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101.01/ Week one-hundred and one, June 18-24, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 100 below.
101.02/ This is great news!
washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06…
101.03/ I'm at the Met game, I'm at my #FathersDay present, I'm at the combination #Mets game Father's Day present! #LGM The view from my seat at Ci...
101.04/ As a father, I think Seth Lugo needs to go to his room and think about what he's done. #FathersDayMets #LGM
101.06/ I take full responsibility for the #Mets loss today. Whenever my family goes to a game, we seem to lose. I have that effect on Flushing Meadows. #LGM
101.07/ This is a very useful thread by @Yair_Rosenberg about the (confusing) breaking news about the Israeli government:
101.08/ Last night the @SNYtv booth said that the last time the #Mets beat the Astros [insert trash can lid sound] in Houston was in 2011, when they were both in the National League! #LGM
ultimatemets.com/oppteams.php?T…
101.09/ In addition to voting we need to get out the vote. See this important list by the incomparable @Teri_Kanefield about ways to help save American democracy:
terikanefield.substack.com/p/to-do-list-f…
101.10/ I have a sociological-theological answer for the disturbing proliferation of anti-social Joshes, but for now I'll acknowledge that The Council of Assorted Joshuas need to police our members better. Maybe adding another yud?
101.11/ [Insert your preferred gif of people clapping here]
101.12/ It's clear that ignorance *is* bliss. But it's also (too often) deadly and it's the root of criminal negligence.

It's not moral to remain ignorant, and the fact that it feels good should signal to you how selfish it is to willingly stay that way.
101.12b/ This came up b/c - from a combo of nature/nurture - I'm determined to know the truth of things no matter how painful. And knowing what's going on (& why) doesn't actually make me feel good. It's incredibly frustrating! But I keep maintaining my gaze as a moral imperative
101.13/ Barukh Dayan ha-Emet. This is absolutely horrible news. A tragedy for human rights and American liberty
101.14/ The Roberts Court has gutted nearly every significant right American citizens had & now women are no longer first class citizens & the right to privacy has been destroyed. A literal curse on everyone who helped this happen through action or negligence.
101.15/ Re: our corrupt & cruel SCOTUS.

What I'm feeling is an emotion that's idiomatic of, but not unique to, Jewish culture: a mixture of rage & sorrow. My heart is heavy but my mind focused on who's guilty & who's being hurt. This emotion precedes a call for God's judgement.
101.17/ #NachasAlert (even in the face of tragedy, there's still nachas)

Despite it being his responsibility, I needed to allow my son to be absent when his "trunk" was picked up to go to sleepaway camp because he was teaching a self-created Gemara shiur at the time. He's 15.
101.18/ #NachasAlert (even in the face of tragedy, there's still nachas)

After many years of waiting I was able to finally register a new voter this week. How many years? Eighteen.

(Also registered for selective-service, jury-duty, & other citizenship duties. Thank God.)
101.19/ Parshat #Shelach has two immediate messages for us today

(1) what it feels like when 5/6th of men, seized with terror of their inadequacy, doom a nation to the wilderness

(2) When we expand the court, it should be 23 judges based on the #meraglim
sefaria.org/Mishnah_Sanhed…
101.20c/ #ChochmatNashim on #Shelach cont.

Derachecha by Laurie Novick et. al.
deracheha.org/bat-mitzva/

Dr. Rachel Anisfeld
rachelanisfeld.com/category/parsh…

Torah MiTzion
5782 Shanen Bloom Werber torahmitzion.org/learn/blue-and…

Hamizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/1WC4fEF…
pp 5 7 8 16 22 23
101.21/ You don't need to have a uterus to be horrified by this corrupt & cruel Court's uprooting of Roe. Legal precedent means nothing to them. Every right we have can disappear. They want us to live in 1850 but we can reverse it in November if we stay together & stay strong!
101.22/ A political party that lusts after controlling bodies by banning abortion has thus criminalized following Jewish law. Halakha demands abortion in many cases. It now may be assur to live in or visit those states because of pikuach nefesh. The GOP has banned a Torah law!
101.24/ The Republican party is determined to strike at every American liberty. Listen to their Chief Legal Theologian, Clarence Thomas:
101.26/ I'll be clear: when I said above I'm laying a curse on those who let this happen, that's not a metaphor. I'm calling God's judgment down. That goes for anyone who suppresses the vote right now. I'm serious.

(Look at what we've gotten from Biden)
101.27/ Be careful everyone, protest safely, help those in need, because we're surrounded by the callous, corrupt, and the cruel. We're all in this together.

#ShabbatShalom

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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women on the parsha and other weekly Torah.
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189.03/ Watching the Mets preseason game, listening to Gary and Ron in the booth... that's the first sign of Spring in my house. What a joy. #LGM
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187.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues: Spiderverse 2 (I refuse to learn the minor variations of the titles they apply to all the Spiderman movies just to annoy me)
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