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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

my wife is so Ashkenazi that she was worried my matzo ball soup would be too spicy when she saw me adding black pepper. BLACK. PEPPER

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Things that aren't antisemitic but feel antisemitic: * my neighbors baking bread during pesach * recipes for sourdough showing up on my feed during pesach * other people eating chametz pizza during pesach

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A cat with wide eyes with text superimposed. The text reads “damn it’s Purim already?”

“What’s next? Pesach? Fuck everything”

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

waiting to see who of my Israeli acquaintances are going to pull up to the Purim party in super problematic costumes 🫣

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

new work strategy: cancel zoom pro so that meetings CANNOT last longer than 40 minutes

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

רומי בידי אמה. אמילי בשטח ישראל. דורון חזרה הביתה. זה לא הניצחון המוחלט אבל זה הדבר הכי קרוב לשמחה שהרגשתי בשנה האחרונה

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

ביום ראשון הובלתי מעגל שירה ותפילה בכיכר החטופים. לא בפעם הראשונה. הלוואי בפעם האחרונה. "כל רגע שמאחר לפדות השבויים היכא דאפשר להקדים, הוי כאילו שופך דמים." (שולחן ערוך יו"ד רנ"ב) כל יום שהחטופים עוברים שם--מסכן את חייהם. ברור שיש מחיר לעסקה. אבל אנחנו כבר 466 ימים משלמים את המחיר של היעדר עסקה. די.

כיסא צהוב ריק לפני תחילת מעגל שירה ותפילה בכיכר החטופים

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

הרקפות פורחות. יש לנו ארץ כל כך יפה. הלוואי שנוכל לחלוק אותה בכבוד ובשלום.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

why do people over the age of 40 get so much anxiety when there isn't yet a Zoom link to a meeting that's happening DAYS from now

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

every year I promise myself I will purchase a good processor before attempting to make latkes again. and I never, ever do.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

עסקה עכשיו. את כולם, עכשיו. שהנרות שלנו יאירו את דרכם הביתה.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

annual reminder that having family that does celebrate Christmas and being with them today doesn't make you any less Jewish. Happy Hanukkah!

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The story of Joseph teaches us that any hate--even a "benign" hate like sibling rivalry--when left to fester, can lead to horrifying violence and cruelty. May this Shabbat soften our hearts and strengthen our resolve to bring all of our sisters and brothers out of bondage to freedom.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Starting in 2025 I will be charging a flat fee of $50 for every time I have to explain what a Google Doc is to someone

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

GTFO: Get The Frying Oil

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm trying to get into sandwiches, but my ADHD brain thinks they are boring and refuses to cooperate. What are some ways you make sandwiches interesting?

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I should send an apology to all of my former therapists... it turns out that going on walks actually is good for my mental health and they weren't just gaslighting me

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

wife to me after I got bad fertility news: I am holding space for your sadness me: good, because all of the space I am holding is being taken up by the lyrics of Defying Gravity

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

not me trying to explain why I'm wearing headphones and sobbing in line for the pharmacy this morning (she played long live/new years day/the manuscript on the piano)!

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

me, walking out of Wicked on Broadway in 2011: NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ELPHABA LIKE ME 😭 me, walking out of the Wicked movie in 2024: NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ELPHABA LIKE ME 😭

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

making fun of someone's grammar when they are making an effort to speak to you in your native language is a dick move

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

While I am not particularly optimistic about the jihadist rebels offering stability for the people of Syria and the region.... It's hard not to feel some hope with the Syrian people at the overthrow of a brutal dictator. Whatever comes next for Syria, Assad the butcher will not be missed.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My standard lecture on antisemitism includes a section on philosemites whose "love" for Jews, if you can call it that, extends about as far as it takes for them to use us for their own purposes, then either forcibly convert or murder us. Sounds about par for the course with the Heritage Foundation.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Wife just woke me up for a trivial reason (something was waking a weird noise) by saying loudly "there's a problem." Now she's sound asleep while my anxiety from being awoken like that will keep me up all night.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

why are so many men obsessed with saying they can't tell the difference between AI-generated content and human content... we get it, you have bad taste, you don't have to keep announcing the L to the world

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Trying to talk my wife out of wanting to leave Israel by giving examples of how fascism is rising all over the world, here at least we have a support system and healthcare

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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

BLESS AND PROTECT EVERY ONE!! 🏳️‍⚧️💃🏻💃🏻🏳️‍⚧️

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's always "but how much does antisemitism impact your life REALLY" until someone sets fire to a synagogue while there are people inside. My heart is with the Jewish community of Melbourne today. B"h no one was seriously injured in this despicable, horrifying attack.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One thing about me is that I will always notice (and never forget) how certain individuals treat people who they think have less power than them.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

All I'm saying is that if she doesn't sing at least a little snippet of Our Song at the last show, those of us who have been Swifties since 2006 are going to riot.

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reish Lakish looking at Rav Yohanan in the river: why can’t I find a woman like this ugh Rav Yohanan: hi Reish Lakish: no Rav Yohanan: I’m literally the guy in the river

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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/12/2024

around 42% of all marriages end in divorce. that is a very high regret rate for people committing to life changing decisions. the state should do something, ultimately we should ban marriage entirely

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

With all due respect to Hanukkah, I am craving a festival of darkness. For the entire duration of the festival, those who turn on the big light are subject to death by stoning. One who uses their phone only on dark mode during the festival is to be praised. Who's with me?

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

קורע את הלב לצפות בטקס הפרידה מסרן עומר נאוטרה ז"ל. הוא הקריב את חייו עבור מדינה שוויתרה עליו.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What do you think they were talking about before I walked in?

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fertility treatments are wild because what do you mean I've seen 4 healthcare workers, had my blood taken, an internal ultrasound, an EKG, AND a blood pressure test before 10am today? And now I'm supposed to just... go to work?

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

לא מבינה איך אני אמורה לקום כל בוקר ולתפקד כאילו אני לא חיה תחת ממשלה שהייתה משאירה אותי למות במנהרות עזה

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am very interested in watching the IVF biopic but I'm also on day 5 of stims, our infertility buddies are about to have their baby, and my mental health is just generally hanging on by a thread

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Every time I see cute Advent calendars I'm like "we could do that for the Omer!" but if we did, it would just be filled with little notes saying "it's been 4 weeks and 3 days" and "on this day, 1600 of rabbi akiva's students died in a plague"

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

what my stepmom says: we're having a Mediterranean spread! the "Mediterranean spread": *an Italian pastry and cookie platter*

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Note to self: don't quit your job until after you've had your coffee for the day.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Who was the first person to write the fake dating trope? Were they inspired by true events? Literally how did this entirely unrelatable experience become such a common trope?

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Tomorrow we will read of Jacob's trickery against Esau, who is identified with Edom. Esau also receives a blessing from his father, but a lesser one. I pray that this Shabbat will bring us closer to the days when all the children of this land will be blessed in equal measure, with peace.

Woman posing in front of desert view (Mitzpe Ramon in the Biblical region of Edom)

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

ngl I did not have Talmud Yerushalmi on my 2024 discourse bingo card

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The major mitzvah of today's chag is to post on social media the phrase: הודו לה' כי טוב. R Meir says that you are yotzei by posting on any platform, but the sages say it must be the platform on which you have the most followers. Machmirim will post it on all platforms, even LinkedIn.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's so weird being recognized from the internet when I'm out and about, because even if we interact on here a lot, I probably will not recognize your face so it's awkward. But I also love it! It's like finding out I have secret friends out in the real world

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

תגידו, רק בחתונות של דוסים אורחים משאירים טיפ למלצר? אשתי נשבעת שהיא מעולם לא שמעה על משהו כזה (היא פחות באה איתי לחתונות של חברים דתיים)

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thanksgiving looks a little different this year--mostly because it was just me and wifey and we celebrated last Shabbat--but no matter how far I am away, the people who matter most always feel close when I'm making the Thanksgiving foods I grew up on. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 הודו לה' כי טוב

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If my 15-year-old self saw my 2024 social media feeds, she would be so overstimulated that she would simply pass out.

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Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין @rabbimaayan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Things I wish I learned before 30: Sometimes when you're dealing with internalized homophobia, you don't need a room full of queers to commiserate with. You need a really solid ally to shake you and say THAT'S NUTS, DO NOT SPEND ANOTHER MINUTE DOUBTING YOURSELF

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