Alan Brill

@AdneSadeh enjoy

@kavvanah Hi Alan...between you messaging and now, Simcha Gross got me the doc. Thanks so much for downloading it for me. I really appreciate it.

Ugh. I desperately want to get a copy of Dan Ben-Amos 1967 Indiana Univ. dissertation “Narrative Forms in the Haggadah: Structural Analysis.” I think ProQuest has it because they bought University Microfilms International who had it. Sigh. Anyone have ProQuest access?

@SteppeShaman What was the date? Can you give the exact date and location?

Tibetan nomads and monks burn paper, dairy, and flour offerings to the Buddhas and the Gods

@AsadFromNYC It is time for you to start podcasts and/or YouTube versions of your NYC courses.

I’m teaching my 8-week NYC history course at CUNY again. We’re covering 400+ years—from Lenape Land up to Mamdani. An enormous undertaking with weekly field trips. Our first was a tour of Downtown’s native and colonial history and a trip to the Museum of the American Indian.

@AdneSadeh The Jewish Museum in Prague has several, and they date between 1850-1899 collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Deta…

Specifically, I was looking at the latest Kedem Judaica auction, which has this King David mizrach up for bid. "Embroidered European "Mizrach" Plaque – King David playing the Harp "Mizrach" plaque. [Probably Central Europe, 19th or early 20th century]." il.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/ked…

Mizrach is Hebrew for East, the direction of prayer for Jews in the western Diaspora. A mizrach is a plaque hung to point out the direction. I bought an Alphonse Levy postcard mizrach without realizing what it was as a source for my Joe the Demon trading card. Now to hang it!

@AdneSadeh Yes, please. I would like a copy

Woot! @Columbia came through. They scanned Beatrice Weinreich's 1957 Masters Thesis "The Prophet Elijah in Modern Yiddish Folktales" for me. It's really cool. Hit me up if you want a copy or if you have Adobe Acrobat and can help me get the annoying watermark out of it.

PSA: My book Judaism and Other Religions (2010) is on sale as a paperback for $23.99 until Dec 31st 2025. The book was $24 when published by Palgrave, became overpriced at $99 paperback when the company was acquired by Springer Scientific.link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9…

@AdneSadeh What book?

Fascinating 1891 anthropological description of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Very judgmental at times, but paints a fascinating picture. I originally ran across it looking at Jewish burial practices, like this one....

Kabbalah offers some thinkers a conceptual model for understanding the world as informational. I look at four diverse kabbalistic approaches to artificial intelligence. academia.edu/144650752/The_…

Someone built a cool website for the growing collection of pre-Islamic parallels to hadith that Ive been collecting parallelhadith.vercel.app

@levidmorrow yes!!!

I'm going to have to actually read Origins of Totalitarianism aren't I

My new book just arrived. A nice way to start the year. Shanah Tovah.amazon.com/Jewish-Trinity…

@SeforimChatter There is a business for you to start- team up with a seforim store and someone who has an Amazon store. The opportunity is there

Arba Minim on Amazon yet we can’t get Seforim there, SMH amzn.to/3VsO6Ru

@AdlerYonatan My Jewish tour guide - who was a librarian/curator- pointed it out to me in the 1980s

Just discovered this at the British Museum. This is a relief from the southwest palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (dated 700–692 BCE), showing four rows of men pulling ropes to move a colossal-sized winged bull for the palace. The men in the second-from-the-top row look conspicuously like the Judeans from the Lachish reliefs—found at the same palace. Their distinctive headgear and clothing seem identical in the two sets of reliefs. (See the next post for a close up) Could these be Judean captives from the Assyrian invasion of Judah just a few years prior? I'm sure this suggestion has been made before... 1/2

@hasidic_1 What shul is the lower left-hand side, 2:15 minutes?

אפאר געקליבענע ווידעאס פון די מוזיקאלישע א' סליחות'ער פון היי יאר

@levidmorrow Break it into 3 separate chapters, giving each its own conclusion

OK I've still got to edit it but the first draft of this monster chapter is done

@jeremytibbetts1 @ElishaHeching It is Yeshaya Rosenman. He sent it to me when he wrote. I was going to write a reply to him about methodology

@ElishaHeching @kavvanah I’d love that :)

So excited to share this new article with @kavvanah on Kavanot in the Ari, Rashash, and Hasidut Ziditchov. This was a chance to get both deep and personal on Kavanot—as always, would love to hear your thoughts: kavvanah.blog/2025/08/25/lur…

Jeremy Tibbetts walks us through 300 years of Lurianic Kavvanot from Rabbi Chaim VItal to Rabbi Shalom Sharabi (Rashash) to R. Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditchov. This interview gives more information about Lurianic Kavvanot than is available almost anywhere else. kavvanah.blog/2025/08/25/lur…

Someone wrote a blog post about my Aryeh Kaplan article, emphasizing how he used sources of Asian religions, but not about his kabbalah (I don't know the author) blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-current-an…