וּבְכֵן. מִי: וּבְכֵן. מִי לֹא: וּבְכֵן. מִי לֹא יִרָאֲךָ: וּבְכֵן. מִי לֹא יִרָאֲךָ מֶלֶךְ: ואידך זיל גמו"ר

Every Rosh Hashanah I remember the look on Old Man Brizel's face when giving an appreciative customer his definitive booklet on the Kavanos of the Nesirah to guide one's RH. So I repost it to smile again. I don't know what it meant to him, but he was happy to have found his place in the Cosmos.

Pop Kabbalist: sign up for monthly Holy Water boxes! Real Kabbalist: [wears out fingertips flipping the 100 pages of kavanot for the first blessing of the Amidah]

Pop Kabbalist: here's a $100 starter amulet. Real Kabbalist: OMG did you see [elderly Kabbalist] finally published the definitive guide to Rosh Hashanah kavanot centring the Sawing Apart of Adam & Eve? I've been waiting to study his take for *years*! (True story, phrasing my invention)

I found it! This is the very pamphlet tablet.otzar.org#/b/169071

How many of you have even heard of the Nesirah as a core element of Rosh Hashanah? (Making no pretense myself of knowing more than was printed on the cover of the pamphlet my kabbalistic family member was gushing over)

Knowing Tucker, this may well be intentional

Any gentile who quotes Shlomo Sand at Jews should swiftly be written in the other Book.

Someone needs to [redacted by the censor of Basel]

I thought of it so all of you will have to Bwahahaha

If you are an alt of one of my mutuals, @ritesofzhou.bsky.social, please tell me If not, welcome! No guarantee of scholarship here 🤷‍♂️

I may have done this before, but let me try a crude translation to get through what it feels like to me 1/4

I love, as a non-atmosphere-breaking diversion during Rosh Hashanah davening, browsing the liturgical poetry we have from Before We Discovered Rhymes, but We Were Getting Very Warm

God's getting fired.

And to you all!

The entire Zionist camp from "left" to right opposes Palestinian self determination. This is actually existing Zionism. It is not overridden by the self identified liberal Zionism of American or British Jews.

One of the only zero-grade PIE reflexes in Slavic, intones the textbook in my head

He found this one very funny (and tells himself that he was mistaken for a short adult because of how he acted "tough" once he resolved to continue walking)

I suppose I should repost this. Burning anger is over but the non-burning part goes on.

The thing about fighting people who play games at the expense of matters of Jewish identity or taking antisemitism seriously is that until you turn around and shoo them away, people playing the opposite games with the same will cling to you.

Ooh, btw, last night I bumped into a trash "Arabs are from Arabia hurr durr" account and before blocking I was repulsed to learn that they follow me. See to it that this isn't you, as in anyone following me now. Get the sewage out of your system or unfollow.

What... what do they think we're *supposed* to do at the High Holidays?

You know what made me cry? Remembering the words מי יִשָׁלֵו, and its not-pair מי יִטָּרף. In the grand scheme of things I haven't suffered much, relatively, thank God. But I have not known שַׁלְוָה for my entire adult life and that doesn't seem likely to change, טָרף טֹרַף יוסף. I'm so tired of instability.

ועל המדינות בו יֵאמר

Good, at long last, hope it has any effect, even though it's something on its own

"Anxiety and Determination" oh you mean u-N'saneh Tokef

who will be troubled by neurosis and who will suffer from psychosis who by anxiety and who by depression who by existential dread and who by egomania who by bad habits and who by impulsivity BUT MEDICATIONS, THERAPY, AND A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CAN REDUCE THE IMPACT OF YOUR CONDITION ON YOUR DAILY LIFE

What... what do they think we're *supposed* to do at the High Holidays?

It's not like my original post didn't take pains not to generalize against all Communists. Those that lean into Soviet imagery so heavily don't bode well, eh

*Non-Zionist hater of a loud subset of Communists

I need to try this someday

I love ironic Holocaust understatement. My favourite genre of Jewish gallows humour.

Hello, sir Would you like to hear several tomes' worth of disputes and definitions of what constitutes a "knot"? No we're not mathematicians, we're rabbis, since when do mathematicians have forbidden labours?

So I encounter that vile "She Was Speaking" account back on a new alt (and no, the Kamala Harris focus doesn't bother me remotely) and I discover that people friendly enough with them to "welcome them back" follow me? WTH?

I know who you are, I'm giving you a sporting chance to slink off before I add you to my blocklists for the 3rd or 4th time at least

Lost another account, have you

I really am moderately disappointed when someone who takes a bad-faith reading of my words against me turns out not to have anything worse on their name. Doesn't happen often. Consider this the most backhanded of compliments, my dear newly-blocked nuisance.

(1) I say again, you cannot actually surrender to these people because they're too stupid and angry to know what they want. (2) "Al Quaeda's status as a foreign terrorist organization is ironclad" sounds like a blurb they'd put on their magazine cover next year.

In a cartoon car several hundred feet past the mountain road guardrails, still propelled by animation momentum: "I think we might be headed in the wrong direction?"

You're not exactly here to convince me, or vice versa. I haven't blocked you yet because I want to know exactly how much I hate you.

The Kabbalistic Tree of Baking Whereby divine Volume emanates to the lower vessels & is differentiated into units

My apologies May only Good Empanadas surround you henceforth

I unfortunately didn't realize it was homecoming party weekend here, and I let my 11 year old walk the usually tranquil streets between me and where several of his friends live. He received antisemitic harassment from McMaster students 3-4 times. ...

Ahhh so the usual impeachable stuff not collusion with Zeta-Reticulans or something phew

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Ah, I look forward to these No snarky "prizes" this year, alas (à la Lukashenko Peace prize)

OK what happened Shabbos just ended here

There are worse people, but few as repulsive as a purity-obsessed Communist A thousand gulags in their mind plotted for their peers an onion peel to the right, may they sink into all of them.

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