97.02/ #ShavuaTov everyone. My wife texted from Israel that she got positive PCR test when she landed in Israel - one day before they rescinded that requirement! She's asymptomatic, thank God, but I just don't know how it could've been avoided b/c the 'rona is rampant y'all.
97.03/ It was in the 90s today and my downstairs A/C broke days ago and I can't get a guy here until Tuesday. I told them they can prioritize others because my upstairs A/C works, Thank God, so it's not a safety issue for us. But I wouldn't mind it getting fixed soon.
97.04/ A new batch of new COVID tests are available by the Post Office. Thank goodness.
97.08/ I was taught that in the MLB every team will win 1/3 of the games & lose 1/3, it's what they do with the middle third that's the difference. The 2022 #Mets seem to want to be the living embodiment of this adage, and I love it. It's been technically great baseball. #LGM
97.13/ AFAIK, the aggressive support for D*pp comes from the desperate desire to destroy #MeToo so to reestablish a hierarchy of abuse with white patriarchy on top. D*pp is Kavanaugh & Ritt*nhouse combined. No matter the verdict, we can't let that destruction happen.
97.14/ Finally got the HVAC guys today & my transpiston-manifold matrix has been degaussed, or something similar in the realm of "this machine disobeyed the laws of physics & you're paying the price." Basically a crucial piece of plastic melted & it costs.
97.16/ GenX #Mets fans are forever blessed/cursed by growing up with '86 as a possibility; a team that got us hooked for decades. Every year we hope we could repeat that magic (without the cocaine, crimes & tragedy). '22 feels like that kind of team! #LGM
97.17/ Something these 6+ years of civilizational battle have shown us is that nearly every section of the academy has their time to be an expert, and then suffer when their expertise is thrown away in favor of ideological appeasement and/or raw human selfishness.
97.18/ For a long time, I couldn't imagine that the pro-gun GOP loved seeing dead kids, but there's just too much evidence. The GOP prevents any action to stop massacres & COVID showed us they do not care about children's lives at all. They're an unreasoning death cult.
97.19/ For those "both sides" types, here's the GOP
But since we've seen the GOP is the anti-vax, anti-mask, pro-COVID party, it makes sense they want to encourage this death vector.
Don't you dare call them "pro-life."
97.21/ I learned a lot from this thread by @NBedera re: #MeToo especially the ethnography of conservative abuse survivors. Thank you Dr. Bedera. (See also 97.13 above)
97.22/ I needed to take a Twitter break because too many people - well meaning, I'm sure - felt a need to share gruesome details from the latest gun tragedy. I can't handle that, just jumping out at me. No trigger warnings neither. Just [WORST HORROR IMAGINABLE] in my feed.
97.23/ We've invented non-verbal textual language with "air quotes" - something exclusively from written language but missing from oral - and I think we need to expand the repertoire. Maybe something for "citation needed"?
97.24/ I'm evidently "get one less hour of sleep yet it feels like I haven't slept in days" years old.
97.25/ The same people who believe the president has dictatorial powers to just do whatever they want are those who actively discourage voting when "The Dems" don't magically fix everything instantly. In my experience, they can't be reasoned with; this is a psychological need.
97.26/ The family's back together again! My wife & daughter returned from Israel this morning & despite being in COVIDjail for most of the time, the trip was a (hyperkinetic) success. It's good to have everyone here for #Shabbas, though.
97.27/ #NachasAlert: My parents and wife are being honored* at this year's RPRY dinner! Donations are welcome; it's the best school in the state, so you can't go wrong. wizevents.com/rpry2022/
97.31/ As part of my broadly defined #ChochmatNashim (which started as that organization, OLP, only, but is now a big tent), here's an small piece by @Doc_RPS which features one of the two best prizes in Jewish leadership: an artsy cartoon profile pic. jewishpress.com/sections/featu…
97.32/ The other prize, you ask? Obviously to have a sandwich named after you in a nearby deli. I have never been even close to this honor but I have the menu planned down to the last detail just in case the opportunity strikes.
97.34/ While it feels like the world is getting grimmer, I give my blessing that we can find the power to make our own interactions generous & benevolent and in this way push back the darkness.
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
190.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues, 2 weeks left before we change the clocks so climbing to the finale. It's "Raising Arizona (1987)" night! I don't need to explain how great it is, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_A…
190.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayakhel #Pekudei 5783 (last year; this year it's Vayakhel-Shekalim)
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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women on the parsha and other weekly Torah. drive.google.com/file/d/1FLeFk2…