Pardes Dropout

@avadagevust "Deep" in general has been co-opted by LARPers for describing vague concepts that are anything but. Deep is the new shallow. I feel deeply about this

I hate the word deeply

@PsyPost @0G_Uri

A new study shows that individuals with similar levels of autistic traits are naturally drawn to one another. Brain scans reveal they use alternative, highly effective neural strategies to connect, challenging traditional deficit-based models of autism. dlvr.it/TSSN7t

@talmudenjoyer1 What is this an excerpt from?

However based you think Bar Kochva was, he was probably even more based

@mesikus_hatorah @arinohem Beat me to it

@arinohem You have to check the ספרים הקדושים

where/when did the usage of the words ספרים הקדושים start?

@VaadHaBadchanim A rebbi of mine claims that the proper way to pronounce yochai is actually yochi

Your annual Lag BaOmer songs reminder: “Elo-KEE” – Doesn’t rhyme so well with “Yochai”, but isn’t kefira “Elo-KAI” – Rhymes perfectly with “Yochai”, but is absolute kefira.

@NhavsMaimonides @trueknowledge82 At least TRY to prophesize

@trueknowledge82 I don’t know the future.

If one was to prophecy today, he would repeat the words of the Shulchan Aruch word for word

@agentzog @WNeedham24301 Dude you've got the greatest twitter name ever

Good night to my Jewish friends & J twitter. As a non Jew I’d like to say you are not alone it’s my honour & duty to stand with you. Shalom my friends.

@helscom "ask me anything"

i voted blue in the ingroup one but red in the mrbeast one

@TSHamiltonAstro @HAHazony This?

@HAHazony My Hebrew professor in college had a poster on his door of what the woman would look like, taking every metaphor & analogy literally.

Most religious people will never get over the fact that there's an erotic poem in the Bible.

@VermonteSekida @dannycantalk This is such an awful worldview to have. Why are you assuming the worst in people? i'd press red because i want to live. I don't want you to die, but you all made that decision by pressing blue

@dannycantalk 100% blue for a guaranteed reverse thanos snap those pressing red at this point just wanted people to die

For red pressers: The test is over. Red button won. You don't know by how much. You are randomly selected to get one last chance to save everyone. If you press the red button again, nothing changes. If you press the blue button, only you die and everyone else lives.

@DavidRegev We can switch to the triennial cycle! I need a chosson bereishis kiddush every year

Conclusion In short, having someone else read the Torah for you misses the entire point. We’re all supposed to take turns reading the Torah in front of everyone: the entire community studying and teaching at the same time. The current practice has lost all its meaning and feels almost pointless. We need to bring back the institution of proper Torah-reading on Shabbath. This requires that people be educated to do so normally, not just for their “bar-mitzvah” (which is really too old already). It would also help if we switched to the triennial cycle, so that portions are much smaller. I would also add that, while the accent system is awesome, we shouldn’t stigmatize anyone who reads well but without proper accents.

⁦Is the institution of בעל קִריה valid? ⁦Nowadays, being called to the Torah generally means that you recite two blessings but someone else reads the Torah as your proxy. You basically do nothing—yet everyone congratulates you! I was recently asked on here about this. I’ve also been meaning to write about it for a while, as it gets to the core of what public Torah-reading is all about. This thread is essentially my responsum.

@FrameworkPuter Are you guys still replying?

Every time we engage with an influencer on X dot com, Dell sends them an XPS. Anyone want a free Dell XPS?

@DrClownPhD this has insane meme potential

This is actually insane because I can really see it now! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?

@Micha_Siegel @jewishmemequeen R' Sherira gaon used the word "shmad" to explain why they died, which means persecution. Honestly, I probably shouldn't have stated it as a given, but I do believe it.

@Micha_Siegel @jewishmemequeen I can't say that it's 100% fact, but the evidence points to it. R' Akiva supported bar kochba. Only makes sense that the thousands of his students dying around the time of the revolt were due to that. Could be they died in battle because of reasons given by chazal

Tough day for Orthodox Jews who don’t listen to music during sefira

@Micha_Siegel @jewishmemequeen Not really random. They were bar kochba fighters

@jewishmemequeen You think that's bad, imagine all your students randomly dying for 33 days.

What's your favorite pasuk?

@0G_Uri I keep coming across the word, learning what it means, and then promptly forgetting.

@FieldSpeakerZDQ I've had it up to here with vagueposts

In today’s Mishne Tora Yomi we learn *that* Halakha. You know. The one. The one that is that Halakha

@strong42475 @Osint613 No kidding?

@OG_TDC @Osint613 Unfortunately it seems that it doesn't stand for that precisely.

I have no idea where we go from here, but this was a real FAFO moment.