jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026really don't understand the Yuval Harari hate, I thought this was excellent 040
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026selecting "add to dictionary" when Microsoft Word thinks "rabbinization" is a spelling error 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"... a history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of man in his relationship to his environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constant repetition" (Braudel) 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026medieval polemics had the decency to depict both the Christian and Jewish characters with the chad face 070
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I love this genre of scary 19th century rabbi. they don't make em like this anymore 050
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026so funny when the only image that survives of a rabbi is like 4x4 pixels. this could be anybody 4133
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Alphabet switching for the name of God in Judeo-Arabic: the word Allah الله is smelled with Arabic letters in this otherwise Hebrew-script text! 1256
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 07/09/202555 EARTHEN CAULDRONS 55 COPPER POTS 55 ANDALUSI ROBES 55 RAW ANDALUSI CLOTHS 100 CLAY LAMPS 100 BAHARS OF SANDALWOOD 100 MANNS OF SILK 100 DINARS OF SILVER 100 SHEETS OF PAPER 55 BAHARS OF IRON 55 DAMASCENE SWORDS 55 BAHARS OF PEPPER 55 BAHARS OF CARDAMOM 155 BETEL NUTS 010
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025the use of the phrase "exotic eastern landscapes" re: a memoir by Edward Said has to be intentionally ironic right 020
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 08/04/2025[of Derrida] "he read almost everything I gave him ... he was more prompt about reading articles by complete unknowns than I am about reading my students' thesis chapters" 010
