103.04/ The recent domestic terrorist attacks in Highland Park & Philadelphia have definitely put me on edge. Davening for those communities and for God's protection for the future. As below, we can't keep going on like this.
103.06/ I used to call this the Ayn Rand rule and nowadays there's quite a number of people who fall into this simple litmus test. M*sk, Joe R*gan, etc.
103.08/ The FarLeft has mythologized FDR & LBJ's successes into a pure Green-Lantern "force of personality" fable. But those two (and Lincoln) only got so much done b/c of huge majorities in Congress! (Who else uses a mythic past to pillory the present?)
103.13/ Parenting achievement unlocked: Thank God, after 2.5 yrs of pandemic things are safe enough that we could my kids to summer camps that my wife & I wish we could've gone to in our day. My daughter is at Drisha Gemara camp & my son is at the boys' equivalent, Morasha Kollel
103.19/ Great aphorism: "Sutor, ne ultra crepidam is a Latin expression meaning literally 'Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe', used to warn individuals not to pass judgment beyond their expertise"
103.26/ Until the Roman persecutions forced our hand, there was a ban on writing down the Oral Law. Why? To save lives & avoid exploitation of Jewish culture.
We created tactics 2000+ years ago so to escape the inevitable violence from state surveillance. Just... ya know.
103.30/ Happy "Last Day of Masechet Yevamot" to all who celebrate! #DafYomi
It was nice to get a weird story of "Jonny the Demon" as a send-off. Yeah, he could just be a demon hunter, but Rashi's first answer is that he's an actual sheid. Named Jonathan. sefaria.org/Yevamot.122a.9…
103.31/ Excellent comment & especially the line: "yeah, we’re not aliens…"
He endured one of the brain-breaking-est events in the past century, the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 by FDR (of all people) & so I pay attention to his words.
103.37/ Part of me really appreciates how the Biden administration does great things without fanfare, similar to how Barry Sanders would be superhuman, score & then just quietly hand the football to the ref. Yet in an election year they *can't* be quiet.
These people are egoistical authoritarians who, because they happened to be born Jewish, must define Judaism by their own minds: selfish, shallow & brutal.
103.40/ Abrams puts it so well, and that's what I believe when I emphasize voting. Sadly, IMO the anti-voters filling my feed who accuse me of thinking it *is* magic are themselves dependent on magic solutions (keyword: bully pulpit). It's a paradigm clash
103.47/ This is great news, I believe. It was scary to contemplate having a brittle colonialist be in charge of the preferred communication medium of academics, journalists and many marginalized communities.
103.48/ I will end the thread-blog on some good news. Two of my kids are away at camp, so it will be a bit lonely, but they are having a great time, thank God.
209.02/ Following the assassination attempt on TFG yesterday - an act I condemn; ballots not bullets - the reaction by news agencies has been unhinged. But I'm singling out The Daily Beast and Politico who are lionizing TFG using very disturbing rhetoric. I've had to unfollow.
209.03/ I'm furious that so many in Congress are playing this dangerous game but I'm reminding myself that (1) the MSM has been fabricating stories & amplifying mythological pro-GOP nonsense for a while now & (2) I trust Biden's abilities to handle this like he did NATO.
208.02/ Demographically, I should be part of the "elite" but the past two weeks showed me that I'm a solid true-blue member of the Democratic "base" because I'm standing by Biden-Harris & have a white-hot rage against the media (& the cowards in my party) trying to take us down.
208.03/ People ask "Why haven't the media learned their lesson from 'But Her Emails?' in 2016"?! But the answer is QED - they did learn their lesson: that with relentless bad-faith attacks they can knock out the Democrat & elect a cash-cow tabloid buffoon. They know & want this.
207.02/ I didn't see the debate because I can't stand listening to Trump (ym'sh). The bizarre meltdown by the MSM calling for Biden to drop out is not only disgusting but reignited the normie-Democrats' blazing anger at the MSM goofs that brought us "But Her Emails" in 2016.
207.03/ Ironically, the drumbeat from the MSM about Biden's age for months - probably starting right after the withdrawal from Afghanistan which ruined their gravy train - prepared the public for how he sounded at the debate. The MSM hit-job backfired.
205.02/ It's important to know: every pawn can become a queen.
205.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Behaalotecha 5783 (last year) @ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/14uXvSR…
204.02/ What incredible news! Barukh Hashem, 4 hostages rescued from those monsters.
'Operation Arnon’: How 4 hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in central Gaza
204.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Naso 5783 (last year) @ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. (I'm not sure I can update this well enough for 5784 today) drive.google.com/file/d/1b46N_z…