Thread by @JoshuaCypess

1/ Welcome to the Cypess Weekly Thread Index Thread.

I implemented the long thread concept in July 2020 in order to have an easy system to access my weekly writing.

Week 1, July 18-24 2020, 10 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371275…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371275174528626694

2/ Week 2, July 25-31 2020, 14 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371278…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371278945690210305

3/ Week 3, July 25-31 2020, 13 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371281…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371281412687548423

4/ Week 4, August 8-14 2020, 33 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371296…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371296919964762117

5/ Week 5, August 15-21 2020, 34 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371447…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371447822667616260

6/ Week 6, August 22-28 2020, 28 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371479…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371479589441130498

7/ Week 7, August 29-Septemeber 4, 2020, 26 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371494…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371494910206033925

8/ Week 8, September 5-11, 2020, 43 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371557…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371557441658359816

9/ Week 9, September 12-18 2020, 43 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371573…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371573948916326404

10/ Week 10, September 20-25 2020, 2 parts

part 1) 49 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371652…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371652016368406528

part 2) 43 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371798…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371798404129550338

11/ Week 11, September 26-October 2 2020 (containing Yom Kippur), in 2 parts:

part 1) 31 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371843…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371843099543142412

part 2) 42 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371934…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371934724264984578

12/ Week 12, October 4-9 2020, in 2 parts:

part 1) 36 posts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372201…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1372201117145300992

part 2) 37 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372224…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1372224473324261385

13a/ Week 13, October 11-16 2020, in 70 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315671…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1315671997746159617

13b/ While this started only for the 'week' compilations, I will add the mini-threads that I write during the week (hoping that I haven't made this so difficult that I won't be able to sustain it).

Oct 12, 2020, 4 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315687…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1315687232930549763

13c/ Oct 14, 2020, 13 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1316403…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1316403120013017092?s=20

13d/ Oct 16, 2020, 9 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317175…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1317175282705584128?s=20

14/ Week 14, October 17-23, 2020 begins here. 37 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317855…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1317855306932682752

14b/ October 21, 2020. 5 posts.

Topic: boost Blue confidence

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1318925…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1318925626720518146?s=20

14c/ October 21, 2020. 15 posts.

Topic: Toobin

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1318983…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1318983332001185793

15/ Week 15, October 24-30, 2020. 66 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1320386…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1320386582856302596

16/ Week 16, Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2020. 5 separate threads reconstructed:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373655365250908160?s=20

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373655550987210756

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373663192694587395

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373677148251258894

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373697650348990469?s=20

(Original, if you're into that) threadreaderapp.com/thread/1322897…

16a/ The 5 threads above are

part 1: 23 posts
part 2: 21 posts
part 3: 31 posts
part 4: 35 posts
part 5: 73 posts (sigh. yeah, I know)

16b/ #PowerIsPeople Thread, 19 posts:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1323301…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1323301091006664705

16c/ An election prediction thread from the morning of Nov. 3, 2020.

10 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1373659…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373659610612125697

16d/ Thread of mid-election-week singleton comments.

18 Posts.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373683282399920129

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1373683…

17a/ Week 17 Thread, Nov. 7-13, 2021.

83 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325218…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1325218067048259586

17b/ How I spent the post-election Shabbat.

12 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325500…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1325500254389678080

17c/ Why I put up lawn signs despite - or because of - my identity and role as an Orthodox rabbi.

13 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325818…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1325818185422155786

17d/ Why drawing conclusions of 'what America wants/is' from the election is a fool's errand.

7 Posts.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1325884671851458560

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325884…

17e/ #Steelers thread. It was fun while it lasted.

13 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325903…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1325903415692713984

17f/ Thread about the legal gambits by the GOP to overturn the election.

9 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326154…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1326154278763958272

17g/ Two points about the historic implications of electing Biden-Harris and repudiating Trumpism

12 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327294…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1327294626865287169

18/ Week 18, November 14-20, 2020.

30 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327973…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1327973843101753346

18b/ Thanksgiving, Purim and the Pandemic.

15 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1329816…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1329816158581743624

19/ Week 19, November 21-27 2020.

16 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330627…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1330627563564249092

19b/ Thread about the corrosive effect of turning a blind eye to cheating in every arena, especially sports and politics.

11 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1331586094534709248

19c/ #ReshetKeshet Torah thread on Parshat Toledot, answering "why did Isaac intend to bless Esau?"

12 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1331601…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1331601062575419394

20/ Week 20, November 28-December 4, 2020, thread.

27 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1333516…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1333516249863778306

21/ Week 21, December 5-11, 2020, thread.

17 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1335664…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1335664472430612483

21b/ #ReshetKeshet. Thread about my attitude - in my roles/identity as a rabbi, medical-ethicist, and American citizen - towards abortion. AKA, the debate between forced-birth vs. anti-forced-birth.

17 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337077…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1337077369748811778

22/ Week 22, December 12-18, 2020, thread.

38 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337903…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1337903218718814213

23/ Week 23, December 19-25, 2020, thread.

23 Posts (how 'bout that)

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340702…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1340702945210494977

23b/ #ReshetKeshet. Thread about why I've avoided the easiest money available for someone with multiple graduate degrees: 'conservative' think-tanks. TL;DR: they exist to place a patina of philosophy on cruelty & greed.

8 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1341053519395250176

23c/ #ReshetKeshet thread about how I teach #Midrash and what are my red lines: cruelty & avoda-zara.

23 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341119…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1341119041113567239

23d/ #ReshetKeshet thread about memory in Jewish cultural practice that demonstrates history isn't written by the 'winners' if we put effort into recording atrocities.

14 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1342498…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1342498509094850560

24/ Week 24, December 26-January 1, 2021, thread.

24 Posts (second time in a row that's happened)

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1343263…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1343263284171046918

25/ Week 25, January 2-8, 2021, thread.

85 Posts (breaking the trend). This was #insurrection week, so that makes sense.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345741…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1345741446209548288

25b/ #ReshetKeshet, thread about the staggering number of Modern Orthodox leaders who passed away over that past year.

12 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345782…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1345782030009827331

26/ Week 26, January 9-15, 2020, thread.

112 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348366…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1348366032042389510?s=20

26b/ #ReshetKeshet thread about #Literalist thinking (a subject I've invented, sorry) which inevitably ended up with a Dvar Torah on Va'era (that week's parsha)

27 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349070…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1349070500211863553

26c/ #ReshetKeshet, this thread connects with the previous & is about free-will, determinism, the role of the leader in both (and how God interacts with the world).

16 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349089…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1349089250822782977

26d/ Thread about understanding Trump (ym'sh) as a direct line from Ronald Reagan, that we reached the nadir gutter of destroying the government set-up by FDR & JFK.

18 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349360…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1349360492800856066

27/ Week 27, January 16-22, 2021, thread.

95 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1350582…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1350582754795253764?s=20

27b/ #ReshetKeshet thread about the importance of civil rights to proper Modern Orthodox Torah ethics in honor of #MLKDAY

8 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1351156…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1351156282695286784

27c/ Thread about Q*non, collating things I'd been reading and found informative/useful.

10 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352637…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1352637939294072844

28/ Week 28, January 23-29, 2021, thread.

40 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1353354…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1353354516876419075

28b/ Personal thread about a living a year in quarantine.

8 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355171…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1355171383588876290

28c/ Mini-thread with a collection of good commentary from around Twitter that I couldn't comment on but wanted to share.

5 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355239…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1355239166594977801

29/ Week 29, Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2021, Thread.

42 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355926…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1355926343389761541

29b/ #ReshetKeshet on parshat Beshalach, specifically analyzing the word "chamushim." I think I have pshat on the parsha, and that's exciting.

7 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356791…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1356791159616585728

29c/ Thread trying to answer the question whether the RedHats were always crazy-evil or did they get worse over time. "Radicalized" in the parlance.

6 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357048…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1357048628204822530

29d/ Second #ReshetKeshet on Beshalach, this about combat exoskeletons and taking Midrash literally.

12 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357102…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1357102646717464583

30/ Week 30, Feb. 6-12, 2021, Thread.

16 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1358559…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1358559392879300608

31/ Week 31, Feb. 13-19, 2021, Thread in 3 parts:

p1. 57 posts
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1360973…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1360973726414700544

p2. 52 posts
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1361764…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1361764472755531776

p3. 12 posts
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362507…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1362507813726146564

31b/ Thread about the moral philosophy behind feeling grim joy at the death of Rush Limbaugh. #ReshetKeshet elements.

17 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362420…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1362420626191966208

32/ Week thirty-two, Feb. 20-26, 2021, thread.

45 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1363276…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1363276707235561485

32b/ A growing thread of the #ReshetKeshet threads. This is the style right now, in the Cypessverse. It's ever growing, kein yirbu.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365316…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1365316727647698945

32c/ #ReshetKeshet on Halakhic advice for ADHD & hearing the #Purim #Megillah

14 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365335…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1365335606012837900

33/ Week 33, Feb. 27-March 5 2021, thread.

15 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1366117…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1366117808547987457

34/ Week 34, March 6-12, 2021, thread.

27 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368568…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1368568111750909956

34b/ Thread about the anti-McCarthy movie "High Noon"

19 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368647…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1368647157763485698

34c/ Thread about 'realistic' superhero movies and my issues with delving too seriously into what can't escape from being fascist fantasies.

19 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368674…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1368674670225088516

34d/ #ReshetKeshet for parshat Ki-Tisa about why a golden calf was chosen for the idol.

34 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368713…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1368713836522577920

34e/ An annotated bibliography style thread, that I hope to expand, of women on Twitter that I read every week.

23 Posts (and counting)

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368984…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1368984225186189317

35/ Week 35, March 13-19 2021, thread.

51 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371136…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371136519843553283

35b/ Thread about the movie "IQ (1994)"

6 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371149…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1371149591538765831

36/ Week 36, March 20-26, 2021, Thread.

26 Posts.

Threaded here:
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threader.app/thread/1373679…

Begins here:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1373679635192504321

37/ Week 37, March 29-April 2, 2021, Thread.

36 Posts.

Threaded here:
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And posted here:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1377270239029760002

37b/ #ReshetKeshet for the Disability Shulchan Arukh, about seder food issues

11 Posts.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1378020…

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1378020735382343684

38/ Week 38 thread, April 4-9, 2021, below.

22 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1379075594730754049?s=20

39/ Week 39 thread, April 10-16 2021, below.

35 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1381248738476326913

39b/ Thread of my alt-text for a useful comic panel about the paradox of intolerance.

7 Posts

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Thread:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1382335054622429184

39c/ Thread about how police violence became culturally acceptable via mass media.

14 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1382354686771146752

39d/ Thread of a conversation I had with two others about Jews and trees. Really.

10 Posts.

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https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1382754489883627522

40/ Week 40, April 17-23 2021, below.

18 Posts.

Unroll: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1384155…

Thread:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1384155408827240450?s=20

41/ Week 41, April 24-31 2021, below.

27 Posts.

Unroll: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386367…

Direct link:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1386367404532436998

41b/ Thread about the value of (higher) education and teachers who are constantly learning (as opposed to 'textbooks')

15 Posts.

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42/ Week 42, May 1-7 2021, thread below.

32 Posts.

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43/ Week 43, May 8-14 2021, thread below.

24 Posts.

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44a/ Week 44, May 15-21, thread below

30 Posts.

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44b/ #ReshetKeshet about the difference between Fear of Sin vs. Fear of God and how it applies to following the letter vs. the spirit of rules.

45 Posts.

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44c/ Thread about journalism, anthropology and bias

35 Posts:

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45/ Week 45 Thread, May 22-28 2021.

43 Posts.

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45b/ re: News bias about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

24 Posts.

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45c/ The difficulty of being anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.

22 Posts.

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45d/ re: The dangers of using one part of a marginalized/disempowered community against another part.

24 posts.

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45e/ Another follow-up on the media bias about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

7 Posts.

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46/ Week 46, May 29-June 4 2021, thread.

52 Posts.

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47/ Week 47, June 5-11 2021, thread.

44 Posts.

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47b/ #ArtWar thread. I've been told this can be useful for #ADHD and associated neurodiversities. #adhdtwitter

24 Posts.

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48/ Week 48, June 12-18, 2021, thread.

56 Posts.

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49/ Week 49, June 19-25, 2021, thread.

18 Posts.

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49b/ Reminiscence about Shabbat #Balak 5778 (2018). #ReshetKeshet.

15 Posts.

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50/ Week 50, June 26-July 2, 2021, thread.

36 Posts.

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50b/ #ReshetKeshet thread about medical halakhah and the nature of tacit, subconscious, leadership.

11 Posts.

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51/ Week 51, July 3-9, 2021, thread.

35 Posts.

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52/ Week 52, July 10-16, 2021, thread.

36 Posts.

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53/ Week 53, July 17-23, 2021, thread.

38 Posts.

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53b/ #ReshetKeshet. Thread about the 9th of Av and why it's immediate relevance. Written on the day itself.

11 Posts.

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53c/ #ReshetKeshet. About why rabbis don't make emergency enactments permanent and the paradox of temporary permissibility.

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54/ Week 54, July 24-30, 2021, thread.

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54b/ #ReshetKeshet. About recent topics in masekhet Sukkah and something I call a "Skipper Sugya"

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55/ Week 55, July 31-Aug. 6, 2021, thread.

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55b/ Advice from others about how to prepare your living space for enduring the devastation of a COVID infection.

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56/ Week 56, Aug. 7-13, 2021, thread.

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56b/ Thread about #leadership from a #TorahUMadda perspective. #ReshetKeshet

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57/ Week 57, Aug. 14-20, thread.

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57b/ I'm trying be thorough and compile old threads. This is from May 24, 2017.

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57c/ Another old thread, from June 14, 2017. An early discussion of #Literalist thinking. (In the 140 char. era!)

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57d/ #ReshetKeshet. About how "no justice, no peace" fits into a #Torah framework, connected to the #GeorgeFloyd-civil rights protests. June 2, 2020.

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57e/ From July 9, 2020, about the breakdown of the rule of law led by the Roberts SCOTUS.

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57f/ #ReshetKeshet, July 30 2020-9av 5780, about injustice with a focus on the infamous Talmudic character of Zekharya ben Avkolas, his identity & what he represents.

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57g/ From May 19, 2020, about the "Emperor's New Clothes" & the #TrumpCrisis

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57h/ I haven't updated this in way too long - and this is likely getting too long - so I will start a new thread with the threads starting from the now auspicious number 58.

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57i/ @threadreaderapp please unroll.