Thread by @JoshuaCypess

114.01/ Week one-hundred and fourteen, September 17-23, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 113 below.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1568755350408421377

114.02/ 12:50am #Slichot are great for my path of repentance because there's nothing like staying up super late on Motzei Shabbas at my age for filling me with regret. That's part of teshuva, right?

114.03/ And so it begins. See you in the 24th of #Tishrei for normal davening. Please God we'll all make it there together. #Slichot

114.04/ I know we divide up our community too much and we need to all come together but... I have no idea why people want to hear chazanus. For the love of all that's holy please just let us daven at a steady, brisk pace.

114.05/ I guess the chazanus has (indirectly) worked on me because in addition to above mentioned regret, I'm now davening harder for this to speed up.

[Note: I've led slichot myself in the past. I've walked the walk.]

114.06/ Truth (thread).

https://twitter.com/metraux_julia/status/1571252296868327424

114.07/ Chevra, make sure you get a #pruzbul signed in front of a beit din soon. I did mine this morning. We all do this because freely given loans are necessary for a thriving society and we all understand the loophole's need and legality. (This is a subtweet about sheitels).

114.08/ Choose your metaphor:
jta.org/2022/09/16/ny/…

114.09/ I've seen people call the acts of generosity & hospitality, instant & thorough, by the MV locals as "virtue signaling."

Uh, no. It's actual "virtue," full stop.

Calling it "signal" is moral rot.

(And, I hope @Delafina777's prediction comes true)

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1571315917610713088

114.10/ Big #ravenfreude sports day today. I need the Yankees to beat the Brewers and they are sputtering in the 9th. Earler, the Phillies botched it and I still have to root for the Cowboys over the Bengals this afternoon.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1069381457339183104

114.11/ Pre #RoshHashanah PSA: the lesson of the #Akeida is not, repeat not, that you should sacrifice your children. This is made very clear. You may ask "who'd be confused?" & the answer is "way, way too many people." This shows why it needed to happen, b/c it's still popular!

114.12/ Yes, please.

https://twitter.com/jilltwiss/status/1572789925002596352

114.13/ Almost said a she-hechiyanu this morning because the #Autumn weather finally arrived and I was able to wear my scarf & overcoat for the first time.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1445498799883894793?s=20&t=VRR6tFNTjQBBsDOAdGg2tQ

114.14/ It's almost #RoshHashanah so I can finally transition from pretending like I know the laws of the active #Shemitta year into pretending like I know what to do with produce after the Shemitta year. Looking at you, etrogim.

114.15/ The gemara makes it clear: how we judge others affects how HKBH judges us. And if you think you'll be unscathed under scrutiny of strict judgement, the Chumash makes it clear that you're wrong. So be compassionate l'shma, but also your own sake.
sefaria.org/Shabbat.127b.2…

114.16/ Self-diagnosis is a necessary part of giving a medical history. Any scientifically cognizant clinician knows MH is the cornerstone of diagnosis; it's the context that gives coherence to text (something that eludes #Literalist thinkers, by definition).

114.17/ I applaud seeing the increase in self-diagnosis of "atypical" conditions because it's such a hard, nebulous, and tricky, task: it's a process of realizing that your culture taught you your mind had fixed constants in an equation when they were actually, always, variables.

114.18/ Before RH, please God if I have strength and time, I'll write a Dvar Torah Thread about my 3 pillars of moral thinking - Dignity, Compassion, Justice. Until then, here's my 48 post thread from 2020 about "the five books" I think are foundational.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1306596690498146304

114.19/ "Look out! That bull is angry! Oh no! It's a clown! He saved me?! The clowns are good here? That's so weird. Why is there so much hay? What's that smell?! It's everywhere!"

[Me, at my first rodeo]

114.20/ The #ChochmatNashim for #Nitzavim 5782 thread in as raw a form as can be because I'm in a terrible time crush.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1573437089752010754

114.21/ Please forgive me for my unfinished writing, it's been a rough week.

Stay safe everyone & #ShabbatShalom

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