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@JoshuaCypess
Jan 23, 2022 • 49 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
80.01/ Week eighty, January 22-28, 2022, thread here.

Week 79 below.
80.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. This week: "Apollo 13" - a family custom when someone is recovering from having wisdom teeth taken out. And it's pretty great.
80.03/ The #NYR won 7-3, scoring 5 unanswered, and that score is larger than the current 49ers-Packers game. Sports can be weird.
80.04/ Packers lose! Setting up for another 49ers-Bengals Superbowl? Anyway, Twitter is awash with great dunks on Aaron "RedHat McHorse-Dewormer" Rogers losing another home playoff game. Here's one of my favorites:
80.05/ My thread about the #NFL games yesterday and the wonderful unifying feeling of everyone getting together with one voice and mocking the reputational and athletic collapse of Aaron "MAGA Troll" Rogers.
80.06/ Someone asked if anyone fell from grace as fast as Aaron Rogers and, no contest, JK R*wling is the worst since Lindbergh. JKR: famous billionaire artist of universally loved children's books who revealed with gusto that she's a dangerous bigot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L…
89.07/ Thank God we still have public libraries. If anything is the thin line separating civilization from barbarism, it's the libraries.
89.08/ Watching #LARvsTB and I'm finding it harder and harder to listen to Collinsw0rth. We're debating which is worse: CC's oleaginous sycophancy or J0e Buck's smarmy indifference?

(To test it, I should count how many times I need you yell "shut up" per hour, SU/h)
80.09/ Rams just scored so it's 26-3 and they better not go for two, and make it, because 28-3 initiates a sequence against Brady that gets pretty ugly. #NFL
80.10/ This is a weird #NFL post-season feeling... all the bad guys have been eliminated and now I can just sit and enjoy the games. Patriots, Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Dallas... all gone, in various forms of humiliation, too. I think I like it!
80.11/ It's #InternationalHolocaustDay - ironic context to learn that bigots in TN just banned #Maus from a school. Yet another sign that America is growing in aggressive bigotry

See
& this good thread about the book's significance
80.12/ Mazal tov to @temasmith on this important appointment! This is excellent, welcome news and it demonstrates that the ADL is committed to addressing the issues of the entire Jewish people.
80.13/ Over the past 6 years I've seen too many people who should know better - yet habituated to the news moving at the speed of Twitter - demand the Dems do everything at once. I'm def. not saying "they got this" - I'm saying: be reasonable.
80.14/ I'm relieved that the inveterate cheaters, Bonds and Clemens, don't get in the HOF. Their road is now much harder, which is a new feeling for them, given how much they took shortcuts & stole glory from others.

In other words: crime shouldn't pay.
washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01…
80.15/ As many have said, Peterson & Rogan are a dumb person's idea of "smart" just as Trump (ym'sh) & his grubby trash-scented gilded-lily aesthetic was a dumb person's idea of rich. All 3 are con-men exploiting an audience of grasping aggrieved wannabes.
80.16/ CW: #HolocaustMemorialDay

I'm named for my father's oldest & youngest uncles whose entire families were murdered in the Shoah. I don't know when they were killed, where, nor the names of everyone of the 100s of my direct relatives who were killed.
80.17/ At last, news I can use: an exploration into how blue became the color of artificial raspberry flavor
80.18/ The OLP (Orthodox Leadership Project) #ChochmatNashim links for #Mishpatim:

5782: blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-slaves-ke…
5781: n/a
5780: blogs.timesofisrael.com/everyone-knows…
5779: blogs.timesofisrael.com/those-who-must…
80.19/ Captain Awkward's teacher, Mrs. Gussky, sounds incredible and explains the issues clearly (re: teaching the Shoah in middle school)

80.20/ "Kids are on their phone all the time!" Look, crankypants, a smartphone is almost literally a library mixed with the mall. It allows you to read every & any newspaper or book while connecting you with everyone you know and play every song in existence SIMULTANEOUSLY.
80.21/ Art:
80.22a/ My teenage kids asked why the news is intimating that Biden will nominate Harris for SCOTUS. I explained that the take-havers (1) know about only 3 Black women - Harris, Michelle Obama & Oprah - so they assume they're the answer to every BW question.
80.22b/ (2) These people are deathly afraid of Harris getting even more power. It's of a piece with thinking Biden will resign soon to make her president.

Fear drives motivated reasoning and misogynoir is a predominant fear of the chattering class.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogynoir
80.23/ #BaruchHashem! Thank God for these now commonplace miracles, my two youngest children have received their #VaccineBoost just moments ago. So grateful to have access to this life-saving medication. #ThankYouBiden
80.24/ #NachasAlert: my son has a new article in his high school's Torah journal. He's leining rishon & shelishi tomorrow as well (and he's young enough to actually intend to make it through a snowstorm). #BaruchHashem. #Parsha #Mishpatim
parshasheets.com/newsletter/bko…
80.25/ Our house voted and we all agree that adding another #Adar is a great idea, but why stop there? How about a third Adar and - to make room - zap Tammuz? Sure, we'd lose days 1-16 which is the best summer vacation time, but OTOH we'd push of Pesach for another month.
80.26/ Excellent points:


80.27/ Very well said:
80.28/ Amen!
80.29/ Now I'm not sure if we were supposed to skip tachanun for this...
80.30/ Reading Twitter, esp. when I'm away doing other projects, feels like reading the footnotes without the article. It's disconcerting at times but usu. I get enough of the gist to spot bad faith mobbing.

BTW, @minakimes is a great reporter, and:
80.31/ This gets my vote:
80.32/ I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the unintended consequences this could unleash but prima-facie this looks like a long overdue idea: liability insurance & safety training for legal gun ownership
80.33/ I feel this in my bones.
80.34/ Very true (BTW, I was surprised, as an adult, that Irkutsk wasn't more important than I was led to believe) and yet playing Risk demonstrated to me the massive strategic importance of Ukraine, so there's that.
80.35/ "Where can I wash?"

(For Muslims too: "which way is East?")

80.36/ Bingo.

IMO: the MSM pie is now so small that the people clinging to high profile jobs are (1) inherently or artificially ignoring & thus protecting the fascism on the Right and/or (2) ruthlessly circling the wagons to preserve their status/jobs.
80.37/ For those who want to give me an extravagant gift, I will accept one of these or a monogrammed set if you're feeling splurgey:
80.38/ This applies to our the pandemic & fascist crisis but everyone who wakes up each day with an estimated spoon-count range knows this deep truth
80.39/ This is a very good answer. It's more expansive - and thus has a higher degree of validity - than my go-to of "the high cost of Jewish living" which is paramount in Modern Orthodoxy.
80.40/ I agree. It's similar to the distinction between those who say "I suffered so you should too" (which I consider wicked) and "I suffered so nobody else should" which is the core value of the "Golden Rule."
80.41/ Connected to 80.36 about Biden's response to a Fox troll: this is pure manufactured outrage and the performative & artificial nature is clear to people outside the bubble.

80.42/ Glad to be the center of the Venn diagram that finds this really cool:
80.43/ The numbers for athletes definitely demonstrates the self-destruction involved in investing in cryptononsense. I hope normies stay away before they're Tulip-bubbled into bankrupcy.
80.44/ Yes! This is a very useful metaphor:
80.45/ John Cage's cheese section?
80.46/ This is about Lakewood, Ohio - a suburb of Cleveland - but for a glorious few minutes I thought this was in a Haredi section of Lakewood, NJ and that a type of joy that's nigh impossible to manufacture
80.47/ OK, I admit, I was curious about this. I wasn't counting on it, I'm not a ghoul, but can I help being born curious?
80.48/ Shabbas is close, so is a potentially massive snowstorm. Be careful everyone! Stay safe, and #ShabbatShalom

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199.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-nine, May 4-10, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 198 below.
199.02/ FYI - I did some research and evidently the real 2015 ad this skit is parodying was about a father sending his kid to the US Army (i.e. the army was presented in the same gauzy way as college).

cnn.com/2015/03/02/opi…
199.03/ This is great.

IMO the 2 best are (1) PIT-BAL b/c both teams are always good, the games always close, violent & have playoff implications. (2) NYG-PHI b/c no matter how good/bad either are the game can go either way & the fanbases HATE each other.
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198.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-eight, April 27-May 3, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 197 below.
198.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #AchareiMot & #Kedoshim 5783. @ChochmatNashim

It's going to be hard updating the 5784 edition before Shabbas, so please enjoy this "classic" version from last year. Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the parsha.
drive.google.com/file/d/136A4pd…
@ChochmatNashim 198.03/ The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found her... Mazal Tov and congratulations to my wife, Dr. Rebecca Cypess, on her new position as Dean of Stern College and Yeshiva College! BE"H her new position will allow her to help heal academia.
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196.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-six, April 13-19, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 195 below.
196.02/ Still holds true (from last year)
196.03/ #NachasAlert: My son has a big article (pages 4-6) in this week's Torah journal from his high school #Metzora-#HaGadol. Enjoy!
drive.google.com/file/d/1uNKU5O…
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195.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-five, April 6-12, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 194 below.
195.02/ Happy #Eclipse2024 Day for all who celebrate. Here's an interesting article about the halakhic implications of an eclipse by Rabbi Dov Linzer:
blogs.timesofisrael.com/solar-eclipse-…
195.03/ #Eclipse2024 My extended family went to a place of 100% totality and took this picture a few minutes ago. For me its 90% and can't be photographed (which is one reason I said shehechiyanu). Not paskening for anyone else, but for me this is a religious experience. The total eclipse of April 8, 2024
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194.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-four, March 30-April 5, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 193 below.
194.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Shemini 5784.
@ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. #Shmini #HaChodesh
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194.03/ This is, 'how you say?, "awesome sauce"
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193.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-three, March 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 192 below. #HappyPurim!
193.02/ This is now my preferred pshat
193.03/ #NachasAlert: Final (so far) tally of times my son leyned Megillah seven times; 3 last night, four times today. Including once for a home-bound Shoah survivor. So proud.
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