#Torah

So pulling this out of a separate thread to signal boost a bit more. @tripphudgins and @crazywholelife asked me to comment a bit on this week's Gospel reading, the parable
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Some thoughts—some Torah—on this in-between time, this liminal period in which we find ourselves. On the wilderness, on fear, on possibility. 1/x thread. So where we (Jews) are in our
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I hate, hate, HATE how people with power over you will try to manipulate you emotionally to either 1) try to get out of doing what's right or 2) make
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Let's explore the mystical meanings of Parshat Tzav.#BibleStudy This is Part 2 of today's Bible Study.We're in the book of Leviticus.https://twitter.com/DrDannielle/status/1246491439204204545 Part 1 of today's study is here. You do
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Thank you, random Presbyterian, for trying to tell me how "every Jew" reads Torah. Should we do this thing? OK. Mini-thread.https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/903648810416705539 Here's how Jews read Torah.It's a Mikraot Ge
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***TW: The Holocaust***As tonight marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, I want to make a thread appreciating what I call the two main types of Jewish resistance that occurred during
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I had the honor of having an Aliyah at our niece's bat mitzvah today. For you beautiful goyim, this means I chanted the blessings (with Boss at my side!!) before
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But, at the end of the day, no matter how wrong the cops were (and they were EXTREMELY wrong), if George Floyd hadn’t tried to scam innocent hardworking people out
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Okay, this is me, a Jew, asking Christian Twitter to explain something:What do Christians mean when they say things like "Jesus fulfilled the Law" or "perfected the Law"? I don't
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So my parents sent me what I am referring to as a “mystery box” fron my room at home. It’s filled with lots of felt-cute-might-delete-later photos, report cards and a
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Okay, since you insist on continuing to push your beliefs at me, despite my having made it clear I'm uninterested, let me be blunt about what I think about those
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tw antisemitismif you are not jewish please don’t ignore this. i know there’s a lot going on in the world but i promise it wont take longer than 5 minutes.
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I'm honestly not sure. It looks to be a container? Would like to learn what it is and used for.https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1321272750405767169 This is used to keep track of one's place in
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Several times, the Talmud concludes that various biblical laws "never were and never will be" applied in real life; they are on the books to "study and receive reward." Such
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This woman was the very famous Asnat Barzani (1590-1670), daughter of the great Kabbalist Shmuel Barzani. The Barzani family was the head of the Jewish community in Mosul in the
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THREAD. 1/xSome more Torah on our absolute obligation to non-citizens, to immigrants, to the vulnerable migrants in our midst. גר ger can be translated as an alien, a sojourner, an
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