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121.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty one, November 5-11, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 120 below. Who knows how long I'll get to keep doing this, sigh.
Week 120 below. Who knows how long I'll get to keep doing this, sigh.
121.02/ Good metaphor.
However, to me, it feels like 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, waiting for the power to go out.
However, to me, it feels like 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, waiting for the power to go out.
121.03/ This is what I mean. There's a completely preventable, maliciously negligent, technology collapse coming soon.
66.01/ Week sixty-six, Oct. 16-22, 2021, thread begins here.
Week 65 below.
Week 65 below.
66.02/ The #NFL games have not gone my team's way so far, but we have a Scorigami, and that's ALWAYS good. LAR 38 - 11 NYG
66.03/ I plan to save these pictures of a Talmud class being held in the London Underground during the Blitz to remind myself that I've had it pretty good in my life. Pretty good. (h.t. @DBashIdeas)
Read this week's C&C called "Negative Capability": 🇬🇧 bit.ly/2O76PPw / 🇮🇱 bit.ly/33Ighzb / 🇪🇸 bit.ly/2Oenu3M / 🇫🇷 bit.ly/2CDNuQx. Family Edition: bit.ly/36Ve85r. Listen: spoti.fi/33Npq9s. #Vayera #ShabbatShalom. 
THREAD -> The trial [the Akeidah, of the binding of Isaac] was not to see whether #Abraham had the courage to sacrifice his son. It was widespread in the ancient world, and completely abhorrent to #Judaism.
The trial was not to see whether Abraham had the strength to give up something he loved. He had shown this time and time again.
Here is a short thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Vayera which you can read in full here: bit.ly/2R9LkNK. You can also download the new accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2O3loBA. #ShabbatShalom
Abraham, father of monotheism, knew the paradoxical truth that to live the life of faith is to see the trace of God in the face of the stranger. It is easy to receive the Divine Presence when God appears as God.
What is difficult is to sense the Divine Presence when it comes disguised as three anonymous passers-by. That was Abraham’s greatness. He knew that serving God and offering hospitality to strangers were not two things but one.
