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“Except that dwelling in the sukkah does include sleeping.”
Yep, thats why I was careful to word it my way .
“If you wrote a post worded in the way you used as an example, it would be your fault for wording it poorly.”
Yes! Exactly! and it would be appropriate for you to clarify the potential error even if “sleeping in the sukah” was not the subject I opened with, and thats not what I was discussing (as an aside eating and sleeping arent 100% equivalent, we dont make a beracha on sleeping, a snack is allowed outside a sukah but a nap isnt. nonetheless, I agree with you 100% that correcting a possible mistaken inference in my post (whether intentionally poorly worded, unintentionally poorly worded, or even properly worded, but still one that could lead to a mistaken inference) is absolutely warranted )
“I think what Joseph and DY are getting at is that people should be able to separate its slang usage from its halachic meaning, which some posters seem unable to do.”
Fair enough. Though I don’t think that is what Joseph was getting at. I think Joseph was trying to say/hint/imply that We don’t care what the goyim think of us. and even if that was NOT what he was trying to say, It definitely could be interpreted that way. so I cautioned that while strictly speaking Joseph was correct (as I opened my very first comment on this thread “While true…”), I cautioned not to make the mistaken inference that his post might lead to (and that I believe he intended)
I’m not sure if we are arguing.
If you are saying that look there are these two noble ideas 1) kiddush Hashem and 2) looking good by the Goyim. We need to come up wit h a new term for the latter to separate it from the former., I wouldn’t have commented, that isnt very interesting to me
On the other hand if you are saying there is 1 noble idea (ie in this thread, obviously “There are lots of good things we are supposed to do” as DY so helpfully put it). Namely that of Kiddush Hasehm and there is NO good thing to “Look good by the Goyim,” THEN we ARE arguing, and I provided some examples to buttress my point