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@JoshuaCypess
Jun 26, 2022 • 62 tweets • 28 min read • Read on X
102.01/ Week one-hundred and two, June 25-July 1, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 101 below.
102.02/ Ambivalent Shabbas for me because while I was in rage-sorrow over the grievous injustice & harm wrought by the lawless RedHats, I also saw Shabbas as a refuge from the news.
102.03/ Parental Achievement Unlocked: just sent two of my kids on the train, travelling alone for their first time on their own, to see their grandparents.
102.04/ Saying "history will judge" is the atheistic-secular equivalent of saying that only the afterlife matters.

Denying the importance of "this world" vs. the "next world" is dangerous, torpid, negligence. It's also what the tyrants want you to think.
102.05a/ "Shmad" is the halakhic term for forced apostacy. It's a specter of our wretched exile in the Diaspora (see also: Hanukkah).
ushmm.org/research/about…
oxfordchabad.org/templates/arti…
Yet it's what American Jews now face when it comes to the abortion bans.
102.05b/ Ultra-Orthodox leaders (and their water-carriers) claim that forcing them to teach math & English in their schools is "shmad." To them, even the tiniest hint of outside culture is tantamount to religious persecution

Yet they don't defend abortion?! It's deeply wrong.
102.06/ I'll say again: I'm pro-abortion. Abortion is a human right; it's control over your own body. Being forced to give birth is akin to slavery. It's religion-motivated coercion & morally intolerable.

cf.

102.07/ Five threads:
HQ analysis about the law

Info for how to help

Be careful

On the ground perspective

The holy-war aspect
102.08/ Excellent thread with the direct quotes from the corrupt justices at their confirmation hearings


Also by @CelesteHeadlee, a great list of links/sources about abortion:
102.09/ This is a @lguillorme13 fan account; he deserves an All-Star nod and/or a Gold Glove. And possibly a cape. #LGM
102.10/ Whoa. Thanks @durkeetowner! I'm blocking @BNNBreaking; I can't have its nonsense on my feed.
102.11/ Agree 100%
102.12/ This thread approximates what I mean when I talk about voting. Very much worth reading.
102.13/ It's good that @QueenMab87 brings the proof, but it's increasingly clear that the knee-jerk liberal bashing from the right & far-left is completely in bad faith.
102.14/ #Korach: hear Rav Soloveitchik z'l's English language lecture on the parsha from Jun 21, 1973 (1 hr 56 min 35 sec).
yutorah.org/lectures/lectu…
102.15/ The linked movie (8min 25sec) is pretty insightful, re: a theme of movies in the late 90s.
102.16/ Parenting Achievement Unlocked: Thank God, after 2.5 years of pandemic the safety situation is such that my son is able to go to away to sleepover camp (for the first time!). It's Nerd Child of Nerd camp - Morasha Kollel. And we got to visit a Paramus shopping mall, too.
102.17/ Great line from @maimonides_nutz & I'll add that there's a "brother-in-law" factor here.

Could be a fun Odd-Couple sitcom: "He's a brittle narcissist... and he's a brutal pugilist... can these 2 learn together without driving each other crazy?"
102.18/ Speaking of Rebbe Yochanan, this is absolutely how he saw himself (see "brittle narcissist" above):

102.19/ It's just a stop-gap, but lives will be saved.

Above all: every minute we can continue to live in liberty is a good minute.
nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/…
102.20/ This is a hopeful sign.

Please God, all the complacent people who normally stay home for the midterms will come out and vote for all our lives here.

102.21/ Preach, brother
102.22/ Good!

As above with Louisiana (102.19), every minute we live in liberty is good in itself and will save lives.

102.23/ Great way to put it. And, yes, it's got cult vibes.
102.24/ A violent nub of formerly culturally hegemonic zealots refuse to live in a free and diverse society. Knowledgeable Jews, seeing what has happened to us every other place we've lived in our Diaspora, knew this would eventually happen.
102.25/ An absolute all-time motto. I'd use it more often if I could find a way to shorten/bumper-sticker it. It's so important.

102.26/ Reader: I was in Paramus, NJ when I read this
102.27/ If it's on tape I would watch it over and over. It'd be my screensaver.
102.28/ A very important quote which I'm reposting to add alt-text (see OP for citation)
If the last and worst act o...
102.29/ This is an extraordinary story about a hero I hadn't heard about before. (CW: holocaust & associated horrors). From this book archive.org/details/IWasAD…

Thank you @lilithsdatura!
102.30/ While I hope never to physically be in the presence of Trump (ym'sh) part of me wishes he would've tried acting like a violent infant in front of me because I take great satisfaction in making people like that disintegrate.
nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/…
nytimes.com/2021/09/28/us/…
102.31/ Then there's this.

[alt: editorial cartoon of a miniature Trump (ym'sh) attempting to grab the throat of a huge male USSS driver who says, imperturbed & almost resignedly, "Sir...")]

102.32/ You love to hear it
102.33/ The "Page 99 Test" is a cool idea (blog tagline: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford).

My wife, Dr. Rebecca Cypess, contributed this entry:
page99test.blogspot.com/2022/06/rebecc…
102.34/ All I ask is people check their priors. The KY thing is super suspicious but it was picked up by many on the Left as confirming their ideology that Biden was a secret RedHat.

Same thing now with the "bold moves." C'mon guys
102.35/ Today! This is exciting
102.36/ I'm trying to be anti-carceral, but there are some people who deserve to be locked away from society because of their manifest, unrepentant, danger. I feel a joy when justice is applied to monsters.
washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
102.37/ It's propaganda like this - happily passed around Far Left circles - that makes me really worry. Fascists win by dividing their opposition.

The reality? The Dems are the parents. The GOP are the cops preventing them from doing anything AND the shooter. Please see that. Tweet from @jaycatt7: "...
102.38a/ Do you know how we "codify" Roe, and all the other roots & branches of liberty? SCOTUS. It's stupid, I hate it, but that's the truth: they define the "code." And that was the ballgame in 2016. The horror I felt when HRC lost is b/c I knew our current court was our fate.
102.38b/ And I will criticize HRC for one cause of her "loss" that was in her control: choosing Kaine as VP. The ticket must be ideologically balanced, one center & one left. When Dems go two moderates, the left bolts b/c they're not represented - see 1968, 2000 & 2016.
102.39a/ Today was the funeral for Rabbi Dr. David Weiss #Halivni z'l. A survivor, a paramount academic, and for me the patron of all religious academics who don't fit in any of their worlds, as the quote below illustrates (which I quote frequently!)
via: It is my personal tragedy t...
102.39b/ In addition to that thread above, here's more about Rabbi Dr. #WeissHalivni z'l:
utj.org/2022/06/utj-re…
jta.org/2022/06/29/obi…
timesofisrael.com/david-weiss-ha…
blogs.timesofisrael.com/r-prof-david-w…


May his memory be for a blessing.
102.40/ This is a great thread re: art, humanities, and how to deal with fascists.
102.41/ Solid and informative thread about how Lincoln saw America, why he fought to preserve the union, which has relevance for our time. Prof. Feldman uses the phrase "cold civil war," which is also what I call our situation.
102.42/ This thread resonates as well with we cranky GenXers.

(What OP didn't experience, but my cohort knows, is how terrible 12 years of Reagan were like. In 1992 saw GOP dominance from '68, interrupted by 4 goofy Carter years.)
102.43/ Would you believe the Dems did "hold votes" on all these issues? But because of the filibuster, the bills don't even make it to the floor. So people like OP blame the Dems & not the *actual* culprits.

(See 102.37 above; the GOP are experts in propaganda & obstruction) Tweet from [name redacted]:...
102.44/ This thread describes a rollicking saga of good praxis (viz. the RATM radio station)
102.45/ OK, the treppenwitz is nagging at me: rewrite the line as "He's a brittle narcissist... and he's a brutal larcenist" (i.e. change "pugilist")

(BTW, I hope @maimonides_nutz is OK. I just noticed her account's down)
102.46a/ #ChochmatNashim for #Korach

5779 Laurie Novick
blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-we-there-y…
5780 Tikva Blaukopf Schein blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-defense-of-…
5781 Leah Herzog blogs.timesofisrael.com/enough-is-enou…
5782 Roe v. Wade Statement
chochmatnashim.org/chochmat-nashi…

Hamizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/1q6i2ph…
pp 5 7 8 16 22 23
102.46b/ #ChochmatNashim for #Korach

JOFA 5781 Atara Lindenbaum blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-grief-tur…

Rabbanit Shani Taragin
5782
jewishlink.news/divrei-torah/5…

Sivan Rahav Meir
5782
jewishpress.com/judaism/parsha…

Dr. Rachel Anisfeld
5782 rachelanisfeld.com/2022/06/30/sho…
102.46c/ #ChochmatNashim for #Korach

Yeshivat Har Etzion
5782 Rabbanit Sharon Rimon
etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/tora…

5780 Dr. Tziporah Lifshitz, Midrash
etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/tora…

Torah MiTzion
5781 Liat Jackman
torahmitzion.org/learn/true-lea…

5776 Shira Sohn
torahmitzion.org/learn/common-s…
102.47/ Triumph. #JusticeKetanjiBrownJackson
102.48/ We've been robbed. Typical.
102.49/ I linked to this above, but just in case, here's #ChochmatNashim about the repeal of Roe:
102.50/ Impressive, reasoned argument filled with cold fire by @MordyGetz about disingenuous behavior by Charedi media. 'Shkoyach.
102.51/ Art
102.52/ This is pretty brilliant. And true. And I need to do the background research for the paradigm/cultures
102.53/ This too is art
102.54/ If you've never ridden the roller-coaster of a @pptsapper Gettysburg thread, here ya go:

102.55/ Beautifully put

(re: the rogue, corrupt & cruel SCOTUS)

102.56/ I am both tone-extremes and everywhere in the middle of these two attitudes towards the Corrupt SCOTUS

and/or/both
102.57/ I end the thread now, on the aspirational hope that doing so, and entering Shabbas mode, no bad things can happen. Right? Right?!? [Sigh] Stay safe everyone and #ShabbatShalom

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