www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine...

This person is joking but we actually do know that lead tastes sweet! Romans boiled their wine into a syrup in lead pots because it sweetened the wine, which, uh, explains some things about Rome

Not according to Dr. Haym Soloveitchik!

Little known fact: They only opened Sea World after Bee World went....poorly

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What if they opened the capsule and NO ONE WAS INSIDE

And grief and language and faith and being pushed to your limit and there's a cool visual art thing that I am proud of that my wife did all the coding for.

I actually just went on bluesky to post this only to discover The Tweet is going viral again.
So yeah, please give the thing I poured my heart and soul into a read. I think it came out pretty good. It's parsha relevant! It's about Rebbe Nachman and how it feels to screw up and how important art is

wouldn't they just need hatafat dam anyway

but also, yes, this is what being an Orthodox Jew on the internet is like. Even when you do a good thing, someone's gonna try to blood libel you

honestly, serves my ego right.

"Let's read the comments of a reddit post featuring a screenshot of a tweet I made what could go wrong-"

I have a friend, who, through some light fraud, spent a lot of time around basketball players, and when I asked him who was the nicest, *immediately* responded with Richard Jefferson, who seems to have turned that into a post-playing career

well he did....hit you with his best shot

R. Eliezer happens to be an extremely rich character who has a lot to be remembered for, like eating dirt to sustain himself because he got disowned by his father for learning Torah
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I am looking for a job for next year so if you know of any openings for a middle school Judaics teacher and it's not the type of position that would have fired me for that tweet let me know. Also looking at high school and campus positions.

Thanks everyone for the kind words but I consider myself retired from Mattering™

I've come to accept there are worse legacies to have

Embarrassing fact: Never got into them!

I was wondering why I came back to 30+ notifications on Bluesky lol

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Wrote this in June but it's parsha relevant this week.
Wouldn't say I wrote it while Going Through It, more to process Having Been Through It, but it means a lot to me and not just because it's the first thing I published as an adult.

Chad vs Virgin Meme but it's Lake Megachad vs Lake Chad

We had only heard the first two commands directly, and, terrified by the all consuming fire of the God who destroys all forms, retreated away from the anxiety and terror of the second command, away from formlessness and lack of identity, into our comfortable understanding of the first command, that God was the one who took us out of Egypt and put gold in our pockets. We did not realize, chose not to realize, YHWH is not just the God who took us out of Egypt, the mold we had poured the gold into, YHWH was, more fundamentally, more primally, the fire. And fire cannot be molded, cannot be formed, and has a way of eluding human control, turning against those who would imagine themselves to be its owners, blazing out of control and breaking past its boundaries, burning those who would get too close, who do not respect its danger by distancing themselves.

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I wrote this about a month ago, and I do recommend the experience of writing something, not immediately hitting publish, but sitting with it for a while, playing with it and polishing it.

People want to argue so much they will argue with what they wish you said instead of what you said, and invite their friends to the party

at least he died doing what he loved

What a terrible day to have eyes

God Wears A Mask Purim Thoughts

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Watching season one of True Detective for the first time. This show absolutely would not work without McConaughey. Highest Value Over Replacement Actor performance I've ever seen.

The Myth of The Failed Son What it Means to Descend to Adullam

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@elirubin.bsky.social this seems relevant to your interests