Abraham: “God, you can’t wipe out an entire city if there’s even a few innocents, I will literally fight you!” Senate Democrats: “Well, I guess if it doesn’t impact me, I’m okay with all the poor dying.”

The name “Laban” is etymologically related to both the colour white and to bricks. Do with that as you wish.

Rivkah falling off her camel when she sees Yitzhak for the first time is real relatable.

What does the word לָשׂוּחַ mean in Genesis 24:63? Wrong answers only.* *Since we have no clue, I guess all answers would count anyway.

“kind of pretty in a way” *is one of the most attractive AND artistically cool women to have ever graced ‘murican politics*

New theory—Boaz knew that Ruth was gay but he was gay too and very happy to get lavender married plus a kid out of it.

And Isaac is clearly one of those slightly-fem simp gamer boyfriend that bi wives all have. 😆

Rivka has immense bi wife energy

I keep forgetting the English word “idolatry” and going “yknow, avodah zarah?”

I love biblical names so much because what do you mean one guy is named Soil and another is named Dirt-Pile.

Any tricks for fixing Acrobat’s memory leak when doing OCR? I have to close and restart the program all the darn time because it doesn’t clear between the “multiple files.”

I think biblical translators should just render the ‘untranslatable’ direct object marker את as @. Don’t @ me.

Watched an interesting video dissecting how the “let me guess your pincode” magician’s trick works, and how it’s actually about manipulating and confusing the person so that they think what you suggest is actually their pincode even though it isn’t.

Anyone else feeling like… wdym the new mayor of NYC is younger than me?!?

the funny thing is, if they actually meant this, that would primarily mean standing up to trump these days.

It does but also when it comes after 7 because I like to eat early. 😭

Shabbos coming in at 4:30 feels low-key antisemitic

virtue signalling is good actually

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Jonah 3:2: “…הקריאה” Typical translation: “…the message [which you are to deliver to Nineveh].” Better translation: “…the call-out post.”

The "it's punk to follow the rules" boomber ass vacation bible school counselor ass take.

Next up: “When you think about it, capitalism is way more communist than communism.”

Any of you have tips for progressing more in Hebrew once you get to the point where you need to have conversations or read/listen in the wild?

Duolingo should ask you which grammatical gender you want for gendered languages so that it defaults to it for the first person, because otherwise you end up confused about grammatical gender for a while.

English: Seamen Hebrew: Saltmen

Super rich people love to threaten to leave if so-and-so gets elected as though they actually pay taxes.

No, you see, it’s only differential treatment if the religious right doesn’t like it.

I guess they can’t Bánh Mi from taking a swing at a cop?

So I’d often read in passing that the Chazal made vows pretty easy to annul, but I’m now reading the basics of what exactly are grounds of annulment. The hear of it is whether you would’ve still made the vow had certain things come to mind at the time, as vows based on a mistake can be annulled.

Checked Threads randomly the other day and it seems as if they’ve reached the seventh circle of hell in terms of discourse

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Did I spend waaaaay too much time writing a really extensive Kabbalistic interpretation of Bereshit 14? Maybe.

I call this argument “the greater devil you know.”

The GDP of New York City is bigger than the GDP of New York State, and that’s absolutely mind-boggling to me.

Thoughts on Sigma Xi membership?

This is your brain on vows.

Remember kids. Don’t do vows.

The Hasmoneans are famous for two things. First, starting a civil war because they viciously opposed hellenization and the persecution of rabbis. Second, being major hellenizers and persecutors of rabbis.

tfw you make a vow not to benefit from your archnemesis and now you’re prohibited from going to synagogue 😩

“please don’t vote for Zohran, his wife is also hot and frankly it’s unfair”

“Chat is it [benefiting your friend] for two men to take a bath or sleep together?” -Mishnah Nedarim 4:4

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

I’m curious—if you’re Christian or grew up Christian, what do you know about King Herod and his rule?

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

My doctorate is in “juridical sciences” even though law is basically comparative literature with a paycheque. Just sayin’