Wish I was at the shul meeting when they pitched Sukkah Hops the first time.

“And then the kids go from Sukkah to Sukkah getting candy.”

You mean trick-or-treating?

“No, no, no. Totally different. This is more about hopping. Very different.”

mmmmkay

Would read a PhD on the evolution of Sukkah Hops. Every. Single. Page.

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23 Sep

Atheism is an end without a beginning.

Religion is a beginning without an end.

Allow me to explain what I mean.

I was talking to someone who recently lost their mother. We were talking about belief in an afterlife.

I noted how the secular conception of cosmology is that there was *always* something — no beginning— but when you die it’s final. It ended.

Religion, however posits the opposite.

Our “cosmology” so to speak beginning the a beginning. In the Beginning. But there is no end. Our lives continue after death.

It’s not an argument for either—just a way of framing two world views that I hadn’t considered before.

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22 Sep

I read this over Sukkos.

Holy smokes. This book is wow.

It explains the religious (almost entirely Christian) roots of the world of Adam Smith.

Whether you like it or not, we all live in Adam Smith’s world.

A truly profound thinker and a brilliant exposition of his thought.

👀 🧐

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9 Sep

I read this over Rosh Hashana

To be fair I didn’t finish the whole sefer.

I read the first 3 topics (Yom Tov, Rosh Hashana, and Aseres Ymei Teshuva).

Also, full disclosure, I learn this every year for each Jewish holiday. It’s the best overview out there if each Jewish holiday.

⚠️ It’s in Hebrew

Rav Zevin is under-appreciated.

He was a masterful writer, the sweetest clearest Hebrew in the world. He draws upon all schools of Jewish thought and weaves together masterful essays.

Even those who appreciate him, still under-appreciate him.

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30 Aug

“The precedent for this is: we always innovate if some aspect of Yahadus becomes meaningless.”

~Dr. S. Leiman on musical selichos

@RabbiJoeShmoe

Special thank you to @RabbiJoeShmoe for sharing this with me.

Dr. Leiman is a renowned historian who treasures custom and tradition.

Not every innovation makes sense. I know this. And he certainly knows this.

But to say there is no precedent for any such innovations is simply not the case in Jewish history.

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