The Shul I’ve called home, since COVID, hosts a splendid series of carved adornments on its walls.

A mystery thread.
Each one represents a holiday theme, from Pesach, to Shavuos, to Rosh Hashanah, to Sukkos
Most every carved item is identifiable and consistent with the theme of a holiday... except for one.
Can you tell which one it is?

It’s the slender rod, at the bottom right of the Sukkos theme.

I’ve asked several Shul veterans for help. Each has shared their own puzzlement.

I’ve yet to hear a satisfactory explanation...

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8 Jan
Message to my peers on the Left:

We allow ourselves to fall down the rabbit hole, when we try to justify or even condone the violence and vandalism committed by some, back in May.

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We lose the moral high ground, when we start to justify the burning and looting – even the taunting of and the attempts to physically provoke those policemen who were not bullying or intimidating protesters.

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In addition, when we try to label “our” violence and destruction “righteous“, it is nearly as hopeless an intellectual gambit as is the attempt to prove to members of a different belief system that our religion is better than theirs.

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7 Dec 20
@HannahLebovits You are right and wrong, at the same time.

Those who are not “Charedi-dox” are not necessarily less Frum.
@HannahLebovits If there were a primer for those entering the Charedi world, it would highlight the primacy of such Charedi values as Torah learning, insularity, and, above all, Mesorah from a Rebbi/Morah who themselves are considered Charedim.
@HannahLebovits These values inform the Charedi approach to:
Bitachon: more radical than Chazon Ish
Secular studies: none > some; autodidact > formally educated
Broader culture: ranges from suspicious to hostile
Criticism: can never be against its leaders, given that they define Da’as Torah
Read 4 tweets
28 Oct 20
כתוב בפרשת לך לך, “בפסגת” ברית בין הבתרים
״והנה תנור עשן ולפיד אש *אשר עבר* בין הגזרים האלה״
אונקלוס, כשתרגם המילים ״אשר עבר״, לא תרגם ״די עבר״ אלא ״די עדא״. וזה מלשון עיבור והריון.
וצ״ע: מה ענין הריון לברית בין הבתרים?

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עוד יש לדעת מה הקשר בין המילים ״עבר״ ו״עיבור״, אשר שרשם דומים זל״ז?

וי״ל שעיבור היא התהליך שעל ידה הנשמה עוברת מלפני כסא הכבוד עד לארץ - וזה ע״י העובר.

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והנה כתוב במדרש שה״ש, על הפסוק ״באתי לגני״ שמתחילה דרה השכינה בתחתונים עד שחטאו אדם, קין, ואנוש וכו׳ ונסתלקה השכינה, הלוך ונסוע, עד לרקיע השביעי. שוב בא אברהם אבינו והוריד השכינה לרקיע הששי וכו׳

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18 Oct 20
מבול - 78
עצם - 200
עורב - 278

עצם היינו הכח לסגור ולמנוע מי ממבול
עורב היינו הכח הבוקעת את הסגר

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כל אירוע שנ׳ בו ״*בעצם* היום הזה״ - מבול, ברית א׳א, יצ׳מ, פטי׳ מרע׳ה - משתייכת לניגוד ליסוד המים, דהיינו כח התאווה.

העורב, בין בימי נח בין בימי אליהו, התחבר ליסוד המים ע״י שהתנגד למניעת המים. (שימש בתיבת נח, האכיל לאליהו במשך הרעב).

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עצם היינו דבר יבש, דבר עצמי, בלי שום תערובת.

עורב משתייך לחיבור, כמו ערבות ותערובת.

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Read 5 tweets
15 Oct 20
If nothing else, this thread clarifies what a good number of my coreligionists have been telling themselves, as they justify the curves too many of them have been shooting, for too long, around safety guidelines.
If you read between the lines, you can discern how many self-appointed epidemiologists our community has spawned and how very little ownership we take for not just the “crazies“, but entire sub-communities that have ignored safety guidelines.
You won’t get a chance to read about the duplicity of those who made (literally) underground weddings, so they could host hundreds of people, without masks, in their own neighborhoods.
Read 5 tweets
2 Oct 20
Thread:

A Rabbi who taught us in NY recalls his childhood:

His father had been murdered by the Nazis. He and his peers were raised in a DP camp. The Rebbi who taught them Torah, himself a survivor, was a tyrant. He whipped boys for not mastering their lessons.

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Our Rebbi and his peers decided to stay up one night reciting Tehillim/Psalms, hoping that G-d would heed their prayers and kill their sadistic Rebbi!

He recalls their sense of amazement, upon waking up the next morning and discovering... that their Rebbi was still alive.

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This story and my original tweet speak to the way religious people face the conundrum of a world that allows for abuse and suffering, alongside of prayer, faith, and naivete.
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