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@shabboshouse @Moshe_Kurtz @Adderabbi docs.google.com/document/d/1Br…

Is it possible to get a piece of Igros Moshe in text form? I'm specifically looking for the Rabbenu Tam piece (Igros Moshe Vol 6, Teshuvah 9) to put into a handout and quote in a class. @Moshe_Kurtz @Adderabbi

@FrumTikTok youtu.be/0x2b1EEf-SE?si…

When you thought you've seen it all.

@realajedelman @AriObanMD @israelbobsled @NBCOlympics And no one has a red convertible to sell or a catchy song to sing on a street corner?? Congrats and Mazal Tov AJ to you and the whole crew. This story is amazing. Can’t wait to watch you guys do us all proud.

@AriObanMD @israelbobsled @NBCOlympics It is going to cost over 40k to do the Olympics. So sorry we have to ask

Tell me ⁦@israelbobsled⁩ isn’t one of the best ⁦@NBCOlympics⁩ stories of 2026…

@SleeperMets Israel 🇮🇱 Robert Stock

Mets playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic: USA 🇺🇸 SP Nolan McLean SP Clay Holmes Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 SS Francisco Lindor(Captain) Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 OF Juan Soto Nicaragua 🇳🇮 INF Mark Vientos

@BluegrassRabbi @TourGuideAaron @ariel_haivri Coin from the Bar Kochba period depicting the (by then destroyed but well remembered) BHM.

@TourGuideAaron @ariel_haivri There is zero evidence that a single one of those Menorah was an attempt to recreate the Temple Menorah. No other Temple Icon is ever depicted, and the Base is unquestionably wrong. What we do know is that Rashi and Rambam both agree the Menorah was a V. Rambam over Hellenists

It is really incredible to me how strong the Golus mentality is among the Judean-Groyper community. The inaccurate crude carvings of Hellenists and Colonizers is not evidence. The Evidence is Rashi. The Evidence is Rambam. @ariel_haivri Judaism comes from Jews. Not from Rome.

@Yakamoishe @ariwaxman Rings a bell…

@ariwaxman You must be forgetting his sharp attack on America. Friday night, Purim meshulash c. 2006.

Did not imagine I would see the combination of the words “sharp attack” and “Rav Moshe Gantz” in a headline. inn.co.il/news/683159

שנית מצדה לא תיפול

@RABKesherSAR @nicolefshirman

@nicolefshirman Julie "The Cat" Gaffney.

Is it possible to make a goalie change just for a shootout? Asking for a friend

And the man at the back said, "Everyone, attack" And it turned into a ballroom blitz And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya It'll turn into a ballroom blitz"

@AdlerYonatan Yonatan, I have (what I think at least) is a legitimate (albeit minor) critique of the way you chose to teach us about an interesting and timely passage. But I don’t seem to be succeeding in tweet length responses. If you’d like to discuss further, please DM. חג שמח

Thanks for the clarification. Not sure I understand the critique about "dirty laundry"", though, as I purposefully did not mention his name. It was a personal correspondence, and the individual is not on this platform to defend his actions or views. And so I felt it wrong to name him. I don't see a problem, though, mentioning the incident without naming names. I am also not sure I understand "the (in)sensitivity to a great many people". In what way was I being insensitive and to whom?

“And all the community that had returned from the captivity made booths (סֻכּוֹת) and abided in them; for from the days of Jeshua son of Nun to that day the Children of Israel had not done so.” (Neh 8:17) I recently found myself in an email debate with a well-known Israeli rabbi (whom I won’t name). The rabbi had published something against my book, and I reached out to him as I sensed that he hadn’t actually read the book (he admitted that he hadn’t). The verse I’ve cited here came up in our back-and-forth. According to the verse, Israelites did not fulfill the Torah’s instruction to build sukkot from the time of Joshua until the time of Ezra (around a thousand years according to internal Biblical chronology). The good rabbi insisted that the Biblical verse was not to be taken literally—he was convinced that it was a gross exaggeration. He simply could not accept that the Torah was not observed widely throughout this long span of time. I found this to be an interesting example where a fundamentalist approach leads one to insist that the Bible is NOT to be taken literally. There are other examples, for sure, but this one I found particularly intriguing. A very happy holiday—חג שמח— to all who celebrate!

@AdlerYonatan I realize the textual/historical analysis in question is not so simple. Regardless, my (respectful) critique was about the public airing of dirty laundry about someone critiquing you and the (in)sensitivity to a great many people that came along with that(again, I'd prefer a DM).

@AdlerYonatan Understood. But what we're discussing isn't strict historical argument as much as it is textual interpretation. Interestingly, the citation you gave of Neh8:17 left out the final words -"and there was very great joy"-which happen to be what the comms hinge their understanding on.

@AdlerYonatan To be sure, I most certainly agree no one should be critiquing anything you write without reading it thoroughly, but as your rabbi friend might say: מה ענין שמיטה אצל הר סיני? (FYI, I wanted to DM this but was unable to) Wishing you a חג שמח whether you observe or not 😉

@AdlerYonatan To get into a spat w/ a rabbi whose worldview sees these interpretations as canonical & then to dismiss reliance on them as “fundamentalist” is not only a real mischaracterization, but also I expect quite an insult to many observers of the holiday to whom you wished a חג שמח.

@ariwaxman Teased to the tune of HaTikva in R’ Hendler’s deep voice of course. As the ribono shel olam intended. Great seeing you today rebbe. שנתראה רק בשמחות Shanna tova to all.

״וְעַל הַמְּדִינות בּו יֵאָמֵר אֵיזו לַחֶרֶב, וְאֵיזו לַשָּׁלום, אֵיזו לָרָעָב, וְאֵיזו לָשּבַע״. שנזכה לשנה טובה ומתוקה, בריאות, נחת, ברכה ושלום, היפוך צער לשמחה גדולה, ובנין ביתו הגדול בקרוב בעזרת ה׳.

@ayblock Ditto white fish on a bagel.

Anti-Zionist progressive Jewishness: Forget history, collective identity and religion. The important thing is that we have pickles. Also anti-Zionist progressive Jewishness: The survival of the last living Jews in the Eastern Hemisphere was and remains a great and terrible evil. My professor told me so. I’m sorry you were given so little of your inheritance and story, Hannah. You belong to what may be the most detached and Jewishly ignorant generation in all the long annals of the Jews. And it’s not even remotely your fault. The Jews as a whole, as a community and a people, failed you and your generation. Do your thing. Feel your feelings. Demand a genocide of Jews while pretending to be morally opposed to genocide. We who never taught you your story are in no position to judge you. We’ll still be here for you if you ever need us. And we’ll have all the authentic Ashkenazi pickles your heart desires. And also some pickled eggplants from our Mizrahi brothers and sisters. You know, those evil settler-colonialists who fled Baghdad and Cairo.

@NiohBerg My great-grandfather was one of them!

Over 100,000 Jews proudly served in the German army during WW1. Nice try.

Was so great seeing friends from the Ayalon Valley tonight at the incredible Beis Midrash of NCSY Kollel. Ashreichem! @ncsykollel @Shaalvim