genocide-quois - when your allies are doing the mass murder, so you don't know what to call it.

Thoughts from this year's Yom Kippur services.

Definitely one of the possible options!

I would go with motzi, but the rabbis in the game are debating, and I needed to decide the other option. I did go with eitz as the other choice, but considered a few options.

We're revising a game about Rabbis arguing halachah on a new planet, and I just spent way too long deciding what the right brucha was to say over bread made from a wheat-like berry that contains gluten, but grows on a tree.

Jason's Niggun YouTube video by Dybbuk Klezmer

Playing some actual (slightly gothic) klezmer at Capricon. Thanks to @fayel.bsky.social for the recording.

Duck! YouTube video by Dybbuk Klezmer

Some commentary on the current political situation.

Yeah, most of the time when these come out at this point it just feels like yet one more. This one I'm still grieving.

Yup, I'm a Jewish atheist (formerly a Jewish agnostic). A buddy of mine always says "I'm an atheist...baruch hashem" and that kinda covers it.

For me, existence (or not) of the deity is less important than my need to fight for affordable housing in my community. I'll argue about God later.

Currently working on revising our Talmud in space game. Quotes from the first run: Talking in circles is a time honored Talmudic tradition.

Shabbat 46a:8 Clearly Rabbinic arguments are all for the sake of heaven. "His feet were dirty with clay and he put them on the bed before Rava. Rava became angry at him for dirtying the bed and, therefore, sought to torment him with questions that he could not answer." #talmudtweets

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My not-technically-late Channukah song.

Oh, certainly that's a different axis. I was providing a comparison to an identity where we do think about intensity as a separate component of the identity.

If you look at things like this, there are separate sliders for different genders. So, for example, someone might have male at 0, other at 5, and female at 10, being more female than anything else, but nothing very strongly: https://transstudent.org/gender/

There are cis people who care a lot. There are people who basically accept their assigned gender, and have some identity connection with it for various reasons, but don't really have an internal gender identity. Whether that feels more agender or more cis varies person to person.

It's like how someone can be on the ace spectrum and also be straight or pan, or whatever, but someone who is strictly aro/ace may not fit into any other box.

I think there is a range of gender identity from caring a lot to not caring at all that is separate from what the identity is. When you get to not caring at all, it's essentially not having an internal identity.

Yeah, my statement is that I might identify as agender if I cared more, but my lack of gender isn't strong enough either.

I do not understand how any Jewish person can hear the phrase "the transgender question" and not understand, instantly, what is going on