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138.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty-eight, March 4-10, 2023, thread begins here.
Week 137 below.
Week 137 below.
138.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight is another one of my favorites, the underrated "A-Team (2010)" imdb.com/title/tt042949…
138.03/ [I forgot to link to my essay - appropriate for Shabbat #Zachor]
Moral Echoes of a Doomed King: the Fallen Reign of King Shaul (Alei Etzion 4, 1996, pp 83-101)
academia.edu/33158983/Moral…
Orig: gush.net/alei/4-07saul.… from
haretzion.org/torah/yeshiva-…
@inthegush
Moral Echoes of a Doomed King: the Fallen Reign of King Shaul (Alei Etzion 4, 1996, pp 83-101)
academia.edu/33158983/Moral…
Orig: gush.net/alei/4-07saul.… from
haretzion.org/torah/yeshiva-…
@inthegush
1/ #Purim 5782/2022 thread, of this year's thoughts but also to collect from previous years.
First, a very nice comment by @pphone about my #DisabilityHalakha thread:
& my reply
First, a very nice comment by @pphone about my #DisabilityHalakha thread:
& my reply
3/ From this year, so far:
87.01/ Week eighty-seven, March 12-18, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 86 below.
Thank God #UkraineStillStands
Week 86 below.
Thank God #UkraineStillStands
87.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight suspended tonight because - with the mask mandate lifted and no community spread - I'm back to having social functions that I must attend. #SlawCup
87.03/
Me: "How can I get everything done? There are only 24 hours in a day!"
Daylight Saving Time: "LOL, no"
Me: "How can I get everything done? There are only 24 hours in a day!"
Daylight Saving Time: "LOL, no"
1/ Welcome to the Cypess Weekly Thread Index Thread.
I implemented the long thread concept in July 2020 in order to have an easy system to access my weekly writing.
Week 1, July 18-24 2020, 10 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371275…
I implemented the long thread concept in July 2020 in order to have an easy system to access my weekly writing.
Week 1, July 18-24 2020, 10 posts:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1371275…
1/ #ReshetKeshet. I'm trying to combine my sociological work on disability with my rabbinic role by writing a Disability Shulchan Arukh, as it were: how halakha applies to full variation of humanity. BTW, the gemara is full of this but invisible disabilities are overlooked.
2/ So, notes on the mitzvah of hearing the #Megillah, which is a disability nightmare. Shas deals with things like blindness:
sefaria.org/Megillah.24b.7…
And deafness: rabbikaganoff.com/megillas-esthe…
But what about #ADHD? For a mitzvah that requires total concentration?!
sefaria.org/Megillah.24b.7…
And deafness: rabbikaganoff.com/megillas-esthe…
But what about #ADHD? For a mitzvah that requires total concentration?!
3/ Or people with sensory overload issues, like #autism & others, who can be quite uncomfortable in rooms packed to the rafters with people graggin' graggers and noisemakers and full tumult (pardon my Yiddish)
32.01/ Week thirty-two (Feb. 20-26) thread begins here. Week 31 - which was broken into three pieces like Gaul - is linked below:
32.02/ Well put. The key difference is whether they can treat people, any person, as having equal humanity no matter their abilities/background and not as a collection of specific identities.
32.03/ The GOP & 'conservatives' seem to lack empathy & an ability to imagine others having a different mindset from their own. They don't care about right vs wrong, only Us v. Them, so they assume we're the same. Their mentality is insulting but revealing
