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128.14/ Some of my #Chanukah hot-takes now that this Bird Site is on rails towards a trainwreck:

1) Dreidel is a boring game
2) Latkes are about as tasty as flat potato kugel
3) Sufganiyot are bad donuts
4) The Hasmonean kings were pretty terrible.
128.14b/ Two more #ChanukahHotTakes
5) Dairy "gelt" aren't worth it (but pareve is always useful)
6) It's not a minor holiday. Tu B'Av - mentioned in the Gemara - is "minor." #Hanukkah has full Hallel, Al Ha-Nisim, Torah reading, active mitzvot (neirot), etc. It's high Rabbinic.
128.15/ This picture is making the rounds. As a lifelong gabbai, I can say there are two types of gabbai reactions to this array: (1) stress (who will agree to daven, who gets aliyot, etc); or (2) glee at being center of decision making & klopping the bimah before shemona esrei. Signage found in the front of a synagogue's sanctuary that l
128.16/ Used #Chanukah candles to teach someone the #NFL positions. I explained the names are logical b/c it's based around the line of scrimmage (in blue). The line-men: Yellow are "ends" purple are "tackles" green are "guards" and orange the "center." Picture of what I described in the main text.
128.17/ #Chanukah night eight. Full house. Take THAT Antiochus, ya goon.

(And, sorry @ShammaiIntl, you get to make everything a sheni b'tumah as a consolation prize.) My windowsill with 5 lit menorahs each totally full. 4 with

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Week 218 below (I misnumbered some last week; that's going to cause trouble).
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218.01/ Week two-hundred and eighteen, September 14-20, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 217 below.
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.
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Sep 13
217.01/ Week two-hundred and seventeen, September 7-13, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 216 below
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…
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Aug 11
213.01/ Week two-hundred and thirteen, August 10-16, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 212 below.
213.02/ Henceforth, I am calling the Times "USA Today for Rich People" and when asked why, I will cite @wychstreet and this decision.

213.03/ Resending this #ChochmatNashim for #TishaBeAv (and #Devarim) for this year.
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212.01/ Week two-hundred and twelve, August 3-9, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 211 below.
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.
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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.]
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211.01/ Week two-hundred and eleven, July 27-August 2, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 210 below.
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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazakah
211.03/ Knowing full well that this is based on a purposeful hoax, I accept this nickname for Vance.
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