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He's got a Torah and he's not afraid to use it! Writer: Author:

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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
Rav Saadiah Gaon (EvD Intro, Ch. 7) writes that one of the causes of heresy is hearing a weak argument in defense of the faith. This should make many people think before they talk.
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Getting interested in Judaism... anyone have any books to recommend?
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7 months
I just volunteered to the IDF to do whatever they might want from me.
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2 years
"The Messiah sits and cleans and polishes the souls of Israel, day and night. When they are clear enough for him to see the Shechinah through them, he is revealed." - anonymous Medrash, 8th century
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To relearn your religion is no small matter.
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11 months
The Gadol HaDor told me the halachah is like the Ramban.
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7 months
I was there. Amazing chizuk and unity.
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New York stands with Israel. It’s packed.
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1 year
Wonderful and exciting news! My years-long project of researching, lecturing and writing about the mitzvah to live in EY has reached a great milestone: THE BOOK IS OUT!
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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If it's true, it isn't kefirah.
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1 year
@SeforimChatter אני הקטן עבדתי על זה
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
5 months
In order to become an authority, one must learn to not rely on authority. - Maimonides, SP, chapter 1
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
9 months
I understand I'm supposed to post a picture after purchasing, so here it is:
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
6 months
The problem with people who know all the answers is that they don't know what the questions are.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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The Talmud says: שמא יגרום החטא (Ber. 4a). Sin causes uncertainty.
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@MosabHasanYOSEF Notice that they never identify precisely what problem the "solution" will solve, nor how.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
I maintain that the central religious belief is "And He saw that it was good."
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
7 months
I am currently engaged in a milchemes mitzvah. Every mitzvah that I do, I do as an act of war.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
10 months
I didn't need to write a whole book. It's all here.
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10 months
I’m just as guilty in being unable to answer this question but I found the way it’s phrased here deeply moving.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
If you’re not trying to be a prophet, you’re not serious about your Judaism.
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@FrumTikTok דעת יחיד ולית הלכתא כוותיה
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
6 months
If you are a sorry Jew in chu"l who isn't meriting to participate in these yissurin shel ahavah, you might want to accept some suffering upon yourself, such as fasting, and maybe just maybe you'll be considered a ben EY for this display of heavenly love.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
5 months
It takes approximately 20 years of intense Torah study to finally become a beginner.
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7 months
I am fasting today in order to arouse Heaven's mercy.
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@jmrphy Man. He separated her from his body and then blamed her for his faults.
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1 year
"Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said that the prayers were instituted based on the daily offerings sacrificed in the Holy Temple." (Talmud, Berachos, 26b) We pray while knowing our prayers will not be answered, and thus we sacrifice ourselves.
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I love Torah so much that I would learn it from anyone.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
5 months
It is an urgent mitzvah to promulgate these kinds of teachings
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5 months
A Rav in Israel explains the importance of showing appreciation for Israeli soldiers. Showing gratitude is a sign of strength in your own commitments and the inability to show gratitude betrays an insecurity in your life. A powerful must listen/read:
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
4 months
Thank you Hashem for making the Rambam.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
It's gratifying when special people find and appreciate the new sefer.
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1 year
I read this over Shabbos.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
2 months
Be a Jew, not a type of Jew. Don't be a מין.
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6 months
1 Israel Trip, day 1 Impression: Being here is very special. What was formerly merely words became real. The war is not an abstraction about which people are fighting, which is how it sometimes feels reading the news. It is an actual fight, and feels like reality, only more so.
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29 days
The man who imagines his mind read by God will have godly thoughts. #the_Path
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2 years
Teaching is desirable only as the best form of learning; if you desire teaching qua teaching, you desire that there are ignorant students who need you as a teacher.
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Do you really think that The Holy, Blessed be He cares if an animal is slaughtered by front or by the back of the neck? Therefore, mitzvot were only given to refine humans.
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I am fasting today to arouse Heaven's mercy, and for the merit of the soldier David, son of Zusia, and the 3-year-old Abigail, daughter of Smadar, who was captured by evil monsters.
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5 months
May Hashem spare us from such insanities
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@shnayor @joshdeitel @AureliusPolitic I will leave off with an anecdote to illustrate my point They once asked r yoshe ber soloveichik how he knows hashem exists He said the rambam says and the raavad is not maasig Even sacrifice is a “din” I hope u delve deep into this concept since i think u utterly missed this
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9 months
One of the first things the Messiah will do is teach people not to wait for the Messiah.
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5 months
1 In light of recent unpleasant experiences on this forum, I've undertaken a self-examination. I concluded that I may have lately been less scrupulous with the honor of Torah sages than befits their august status. I resolved to be much more careful in that regard going forward.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
Imagine if all musicians would stop playing music until they understood music theory perfectly.
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7 months
He who thinks that the world is as it should be is incapable of prayer.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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If you have in your mind such divine knowledge about this universe created 13.75 billion light years across containing 200 billion galaxies etc., then by definition its Creator has a personal relationship with you.
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Darwin
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Theism 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
10 months
Why am I crying this Tisha b'Av? Because the kabbalists are not farmers, and the farmers are not kabbalists.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
2 years
@captain_mrs @HeliasHebreus The scary thing about history is that what we imagine is much more important than what happened. Or: the present is more important than the past.
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Shavua tov Hashem is in control
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
There is no crowd large enough for its applause to drown out the small still voice of my inner critic.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
2 months
People often ask me how I chose which denomination of Judaism to follow. It's simple: Orthodox Judaism is the most edgy, progressive and revolutionary.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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Thinking again about giving Judaism a shot
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The funny thing about religion is that it’s about the deepest problems yet people make it about the simplest problems.
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7 months
Judaism is worth fighting for. Torah is worth fighting for. Eretz Yisrael is worth fighting for. We will never give up.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
29 days
I suffer from the worse kind of greatness: I am great enough to suffer from my sins, but not great enough to avoid sinning.
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10 months
GV God is in control. Where is E. del Medigo (helias_hebraeus) and how am I supposed to carry on here without him?
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
6 months
Gut voch. Hashem is in control. I am off tonight on my holy mission.
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5 months
I am fasting today so as to suffer together with my brethren in the Land of Israel, and to arouse the Name's mercy on His people and His land, and for the merit of the warrior David, son of Zusia.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
5 months
In the Messianic era, God will no longer be a distraction.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
It is so easy to taste manna: merely trace the path of the morsel of food from heaven to your mouth.
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4 months
Who is your favorite rebbe and why is it the Rambam?
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7 months
I am fasting today to arouse Heaven's mercy and as a merit for the soldier David, son of Zusia.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
4 months
Shalom, cherished community! To celebrate the milestone of reaching 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ followers, I'm hosting an #AskMeAnything session today on Torah and Judaism. AMA! #Judaism #Torah
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
9 months
Great thread as always. Wow! It was a privilege to discuss these revolutionary ideas about God, Land and man with @AriLamm .
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Ari Lamm
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Why Read the Bible in Hebrew? Let's talk about one of the most common questions I get about the Bible: Why does God care about a particular land? If God is everywhere and created the whole world, why is there a "holy land"? A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵 1
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Fear of heaven is the rare quality of caring more about being right than about feeling right.
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Twitter: where nobody knows exactly what you mean, but that doesn't seem to matter.
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6 months
1 Israel Trip, day 2 One doesn't attend a funeral of a 20-year-old fallen soldier and hear the father of the young man say, "May the great Name of God be exalted and sanctified, throughout the world, which he has created according to his will,"
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
1 year
some excellent advice i received
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🦍Ivan🦍 the 📜Zealot🕎 🇮🇱
1 year
@shnayor Maybe you should try reading and studying Torah first. It might help some to know what you're talking about.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
9 months
Master of Heaven, how great have we sinned before You that we have reduced your lofty Torah to Na Nach! אולי מה היה לנו
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@shnayor
Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
6 months
I am ascending along with six good people to the Holy Land after Shabbos on a week-long mission of solidarity and support. Our schedule is pretty full, but if anyone has ideas for where our volunteer work is needed, whether collectively or for me individually, please lmk.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
7 months
Am I the only one thinking it can happen here ?
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4 months
I am fasting today in observation of the Yahrzeit of my rebbe, the great R' Moshe b. Maimon, and so as to suffer together with my brethren in the Land of Israel, and to arouse the Name's mercy on His people and His land, and for the merit of the warrior David, son of Zusia.
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@USAmbIsrael Ah, but calm isn't prevailing, you see. People are being shot dead.
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I detest those who lack desire and are incapable of sin.
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@DBashIdeas לא זה הדרך ולא זו העיר
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11 months
the books have all been written, now is time to do
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poor bible critics, biased against divinity thus unable to detect breathtaking superhuman writing
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@IMedaber @BacovcinAkiva @minhagim @yoshiyahureform @Adderabbi @FreeManDespair Yes. I hear that. For myself, I found that using a תנ"ך with no מפרשים was the best way to keep the forest in view.
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9 months
hilarious how some people really think there are no שדים like duh have you never been outside
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There is no freedom where there is no Unity.
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9 months
Good shabbos to all who are brave enough to open their eyes and see.
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9 months
The purpose of the entire Torah is Eretz Yisrael.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
9 months
Along with a bonus pic of my Guide shelf:
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2 years
Til that the נודע ביהודה quotes Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Those were the days! See here:
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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To love peace is not to wish everyone else was as nice as you are, but to find the path of coexistence and cooperation despite the fact that they are not.
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@AriLamm This is a good example of why read the Bible in Hebrew. "Man hath no preeminence above a beast" doesn't come close to the original. Alter did it better: "Man's advantage over beast is naught," which allows us to darshen "naught" as the advantage.
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@DBashIdeas Normalize thinking about things instead of reading other people's thoughts.
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אמר מורי ורבי שמה שכתוב "העם ההולכים בחשך ראו אור גדול" הוא תנאי קודם למעשה, שעד שלא יידעו שהם הולכים בחושך, וחושבים שאור להם, לעולם לא יראו אור גדול, ואמר עוד שהידיעה שהם הולכים בחושך הוא עצמו האור הגדול. #מורי_ורבי
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Must one keep halacha when lucid dreaming? @Shadow_Rebbe
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ומה שאור שבעיסה שאינו אלא מרמז ליצר הרע ומותר כל השנה, אמרה תורה לא יראה לך חמץ ולא יראה לך שאור בכל גבולך שבעת ימים, טוויטר שמלא שדים רעים כל השנה כולה אינו דין שלא יראה בגבולנו בשבעת ימי הפסח. Good Yom Tov to all lovers of the good See you after Pesach
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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Seeking: Gullible people who will believe anything but also brilliant enough to write the Bible (anonymously).
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
11 months
Maimonides. I just received his medical writings as a birthday present
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Jarvis
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Writers that were so good that you have determined to read every word they published?
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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I am fasting today so as to suffer together with my brethren in the Land of Israel; to arouse the Name's mercy on His people and His land; for the merit of the soldier David, son of Zusia; and for the safe return of the hostages that were captured by the weak forces of evil.
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I asked a friend, innocently, where he stands on Jacob's ladder. He looked at me blankly, and I knew he never dreamed.
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@shnayor
Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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Have you abandoned God but are committed to the Torah? Consider joining the new "הלואי" movement. It might be just right for you!
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Keep calm and study Rambam.
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In a great PR win for Hamas, inside sources say that 40 Jewish babies might perhaps not have been beheaded by them but only murdered in the standard murder way.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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This shiur was generously sponsored by an anonymous donor for the merit of the speedy, safe and healthy return of the Hostages. 09 Shemona Perakim; Which Parts of the Soul Participate in Human Excelle... via @YouTube
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Judaism is in its infancy.
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Jews for Judaism
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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I'm considering traveling to EY for a week to participate/contribute what I can, anyone with ideas please lmk.
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Shnayor Burton 🇮🇱
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wow
@MelekTawuse
Melek Tawuse
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1/ This week has evoked many memories of the Mosul offensive which I was a minor participant in while embedded with an Iraqi Army brigade. It was a very formative experience for me as a younger lad and one that colors my perception of what’s likely to come in Gaza.
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Happy to see a monumental work in which I had the privilege of playing a significant role quoted by @HusseinAboubak
@HusseinAboubak
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
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Mahfouz, Feuerbach, and Maimonides "He is our neighbor, the best we could ever ask for. At dusk, he sits on the bench, enrobed with his gown. His presence perfects the majesty of the street and the beauty of the trees. And when the last ray of light disappears from the skies,…
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