Thread by @ShulimLeifer

Ok freaks & friends… hit me with your best shots. AMA👇🏼

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Oh god. So many! My favorite is dating my now wife for nearly 5 years in secret before we made it official.

I am jealous of them

I think they are gorgeous

Women

Mariah Carey/Toni Braxton/my cousin’s best friend

More than 5, less than 6

Both my grandfathers, Pinchas from the Torah, John Brown, MLK, Malcolm X, my father.

I cannot predict 30 years ahead but I do think it will get harder in the nearer term than that

Favorite: it’s founding ethos of joy in all things and shunning materialism

Least: today’s chassidus is opposite of above

3

I started tweeting my truths & thoughts about things which bother me and turned into an activist over those issues.

I’d say I’m very different in some ways and in some the same.

I am unaware of any exceptions to the requirement of “loving my fellow as myself” in Judaism. I reserve my judgement only for those who harm others.

I’m not qualified to say which is “right”… only which I ‘prefer’ 😊

Not intentionally. I’d love a cheeseburger I think.

Easily over 100 fistfights.

I don’t know a single person who has fought more than me.

Linking here so it can be followed. I messed up the order.

It is more old-fashioned, I’d say ~15-20 years behind American chasidim in terms of modern adaptations

Not a question but thanks!

A heimishe person is someone that is culturally immersed in Charedi culture such that they are a natural. Only frum people can be heimish.

More than one person asked this. I’d really rather not tweet this out sorry!

Rabbi @pinidunner

Thankfully no!

🎶 I was born this wayyy 🎶

Steak 🙈

Burgers/decadent scrambled eggs it’s a tie

Day- sleep enough hours

Week- have my next month mostly mapped out

Month - see above TBD

Year - have a more official vehicle for my activism

5-10 years - I hope to help institute bans on minors in mikvas across the world and to have standard safeguarding in Charedi schools.

Yes

You can’t fear!!

Any good pizza shop

Easy - make challah kugel!

We talking homicides, or….?

Either way, I plead the 5th!🤐

Pizza

They expelled me after only a few months. I Went home for Chanukah break and they called my father asking him not to send me back. (Keren HaTorah is a yeshiva high school in Lakewood NJ)

I can’t think of an example. I definitely feel bad about some hits I’ve tweeted, but those weren’t “bad people”.

I am wrong A LOT. I thought Donald Trump will be convicted at his second impeachment trial.

No middle name

Once R’ Chaim of Brisk was asked what the function, the job description if you will, of a rabbi is. R’ Chaim replied: "To redress the grievances of those who are abandoned & alone, to protect the dignity of the poor, and to save the oppressed from the hands of his oppressor."

I think it’s more fair to say that my usage on here goes up and down, but overall yea it’s an addictive site what can I say!

I don’t think everything is meant to be understood literally

6-7 days? I’m typically pretty conscientious about personal hygiene though so that was an extreme anomaly.

‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel

I don’t really use Reddit

Yes

My name in Hebrew is Shalom שלום The literal translation is ‘Peace’ and in Hebrew it is used as a greeting as well as farewell. It’s also one of God’s names according to Jewish mysticism.

My great-grandfather R’Ezriel Mandelbaum’s ‘Lemikdosheich’

(enjoy 😊 )

I can’t say I’ve ever tried a pickup line, much less one that worked! I never thought random people wanted me to just start hitting on them 🥴

I cannot recommend

So many! Particularly the women in the rabbinic or teaching posts.

There’s just no way a sword would fit. Have concealed a gun under my bekitche though 😎

Patrick Ewing #KnicksTape

‘Too Close’ by Next

It’s not a choice. How can I not?

At various points, various reasons! A couple were voluntary and a few times I was fired/laid off.

Currently, I am ‘unemployed’ by choice.

I guess?

I ignore them when I can get away with that

This is actually a pet peeve of mine! If I were a member of a culture whose genocide is being ignored that would seriously hurt me.

I don’t know, but I would! 🍁

They are fascinating 🐙

Totally ignorant of Kpop

I don’t have any at the moment, but I really really really want a dog. Maybe one day.

In general I’d say I think stereotypes are unhelpful & overall limiting.

That we too often go looking for monsters, or bogeymen, when the evil we should fear is disguised as all of us.

This keep me awake at night.

Crepes. Every time.

They’re cool. Literally.

There’s a *checks notes* trolley problem?

It was very restful. Too hot to go outside really, but thank god for air conditioning!

מאמע לשון! איך בין נישט קיין ציוניסט@

@JuliusGoat