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Throughout the winter we pray Mashiv HaRuach UMorid HaGeshem. My understanding is that it is said for Eretz Yisroel dwellers (unlike V'sain Tal Umatar LBracha which is said for your locale). As we pray for it I am interested in knowing if there is an online source to find out what is the current water level of the Kineret?

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    Move to close as off-topic. – msh210 Mar 09 '11 at 02:04
  • It's a major indicator of a status that can formally trigger lots of prayers ... – Isaac Moses Mar 09 '11 at 02:39
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    @Gershon: you could say the same thing, for example, about "who is responsible for the flotilla deaths." And yet that is in the Area51 proposal as a good example of an off-topic question. – Alex Mar 09 '11 at 03:32
  • @R'Gershon, what R'Alex said. Moreover, note that the water level in the Kineres is connected to the people of Israel, not just the Jews of EY. @R'IM, yes. So is the makeup of the U.S. Congress; so is the proximity of an asteroid to Earth. – msh210 Mar 09 '11 at 03:42
  • Doesn't water availability in the Land of Israel have particular religious significance? Aren't there fasts triggered specifically by it? – Isaac Moses Mar 09 '11 at 03:56
  • @R'IM: re fasts: true. Does that make this question on-topic? – msh210 Mar 09 '11 at 06:23
  • Isaac makes a good point about this having a particular relationship to halachah. But consider the practicalities: we chutzniks aren't going to be declaring fasts on our own depending on what we see at kinbot. I doubt any individual Jews in Eretz Yisrael would be doing so either - any such fasts would be proclaimed by rabbanim. So the question "what data is taken into consideration in deciding when to declare fasts" is certainly on-topic, but I'm not so sure that the question as phrased is. – Alex Mar 09 '11 at 15:10
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    Halacha-related questions here are not necessarily lema'aseh for the asker. (In fact, we run into website-ask-posek problems when they are.) In addition, it seems to me that someone could be inspired by the particular emphasis that Halacha puts on the water situation in the Land of Israel and want to therefore keep track of that situation personally as a matter of, inter alia, religious concern. I agree that this is an edge case and not so different from, e.g., "How many rocket attacks has Israel suffered in the past year?", but I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. – Isaac Moses Mar 09 '11 at 15:27
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    What is the connection between the first part of the question and the second part of the question? Please elaborate. – Menachem Jun 22 '11 at 21:48
  • When I saw the title, I wanted to close as off topic. But seeing that its connected directly to a prayer said, I think it's fully on topic,. I'm going to change the question title to reflect its ontopicness – avi Jan 12 '12 at 10:22

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  • I follow Kinbot and its both really neat and disheartening. After weeks of rain the damn thing is still at the same level as 3 months ago! – avi Jan 12 '12 at 10:19
  • However, if you look at the profile info of Kinbot you can also get a link to a chart showing the water level. I tweet the water level of Lake Kinneret/the Sea of Galilee, Israel. A graph updated every time I tweet: bit.ly/3mHein + full data: http://bit.ly/tIRmi http://bit.ly/57Nt0g – avi Jan 12 '12 at 10:20
  • KinBot last tweeted on 14 December 2015, so it's probably defunct. I'm editing it out of this answer, leaving the other two sources, which both appear to be live as of now. – Isaac Moses Feb 24 '17 at 21:15