Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #yitro
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134.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty-four, February 4-10, 2023, thread begins here.
Week 133 below.
Week 133 below.
134.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues: after the Tim Burton Batman movies, the movie that put him on the map "Beetlejuice (1988)"
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134.03/ #TuBishvat is the Aquaman of holidays. Send tweet.
79.01/ Week seventy-nine, January 15-21, 2022, thread here.
Week 78 below.
Week 78 below.
79.02/ Every erev-Shabbas I say 'stay safe' and while that's generally about the pandemic, for my fellow Jews it's also about the onslaught of antisemitism that assaults us since the dominance of unchecked hate on social media which led to the rise of Trump (ym'sh) and others.
79.03/ Motzei Shabbat began with the terror at the #ColleyvilleSynagogue. Thank God the hostages were all saved.
Here's my progression of RTs during the night:
Here's my progression of RTs during the night:
Here is an idea from this week's commentary essay on #Yitro: 🇬🇧 bit.ly/2SjZX4o / 🇮🇱 bit.ly/2SoM8C5 / 🇪🇸 bit.ly/38jToEM / 🇫🇷 bit.ly/38qkn1m / 👨👩👧👦Family Edition bit.ly/2OP8lXE / Listen spoti.fi/33Npq9s. #ShabbatShalom 
Why does #Judaism distinguish between the universality of God and the particularity of our relationship with Him? Answer: because this helps us solve the single greatest problem humanity has faced since earliest times. How can I recognise the dignity and integrity of the ‘other’?
History and biology have written into the human mind a capacity for altruism toward the people like us, and aggression toward the people not like us. We are good, they are bad.
Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Yitro called "Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom". You can read it in full here: bit.ly/2DxebYz & download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2FZp7zK. #ShabbatShalom
The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of the parsha of Yitro, but of Judaism as a whole – was unique in the religious history of mankind.
Other faiths (Christianity and Islam) call themselves religions of revelation, but in both cases the revelation of which they spoke was to an individual (“the son of God,” “the prophet of God”).
