Responsa 2.0. are Q&A Websites Creating a New Type of Halachic Discourse?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Question Dear Rabbi! I have an argument with one of my friends and I would be happy if the Rabbi would solve the issue for us. We were nine people in a prayer service and a non-religious repair-man who came to fix something at the synagogue. I told my friend that we should ask him to complete the prayer-quorum [of ten] and my friend said that a nonobservant [Jew] cannot join a prayer-quorum as he publicly desecrates the Sabbath and does inappropriate things so he cannot join us. Is this true? … After all, we are not completely righteous either and there is no person who does not sin? Answer A person who is an atheist and does not believe in the Master of the Universe, to add him to a prayer quorum is merely a mockery towards the Heavens. So, it depends on what kind of secular [Jew] we are talking about. Usually, if we are talking about a Mizraḥi person [of Middle Eastern origin – O.S.] then he is a believer and observes some traditions in one way or the other, and then like you said, not very different from us who are not completely righteous. But if he is a secular Ashkenazi [Jew of European origin – O.S.] then he is probably also an atheist and you cannot add him [to the quorum] unless it is known that he is indeed a believer.1
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".