I’ve heard some suggestions that the Amoraim were concerned with Torah because they included the survivors of the Saducees who thought the Tannaim had gone too far.

I enjoyed The Incandescent and I’m actually in the middle of enjoying The Everlasting right now, so no shade to them. But if Death of the Author doesn’t win I shall cry.

Maybe just mention his ideas briefly without naming him? A lot of Gentiles seemed really convinced by him at the time.

I mean, Talmud just explains how the mitzvot are tied to Tanakh. With digressions.

New headcanon: Charlemagne took the menorah from Rome to Aachen, as a reward for helping out the pope. Then Vikings attacked Aachen, stole the menorah, and took it home to Denmark. Where it remains to this day.

Oh, it’s because we aren’t real to them. We are supposed to be fossils of the Bible. And when the existence of the Talmud burst into their consciousness in the 13th century or so, it was evidence that we thought we have agency and refused to remain static. So it horrifies them.

See? He’s creative.

I like herring *and* p’tcha. The real food sin my people commit is everything bagels.

Yes, in the arms of the young former intern he married.

Didn’t those people suffer enough just having to live there?

Every general in the Hundred Years War was a war criminal, basically.

Um. For whom?

The real lobby controlling Congress is the NRA.

Not a slur—are you suggesting that Hegseth was using it on a complimentary way?

Acoustic bikes.

“Guilty.”

I have sometimes wondered whether he’s really expensive to insure because of his previous problems, and “little” films can’t afford him.

You know, sometimes you just need to get a message to the Spartans faster than usual.

That’s out already?! It won’t be released in the US until 5/18.

She’s not related to the actor Paul Newman.

No, it just taught antisemitism to people who adopted it as part of Christianity.

Caitlin Rosakis, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association.

Yeah, I’m talking about 2000 years of massacres, forced conversions, and expulsions justified by those “bad words.” This is not about hurt fee-fees, any more than protests about the Confederate flag are.

It’s precisely the argument used for displaying the treasonous Confederate battle flag. It’s the argument used by everyone who won’t rethink their priors.

If you claim that using “Pharisee” pejoratively (over the objections of those who have been harmed by it) is just Christian tradition and not motivated by hatred, that’s exactly what you’re claiming.

So you’re saying “heritage, not hate.”

It’s all much clearer when you think of AIPAC as a lobby for weapons systems manufacturers.

Christians really need to rethink the premium they place on forgiveness.

And he was saying these things openly and publicly before the Israelis jailed him.

Okay, you think it’s proper to revile an entire group and all their descendants for millennia because stories written long after the lifetime of Jesus, by individuals trying to downplay any connection to that group, say that he called out some members of the group. Got it.