Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky

Just released and already a best seller! Get your copy of the Signs and Wonders Haggadah on Amazon! Bonus: DM me and I will personally sign yours when it arrives. (Assuming we can meet in NJ area...) amazon.com/dp/B0GKL1B6FJ

A Japanese reporter asked the president why he didn’t tell them in advance about the US attack on Iran. This was his response. 🎯

@labnol Yep

@TechRav We are meeting t'row.

@labnol Hi Amit, having major reliability issues with the Google Forms Notification add-on. Intermittent failures are disrupting our school's workflow. Support hasn't replied since I sent debug logs on March 5. Can someone urgently check on emails from tzvi.pittinsky@frisch.org?

Oy vey!

@IbnAlwarraq I added a bunch from the most salient ones that come to mind. I am sure there are more.

@TechRav I see you are already working on part three, that would be great addition.

@IbnAlwarraq 4) The terrible massacres of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland and Ukraine in the mid-17th century by the Cossacks known as Tach V’Tat led to the rise of Chasidism, a mystical approach to Judaism emphasizing a personal relationship to God.

@IbnAlwarraq 3) The Spanish Inquisition and subsequent expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 led to the great legal codes the Shulchan Aruch and Rema and the rise of mystical exploration in Sefad.

Interesting discussion about an Altneu topic. chabad.org/library/articl…

@SenFettermanPA 😂

Happy Taco Tuesday

@liel All my 2-year-old grandson wants to play with is Mickey Mouse. Thinking about now, I can hear his toddler verse saying Mickey Mouse over and over again. The same Mickey Mouse I played with when I was a kid. And my parents. And my grandparents too. In Judaism we call that Mesorah.

This, right here, is why I'm obsessed with Disney. Sure, it's a corporation selling expensive products and experiences, but I couldn't care less -- we're Americans, and consuming is often the shorthand we use to show our values and our preferences. But while other corporate behemoths cynically peddle goods soullessly, or, worse, pretend to live by values they don't truly hold, Disney is as real as it gets. The feeling in this ad? It's as real as it gets. I've experienced it myself. I know what it's like to have a magical place you can escape to with your family when the world gets too crazy and mean. I know what it's like to see my children look at Cinderella's Castle, say, or Space Mountain, with the bright eyes of awe-struck toddlers, and then blink and they're teenagers but they have the same look in their eyes and they cherish the same traditions we've cultivated as a family. As so much of American culture is moving fast, advocating disruption and mindless consumption, Disney is about something radically different. It's about understanding that these little rituals are what keeps families strong, and delivering environments where American families can be together and heal from decades of sophisticates arguing glibly that the family is nothing more than the last bastion of the patriarchy. This ad is why I'm proud to call myself a Disney Adult, a term I take to mean a grown up still capable of believing in magic and family and infinite possibility and the sanctity of the small things we do together with our children and that matter more than anything else in the world. Or, in other words, an American.

Rabbi Eliezer says: Repent one day before your death. His students asked him: But does a person know the day on which he will die? He said to them: All the more so this is a good piece of advice, and one should repent today lest he die tomorrow. wsj.com/opinion/a-publ…

Shabbat Services tonight for Temple Israel (the synagogue that was attacked yesterday) were held across the street at the Shenandoah club. From a friend who was there:

Flight attendant welcomed the Yeshiva Maccabees on board and told them to bring a W back to NY Whole plane gave a standing ovation NY is rooting for the Macs #d3hoops

Tragedy: New Ayatollah Dead After Being Accidentally Left Out In Rain buff.ly/2qYOq0P

When Zaidy “walks” down the aisle at your chasunah during COVID.

@XtmELALUSAtm_ The issue was resolved already via email.