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Jul 10, 2022 • 35 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
104.01/ Week one-hundred and four, July 9-15, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 103 below.
104.02/ I subscribe to @AlexandraErin on Buttondown but realized I didn't on @Patreon so I just rectified that. I very highly recommend her non-fiction writing (I'm sure her fiction is good too, but I haven't tried it yet so YMMV).
#NewPatron patreon.com/AlexandraErin?…
104.03/ This is a pretty extraordinary column all around, especially the story by my rebbe, Rav Riskin. It's also clear how much of a multi-dimensional gadol-hador Rav Moshe Feinstein z'l was. A gadol in chochma, bina, da'at and midot.
en.yhb.org.il/revivim1002/
104.04/ #ChochmatNashim @OhrTorahStone's Midreshet Lindenbaum recently published a Torah journal and it looks very interesting. See story below & direct link.
ots.org.il/jewish-link-ma…
ots.org.il/wp-content/upl…
104.05/ (1) "Say what you will"? That's an ominous phrase

(2) Sunset is one thing, wait until they find out we care about the phases of the moon (it's waxing gibbous, BTW)

104.06/ Proposition: you can either be a Savvy Politics Knower or you can believe every anti-Dem story published. You can't be both.

I used to say "check your priors" but that's too big an ask. Now it's like teaching city kids what poison-ivy looks like but with rage-clickbait.
104.07/ Good to see a high-profile account saying this (and maybe it's because of our age?) because this is my experience until now. I also block early and often, and have a purposefully VERY small account. But still, good to see.

104.08/ This comment of mine back in 2018 came across the transom and whoa it looks prescient in retrospect. I want to pop and tell myself "it's gonna get worse" and hear myself say "yeah, that checks out"
104.09/ This is important: dial 988 instead of 911 for mental health crises. This will definitely save lives.
104.10/ I feel seen.

[Alt-text: Simpson's principal meme. Top panel: "Maybe I have too many books?" Bottom: "No, it's the shelves."]

104.11/ Wow, that's hilarious. Good for him.
104.12/ And here I thought I was just a cry in the wilderness. I don't recognize Elmo; it's me and Grover all the way.
104.13/ TIL about 1948's Operation #Balak. Why that codename? "The name is a reference to the Balak, king of the Moabites, son of Zippor, whose name is mentioned in Numbers 22:2. By extension, the name came to mean 'Destroyer.'"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation…
104.14/ @POTUS Biden pushing back on the claim that the Democrats are anti-Israel, as well as rejecting the "ap*rtheid" calumny.

104.15/ OK, finally unfollowing & muting CH for this. The MSM normalized Trump (ym'sh) while tearing down the Democratic party led anti-fascist coalition through bothsides nonsense, straight up falsehood, or ideological vendetta (as below). Enough.
104.16/ For example, this is a pretty good campaign ad by the @TheDemocrats
104.17/ Reminder: the #ThreeWeeks start after Shabbat so get your haircuts today or early tomorrow. Weddings too, I guess, but that makes sheva-brachot weird.
104.18/ @hebrewbooks is an amazing resource. For example, here's an online Jastrow, for all your Aramaic needs
vol 1 hebrewbooks.org/38236
vol 2 hebrewbooks.org/38237
104.19/ Thanks to @Yair_Rosenberg in exposing yet another lie by the GOP. Attacking a president when he's overseas is bad enough, manipulating video to do so is par for the course for the Party of Jan. 6th.

104.20/ 100% right. And it's causation not just correlation because the people who support (worship) Reagan wanted this result. They love this.


And this thread is doing God's work
104.21/ Brief #LGM digression to praise Edwin Diaz*. 2019 messed him up b/c they juiced the baseball, but 2022 he's magic.



*(Std. athlete caveats for the future if he turns out to be a mean guy and/or PEDer)
104.22/ #RandomThoughts if there's hot sauce, then what's the opposite? I'm guessing ranch dressing. Basing this on both taste, practice and above all culture/ethnography.
104.23/ @eaton's observation tracks with my years-long project of identifying the sociology of #Literalist thinking. While he says it's "credulous", I've identified it as a neurological issue.*


*(both of us accept Hanlon's Razor) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27…
104.24/ When an athlete refuses the vaccine - besides being selfish, dangerous & stupid - they are showing that they're opposed to winning. Because bailing on your team based on cowardice should be fundamentally disqualifying.
espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…
104.25/ Good news!

Note, you don't have to be for prison abolition to recognize that what our society & gov. does to prisoners is unconscionably cruel and unnecessary. Jails are used as money gouging machines as well as a way to recreate slave labor!
104.26/ Like with Hayes above (104.15), I needed to stop following this guy. When you compare Biden to the wacko Adams it's bad enough but when you end up praising DeSantis?! C'mon man, that's @dril territory.

104.27/ If you know, you know
104.28/ I learned a lot from this thread by @DrBlackDeer and associated links about the native nations and abortion:
104.29/ Me: Hey twitter, can you show me an image and concept that will make me question nature and reality?

"Sure! Here ya go, a deer out of nightmares"

104.30/ Yyyyyyyyup
104.31/ Why do they call it medical marijuana for glaucoma and not See-Weed?

(Sorry for this. We were talking about seaweed and it popped in my head).
104.32/ Four years ago parshat #Balak I was a guest speaker at @RabbiJLawrence's shul and it was one of the hottest summers on record in England. Looks like this year will surpass it. Gevalt. Hope everyone will be safe.
104.33/ New proposed bracha liturgy: "May your merits be as numerous as the number of publications that carry Chief Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l's weekly parsha column."
104.34/ Thread of the Orthodox Women's Parsha shiurim for #Balak, what I label #ChochmatNashim after the organization that got me thinking about the need to organize these articles in this way.

104.35/ The #ThreeWeeks start imminently and it feels like the world is getting more weird, so be kind everyone, stay safe and have a great Shabbas. #ShabbatShalom

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229.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayetze #Vayetzei #Vayeitzei 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim.
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228.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-eight, November 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 227 below.
228.02/ Fundamentally, a plurality want a minority to do all the work but get no reward while they do very little work & get all the reward. The only system that will get close to that - liberal Democracy - gives too much to people the plurality hates, so they vote for fantasies.
228.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Toldot #Toledot 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim.
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227.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #ChayeiSara 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.
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227.03/ The first time through the cruel & stupid Trump (ym'sh) circus I read the news with trepidation because I didn't know what terrible thing he'd do next. This time, I read the news with contempt & anger because the MSM helped elect him and wants him to succeed.
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226.02/ Yup. Still here on Twitter. Gonna keep the fight and keep the faith. And also... no regrets. #HarrisWalz2024 Picture of 2 items: on the right is the volunteer badge my family wore when canvassing in PA. On the left is the door-knob flier we would put on unresponsive houses.
226.03/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. What movie? What else to start a new season, and in such a shockingly bad time? #Casablanca.
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Week 224 below.
225.02/ Finally dropped off our ballots this morning & took a selfie. A fun thing then happened: a young dad carrying a baby arrived after us & he said that it was his first time voting after becoming a citizen! So I insisted on taking a photo of him (with his camera). USA! USA!
225.03/ Yes, I'm the one who waited all Shabbas for the poll, taught my kids how polls work (social science PhD, baby) & what I hoped would happen (GOP leading by only 5). And they got to see my stunned elation in real time when I read the news.
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