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Rejected from many prestigious fellowships•Educator @NCSY @YUNews•Talmud @tabletmag•PhD @thenewschool•Founder @18_forty • I read over Shabbos @ShabbosReads
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Nov 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A friend of mine from Yeshiva called himself “hashkafically homeless” yesterday. Don’t think he’s alone. There was an undercurrent of feeling among some that’s been quietly bubbling about a reevaluation of some of our religious outlooks (that’s the best translation I have of the word Hashkafa) particularly as it relates to the State of Israel.
Nov 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Genuinely shocking to read Ryna Workman’s account of events.

She blamed Israel in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas terrorist attack.

Now in a gofund me she is shocked people read malicious intent into her email and claims she’s being singled out “not only because of what I said but because of who I am.”

No. No. No.

It’s 100% what you said.

We have a generation that has lost its grip on moral clarity.

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Image The only consolation is knowing his lack of judgment in determining who is a victim is not just for Israel—but extends to her own self-assessment as well.
Aug 4, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 On Gvir Culture™️ Recently there has been a lot of attention given to a trip advertised during yeshiva week that is being run by a dear friend as part of his efforts to normalize UA relations w Israel.
Jul 27, 2023 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 I think the 3rd Chapter of Eichah (Lamentations) describes the creation of the world of modern religious life.

Let’s learn some of it together. For the past few years I’ve been fixated and moved by the 3rd chapter of Eichah and how it is used in later rabbinic literature to describe what contemporary religious life feels life.

We read it every Tisha B’Av because it lays the groundwork of the exilic lives we still lead.
May 23, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
🧵 On the theme of Tractate Gittin

In today’s daf, Gittin 7a, we’re introduced to a fascinating character named Genivah.

He’s a rabbi who apparently relentlessly harassed another rabbi named Mar Ukva.

It’s an offhand story that most don’t pay too much attention to. Except I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage Here’s the wild thing about the Genivah story: It weaves its way throughout the entire tractate.

Different parts of this same story appears again and again littered throughout the tractate.

See 31b, 62a, 65b.

It’s easy not to even notice.
May 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I read this over Shabbos. Image This is a jaw-dropping read about a subject that is so understudied but should be given way more attention: the nature of consciousness.

Maybe in religious communities we take these concepts and their importance for granted.

@Philip_Goff is an incredibly writer. A perfect… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very interesting/fascinating/sad/intriguing developments in the world of Gemorah learning for women in the modern Orthodox community.
yucommentator.org/2023/04/three-… As Chaim Saiman once wrote regarding gedolim, I think the same is true re: higher Talmud learning for women: There has been too much focus in changing the “supply” and not enough efforts in changing the “demand.”

Prob a lot more at play as well.
Apr 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I read this over the final days of Pesach. Image I bought this kind of as a fluke at the YU Seforim Sale. I had heard of R’ Bezalel Naor but for some reason thought of him as more of a translator than a first-class leader in Jewish thought.

Boy, was I wrong.
Apr 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There is a custom for firstborns to fast on Erev Pesach.

The reason is misunderstood.

Firstborns were originally supposed to serve as the priests in the Temple but because of their participation in the Golden Calf, God gave that privilege to Kohanim instead. Erev Pesach is *the* busiest day for Kohanim, getting everyone’s korban Pesach ready.

It *should* have been *the* day for firstborns.

To commemorate this loss, firstborns fast.
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We begin our commemoration of the exile in Egypt with the exile from our kitchen in order to get ready for Pesach. Image Shoutout to all the dads whose job today was “keep the kids out of the house.” 🙌
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Tattoos are prohibited in Judaism but contra to popular belief you can still be buried within a Jewish cemetery with one.

This person got a tattoo which reads, “Even if a Jew even sins, they are still a Jew.”

This tattoo def encapsulates that. 😬 The formulation in the tattoo comes from the Talmud in Sanhedrin 44a and was used most notably by Rashi to justify treating apostate Jews as Jews for many areas of Jewish law.
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Not sure what’s happening w/ these protests in Israel but I’ve made that exact face anytime I’m pulled into a wedding dancing circle I don’t really wanna be in. Image Who can share a good primer to understand the Bnei Brak protests today?

These yeshiva guys are part of a counter protest?

What’s going on? This about judicial reform? Anti-prostletyzing bill?

Explain it to me like I’m a child.
Jan 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I can’t tell if this is a cute plush toy grab game or deeply anti-semitic 🧐 Image Someone sent this to me from their winter break. Seriously did a double take.
Jan 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Jeopardy answer: “What is Kosher?” I always wonder what the rest of the world thinks the kosher symbols on food packaging I’m doing but this Jeopardy contestant nailed it!
Jan 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
You could write an entire Talmudic tractate on why NY and NJ are unable to coordinate the same Yeshiva Week. Some say this is the true Yom Tov Sheini shel Galiyos. There are those who are careful to observe both.
Jan 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
how im helpful w shabbos cooking
jk I make the steak and cholent but when it comes to all other cooking my comments are what I bring to the table. 🤷‍♂️
Jan 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
As a kid, Oreos becoming kosher felt like the dawn of the messianic age. I remember this ad.

Just a mind-blowing moment in my childhood.

Neck-in-neck with Twix becoming kosher.

“The lion shall lay down with the lamb and those yummy snacks you always look at in the supermarket shall become kosher.”
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Can anyone help identity the story behind this?

Inscription seems to say it’s from the 1975 rabbinic class at Yeshivas Yitzchak Elchanan. Inscription.
Dec 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
New Chanukah present from crazy uncle just dropped. Image Better than socks/sweater I guess?
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
אימתי קאתי מר? לכשיפוצו מעיינותיך חוצה. ❤️ And the Baal Shem Tov asked the Messiah, “when will you arrive?”

And he responded, “when your wellsprings are spread outside.”

This, my friends, is the essence of chassidus.

❤️
Dec 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Tonight is Rav Hutner’s Yahrtzeit. An article I wrote about Rav Hutner’s correspondence

tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…