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Yehuda Krohn Profile picture
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Mar 16, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If you are someone who can no longer attend Minyan, due to COVID-19, what is a compensating practice, meditation, or image you now use (or are considering using)?

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For my own part, I’ve been trying to say the words of Tefillah more slowly and, when possible, sing them.
A meditation for the day: ברכות השחר/Morning Blessings focus our attention on the simple gifts we've been granted, from who we are, to the bodily functions we enjoy, to the basic necessities that we access.

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Sep 24, 2023
Yom Kippur 🧵

Tonight and tomorrow, as you sit in Shul and are stirred by Tefillos that frame our relationship with the Divine as that of a child to a parent..

… please be aware that someone to the right or left of you (or even someone closer to home) may be struggling.

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They may have suffered loss; they may endure illness; they may be hurting in countless other ways.

They may not experience Hashem as a loving parent.

Still, others are have grown up with parents they experienced as absent, indifferent, or abusive.

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They, at best, have a complicated relationship with their parents, let alone Hashem.

Yom Kippur and its metaphors can be stirring, but not always in reassuring, comforting ways.

Be compassionate to others… and yourself.

3/3
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Jul 18, 2023
it is tempting to try and fit the sad saga of Oppenheimer into today’s political discourse. A 🧵

The reality is that Oppy was neither the first nor the foremost opponent to the military use of the bomb.

Leo Szilard, who was in at the ground floor of…

nytimes.com/2023/07/17/opi…
America’s research into the feasibility of an atom bomb, holds that distinction.

What most tripped up Oppenheimer was his complicated early relationship with Communists and Communism.

In the Cold War era, with Russia in hot pursuit of our secrets, this was a fatal flaw.
“The making of the atom bomb”, by Michael Rhodes, is useful source material, regarding Oppenheimer’s mistakes and also the larger question of whether scientists or the country that sponsors them “own” the applied research they generate.
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May 14, 2023
Something inspiring I considered over this past Shabbos:

The תוכחה/rebuke we encounter, from the middle toward the end of בחוקותי, is always a hard read, a hard listen.

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Despite the undertone of the Ba’al Koreh, despite the rapidity with which it is read, it feels as though a lot of rage is being channeled in our direction.

In the midst of the תוכחה, though, there is a hidden kernel of hope:

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Hashem, in describing the panic and disorganization that oftentimes occurs among Jews in גלות advises us: וכשלו איש באחיו: A person will stumble over their sibling, their friend.

3/
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Jan 30, 2023
A couple of months ago, back when all the Kanye, Kyrie, and the Jews controversy was swirling about, I had a painful, but revealing conversation with the mostly black staff, at a nursing home I service.

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Among other things. we considered how the insularity of our communities - West Rogers Park (mine), Chicago West Side (theirs) - allows stereotypes and tropes, about each other, to flourish.

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Some of the staff actually seemed relieved to hear me acknowledge the presence of stereotypes in the Jewish community. They hinted that stereotypes are vey much present in their community.

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Jan 29, 2023
Over Shabbos, my wife asked: Why does Hashem command Moshe ״בא אל פרעה״? Shouldn’t it be ״לך אל פרעה״? After all, Moshe is going; not coming.

My search for an answer turned up a רבינו בחיי that knocked my socks off.

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He starts with חז׳ל’s observation that, when we approach the מכות in groups of 3, the first 2 involve warnings; the 3rd doesn’t.

Thus דם and צפרדע are preceded by Moshe’s warning Pharaoh. כנים come with no warning.

Many of us already know this, but what follows is amazing!

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In addition, each of the first 2 (in the sets of 3) מכות contains its own pattern:

The first always includes, in the warning, some form of נצב לפני פרעה; the second always contains בא אל פרעה.

(You can check this out yourself.)

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Oct 31, 2022
It’s painful to watch this.

IMO, Rav Reisman speaks primarily for the part of the Orthodox community that runs interference for secular-ed-free Chassidic Yeshivas.
He engages in the false dichotomy of two Bedford Avenues.

It’s false, because providing a basic secular education does not render a Yeshiva a public school.

Moreover, the struggles of failing neighborhoods aren’t caused by public education.
One last point:

Chassidic Bedford Avenue may seem beautiful, but it fails to show the increasing numbers of its (and other community’s) under-educated 18-year-olds resorting to get-rich-quick schemes - essentially predatory businesses - such as Cash Advance.
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