116.02/ Another semi-she'hechiyanu today is the first day of "oatmeal and coffee for breakfast" season --which is distinct but overlapping with "soup season," and likely simultaneous with pumpkin-spice season, which I do not celebrate.
116.05/ Everyone be well, #EasyFast, and may everything go according to compassionate wisdom. #YomKippur Sameach!
116.06/ This is a wonderful thread of gratitude by @DBashIdeas and I can attest that the beautiful library in the pictures is not photoshopped. I've been there, it's real! (FYI: Rabbi Dr. Kanofsky has his PhD from BU with Prof. Elie Wiesel ob'm)
116.08/ #ChochmatNashim for #Haazinu 5783
Link below to a PDF file with active links to the shiurim. I hope to return to my previous practice of making threads, but the drumbeat of holidays/parshas is just too much right now. drive.google.com/file/d/1c_AObs…
116.09/ Biden-Harris seem to be doing many of the things they were asked to do - student loans, marijuana, ending the drone war & ending the war in Afghanistan, change the judiciary (more women, POC, public defenders), etc. Just not at the pace demanded.
116.12/ A combination of #YomKippur and assorted pre-#Sukkot madness have made my writing schedule more spotty than usual. BE"H I will write more soon.
115.02/ #ShavuaTov everyone & hello to the last day of 5782! I admit that I get a special thrill about skipping "Vayehi Noam" even though doing so implies my upcoming week has many days of isurei melakha. I love yuntif, honest I do, but I am a fan of writing & the internet, too.
(I apologize, it's been a brutal week and I can't format this list the way I'd like to before Shabbat. I will put out links only and BE"H try to make it a better list before #RoshHashanah)
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
[Alt-text: (1) the parody account "NYT Pitchbot" wrote a fictitious headline "Charles in Charge" and attributed it to Maureen D*owd on Sept. 8 (2) On Sept 10 D*wd wrote a column with that exact title.]