {{Jew}} : See: Template:Jew
• "Israelis" template: {{Israelis}} : See Template:Israelis

[edit] Stub-templates

• "Israel-stub" template: {{Israel-stub}} : See: Template:Israel-stub
• "Judaism-stub" template: {{Judaism-stub}} : See:Template:Judaism-stub
• "Jewish history-stub" template: {{Jewish-hist-stub}} : See Template:Jewish-hist-stub
• "Hebrew Bible" template: {{HeBible-stub}} : See:Template:HeBible-stub

[edit] Tools

Main article: Wikipedia:Tools

Many of the following have fallen into disuse, unfortunately:

• Mathbot's user edit-summary usage tool
• Kate's edit counting tool
• Interiot's edit counting tool
• interiot's wannabe_kate (slow but good)
• Interiot's java edit counter (real time updated info)
• AKA's article edit statistics
• Counter for number of revisions in articles
• Wikimedia more tools
• Wikipedia page history statistics

[edit] December 2002: My first article & edit/s as IZAK

On 23:44, 24 December 2002 registered as IZAK and wrote Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. First draft: [4] with several Wikipedia beginner's errors evident. (My first 500 contributions / edits: [5]).

[edit] Awards

Past awards: See User:IZAK/awards

[edit] Template:Torah portion

You can enjoy {{Torah portion}} or add it to your User page. IZAK 07:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Weekly Torah Portion

Tzav (צו) Leviticus 6.1–8:36 The Torah reading (Parsha) in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 12 Nisan, 5767; March 31, 2007 "Such are the rituals of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the offering of ordination, and the sacrifice of well-being." (Leviticus 7:37.)

The Tabernacle

God told Moses to command Aaron and the priests about the rituals of the sacrifices (korbanot in Hebrew). The burnt offering (’olah) was to burn on the altar until morning, when the priest was to clear the ashes to a place outside the camp. The priests were to keep the fire burning, every morning feeding it wood. The meal offering (mincha) was to be presented before the altar, a handful of it burned on the altar, and the balance eaten by the priests as unleavened cakes in the Tent of Meeting. On the occasion of the High Priest’s anointment, the meal offering was to be prepared with oil on a griddle and then entirely burned on the altar. The sin offering (chattat) was to be slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, and the priest who offered it was to eat it in the Tent of Meeting. If blood of the sin offering was brought into the Tent of Meeting for expiation, the entire offering was to be burned on the altar. The guilt offering (asham) was to be slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, the priest was to dash its blood on the altar, burn its fat, broad tail, kidneys, and protuberance on the liver on the altar, and the priest who offered it was to eat the balance of its meat in the Tent of Meeting. The priest who offered a burnt offering kept the skin. The priest who offered it was to eat any baked or grilled meal offering, but every other meal offering was to be shared among all the priests. The peace offering (shelamim), if offered for thanksgiving, was to be offered with unleavened cakes or wafers with oil, which would go to the priest who dashed the blood of the peace offering. All the meat of the peace offering had to be eaten on the day that it was offered. If offered as a votive or a freewill offering, it could be eaten for two days, and what was then left on the third day was to be burned. Meat that touched anything unclean could not be eaten; it had to be burned. And only a person who was clean could eat meat from peace offering, at pain of exile. One could eat no fat or blood, at pain of exile. The person offering the peace offering had to present the offering and its fat himself, the priest would burn the fat on the altar, the breast would go to the priests, and the right thigh would go to the priest who offered the sacrifice. God instructed Moses to assemble the whole community at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for the priests’ ordination. Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward, washed them, and dressed Aaron in his vestments. Moses anointed and consecrated the Tabernacle and all that was in it, and then anointed and consecrated Aaron and his sons. Moses led forward a bull for a sin offering, Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the bull’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses put the bull’s blood on the horns and the base of the altar, burned the fat, the protuberance of the liver, and the kidneys on the altar, and burned the rest of the bull outside the camp. Moses then brought forward a ram for a burnt offering, Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses dashed the blood against the altar and burned all of the ram on the altar. Moses then brought forward a second ram for ordination, Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses put some of its blood on Aaron and his sons, on the ridges of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Moses then burned the animal's fat, broad tail, protuberance of the liver, kidneys, and right thigh on the altar with a cake of unleavened bread, a cake of oil bread, and a wafer as an ordination offering. Moses raised the breast before God and then took it as his portion. Moses sprinkled oil and blood on Aaron and his sons and their vestments. And Moses told Aaron and his sons to boil the meat at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and eat it there, and remain at the Tent of Meeting for seven days to complete their ordination, and they did all the things that God had commanded through Moses. Hebrew and English Text Hear the parshah chanted Commentary from Conservative Judaism by the Jewish Theological Seminary Commentary from Conservative Judaism by the University of Judaism Commentary from Reform Judaism Commentaries from Orthodox Judaism by Project Genesis Commentaries from Orthodox Judaism by Chabad Lubavitch Commentaries from Aish.com Commentaries from Reconstructionist Judaism