21.01/ Continuing my thread project; week 21: Dec 6-11, 2020
Week 20 here
Week 20 here
https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1333516249863778306?s=20
21.02/ Dad achievement unlocked: my thermostat is so low we need to wear sweaters in the house.
Took years to reach this level, I have so many people to thank, starting with my own father (shlit"a)...
Took years to reach this level, I have so many people to thank, starting with my own father (shlit"a)...
21.03/ This is a great point below.
BTW, for me the only way boys have been 'easier' to raise than girls is that I have more first-hand experience (e.g. put your glasses in your kippah by the bedside to protect from breakage). That's it.
BTW, for me the only way boys have been 'easier' to raise than girls is that I have more first-hand experience (e.g. put your glasses in your kippah by the bedside to protect from breakage). That's it.
https://twitter.com/JacquelynGill/status/1335235091379916801?s=20
21.04a/ #Chanukah is a great Modern Orthodox holiday because while it's about the struggle between Hellenism & religiosity, there's also - speaking as a Jewish Studies scholar - SO MANY DOCUMENTS!
It's an academic dream compared to the other holidays!
It's an academic dream compared to the other holidays!
21.04b/ I mean, the decrees of Antiochus IV are real, we have them! Scholarship helps solidify faith... that's #Hanukkah for me
See here for some document links:
blogs.bu.edu/aberlin/archae…
Here from Rabbi Louis Ginsburg in the JE:
jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1589-…
See here for some document links:
blogs.bu.edu/aberlin/archae…
Here from Rabbi Louis Ginsburg in the JE:
jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1589-…
21.05/ My wife got our car's oil changed this morning and now I'm afraid we may have started a weird American #Hanukkah ritual.
For the record, you don't need to change your car's oil to olive oil on the 24th of Kislev, even if they claim it will last 8 times as longer
For the record, you don't need to change your car's oil to olive oil on the 24th of Kislev, even if they claim it will last 8 times as longer
21.06/ I would get so much more work done if I didn't have such technical problems, but then again my productivity never matches my hoped for output; I'm constantly limited by physics and biology (a motto I could put on my tombstone)
21.07/ The stories in Genesis, esp. Dinah & Tamar, are prompting me to write about the issue of forced-childbirth & how the rights of women need to be protected.
I hope this thread won't be catastrophic. But I take my role as ethical leader seriously
I hope this thread won't be catastrophic. But I take my role as ethical leader seriously
https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1337077369748811778
21.08/ Luckily Xmas music is out of my arena (I nearly-literally avoid it like the plague) but I know about the "Baby It's Cold Outside" discourse, and this is one my favorite entries in it. By 'secret.goblin' instagram.com/secret.goblin/… 
21.09a/ As Serwer points out, the GOP doesn't think anti-GOP voters count. It ties into my my extended metaphor of the GOP acting like cheaters in sports. The goal is to win by stealing not to play by the rules.
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1337073852380291077?s=20
21.09b/ The GOP method is to play the refs (courts) b/c that's actually what wins the game, not playing by the rules. It helps, too, to play the press in the same way.
These final court cases are like those coaches who call for replay on the off chance the refs mess up
These final court cases are like those coaches who call for replay on the off chance the refs mess up
21.10/ Lord knows I'm a bad speller, and #Chanukah #Chanukka #Chanuka #Hanukkah #Hanukka has 5 official hashtags, so that's a well-known phenomenon/problem, and I'm pretty forgiving no matter how you spell it.
But Kislev with a C?! (Cislev). No way.
yeshiva.co/midrash/1871
But Kislev with a C?! (Cislev). No way.
yeshiva.co/midrash/1871
21.11/ OK, I'm not reading this article from Vox on how "Tag" is a professional sport (vox.com/2020/12/10/221…) but it does remind me of this Monty Python skit of professional Hide & Seek
21.12/ Yeah, we're worried about the ogres, oafs & oppressors from Trump (ym'sh) world maintaining prominence when his regime ends, but then I think of Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee & realize that if we work at it, these odious ophidians can be well-shunned thedailybeast.com/history-will-j…
21.13/ In my dotage, I've stopped watching movies where the whole plot revolves around a hero assassin (esp. "an ancient group of fancy killers") b/c mass murderers are horrible people
So too, esp. after Trump (ym'sh), for families of con-men. We see what they're like; it's bad
So too, esp. after Trump (ym'sh), for families of con-men. We see what they're like; it's bad
21.14/ Whenever I see an author/writer whose early stuff I liked go off the rails as they get more famous, and I ask "what the heck happened to [him]?" the answer usually is: editors made him good, he needed to listen to criticism before his fame, now he has no censor & voila!
21.15/ #ShabbatShalom & #HappyHanukkah y'all
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