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Jewish (ger), former Christian clergyman, siddur collector, cat servant, punster, Dr Pepper drinker תומר יצחק בן אברהם אבינו ושרה אמנו
Jul 24, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Over the past couple of years, I've internalized the sequence of the seven patriarchs associated with the seven lower sefirot - Avraham/Chesed, Yitzchok/Gevurah, Yaakov/Tiferet, Moshe/Netzach, Aharon/Hod, Yosef/Yesod, and David/Malchut - and I tend to think of them whenever a 1/? Image sequence of seven comes up, for example, in the Amidah. *
Since I've become Jewish and started wrapping tefillin, I have silently in my mind gone through the list of patriarchs as I wrap seven times around my arm, a name with each wrapping, as a way of counting but in a more 2/?
Sep 13, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
@ShlomoFelber With the obligatory caveat about Judaism and Christianity being different religions, there being no such thing as "Judeo-Christian", etc. - this reminds me of growing up evangelical - in addition to faith healers, there were doctors hawking particular vitamins, drugs, etc. 1/? @ShlomoFelber that were "wonder drugs/vitamins" that could cure a wide variety of illnesses (allegedly), multilevel marketing schemes were popular - Amway famously - friends of my parents got into Shaklee vitamins, emergency prep supplies (depending on the sect), etc. I'm sure the exact 2/?