Talk:Tzadikim Nistarim

message: Can someone provide a pronunciation for this?
The second portion of this (beneath the Yiddish pronunciation) recapitulates a lot of what was said in the first half. It should be cleaned up. JRoman 23:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

message: If no one objects, I will change the name of this article to "Tzadikim". The chances that someone will search for this article under its present name is about zero. Kwork 20:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I found the article by searching for "lamed vav." Jymlarin (talk) 06:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Change

message: An anon just made this edit, carping that the Nistarim are split evenly between males and females. I'm not sure this is correct. I have a copy of Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings & the Lamed Wufniks entry unequivocally speaks of men and hes and hims. Does anyone know further? --Gwern  (contribs) 21:34 29 January 2008 (GMT)
:I took the liberty of correcting your spelling of the Borges title, Book of Imaginary Beings. “Book of Imaginary Begins” sounds like a biography of fictitious relatives of the 1970s and ’80s prime minister :-).  —Dodiad (talk) 02:10, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender

message: Just wondering what qualifies this as a "widely-held belief"; I suspect most Jews have never heard of it. Would "widely accepted" be better if you are trying to indicate it's a mainstream concept? Or perhaps "widely-held belief among people who study Jewish Mysticism"?
Victor.Sac (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps this sheds some light on the "widely-held belief" issue.  I read a reference about the value 36 being embedded in the Hebrew greeting "Shalom" (lamed-vav makes up the middle letters).  The argument (granted, from a Jewish playwright) states that lamed-vav (36) exists in the word in order to express that the 36 Righteous are necessary to maintain "peace" (the literal translation of "shalom") in the world.  Source: Two by Ron Elisha (play).  Also, does anyone think there be a "See Also" section which links to the article on Gematria? Jymlarin (talk) 06:36, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "widely-held belief"? 

message: I added a kludge in the opening sentence of the article to work around an annoying formatting glitch that I couldn’t find any other way to resolve. The text was displaying as 
...or Lamed Vav Tzadikim (Hebrew: ל"ו צַדִיקִים, 36 righteous ones)...
with the numeral 36 to the left of the Hebrew rather than to the right with the rest of the English translation, where it belongs. I don’t really understand how the bidirectional text entry works, but for some reason, no matter what I tried, the numeral kept getting absorbed into the span of right-to-left Hebrew and jumping to the left of the Hebrew characters; I couldn’t get it to stay put with the left-to-right English instead. The only solution I could find that worked was to replace the space preceding the numeral with an alphabetic letter colored white so it looks like a space. I know this is ugly and inelegant and probably violates some Wikipedia standard or other, but at least it gets the text to display properly and readably. If anyone can find a better solution to the problem, feel free to try.  —Dodiad (talk) 02:01, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting Kludge

message: and could probably be halved by word count without losing any content or information
also source for the Max Brod reference?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.44.192.200 (talk) 06:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  many redundancies 

message: In the In popular culture section, would it be suitable to add the 1974 CBS Mystery Theater radio play, "The Thirty-Sixth Man" by Sam Dann? See http://www.ross-martin-remembered.com/Radio.htm Calmansi (talk) 10:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1974 radio play