Thread by @JoshuaCypess

138.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty-eight, March 4-10, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 137 below.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1629651664482205696

138.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight is another one of my favorites, the underrated "A-Team (2010)" imdb.com/title/tt042949…

138.03/ [I forgot to link to my essay - appropriate for Shabbat #Zachor]

Moral Echoes of a Doomed King: the Fallen Reign of King Shaul (Alei Etzion 4, 1996, pp 83-101)
academia.edu/33158983/Moral…
Orig: gush.net/alei/4-07saul.… from
haretzion.org/torah/yeshiva-…
@inthegush

138.04/ TIL the name for a phenomenon I've witnessed for decades: "Murc's Law" = "widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics"

https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1631077660960112641

From here: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/12/great-…
(original? disq.us/p/1tdiq2o)

138.05/ Being Jewish means calling a practice that began in 800 CE "recent" "new" or "modern". Have an easy fast. #TaanitEsther

138.06/ It me

https://twitter.com/ldkop/status/1632651595669295107?t=RJ_4C4B9f12Osq9PoNAzTA&s=19

138.07/ In the #Muppet #Megillah, the only human should be Esther, right @RabbiAudrey? I'm thinking Zendaya.

Gonzo will be Achashverosh & Vashti would be a chicken (Camilla). Esther will be chosen because Hegai dresses her in feathers. More casting ideas welcome.

138.07b/ We're working on this.

Strangepork as Haman. Why? Ham-Man, that's why.
Zeresh is Ms. Piggy - making all of the family pigs, including the 9 of the 10 sons with one being an actual dolphin.

Mordechai is Kermit
Charvona is Pepe
Hatach is Fozzie
Hegai is Scooter

138.08/ Unrelated news from the Crazy Muppet Rabbi himself:

https://twitter.com/MuppetRabbi/status/1633094379509252101

138.09/ Look, it's Dov Kleiman, so this is #PurimTorah, right? Right?!

https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1632862619311779842

138.10/ This is very cool.

Rembrandt knew the Dutch Jewish community & he has a lot of Biblical subjects.

[Alt-text: this is a color oil painting of the party of Esther with Achashverosh & Haman. E is well lit, H is in dark shadows & A is halfway]

https://twitter.com/AlbertBaram/status/1632841017379414020

138.11/ Follow-up to 137.03 (below) are two other announcements about my wife's work

https://twitter.com/MasonGross/status/1630243788156444672

&

https://twitter.com/ISGRJRutgers/status/1630977854262345752

The original:
earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/2…

137.03

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1630370094923538432

138.12/ #Purim 5783 I'm living the Modern Orthodox dream: everyone in the house but me has been preparing for #Megillah layning. My son did 3 shifts last night & 2 today. My wife & daughter are layning right now at a women's service. Me? In a #Steelers jersey fielding the door.

138.13/ For #InternationalWomansDay #IWD I usually make detailed lists of the women I follow but ever since M*sk took over, I feel it's a waste of energy putting so much work into this sputtering website. Please see my list of last year.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1501369136181612547

138.14/ I benched gomel this morning because of a real #Purim miracle: the weird weather & high winds on Tuesday knocked my neighbor's tree down - all 40 feet, 3 tons of it - and it fell in BETWEEN the two houses. Nobody was hurt. The firefighters etc. remarked at our great luck.

138.15/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTisa 5783 @ChochmatNashim

Downloadable PDF with working links to shiurim by Orthodox women on the parsha and other weekly Torah.
drive.google.com/file/d/1AI2nzz…

138.16/ Have a great Shabbas everyone, don't forget to change your clocks forward Saturday night (i.e. lose an hour of sweet sweet sleep). Stay safe & #ShabbatShalom!

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