Reposted by ShammaiJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11hMaybe the most culturally connected I feel to Mayor Mamdani is that every single progressive Jew has also been called both a Zionist stooge and a Hamas stooge by people on opposite sides. 415734
Reposted by Shammaimaimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 23h“Let him die”: the repeated phrase of the Sages when brought the case of a man who has become sick with passion for a woman. For me, the story holds important wisdom about whose problem it is when a man desires a certain woman — and it’s not the woman 🙂 (Sanhedrin 75a) 314131
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Try our new service, Shamm-AI. The only LLM that generates two answers per prompt and asks you to say which one is more helpful, but then vehemently disagrees with your choice and starts arguing with you about it 230559
Reposted by Shammaiפינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying. 433054
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How I arrived on Blueskystatic.klipy.comOscar The Grouch: Ding Dong, You're Wrong!Alt: Oscar The Grouch bursts out of his trash can and exclaims "Ding Dong, You're Wrong!" 0240
Reposted by ShammaiIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026feeling kinda bitter about christians who would rather ignore the history if antisemitism inherent in every facet of their religion so i wrote a poem about it 2397
Reposted by ShammaiJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms. 1046256
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not the point of the thread but this is something that kept striking me when I watched Wake Up Dead Man. The whole plot is about a church that's so small it doesn't even have a minyan??? 0140
Reposted by ShammaiMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/10/2026Hilleletor 36811
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Guys I just checked and apparently the interrobang (‽) is voting Ra'am 0396
Reposted by ShammaiLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026Gonna start opening all my "sorry I need to bug you about this" emails with "harsh reminder" 3233
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Expanding on this: The horseshoe is that both extremes agree on the premise of identifying all Jews with the State of Israel. 1326
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't know Massachusetts politics, but I strongly support this kind of work. State and local ballot questions are hugely important, and people ignore them because they sometimes involve *thinking* 172
Reposted by ShammaiRabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 30/09/2026Sukkot asks us to spend time in something fragile and temporary—and still call it sacred. Maybe the lesson isn’t that we can make life secure. Maybe it’s that we can still build, gather, and find joy even when it isn’t. 🌿 What is Sukkot asking you to notice this year? 1316
Reposted by ShammaiRootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mamdani remains the best litmus test of anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism. If you go after him for this, you're not an anti-Zionist, you're an antisemite. Mamdani has drawn a consistent line and stuck to it. 27814
Reposted by ShammaiJews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026PSA: Stop being weird about the Talmud, folks. Being weird about the Talmud is Nazi garbage.static.klipy.comThe More You KnowAlt: The More You Know 120734
Reposted by ShammaiMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026Antisemitism is bad, and we should all stand against it. But people keep sharing this misleading statistic that Jewish people receive the most hate crimes. They don't. You know who does. Jewish people receive the most *religious based* hate crimes. And Jewish people *report* the most hate crimes. 411322
Reposted by ShammaiJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell. 2850217
Reposted by ShammaiP. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 09/09/2025Yerushalmi Kodshim wing, leads you through a one-way turnstile into a tacky gift shop 1302
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tip for recognizing misinfo: Beware the phrase "comes as," as in "event X comes as trend Y." This is a tragic story, but: - AVM is a rare, usually congenital condition. - The Oxford study about a rising number of young people suffering strokes specifically looked at young adults, ages 18-55. 1183
Reposted by ShammaiJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT? 352043662
Reposted by Shammaiboonque שארלוט משאול @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(Stolen from shit posting the beis midrash) Going around asking couples which one's Yom Kippur and which one's Sukkos 34115
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'd say my number one issue today would be the laws about ritual purity 2170
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dubious structural integrity? Let's just say there's no way MY sukkah wall is coming down… unless somebody walks by with some peanuts or something 🥜 2334
Reposted by ShammaiAaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 23/09/2026Anyway, it all worked out for the best. I ended up marrying a wonderful, beautiful woman who got me a Bi Pride Flag refrigerator magnet as a Hanukkah present last year. Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 0153
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I absolutely agree - it is a problem that Most American Jews vote Democrat. The fact that it's not "All American Jews" is simply infuriating 1351
Reposted by ShammaiFlorence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026On Yom Kippur, we fast all day in repentance and so we’re commanded to eat a lot the day before to enhance the experience of deprivation. On Yom Kippur, we are also prohibited from having sex all day, in repentance, and so… 9695
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He blamed COVID-19 on the Jews. Then he took his shotgun to a synagogue on Kol Nidre. Conspiracy theories kill. (In this case it only killed the gunman, B''H.)globalnews.caBelleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.caThe Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022. 313947
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WOULD YOU DEFEND OUR CITIES WITH HAYSTACKS, NOBLE LEADER!? 1130
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am starting to get concerned that if the United States doesn't improve rights for trans people, trans academics and professions will simply leave the country, and the US fall behind in our competitive technological and cultural edge. Why aren't more politicians talking about the trans gap? 2182
Reposted by ShammaiTreyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Question for RabbiSky: Why do we open and close the ark so many times during RH and YK services? Why not just keep it open the whole time? 6111
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bringing rogue AI to a grinding halt by using numbers and symbols in my password 181
Reposted by ShammaiP. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 10/10/2025Frogs? Talmudic Toads? Not Talmudic Chickens? Talmudic Turkeys? Not Talmudic Weasels? Talmudic Ferrets? Not Talmudic Camels? Talmudic Elephants? Eh, hardly Talmudic Big Bird? Very, very Talmudic 1111216
Reposted by ShammaiLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 22/09/2026I survived fasting on Yom Kippur and all I got was a sense of emotional clarity 3737
Reposted by ShammaiEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Talmud has entered the chat 😂 0559
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026…but liking, commenting, and subscribing can annul the severity of the decree 2387
Reposted by ShammaiCris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a Yom Kippur movie 171
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Glad to see some inclusivity at the Yom Tov aisle! #HolidaySeason @jewwhohasitall.bsky.social 2353
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm not going to call anyone out in particular, but: I am absolutely judging you if your "Wishing You A Meaningful Yom Kippur" graphic is AI art. And I can tell. AI apparently knows what Jewish ritual objects look like, but not how large they should be in relation to each other. 2332
Reposted by ShammaiDIEzenthSLAY 🏳️⚧️ @hyzenth.nexus · 20/09/2026Yeah it's a classic part of any Passover seder, the Four Penguins 1132
Reposted by ShammaiThe Ragman of Gotham @rebofrags.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Beit Hillel says Fudgie for break fast 071
Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New rule! You are not allowed to use the idiom "whale of a" when discussing the Book of Jonah. No one thinks it's funny or clever, and it was technically a fish anyway. Just stop. Thank you for your cooperation 7251
Reposted by Shammai*puts on autumn crown, falls into a turkey circle* @klezmerstyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026he grew up in Crown Heights and loved two things: studying Torah and playing basketball graduating yeshiva he had to make a choice BALL TESHUVAH, coming September 2026 to limited theaters 4449
Reposted by ShammaiIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026literally the only people who are white are Jews, which means being antisemitic is praxis 2193