If your response to a fatal attack on a synagogue outside of Israel-Palestine on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar is to make it entirely about Israel-Palestine, in either direction, consider that you are part of the problem.

Two Jews are murdered for the crime of going to shul on Yom Kippur. Bluesky being.... predictable about it

This literally happened in the Byzantine Empire

Reposting my piece from July for its Yom Kippur adjacent content

Things that are incredibly funny if you know some stuff about Chabad history, from Herbert Weiner's "9 1/2 Mystics" "Whoa man, I just realized you also could have been The Rebbe how they did decide between you two?" *R. Shmaryahu Gourary has a PTSD flashback*

Remember that Yom Kippur is a day for introspection, not blaming others, so coming up with a new set of al chet's for people to say in which they confess the sins that you want them to confess is not helping yourself or anyone else.

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I would like to describe this piece as "an excavation of latent meaning within one of the most important parables in the Hasidic canon" but that makes me sound like a pretentious twerp, so I'm just going to say that I enjoyed the process of writing this. thelehrhaus.com/commentary/a...

Gonna start telling people that the antivax movement is a Big Pharma conspiracy. What do you do when the main treatment for something has its patent expire and is thus unprofitable....

Ken, one of the dumbest people alive, gets way too much credit as a journalist for essentially checking his emails

I can't even imagine how dumb you'd have to be to think the person who runs the account posted it instead of what is clearly a hack. But what do I know, I don't have to figure out how to fundraise off of this

"unlike Republicans they stick together like glue" LMAO

Shot, Chaser

Most of Marxist thought throughout its history from what I can tell

Art, sacred art

I HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED In a piece that I sincerely hope is the weirdest thing The Lehrhaus has ever published, where I take a chassidishe torah, turn it inside out, stuff my own devar torah into it, and then make some art out of fragments of an academic paper. thelehrhaus.com/tanakh/two-m...

Preview of my piece coming out Monday on The Lehrhaus. I'm extremely excited for y'all to see it, a piece I sincerely hope is the weirdest thing they've ever published

I stumped the rabbi

This is my favorite joke I've ever made

Mustafa Tlass's Wikipedia page is a trip

Alito opinion: There is no right in America not to be mulched for union activity Gorsuch concurrence: *no right on Turtle Island

Grateful that there is no need for me to have an opinion on the NYC mayoral race

Did my student who's moving to a new school next year drop off a 3D printed placard with the Rambam's honorifics from teshuvot addressed to him that I had mentioned once in class? Yes, yes he did.

these days I take comfort in how little I matter and how inconsequential my opinions are. Can you imagine how frustrated I'd be if I had any influence on events whatsoever

Judaism actually does believe in hell

Gonna become a Sarugian Kabbalist as a bit. Have to purge Kabbalah of all its Vitalian distortions of the true Lurianic doctrine. My library is three Italian books and a very large bonfire.

Holy poo

There's this obnoxious trend pretending that Everything in the Levant was Ok Until the Foreign Jews Attacked. They'll go "if you hear these oral accounts that's what happened!" Why should we trust an oral history to be unbiased as opposed to a consoling narrative to help endure oppression?

Trying a new thing for Content

Sourcesheet for shiur I'm giving tonight at 4:25 in the morning docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's going through editing and hopefully it will be published soon but here is a preview of what's cooking

Locating the philosophical origins of the Declaration in Aristotle and medieval scholasticism is, aside from being just incredibly wrong, shows the contradiction of neo-Thomists/right-wing Catholics trying to shoehorn in their ideology into the traditional Whiggish history of America

In 1949 a man named Hirsch Loeb Gordon wrote a manuscript for a book about R. Yosef Karo's Maggid. He sent copies of that manuscript to everyone he could think of. One of those people was Albert Einstein. He received this response, which is printed in the book.

Do yourself a favor and read this @mimirocah1.bsky.social column. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I think about this tweet so often you cannot even imagine.

My favorite ever use of a Wikipedia link in a Wikipedia article

The piece that I've been brainstorming for a year is now almost done. It has gone from "how do I write this" to "eleven pages of stuff that's good, with a landing I need to stick" Whatever. I'll finish it tomorrow, hopefully. I'm excited for everyone to see it.

Do these people know what the Library of Congress *is*

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".

am i doing something wrong or is bluesky search functionally useless. I'll search for the name of a football player that just got drafted and click on "latest" and it'll tell me nobody's posted about that player in the past 8 hours?

Mel Kiper is going to kill a man