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@WilliamShatner what's your communicator number?

@CI5BDC @CopthorneTara cool!

Watching 'Slush Fund' in the room where part of the ep was filmed - Copthorne Tara Hotel #London @CopthorneTara

Apart from the financial outlay-initial On vegetables, pulses, rices and herbs Prepared in accordance with cooking proverbs. My kitchen worktop and so still I stand, Bowl in one, wood-spoon in other hand. Ingredient, utensil and implement Go into culinary sacrament.

Kitchual (kitchen ritual) This is my altar and rites are performed Upon it, some chopping and things that are warmed Excessively such that they'll edible-stay, Keep all well-sustained and the doctor away. And nothing you'll see here is sacrificial,

Shabbat Shalom The strangest thing about this week’s Torah portion is its name. חיי שרה Chayei Sarah “The Life of Sarah” it doesn’t open with birth but with death. The first words we hear are that she has died in Kiryat Arba, (Hebron). The matriarch’s biography begins at her funeral. 2 years after the deadliest day in Israel’s history, that paradox feels less like literary irony & more like lived memory. We, too, are trying to speak of life while still arranging the graves. Abraham’s first act after Sarah dies is to secure a burial place in the Land of Israel. He will not leave her in foreign soil. Standing before the sons of Heth, he insists on buying the Cave of Machpelah at full price, in broad daylight, with witnesses. The Torah records the transaction in painstaking legal detail, as if to say: this is not conquest, this is not theft; this is ownership etched into history. Every November, when we read these verses, the city of Hebron is still on the front page, still contested, still bleeding, still the place where the Jewish people first said, “Here we stay, and here we bury our dead.” The deed from 3,800 years ago is read aloud in synagogues while soldiers patrol the very same streets, and the echo is deafening. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been gripped by the same urgency Abraham felt. Recovering bodies, sometimes fragments, from Gaza tunnels has become a sacred national obsession. Hostages’ families wait in a limbo that feels older than scripture. When the IDF announced in January 2025 that it had brought home the remains of Youssef and Hamza Ziadna, Bedouin victims murdered in captivity, the entire country understood Abraham’s tears. We know what it is to weep, to negotiate, to insist on bringing our dead home for Jewish (or Israeli) burial, no matter the cost. Yet the parasha does not linger at the grave. Immediately after the funeral arrangements comes the longest single narrative in the entire book of Genesis: the quest to find a wife for Isaac. From burial to bride in a single breath. Abraham, still dusty from the cemetery, turns to the future. “You shall not take my son back to Haran,” he warns the servant. Under no circumstances is the next generation to leave the Land. After October 7, hundreds of thousands of Israelis with foreign passports received frantic calls from relatives abroad: Come home, come now, it’s safer in London, Toronto, Berlin. The answer, almost without exception, was Abraham’s answer: we do not go back. The future stays here. And the future is being born. Israel’s wedding halls have never been busier. Young couples who danced at the Nova festival, or who lost friends there, are marrying earlier and having children faster than any demographer predicted. They speak openly of “hope babies” and even “revenge babies,” as if the parasha itself were unfolding in real time: bury the matriarch, then find Rebecca, then fill the tents with children’s laughter. Death tried to have the last word on October 7; the Jewish people are answering with cribs and kindergartens. The parasha closes with Ishmael and Isaac, estranged for decades, burying their father Abraham in the cave he purchased. The descendants of Isaac & the descendants of Ishmael share the same small plot of earth in silence and in grief. After October 7, images of such fraternity appeared: Druze and Bedouin mourning with Jews, Muslims in Rahat flying Israeli flags, shared tears at military cemeteries. Somewhere beneath the rage and the politics, the Torah whispers that the two brothers will stand together again at that tomb. Chayei Sarah refuses to be a portion about death. It is a portion about what a Jew does when death comes knocking: we secure a grave in our own land, we refuse exile, we marry, we give birth, and we dare to believe that one day the children of Isaac and Ishmael will lower their father into the earth side by side. That is not escapism. That is the life of Sarah,then, now, and, with G-d’s help, always.

@LiquidFaerie 👋

There are 27k people following me, yet I’m getting around 100 likes on my posts. Look, I’m not here for engagement, I’m here to share history & support my community, but what’s going on? Does anyone see me?!?!

@weeglesgapoet what if u delete the original comment, finding the culprit takes more than a moment

Man….I thought TikTok was bad, But X is like the Wild West, The backlash and abuse, Will put your character to the test, But here’s my advice for anyone, That has an opinion you want to share, If a faceless troll has a pop, You needn’t give it your care, You needn’t lose a wink of sleep, Because people will always talk, Never argue back with idiots, Just hit the button that reads ‘BLOCK’ 😘

@elonmusk cool

Quantum computing is best done in the permanently shadowed craters on the Moon

@BeatlemaniaUK they don't sound the same

Did any of the Beatles, i.e. John, Paul, Ringo or even George Martin, talk to George Harrison about "My Sweet Lord" being the same as "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons? #Beatles #TheBeatles

@YesterdaysBrit1 driver: 'where u going?' hitcher: 'exeter mate' driver: vroom

Ex-ter-min-ate!!!

@gunsnrosesgirl3 👋

If you see this on your timeline say hello to me ❤️

@JulianLennon 👍

@BeatlemaniaUK pronounced 'get'

Is there any factual reason why John Lennon described Sir Walter Raleigh as “a stupid git”in the song “I'm So Tired”? #Beatles #TheBeatles

@TheNorfolkLion 👋

If you're always liking, commenting, or sharing my posts but I'm not following you back, drop a comment below! I'll hit that follow button ASAP. 🫶 With so many bots and fakes out there, I only follow back people who engage or interact with my posts. 👊🏻 🇬🇧

@gunsnrosesgirl3 knock knock

in the Dzungarian Alatau Mountains of Kazakhstan, explorers found a geological formation that looks like a doorway

@YesterdaysBrit1 paddington for westbound?

At the railway station.

@YesterdaysBrit1 most every day was cloudless

Form an orderly queue. I'm off to 1976 in my time machine, for some sunshine and 99 ice creams 🍦that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Who's joining me in a trip back to my favourite year from the past?

@JohnMappin i busked John Dowland on the castle track once (or twice)

“The Winds of Change are blowing from Camelot Castle today. This is what you call proper Cornish wind.”

@amiKozak @TuckerCarlson could the tucker-chuckle power a lightbulb?

A little self reflection can go a long way @TuckerCarlson