David/Dovid Bashevkin
@DBashIdeas
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Rejected from many prestigious fellowships • Educator @YUNews • Talmud @tabletmag • PhD @thenewschool • Founder @18_forty • I read over Shabbos @ShabbosReads
Marcy Houses
Joined August 2010
Welcome, friend! Twitter is my public diary—a mix of narishkeit, ideas, and opinions. Thanks for visiting. Some writing things I’m proud of: 📖 on sin and failure: https://t.co/r0W163fIuq 📖 on Jewish humor: https://t.co/zQdJGhyqjw 💡academia page: https://t.co/UMHOubZOoR
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Yes, pls.
@DBashIdeas Can we bring back top hats? Or at least the flat-topped brimless hats and clerical bands?
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No dev team? No problem. Caffeine turns your ideas into launch-ready apps — just by chatting. Start for free →
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Ben Gurion wearing a black hat. 🎩🤷🏻♂️
A photograph of the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, wearing a top hat, attending the funeral of the famous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill. Jan 24, 1965.
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Good Shabbos to all those who don’t stop letting go until they are blessed.
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How cool is this? A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah Toledo, Spain c. 1300 249 folios (10 1/4 x 9 in.; 260 x 230 mm), manuscript on parchment. To be sold at auction at @Sothebys Estimate: $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 Details: https://t.co/knbMh4HvSX
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And that is why sometimes all the pain and the tears lift you to a much higher and deeper joy when you say to the bad times, “I will not let you go until you bless me.” ~@rabbisacks
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My grandfather and his Rebbe, Rav Dovid Leibowitz, whose yahrtzeit is tonight.
15 Kislev: R'Chaim Dovid Leibowitz (1890-1941). Founder of Yeshivas Rabbenu Yisrael Meir Hakohen (Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva in Forest Hills, NY). He borough his unique style of Gemara study as well as the Slabodka school of mussar to the United States.
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15 Kislev: R'Chaim Dovid Leibowitz (1890-1941). Founder of Yeshivas Rabbenu Yisrael Meir Hakohen (Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva in Forest Hills, NY). He borough his unique style of Gemara study as well as the Slabodka school of mussar to the United States.
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The last time LeBron didn’t score in double digits, George W. Bush was president.
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LEBRON DECIDES TO PASS IT TO RUI FOR THE GAME WINNER 🎯 HIS DOUBLE DIGIT STREAK ENDS AT 1,297 BUT HE CHOOSES THE TEAM OVER INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS 🐐 https://t.co/vowwtcKiMA
RUI MF HACHIMURA
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Every milestone you reach is an opportunity to thank all the people who helped get you there. ❤️ ~@KDTrey5
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Always bring tefillin—just in case you bump into @MichaelRapaport ❤️😂❤️
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but earlier this week a celebrity embarrassed a rabbi. While visiting Israel, we were at our friend’s café in Tel Aviv when I bumped into Michael Rapaport. Within five seconds he looks at me and asks: “You got your tefillin?” I froze. I had
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"With all due respect, you obviously have no idea what the word terrorism means." @piersmorgan speaks to Antisemite Of The Year nominee @guychristensen_ - who justified the murder of two Israeli embassy workers. Watch more👇 📺 https://t.co/4Zu2gyKm9J
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the frum Jew living in an orthodox community and the secular Jew living in a big city will never know the soul of the forgotten Jew living in a little faraway town whose heart is filled with warmth and connection on a lonely and cold winter night.
I (don’t) know who needs to hear this, but you are not doing a great thing for the Jewish people because you petitioned to have a giant electrified Menorah adjacent to the Christmas tree, in front of a municipal building, or anywhere in public for that matter.
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*Crucial Message Please Share* The debate of Menorah shape is about the Menorah in the Holy Temple. Regarding a Chanukah Menorah everyone agrees that any shape, so long as the 8 lamps are level & in a row, are 💯 Kosher! If you need a Menorah, please reach out for a free gift!
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“This itself is a Chanuka miracle.”
Enjoying the moment right now when the most heated argument showing up in my feed is about the shape of the Menorah, straight or curved. This itself is a Chanuka miracle. 🕎 🔥
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Enjoying the moment right now when the most heated argument showing up in my feed is about the shape of the Menorah, straight or curved. This itself is a Chanuka miracle. 🕎 🔥
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