https://www.timesofisrael.com/tradition-meets-technology-with-uk-app-for-halachic-questions/
There is now a team of nine rabbis on payroll working full-time fielding questions, which can number as many as 250 a day before major holidays and between 40 and 60 on any given day, via a back-end app – a necessary addition, as the office employee was quickly overwhelmed by the volume of questions.
Did we historically have to pay to ask questions?
ReplyDeleteBack in the mid 90's I recall looking up on on-line teshuvah site. It was in the infancy of the internet so you basically entered your question into a text box and then it was assigned to one of their four rabbis randomly - an Orthodox one, a Conservative one, a Reform one and a Reconstructionist one.
ReplyDeleteHistorically, communities hired rabbis, so that they would have someone accessible, that they would be able to ask their questions to.
ReplyDeleteDoes this article imply that the people using the service need to pay in order to be allowed to ask a question?
The rabbanim are fully paid, so presumably this is going to be supported financially by the community.
ReplyDeleteDid you think otherwise?
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