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@MeirSimchah
Affable Gadfly Jew. Talmudic surrealism, midrashic realism. Orthodox rebbetz-him. Thinking abt how we know & how we should be. Are anyone's views their own?
A love letter has many purposes all at once - to bring together two lives into one story, to convey desire, to evoke a sense of intimacy, to direct action, &c. Only some purposes can be explicit; much must be left unstated so that its understanding by the beloved comes of their…
Controversial opinion: In Israel we should not have דקות דומיה "moments of silence" but instead דקות תפילה פרטית "moments of individual prayer"
"We try to affirm whatever we imagine to bring pleasure to ourselves or what we love. And we try to deny whatever we imagine brings unpleasure to ourselves or what we love. "Whatever we imagine brings pleasure or unpleasure to what we love brings pleasure or unpleasure to us…
Couldn't understand why ppl were freaking about jeans worn by some kid with an S name till @TheBabylonBee. Thanks, Bee.
Wokeness Defeated: America Returns To Christian Roots Of Objectifying Women To Sell Crap buff.ly/XaAx5GW
סור מרע ועשה טוב "Turn away from bad & do good..." Psalms 34 It's not merely about how to prioritize. It's cognitive. You need to turn away from bad before you even know what good is. Psalm 34 is about what to do when your back is against the wall, & it starts with not-doing…
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The Soviet KGB, per defector Ion Mihai Pacepa's accounts, engineered the PLO in 1964 as a proxy to destabilize the Middle East and undermine US ally Israel, reframing Arab refugees as a distinct "Palestinian" people to foster a liberation narrative against Western imperialism.…
Just as language can’t be defined as man-made—it comes into being through social activity, as an egregore of cognitive processes existent only in interrelation—a fortiori, Religion, as the framework that configures a group’s axiological structure, can NOT be limned as man-made.
I bookmarked this to respond later but I think I have my thoughts together now. Religion, definitely man made, was primarily responsible in enforcing some morality scope on the world. Simply put: As bad as the world is - without religion, it could have been worse. Hear me out.
Yes, & the point of Ecclesiastes is to attack distinctions ppl imagine to be solid or important, to strip away what ppl take for granted, in order to get to a deeper understanding & appreciation of what's real & meaningful. What's amazing is that even though this text has been…
Reading "Dark They were with Golden Eyes" & thinking about teaching it to my 10th grade EFL students next year. So rich.
Arab World: We hate Israel because it represents Western interests in our region. Western World: We hate Israel because it doesn't do what we say. Israel:
Planning English curriculum got me wading into deep kabbala on the structure of the Mishnah... Proceed with caution. sefaria.org.il/Shabbat.31a.10…
Hater tries to pull @Grok into reciting some lies about Israel that Jew-haters love to recite about us... & fails
@grok from where Jews came from and create Israel?
Looking forward to reading this...
Let me tell you why there is actually no solution to this conflict: the conflict itself is fiction. Link to full essay below:
Macron's unilateral "declaration" of a "Palestinian" state didn't say WHERE it would be. I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera & the new nation will be called "Franc-en-Stine." thehill.com/policy/interna…
I support Macron's recognition of the state of palestine. It's time to end colonialism!
In case you thought modern philosophy dealt with all those earlier... Medieval philosophy is alive & well, or a Twitter dumpster fire - pick your metaphor
Salafis like @MMetaphysician believe exactly the same thing as Craig - that God’s knowledge updates as the objects of knowledge undergo change.
It’s insane to see some Christians siding with Islamic radicals who openly call for the death of Jews, Christians, and atheists alike. Palestinian Imam Sheikh Dr. Hamad Al-Regeb: "All Palestinians and Muslims should prepare for the day they are called to arms. Oh Allah, bring…
The world needs to understand that this is not the traditional scenario of a dictatorial government cracking down on its people. Real and actual terrorists have hijacked Syria, and these terrorists are using their newly found political power to do what they do best: ethnically…
About ppl starving in Gaza... Reports are... conflicting...
WATCH🔴 The IDF released footage showing Hamas terrorists bragging about the abundance of food in their tunnels, revealing food items not included in the humanitarian aid convoys sent to the Gaza Strip.
"Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late 17th and 18th centuries — in the wake of the Scientific Revolution — of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy…