Name our chat room

Question

Right now, our general-purpose chat room is called, excitingly enough, "Jewish Life and Learning." Some other sites have given their general chat rooms distinctive names, such as The Garden Shed, Hub of Reason, and Mos Eisley.

What should our chat room be named?

Answer 1

Just my 2 zuzim:

1. Bais Midrash - a place where learning can be chatty.
2. The Yichud Room - it's just us, right?
3. The Shul - we shouldn't talk there, but so many people do.

Answer 2

Inspired by this, how about:

Just my two zuzim

or some variation thereof. I really like the "two zuzim" line. Very catchy.

Answer 3

Given that mi.yodeya ("Who knows?") is an unofficial name for the main site, ani.yodeya ("I know!") could be a name for the chat room.

In chat, msh210 pointed out that this sounds a bit like it would be the answer part of the site, but given that there isn't a different part of the site dedicated to just answers (as opposed to questions and answers), I don't think there's much danger of confusion.

Answer 4

Here's what I got:

• Daber Davar (דַבֵּר דָּבָר). [Reminiscent of Yeshayahu 58:13.]
• Tarbe Chachma (תרבה חכמה). [A phrase from Bava Basra that, while not as much an implication of chatting as "Tarbe Sicha" like @msh210 suggested, doesn't have the same negative connotations.]

Or, following the whole "sichah" theme, we could use:

• Shafachti Siach (שפכתי שיח) or related form Yishpoch Sicho (ישפך שיחו). [From Neila on Yom Kippur and from Tehillim 102:1 respectively.]
• Sichu B'chol (שיחו בכל). [From Tehillim 105:2. Also, if spelled in English, could imply the double meaning שיחו בחול.]

Or, to be more heimish, we could go with typical places where multiple-person conversations go on in the Jewish world:

• Kiddush Club. [Although I think the OU has officially banned the conventional "Kiddush Clubs" that take place after Torah reading.]
• Around the Chabura Table. [For those that dig the group learning style over the one-on-one chavrusa style.]

Answer 5

I like my previously suggested "Tarbeh Sichah" (or "תרבה שיחה" or "Tarbe Sicha"):

• It's a quote from pirke Avos.
• It's a fitting description of a Stack Exchange chat room: when a comment section on the main site gets too long (between two people), the software hints that that area is not for "extended discussions" and that they should move it to a chat room.

Answer 6

מ' דבר (Mi Deber, "who talks")

(Please forgive my hebrew-school, Ben-Yehuda Hebrew!) I like the idea of preserving the site's history in the name of the chat room (as Isaac suggested), and "Mi Deber" is thematically similar enough to "Mi Yodeya" to accomplish that.

Answer 7

I like the Kiddush Club, so I'm posting as an answer.

Kiddush Club

Answer 8

Suggestion:

Beit Meidrash

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Answer 9

Inspired by neilfein's idea:

Mi amar el mi? = "Who said to whom?"

This question form may be familiar to many as a standard school exercise in Bible classes. It keeps the "Mi" name, like Neil pointed out. In addition, it represents a question that frequently comes to people's minds in chat when there are multiple threads of conversation going on at once.

Answer 10

My favorite suggestion:

My Two Zuzim

Answer 11

How about:

Let's shmooze

(or however you want to spell schmooze)

Answer 12

How about the "Leitzanus Lounge"?

Answer 13

Was going to suggest this, and despite seeing a similar answer, here goes:

The Shteeble

Answer 14

All I can think of are really heimishe ones like:

• "the shteeble around the corner (you know, the one across from yossels place)" (or perhaps "the one with reb itche (or reb eiz'l) the gabbai" ;) @Isaac)