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Feb 6, 2022 • 34 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
82.01/ Week eighty-two, February 5-11, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 81 below.
82.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues, an all-timer, a cornerstone of the nerd canon, one of the greatest cultural touchstones of comedy, "Monty Python's Holy Grail"
82.03/ OLP links for #Terumah (sorry it's late; technical difficulties):
5779 Sally Mayer blogs.timesofisrael.com/always-there/
5780 Tikva Blaukopf blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-tabernacle…
5781 Peta Jones Pellach blogs.timesofisrael.com/god-is-so-emot…
5782 (none; so here's JOFA's) Amy Newman blogs.timesofisrael.com/imaging-a-diff…
82.04/ As a shul person I perceive the tenor of time through the parsha and the holidays. Just going through my files I'm reliving how Terumah 5780 was the last normal Shabbas before the pandemic and by Tetzaveh-Zachor 5780 things had already started to break down.
82.05/ Happy "I'm not a cat" Day for all who celebrate.

(BTW, it's a perfect complement to the iconic "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog" New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner on July 5, 1993)
Dog One on a chair sitting ...
82.06/ Reposting some of my #Tetzaveh entries and adding one comment: please stop titling your Dvar Torah some variation of "clothes make the man." It's ironically pedestrian and lacking in splendor.


82.07/ When you live with disability, you theorize that the people who criticize your incapacity and call you "lazy" would collapse in tatters were they to have to live with what you endure every day.

The collective gibbering freak-out by anti-maskers has confirmed this theory.
82.08/ Licorice is cilantro's Wario. Send tweet.
82.09/ It's been years since anyone has been able present me with this particular exposure. This thread took skill.
82.10/ It's a time of reckoning.
82.11/ I have so much to say about the Harvard Predator Coalition Letter that it hard to know how to start. So, before that, here's an absolutely beautiful top-of-the-turnbuckle body slam:
82.12/ Welp, his math checks out.
82.13/ We're finishing #MoedKatan in #DafYomi which means we're confronted, in the darkness of night in the solitude of our soul, with a cold realization that we're one more masechet away from Yevamot. [Shudder]
82.14/ Endorse.
82.15/ Same
82.16/ Amazing metaphor alert:
82.17/ Someone reached into my brain and made this image!

[We just started a Columbo binge (it's on Prime with a duckton of commercials) & despite the copaganda, it's mainly about class - all the killers are rich & are undone by underestimating the poor]
82.18/ Many of American culture's problems stem from the lack of stigma in being a bully or in cheating to win. The latter is expected - "just don't get caught" - and the former is even glorified.

"Triggering the libs" is a sick ideology of bullying & they're proud about it.
82.19/ Borges is incredible & I'd believe any fact about him, too.

"Borges is a time traveler from the year 21,999"
OK, sure, that checks out.

"He is three self-aware racoons in a trench coat"
They coordinated & collaborated well, an example for us all.
82.20/ I taught my kids that the real hero of the entire Star Wars Skywalker Saga is R2D2 and every new story shows how true that is.


(Also, Darths & Droids had the definitive "take" on R2 being a min-maxed PC)
darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0046.…
82.21/ A good ethnographic tool is to see who the culture allows to get publicly angry - and at whom. A white male having a temper tantrum is one of two pillars of the political platform of the GOP, destroying anyone else who gets angry is the other.
82.22/ Devastating but brilliant observation.
82.23/ It feels like fascism is popular in the US because (a) it's the goal of our 2nd biggest political party, the GOP and (b) it's the cash-cow for the MSM whose members may not "like" it, but they prop it up at every opportunity because it pays 'em well
82.24/ #NFL 2022 HOF:

Honors:


And for those fans who want to tank to get a high draft pick:

MVP: 24th pick
DPOY: 30th
OPOY: 69th

(OK, so the OROY was 5, DROY 12, CPOY 1st. But my point stands)
82.25/ This is a pretty good 2 min discussion from @Baddiel re: how to think about the racism behind antisemitism.
82.26/ See 82.23 above about the MSM normalizing fascism (& misogyny; key context for their anti-HRC coverage).

Like professors (cough: Harvard), reporters can be "liberal" but enable fascism. The impact of their behavior is fact, their words are opinion.
82.27/ OLP & JOFA divrei Torah for #Tetzaveh
5782 Meirav Kravetz blogs.timesofisrael.com/true-colors/
5782 Nomi Kaltmann blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-beauty-is-…
5781 Anne Gordon blogs.timesofisrael.com/clothes-make-t…
5781 Elizabeth Shayne blogs.timesofisrael.com/knowledge-of-t…
5780, n/a
5779 Tikva Blaukopf blogs.timesofisrael.com/tetzaveh-folde…
82.28/ Thanks to Rabbi Weisinger I know about this terrible case and have been watching for action and teshuva from YU. I'm glad he's not letting it rest and it's a terrible sign that victims & their supporters are met with silence.
82.29/ Yup. It's good to know that shaming these selfish clods (M*unk et. al.) works yet it's instructive that their response is to attack their condemners not change their behavior. While I'd rather they do teshuva, until then it's good to see them squirm
82.30/ Agreed.

Performative compassion - like other forms of aggressive egotism - should be named and shamed. These people make all Leftist causes look hypocritical and virtue requires us to clean house. Moral leadership requires high standards.
82.31/ I sympathize with Dr. Brett's familiar story.

Academia - despite being Enlightened - is rife with every level of predators/abusers & since success depends on reputation, it's easy to destroy the weak while making "rep. protecting" life or death.
82.32/ As usual, cryptomoola only makes sense when they're seen as a money-laundering tool that doubles as a pyramid scheme. It's a depressing milestone in the history of crime.
82.33/ As I said above, it looks like fasiscm is popular because the gatekeepers of culture - the MSM - and the law - the police - are passively (MSM) or actively (GOP/PD) in favor of it at this point.
82.34/ Sunset is nigh and I've got to be movin' on. Stay safe everyone and have a great Shabbos. #ShabbatShalom

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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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195.02/ 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
drive.google.com/file/d/1bFHTfW…
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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192.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-two, March 16-22, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 191 below.
192.02/ So today is #ZayinAdar and Saint Patrick's Day during Ramadan. What could go wrong?
192.03/ There's a resonance in having a fast that commemorates a community sacrifice for soldiers fighting a defensive war against raging antisemites. #TaanitEsther

And, hey, it's working already!
"IDF says 650 terror operatives captured at Shifa..."
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
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191.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-one, March 9-15, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 190 below.
191.02/ Last #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of the season. How to top last week, and with a movie my youngest hasn't seen yet? "Fletch (1985)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(f…
191.03/ I agree with Prof. Simkovich, re: the Oscar guy.

Also, I see people wrestling to make sense of his convoluted phrasing, but I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a declaration that inherently refuses to give others the same benefit.
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