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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow there were newspapers in this language lacking a word for newspaper before Ben Yehuda

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

based on this blog post by the author of the book, her argument really is about punctuation and not about diacritical vowel markers. it’s literally an argument that the different directions European punctuation marks face when adopted in Hebrew vs. Arabic mindthegap1.substack.com/p/double-edg...

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to congratulate the people in front of me in the security line for their very first time ever being at an airport! What a treat to see their excited faces as they gazed in wonder at the concept of "putting a backpack onto a conveyor belt" and "going through a metal detector"

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((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think this piece from @theautisticcoach.bsky.social @autisticrabbi.bsky.social says some of the most important stuff about Judaism's future possibilities. Read the whole thing by backing our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

"[Mordecai] Kaplan’s Judaism refuses assimilation. It was grounded in peoplehood, in communal creativity, and in the lived, complex reality of being Jewish in the Diaspora."
"And critically, this meant placing community - not belief, not ritual, not law - at the centre of Jewish religious life."

—Matti Boulakia-Bortnick, "From Self-Realization to Collective Liberation", Again at a Crossroads: New Jewish Thought for a Better World

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you for prompting me to think about the definitions and possible limitations of teshuva, Cybertruck that drove past me as I was leaving shul with a "F*** Elon Musk" sticker

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((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Read the rest of Dov's prophetic, poetic piece in AGAIN AT A CROSSROADS. Back the campaign to reserve your copy, support the contributors, and help bring this new collection of Jewish thought into print! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

"We live in troubled times, with war a constant state of the world. With failing governmental structures and questions about the world’s ongoing habitability, questions of the eschatological end times easily arise."

—Dov Pfeiffer, "Two Worlds", Again at a Crossroads: New Jewish Thought for a Better World

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

real friendships involve the other person pushing back against you, having needs, being busy, not being able to devote themselves to you. we know from the experience of the powerful that having somebody at your literal beck and call is a factor in driving people mad.

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Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is live!! Check out this fantastic list of people and, if you click on the link, you can see who else is here because it's such a good group and I am honored to be among them.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/09/2026

I'm in this! You should donate!

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our book is nearly ready - come support us get it over the line!

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey my friend Jordan has been working super hard on this collection for years and it's got a bunch of essays by cool people in it so you should throw money at him so that the book can get printed

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Speech I gave in shul this morning. Cried the whole time. They're not going to forget it, and while I'm not exactly ashamed of showing emotion on the day you're supposed to, I can obviously never show my face in there ever again. Moving on Monday. misfittorah.substack.com/p/introducti...

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Introduction to Sha'ali Serufah b'Eish

Imagine you're an author of a medieval Talmudic commentary.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do you think Yaxel Lendeborg and Aday Mara have their feelings hurt right now

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you had told someone thirty years ago that in thirty years Trent Reznor would be mostly known as a film score composer what would they have said to you

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Moving to take a job in Palo Alto, CA next year, so if you live in that area, soon I will too

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I bet Noah Wyle, in his heart of hearts, thinks he can get away with doing a couple of shifts at a hospital by now

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The vast majority of gentiles lack the range to comment in any capacity on Jewish ritual or tradition. And if you read this and immediately felt like you needed to prove yourself the exception to that statement, I guarantee you you’re actually part of the problem and should fuck off.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think it's time to induct My Chemical Romance into the Classic Rock genre

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What if they opened the capsule and NO ONE WAS INSIDE

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

thelehrhaus.com/tanakh/two-m... 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.

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Two Men Enter the Vacated Space By: Akiva Weisinger | The Lehrhaus

The death of Nadav and Avihu is difficult to explain, perhaps even impossible to approach through the medium of language. In a composition crossing the boundaries of original drashah, Breslov thought,...

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/misfitto... 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.

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Apparently they now make Zalman Shazar action figures? I'm a sucker for a guy who seems to lurk in the background of every interesting Orthodox Jewish thinker of the 20th century, so yes, I did purchase the little guy

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Arsenal of Dememecracy @gaymergir1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The Jews he murdered learning that he was actually shooting at policies

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's time to admit to myself that Goldstar is the only beer I have ever loved

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

RIP Rebbe Nachman you would have loved living to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

"Well, I guess these really were just innocent Jews, not those bad kind," say various people in Marisa's mentions. I bring news: It's not actually acceptable to murder random Zionists either (or anybody else you think holds an ideology you disagree with).

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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Perhaps that’s why you acted like you did, when she died, you, unstable as water, went up to your father’s bed, the very bed she and your mother had used your gift as a bargaining chip for, what an insult it must have been to you that the gift you had brought her in from the fields had been traded for a privilege that she, it turns out, was actually third in line for, behind a maidservant, one last attempt from beyond the grave to avenge herself upon you for having the temerity to be born. You broke your banks, you flooded, you drowned, you failed, you were rejected.

And you must have cried a great and bitter cry.

Have you but a single blessing, father? Bless me, me also, Father!

Is that why they call him Yaakov?

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Oh man, this angle.

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