Elli Fischer
@Adderabbi
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Rabbi. Translator & Editor. Writer. Historian. Lecturer. Cofounder #HaMapah , @The_Lehrhaus . Puts the DH in ADHD. Nothing Jewish is foreign to me.
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As an Orthodox rabbi, I will never begin an article with the words "As an Orthodox rabbi".
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I saw this sign and was extremely offended. Then I saw the English.
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@LahavHarkov
In fairness, "German Death Camps in Poland" is probably more accurate. I mean, it was Auschwitz, not Oswiecim.
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The Magid of Melbourne sent this to me. I'm surprised it hasn't made the rounds yet. It's perfect.
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Inviting a Messianic Jew to express the grief of the Jewish community is like inviting Sacha Baron Cohen to express the grief of Kazakhstan.
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Modern halakhists who permit abortion in cases where mother's life isn't threatened:
R. Yosef Haim (Rav Pealim EH 1:4)
R. Eliezer Waldenberg (Tzitz Eliezer 6:48 et al)
R. Shneur Zalman Fradkin (Torat Hesed EH 42)
R. Gedalia Felder (Sheilat Yeshurun 1:39)
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Virtually every major Jewish halakhist of the modern era has barred abortion except when the life of the mother is threatened. Don't try quoting the Talmud at me. You just don't know enough.
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@benshapiro
If by "Judeo-Christian heritage" you mean the heritage of men like Nicholas Donin, a Jew-turned-Christian who engineered the burning of the Talmud in the 1240s right across the Seine from Notre Dame, then sure, it's a monument to that.
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Gonna kvell a bit here. My wife and daughter made a siyum upon completing Shas Mishnayot - all 6 orders and 63 tractates - on the night my daughter became a bat mitzvah!
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Wait, a country that banned ritual slaughter to prepare kosher and halal meat, ostensibly on animal cruelty grounds, has *15 million minks in fur farms*!?
Maybe the 2015 slaughter ban wasn't really about animal rights.
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Wait till they find out there's a Palestinian Talmud. And it predates Islam.
are the dirty z!onists going to call Anne Frank antisemitic aswell??
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Two Jews were about to be murdered by a mob. One starts screaming, "Help! Help!" The other one says, "Shh! You'll antagonize the goyim."
NEW: Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Telz and Lakewood Mesivta, member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah:
"The whole idea of going to the Washington Rally (this Tuesday) is treif like chazer (not Kosher like pig)."
He warms that this rally could backfire and…
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Bethlehem, בית לחם in Hebrew, is in Judea, the place that give us the word "Jew". In Hebrew, the word for "Jew" and "Judean" is the same, Yehudi (יהודי). Arabic was not spoken in Judea in the time of Jesus, and was not yet a written language. Jesus was a Jew of Judea.
Why so upset by the truth. Jesus was born in Bethlehem aka بيت لحم in Arabic. Bethlehem is in Palestine. It’s currently militarily occupied by Israel and home to a predominately beautiful Palestinian Christian community. Yes, the birthplace of Jesus is under military occupation.
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Yom Kippur davening would be a lot more interesting if we would be mechabed people with "Al Cheit"s like we do with the pesukim of "Atah Horeita"
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@GilStudent
@benshapiro
Here's your Judeo-Christian heritage at Notre Dame de Paris.
On the left is the Judeo (synagoga). On the right is the Christian (ecclesia).
This is not our civilization, Gil. This is the civilization that claimed to replace us.
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Guys, this fellow spent TEN WHOLE DAYS in Israel. We should probably listen to him.
i went to israel when i was very young on the big free vacation, basically agnostic about it all and thinking it was a "complicated" place. in no way was what i saw complicated. they're selling you a fiction when they say you're supposed to stand with whatever they do
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@NoNameNoPr0blem
@GilStudent
@benshapiro
Then call it Christian civilization. Christians decided which parts of Judaism to co-opt and which parts to jettison or persecute. It is not our civilization.
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I have so little patience for this sort of garbage. Jews are indigenous to Eretz Yisrael by any reasonable definition of the term. But let's take UN criteria, to which he links later in the thread: 1/
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I think YU Torah needs to do a better job matching shiur topic with facial expressions.
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A Seder hack we've been doing for years: Multicourse karpas. Keep the veggies (incl. bananas, strawberries, anything on which we make "haadamah") and dips (chocolate fondue, whipped cream) coming throughout Magid. It's a game-changer.
You're welcome.
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Please tell me that I'm not the only one whose first thought was "It's a mikveh."
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Just found this place in a subscriber list from 1902. I have no idea where it is, but I want to visit.
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Now that a known mohel has been outed as a non-Jew, people will be a lot more circumspect.
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The first kippah-wearing PM in Israeli history will lead the country's first government to include an Islamist, majority Arab party as a full member of the ruling coalition. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
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29 years ago today, I began studying at
@KBY_Yeshiva
. We learned Bava Metzi'a that year. Today I dropped my son off for his first day there. They're learning Bava Metzi'a again. He's using my old Gemara.
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For the past five years, I have been working to bring
@SefariaProject
and Peninei Halakha together. Through all the fits and starts and changes of personnel, the dream has become a reality, and I couldn't be prouder.
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Another point to clarify, concerning the belief that Black Americans are Semitic:
I have no problem with the belief itself, regardless of whether or not it is true.
@Amareisreal
believes this, and it led him to become a righteous Jew with real ahavat Yisrael.
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The
@ADL
hasn't changed how it measures antisemitism or Jew hatred for over 50 years. Entire theories, believed by millions, have developed since then. These beliefs, (about Ashkenazi origins, slave trade, "real" Semites) are no longer just held by some nuts at Times Square.
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It's annoying go have to explain that "antisemitism" is only about Jews, not other Semitic peoples or speakers of other Semitic languages.
I wish the Germans who coined the term to racialize their hostility toward European Jews in the late 1800s had been more considerate...
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The gadlus of the rishes cold seltzer guy is that he gives us a path to a real geshmak, in both ruchniyus and gashmiyus, from some of the simplest things around: Cold seltzer, a kli from Costco, plastic cups, a perek taught in high school.
It's anti-gvir culture,
@DBashIdeas
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***First year Rabbinical student honored with the reading of the Ketubah***
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BDE. Mrs. Fradel (Edith) Weiss has passed away at the age of 93. She is best known in my circles for being the mother of ילחט"א Rav Asher Weiss, שליט"א. I would like to share a bit about her remarkable story. 1/
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R. Yaakov Emden (Sheilat Yaavetz 1:43)
R. Ouziel (Mishpetei Ouziel HM 3:47)
R. Shaul Yisraeli (Amud Hayemini 32)
Maharit (Rabbi Joseph di Trani; 1:97)
R. Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg (Seridei Esh 3:127)
R. Ovadiah Yosef (Yabia Omer EH 4:1)
#MicDrop
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Who decided to call it a niddah calendar and not a periodic table?
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This is the most "as a rabbi" as a rabbi ever "as a rabbi"ed.
BREAKING: American Jews just interrupted Biden's fundraiser, calling on him to support a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg from Jewish Voice for Peace Twin Cities: "Mr. President, as a Rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now."
The $1,000+ donors booed & hissed.
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The pushback against the idea that Jewishness is *also* a
#nationality
is frankly astounding, and more than a bit frightening.
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Some thoughts on the present situation, after a night of little sleep, interrupted by booms and sirens. A thread:
I'm not getting into the discussion of who is the bigger victim. There's no point. It's Twitter. Nobody changes their mind here.
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
I can't believe they have finally said it out loud.
This was never about judicial reform or democracy AT ALL.
This is actually about creating a "God-fearing DAVIDIC MONARCHY".
IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
I can't believe they have finally said it out loud.
This was never about judicial reform AT ALL.
This is actually a "secular, liberal uprising".
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For two months the students of the Mizpeh Ramon yeshiva haven't left their "capsules". The yeshiva dean just told them that because of the high infection rate throughout the country, they are not letting anyone in or out for another two weeks. This is the students' reaction.
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@ZaidAmali
@SaeenDiddyCombs
Here. I'll try:
75 years ago, the UN concluded that one state in Palestine would be disastrous, and so proposed two states, one Jewish, one Arab. The Jews accepted. The Arabs rejected and began a violent uprising. After the Jews of Palestine declared independence 1/2
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Sorry ladies. It's official.
@JYuter
is no longer the most eligible bachelor on
#FrumTwitter
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Best ways to kill a Shabbos meal invitation. I'll start:
"Oh, by the way, we're vegan."
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What does א"י stand for?
Wrong answers only.
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Just walked out of the bathroom and some chunyuk runs over to me and says, "Can you be motzi me Asher Yatzar? I made a safek shiur."
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There was a time that a robust Religious Zionist party would have the Education and Religious Services ministry atop their lists of coalition demands. Now the key demand is Internal Security (i.e., police). Sad, maddening, frightening.
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I've moved on from the election. Now I'm curious what the Trump Presidential Library will be like.
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"We do not redeem captives for more than their worth for the benefit of the world at large ('tikun olam'), i.e., so that enemies will not pursue people to hold them captive." (Mishneh Torah Gifts to the Poor 8:12)
This caveat comes 2 paragraphs after the one
@TheRaDR
cites 1/
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I should clarify: I have no problem with theocracy. Only with representative theocracy. Let God rule directly. I don't trust any person who seeks who govern in His name.
IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
I can't believe they have finally said it out loud.
This was never about judicial reform or democracy AT ALL.
This is actually about creating a "God-fearing DAVIDIC MONARCHY".
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A thread on Rav Shmuel Brazil, for a change.
He's a talmid chacham, a rosh yeshiva, a true mentsch, and a warm, friendly human being. He is not, and never was, at the center of a cult of personality, and there were never rumors or allegations of predation 1/
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"May you age as well as this tweet."
Old Yiddish Proverb
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Imma start a Novardhok-style podcast called "Meaningless People". Who wants to be interviewed?
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"Semichas Chaver" of R. Asher Weiss, from the Klausenberger Rebbe, after passing an oral (closed book) examination on *over 600* pages of Gemara, with Rashi, Tosafot, and other Rishonim and Acharonim.
Oh, and this was around the time of his 17th birthday.
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I read this over Shabbos. It's a book I never heard of before Shabbos. It's not even this book, but a book of responsa with the same name and by the same author. Responsa Devar Yehoshua by R. Yehoshua Menahem Mendel Ehrenberg. There's a story here, and it's worth telling. 1/
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Regardless of # of slices, the halakhah should be that if you heat it up, you make a המוציא and if you eat it cold it's מזונות
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I give it two cycles before the general attitude toward Daf Yomi in yeshivas is, "Eh, it's for women."
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From the "can't make this up" department:
There's a doctor named Manish Tanna.
Some of his patients are in on the joke:
"has been very patient with my many questions"
"He takes ample time to fully address any questions"
"encourages questions."
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@TheRaDR
Several years ago I took my kids to an exhibit on Jewish refugee professors who taught at HBCUs, at
@LewisMuseum
in Baltimore.
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Until about an hour ago, the Museum of the Jewish People (formerly Beit Hatfutsot/the Diaspora Museum) was best known for this:
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Not to take anything away from
@sam_salz
, but
@DavidSamuelMay
was walk-on backup kicker for
@TerpsFootball
right after my time as OU-JLIC campus rabbi there. (We overlapped his first year on campus.) And he's shomer effing Shabbos.
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A guy asked me to donate $1000 toa mikvah he's building.
I told him to go jump in a lake.
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Prediction: At least one rabbinical organization will admit an AI chatbot before it admits women.
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Yeah, I realize that this meme has a limited audience. But still.
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When the Klausenberger Rebbe decided to build Laniado Hospital, people told him, "Rebbes don't build hospitals." He said, "I know. Here, secularists build hospitals and invite us to put up a mezuza. But I'm going to build a hospital and invite secularists to put up a mezuza."
I guess Litzman didn't have a chance to change out of his festive Shushan Purim attire before the press conference
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You meet a kitniyot-eating, vegan anti-vaxxer. What do they tell you first?
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Back in 2016, I wrote an article for
@Jewish_Action
profiling the settlement of Har Bracha, the hometown of the two brothers who were murdered yesterday and buried today.
It's important to say some things about Har Bracha today. 1/n
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Briefly visited
@YeshivatOrayta
this AM. One of the Rebbeim, a good friend who lurks on
#FrumTwitter
, says to his students, "Guys, this is
@Adderabbi
from Twitter," and they stood out of respect. That was just awesome.
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Multiple fetuses where the mother's life is not in danger: ALMOST ALL poskim PERMIT aborting one or more fetus to save the rest.
R. Elyashiv (see Tzitz Eliezer 20:2)
RHD HaLevi (Mayim Hayim 1:61)
RSZ Auerbach (see Nishmat Avraham 425:1:30)
R. Nahum Rabinovitch (Siah Nahum 116)
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Discussions of Nittel Nacht often begin with a dichotomy: Hasidim observe the custom of not learning, whereas Litvaks disregard this and learn. But neither of these groups was the first to observe Nittel. The custom originated in an unexpected place: 1/n
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Two headlines on the passing of Rav Steinsaltz ob"m, from two leading Israeli English-language news sites.
@TimesofIsrael
nails it. R. Steinsaltz's greatest contribution was his project of elucidating and making Talmud newly accessible to millions. Our generation's Rashi.
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In the ancient Egyptian numbering system, 10,000 is represented by a finger, 100,000 by a frog, and a million by a god with outstretched arms. These elements appear in the Exodus story. That's not coincidence, right? And the weird Haggadah math?
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People of Poland - please know that this kid is a loudmouth twerp who represents no one but himself.
People of Poland- please know that the current government in Israel is illegitimate and does not represent the people of israel! It is made up of petty politicians who broke all their promises to their voters, and of the party of the Muslim brotherhood.
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I hear the 1973 comparisons but I can't help but compare it to 1929.
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It is important to add that saying that Jews are indigenous does not imply that Palestinians are not indigenous to the very same territories, and vice versa. If fact, I don't think there will ever be peace until each side accepts the other's indigenous status. 11/
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So binary.
Litvish: Tay-reh
Galitzianer: Tuy-reh
Yeshivish BT: Toy-ruh
Non-Orthodox American: Tour-uh
Yekkes: Tau-raw
American MO: Toe-ruh
Israeli: toe-RAH
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And for that very reason,
@rabbiandykahn
's misguided view that Jews are not indigenous to Eretz Yisrael, in addition to being wrong, only furthers us from the type of mutual understanding that can be a foundation for peace. /end
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Super proud of my mom, who this year, at the age of 69, learned to leyn a chapter of Megillat Esther.
עוד ינובון בשיבה!!
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A vegan Ashkenazi who eats kitniyot on Pesach just got their COVID vaccine. What do they tell you first?
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The problem is the belief that ONLY Black people are the true Jews or Israelites or Hebrews or Semites. That non-Black/White/European/Caucasian/Ashkenazi Jews are at best medieval converts and at worst usurpers conspiring to oppress the "real" children of Israel
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If anyone's mouth should be forced shut it's this hypocrite's.
Jonathan Pollard was the beneficiary of a widespread and sustained multi-year advocacy campaign when he was in prison for espionage but calls for jailing the families of the hostages to keep them silent
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Nechama Leibowitz was once asked how one should teach Abarbanel's view that women are not created in God's image.
Her answer: "Don't."
@Adderabbi
@zpyarom
@TMan1040
@avitalrachel
@Feldheim
"My issue with Feldheim is not halakhic, but pedagogical."
Yes! The difference between knowing this halacha and deciding that it's a good idea to print it in a children's book is the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
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This will never get stale. The facial expressions are so perfect.
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Rav Eliezer Melamed: "Here are guidelines for making a minyan during the corona crisis, but those who are 'mehadrin' should daven alone, like I do." I love how he inverts halakhic rhetoric here. Really brilliant.
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Why this analysis of Israel by
@Humble_Analysis
is simply bad analysis. A thread:
In 4 weeks, cases worldwide have fallen by 40%; this is worldwide phenomenon - with one notable exception. One nation remains with stubbornly high cases counts - in fact, the very highest cases per capital in the world....
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I remember once being told that Bnei Brak is the Yerushalayim of Eretz Yisrael.
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In the 1100s, Ashkenazic Jews
- had already developed an identifiable genetic profile consistent with today's Ashkenazim
- in England had an Eastern Mediterranean profile
- were not Khazars, like some ppl still think
- were persecuted
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Started learning Mishnah Mikva'ot with my daughter (11). The Mishnah begins:
שש מעלות במקוה
She says: "Whoa, that's cold."
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The notion that "ain't nobody gonna tell us how or when to plant trees in Israel, cuz this is *our* land" is *exactly* the type of attitude that Shemitah is supposed to combat. This is God's land, and we forget that at our own peril.
חברות וחברי כנסת של הליכוד נטעו היום עצים בנגב בתגובה לאיומי רע״מ, השותפה הבכירה של בנט, נגד נטיעות בארץ ישראל.
אף אחד לא יגיד לנו איפה ומתי לנטוע עצים בארץ ישראל. זו ארצנו 🇮🇱
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He's right. Anti-Zionism should not be equated with antisemitism. I made a Venn Diagram to explain what
@DovWaxman
surely must mean by "sometimes."
It is wrong to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, just as it is wrong to deny that anti-Zionism is never antisemitic. Sometimes - but not always - anti-Zionism is motivated by antisemitism. Sometimes - but not always - it is expressed using antisemitic tropes, stereotypes and…
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And there's also the obvious etymological fallacy concerning the term 'antisemitism.' It was never about Semites. It was never about speakers of Arabic, Aramaic, Amharic, Tigrinya, etc. It was a racial term applied by Germans to Jews in the 19th century. 3/
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Who decided to call it "Barbie getting divorced" and not "Shilu'ach Ha-Ken"?
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