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). #NewPatronpatreon.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/
104.06/ 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"
104.13/ 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.'"
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.
104.17/ Reminder: the #ThreeWeeks start after Shabbat so get your haircuts today or early tomorrow. Weddings too, I guess, but that makes sheva-brachot weird.
104.19/ 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.
*(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.*
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.
104.31/ 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
218.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTavo 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. 12 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/1zjmFJj…
219.03/ It's stuff like this that makes almost any wild idea about the capabilities of technology seem plausible. The good guys just did SOMETHING to make beepers remotely blow up. That's not something I could even imagine existing and yet here we are.
217.02/ Due to a combination of having a maddening schedule over the past few weeks and having Twitter owned and run horribly by the Divorced Incel King, it's been very hard to write anything.
217.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTetze 5783 (last year)
@ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the weekly parsha and other topics of the day. 15 Pages. No time to do a new one this year before Shabbas. drive.google.com/file/d/1NucT9p…
212.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Devarim and #TishaBeAv 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. 22 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/1TH6ApN…
212.03/ This is an excellent, spot-on, thread. I've said a lot of this stuff for years.
[I'm a life-long Democrat born in Pittsburgh & raised in small towns (Binghamton), rural areas (Ithaca), and the South (Memphis). Walz is a familiar archetype to me.]
211.02/ It would behoove this law prof. to learn about the Jewish law concept of "chazakah" - the legal presumption for what a person means/intends. So, um, Trump (ym'sh) fomented an armed insurrection. He wants to end Democracy.
210.03/ I had too many sleepless nights over the last three weeks because of the drumbeat against Biden b/c there was too much smoke for there not to be fire. What kept me steady was my trust of his judgement. So if he thinks this is wise, then I logically have to support it.