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136.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty-six, February 18-24, 2023, thread begins here.
Week 135 below.
Week 135 below.
136.02/ Just got the message that M*sk is removing 2 factor authentication unless I pony up 8 bucks a month. Yeah, it's getting pretty unsafe here. See thread below:
136.03/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues: my kids requested another Simpson's showing, so I chose 3 episodes from the great 5th season
ep3:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Goe…
ep15: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Spac…
ep20: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_W…
ep3:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Goe…
ep15: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Spac…
ep20: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_W…
135.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty-five, February 11-17, 2023, thread begins here.
Week 134 below.
Week 134 below.
135.02/ Hurried and harried to start the week. I'm on my way to a conference and had to get up before tallis & tefillin, which is an uncomfortable way to begin the week, lemme tell you.
135.03/ #NachasAlert: so "my" team (really my son) is in second place in the @fboutsiders "Best of the Rest" contest. We're "JCypress" [sic]. We need 17 points from Kenneth Gainwell to win. So, uh... keep us in mind!
footballoutsiders.com/ramblings/2023…
footballoutsiders.com/ramblings/2023…
80.01/ Week eighty, January 22-28, 2022, thread here.
Week 79 below.
Week 79 below.
80.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. This week: "Apollo 13" - a family custom when someone is recovering from having wisdom teeth taken out. And it's pretty great.
80.03/ The #NYR won 7-3, scoring 5 unanswered, and that score is larger than the current 49ers-Packers game. Sports can be weird.
31.97b/ The third section of this week's thread starts here.
Part one is here:
Part two here:
Part one is here:
Part two here:
31.98/ #Parsha thought: is there any two parshiyot where there's a more jarring transition in topic and tone than between #Mishpatim and #Terumah? The whole Torah changes, even. From a set of stories and comprehensible laws to: Architecture! Gold weirdness!
31.99/ Just found out that Dr. Meir Tamari z'l passed away Jan 20, 2021. Just so many leaders in Modern Orthodoxy are being lost this past year.
See: baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-deta…
Also:
besr.org
torah.org/series/shem-me…
myjewishlearning.com/topics/dr-meir…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Tama…
See: baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-deta…
Also:
besr.org
torah.org/series/shem-me…
myjewishlearning.com/topics/dr-meir…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Tama…
31.52b/ This is a continuation of the week 31 (Feb. 13-19) thread which is getting too big for stable threading. This is an experiment for this week: to split a thread when it gets to 50 or so.
Part one is here:
Part one is here:
31.53/ I've been thinking the same thing (not so well put, of course). How did Skype become the fax machine of this tech crisis?
31.54/ This is good to see! I'm glad the effects are empirically demonstrated.
It's nice when virtue is demonstrably effective. Social science for the win!
It's nice when virtue is demonstrably effective. Social science for the win!
Below is a thread from my #Mishpatim commentary essay. Full essay -> 🇬🇧 bit.ly/38KQkSc / 🇮🇱 bit.ly/329kEDJ / 🇪🇸 bit.ly/2SUEdv6 / 🇫🇷 bit.ly/2P5xu0o / 👨👩👧👦 Family Edition bit.ly/2V3GRRZ / 🎧 Listen spoti.fi/33Npq9s. #ShabbatShalom 
Creation means seeing the universe as God’s work. Revelation means seeing Torah as God’s word. Redemption means seeing history as God’s deed and God’s call.
But within these broad parameters, we must each find our own understanding, guided by the Sages of the past, instructed by our teachers in the present, and finding our own route to the Divine presence.
Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Mishpatim called "Loving the Stranger". You can read it in full here: bit.ly/2MIzHwh & download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2FZIQQv. #ShabbatShalom
It is terrifying in retrospect to grasp how seriously the Torah took the phenomenon of xenophobia, hatred of the stranger.
It is as if the Torah were saying with the utmost clarity: reason is insufficient. Sympathy is inadequate. Only the force of history and memory is strong enough to form a counterweight to hate.
