Yisrael Pinson

@Mottel @ezalmanov My policy is that I don't participate as a guest at Jewish events that serve non kosher food. I'll sit at a non Jewish event even if they can't accommodate me with kosher food, but most do

@ezalmanov Yes!! Very much this. (and sorry to say, I've seen more effort for kosher food at non-Jewish events, then at some 'Jewish' events...)

It's the most amazing experience - when people go out of their way to make sure you have kosher. We're ready, willing and happy to stick to water and a drink in such situations, but when they go the extra mile, it says so much.

@chaptzem12 @Mottel @safier Please post more information about the Grand Hotel, address, is it still standing etc

@Mottel @safier Le grand hotel had a pulley system could it have been that? Wasn’t far from pont alexandre

Following considerable research, I discovered that Rav Yisroel Salanter spent the latter part of his two-year Paris sojourn in the 1880s residing at this hotel. Remarkably, it still bears the same name. I walked through it recently, and the interior doesn’t seem to have changed all that much either.

@EinatWilf מהרסייך ומחריבייך ממך יצאו

Motion to replace the term “self-hating Jews” with “Pick Me Jews”. (I think it reflects the underlying psychology and incentive structure far better).

@bentziavtzon Which Rabbeim approved what nigunim. Never heard of such thing

“In the past the Rebbeim would approve the niggun, we don’t have that today” They’d approve the initiatives of hafotzo etc too. This isn’t stopping people from coming up with very creative ideas It’s the culture of ridicule. If we don’t believe in penimius it won’t exist

The simplest explanation for why there are no new chabad niggunim in past 80 some years (besides RC Kislev and 11 Nissan) is the few individuals with the talent to compose are embarrassed to share their melodies “You think you’re an oived or something? Chitzon!” Etc

@bentziavtzon we don't have new nigunim because we don't have nikolayev. unmatched canon of chabad melodies. here's one of my favs youtube.com/watch?v=FqhUWB…

@lifemiles I did. But no one answered

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@lifemiles I'm trying to cancel a booking and I can't seem to find a solution

@lifemiles Sent

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@Liv_Boeree @bryan_johnson Same here. Great idea... And usually by the time Saturday night arrives I dread looking at my phone

@bryan_johnson Wanna help me make no-internet-sabbath a thing again? I’ve started doing it sundown friday to sundown Saturday and it’s been a game changer, I’m so much happier. Just one day a week without the nightmare of the digital world clawing at your eyeballs

Good night fellow humans May you feel peace May your concerns vanish May your nervous system relax May your sleep clear cellular debris May your phone be put into the trash

Excellent episode. I love learning Torah from @havivrettiggur

@islandjew I davened there in December 1998 during winter camp mercaz shlichus

The beautiful shul in Martinique has services three times a day

@AlamoRabbi @querynotfound The vav switches the verb from future tense to past tense. Rashi. For example. Yedaber means he will speak. Vayedaber means he spoke. Not And he spoke.

@querynotfound please say more

I was in 3rd or 4th grade. Mrs. Rosenblatt was teaching us a rule of proper English: never start a sentence with the word “and.” And I didn't like that. But there’s a reason for that annoying rule. It’s sloppy. It means you didn’t think things through. As I grew older and spent more time with Torah, I noticed something astonishing. The Torah seems to disagree with the English "and" rule. In Hebrew, “and” is not a word but a prefix, the letter 'ו' (vav). And it opens nearly seven out of every ten verses in the Five Books of Moses. “And” is the most common word-form in the Torah by a wide margin. If the Torah has a favorite grammatical move, it’s not a noun or a verb. It’s a connector. This happened, *and* then this. This is real, *and* so is that. We live in a world that likes clean categories. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Strong or broken. Judaism is fluent in *and*. You can be strong *and* struggling. Loving *and* angry. Faithful *and* full of questions. Even time isn’t fixed in the Torah. Sometimes a single “and” flips past into future, and future into past (a feature of biblical Hebrew known as וי״ו ההיפוך, vav hahipuch). Because in G-d’s word, the past has not finished happening. It’s still unfolding. And what has not yet happened is already present. ‘Vov’ does not just serve as a prefix. It has its own meaning in biblical Hebrew: a 'hook'. A connector. And get this: its shape (ו) is a single line drawn downward, energy flowing from above into the messiness below. Heaven and earth. Soul and body. Who you were and who you are becoming. Mrs. Rosenblatt was right. Grammar loves clean beginnings. Fresh starts. Precision. The Torah values integration. How to live in the messiness of things. “And then… And then… And then”

@EinatWilf @EinatWilf please open your DM, I would like to send you a message

@EinatWilf תם ולא נגמר! אפשר להמשיך את אור החנוכה על כל ימות השנה! ה' עוז לעמו יתן ה' יברך את עמו בשלום...

זהו. נגמר. החג האהוב עלי בחגי ישראל. עד לשנה הבאה.

@bentziavtzon now we know how many days. less than we thought. anash.org/historic-the-r…

Gentle reminder that the Rebbe himself didn’t say anything *for days* after the Kfar Chabad massacre, and later explained “Vayidom Aharon.” We don’t immediately know the “right response,” “light over darkness” is a *framework* but there’s a question waiting for an answer.

@ezalmanov You're selling yourself short. You not asking anyone for money. You have an amazing organization led by amazing people doing amazing things for a remote Jewish community in Indiana. At a fraction of the cost that any Jewish or secular non-profit. It's the best ROI in the world!

Here's a little secret: I hate asking people for money. But it's how we pay the bills, so please, you know, donate. Thanks. charidy.com/nwi

@ezalmanov Consider me 5 followers

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@RealKidPoker Thank you @realkid

To all my Jewish friends across the world, know that you are beloved by the sane. You are a strong and brilliant group of people who make the world a better place. Happy Chanukah 🕎

@Badchonews @TzemachFeller

@Badchonews @TzemachFeller just arrived in the mail today