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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

You couldn't find a still photo from "The Bad Seed"?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hi. I’d like to report a deranged and delusional man in the White House who’s inciting violence and represents a danger to public safety. Can law enforcement please handle this matter?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's an important story, but their writing needs some work. Every social media poster they cite "has amassed nearly X number of followers." It's almost funny.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

You seem to be assuming that (1) we can always know what is right; (2) we can guarantee the results of our actions; (3) we never make mistakes....But of course none of that is true.

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Deb @grammydeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It would be a shame if this went viral.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is, and has always been, the very essence of Trump's psyche: Truth is irrelevant; it's all about what you can make some people believe. What counts is marketing, not reality.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I believe good intentions matter, even if they didn't achieve their goals.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I can't decide if you meant to place a period after "is" or after "Rey."

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I think they probably all have the same basic point: simple, devoted heart surpasses mere ritual conformity....

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My familiarity with Zohar is fairly general and limited, but that seems like a very reasonable thesis for parts of Kabbalah. This of course has also been asserted about Hasidut and early modern mainstream Judaism. Remember the shepherd boy who devoutly recited the letters of the Hebrew alphabet?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Completely agree that it's about balance and I love how classical Judaism joins Halacha and Aggada—one of our great strengths. To be clear: I'm not judging you based on one thread; just engaging the ideas presented. Take THIS as a compliment, for how many people can I even discuss this with online?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Jesus echoed our Prophets and Sages—didn't he?—when saying: “Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint, anise and cumin, but have neglected the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.”

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thanks for your replies. As F. Rosenzweig noted, there's a big difference between "law" (the way it's typically used) and "commandment." With all due respect to your profession, I don't want Judaism to be seen as a tax bureaucracy, as important as a system of taxation is...

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I have a negative reaction to that self-teasing since it plays so much into Christian disparagement of Jewish spirituality. Btw, do you know this teaching in BK 30a: אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה: הַאי מַאן דְּבָעֵי לְמֶהֱוֵי חֲסִידָא – לְקַיֵּים מִילֵּי דִּנְזִיקִין. רָבָא אָמַר: מִילֵּי דְאָבוֹת. וְאָמְרִי לַהּ: מִילֵּי דִּבְרָכוֹת. No one says, "Zera'im."

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Large" is relative, especially when you consider Rabbinic Literature as a whole.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Isn't that generalizing the part for the whole? Did you skip Berachot and get stuck in other masechtot of Zera'im?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What teaching in Rabbinic Literature are you referring to?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

An amazing statment that God can be found even in the most mundane places.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Hi, Ethan. The OP was referencing certain sections of Talmudic discourse.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

As a high school teacher, I can confirm this assessment.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Don't forget Sam Alito...and the list goes on....

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I heard he was in a popular band once upon a time...called Wings.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"The Lord of Hosts is exalted through justice; the holy God is sanctified through righteousness." —Isaiah 5:16

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If you had been paying attention to elections in America recently, you'd realize that every endorsement and every vote counts.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Those are the kinds of numbers usually only seen in favor of motherhood and apple pie....

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Every living former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank agrees that the Supreme Court should prevent President Donald Trump’s effort from ousting Fed Governor Lisa Cook. An amicus brief filed Thursda...

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Every Living Ex-Fed Chair Urges Supreme Court to Stop Trump

Former Federal Reserve and Treasury chiefs warned of serious consequences if Donald Trump is allowed to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Well, both can seemingly come out of nowhere....

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Compared him to Moses? Moses married an Ethiopian woman (see Numbers 12). Charlie Kirk hatefully disparaged black women.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My question is about the expression on the woman's face. I'd suggest it be a bit more intrigued and excited than merely uncomfortable.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I wish I had been subscribed just so I could cancel....

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Poor Tricky Dick. He was just a few years ahead of his time.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

You won't even accept multiple impartial jury verdicts against him as evidence of his lawbreaking, so who's brainwashed?!

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Of course it's kidnapping because the "arrests" are done without legal process, without sufficient cause—and they cover their faces and their ID, just like gangsters. And they deport people without trial. Brainwashed? What would it take for you to wake up from your Trump Enslavement Syndrome?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

You think Trump cares about crime? He himself is one of the convicted criminals! As for immigration, you can't enforce one law by breaking other laws—like kidnapping people off the streets without a trial.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Crime is in fact down in the places Trump attacks (e.g., D.C., Chicago). He attacks them—like everything else he attacks—to get power, and because they don't like him or bend the knee to his supreme, narcissistic will....

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The Democrats' top issue for the last 10 years has been trying to save the country from the GOP's efforts to replace the Constitution with The Will of Don.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

You don't *get* it back unless you *take* it back.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I thought the whole point of America was to be against tyrants and dictators, starting with King George III and continuing through King Donald the Liar

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Kat, you agree with the part about not intimidating others, right?

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Phuhh, obviously chin vooming is the solution to seratonin throat.... You really made me laugh. Thank you.

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kingofthejuice18.bsky.social @kingofthejuice18.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hi. I don't know how. The unseen powers of the Bluesky algorithm sent you my way. Maybe it's because I list Hebrew as one of my languages, or have posted about Jewish things....I'd like to hear about the results of your call. בהצלחה.

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