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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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198.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-eight, April 27-May 3, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 197 below.
198.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #AchareiMot & #Kedoshim 5783. @ChochmatNashim

It's going to be hard updating the 5784 edition before Shabbas, so please enjoy this "classic" version from last year. Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the parsha.
drive.google.com/file/d/136A4pd…
@ChochmatNashim 198.03/ The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found her... Mazal Tov and congratulations to my wife, Dr. Rebecca Cypess, on her new position as Dean of Stern College and Yeshiva College! BE"H her new position will allow her to help heal academia.
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Apr 16
196.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-six, April 13-19, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 195 below.
196.02/ Still holds true (from last year)
196.03/ #NachasAlert: My son has a big article (pages 4-6) in this week's Torah journal from his high school #Metzora-#HaGadol. Enjoy!
drive.google.com/file/d/1uNKU5O…
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Apr 7
195.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-five, April 6-12, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 194 below.
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. The total eclipse of April 8, 2024
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Apr 2
194.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-four, March 30-April 5, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 193 below.
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…
194.03/ This is, 'how you say?, "awesome sauce"
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Mar 24
193.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-three, March 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 192 below. #HappyPurim!
193.02/ This is now my preferred pshat
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.
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192.01/ Week one-hundred and ninety-two, March 16-22, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 191 below.
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

And, hey, it's working already!
"IDF says 650 terror operatives captured at Shifa..."
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
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