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A man once said to me, "Teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot." With the builder's cubit in my hand, I pushed "Block"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h
Maybe 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.
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maimonides 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)
A grey ornately decorated gate on a white background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”A grey ornately decorated gate on a black background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Try 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
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My 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.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Oscar The Grouch: Ding Dong, You're Wrong!
Alt: Oscar The Grouch bursts out of his trash can and exclaims "Ding Dong, You're Wrong!"
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
feeling 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
Christian love is built of bones,
Of one dead Jew whose corpse atones,
and so, to honor that dead Jew,
his lovers said, let’s make that two,
no, three, no, four, no, five, no, six,
six million christs impaled on sticks,
if one atones then all the more
forgiveness can we gain from gore,
a massacre to God above,
for built of bones is Christian love.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Everyone knows what Zionism is. It's--"
A screenshot showing part of the table of contents from the "Types of Zionism" page on Wikipedia. The image is not long enough to include everything, but the types listed are:

• Proto-Zionism
• Political Zionism
• Practical Zionism
• Labor Zionism
• General and Liberal Zionism
• Revisionist Zionism
• Religious Zionism
• Cultural Zionism
• Revolutionary Zionism
• Reform Zionism
• Secular Zionism
• Christian Zionism
• Post-Zionism
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Which 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.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Choose your fighter
Comic strip with four panels.

Panel 1: A cartoon bartender says, "No, we're not a Nazi bar."
Panel 2: The bartender says, "We just didn't *ban* Nazis. Then all the Nazis started coming here because nobody else would allow them."
Panel 3: The bartender says, "Now they're our best customers and nobody that isn't a Nazi wants to drink here."
Panel 4: Exterior shot, showing that the bar has a sign with the X logo and a "Formerly Twitter" banner.Single panel of a comic. A peasant wearing gray garb and carrying a bundle of sticks on their back, with a medieval castle in the background, says "We should improve society somewhat."

Next to them, a man in a modern, orange tee shirt and a massive grin pops out of a well, folds his hands, and says, "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not 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???
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/10/2026
Hilleletor
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guys I just checked and apparently the interrobang (‽) is voting Ra'am
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026
Gonna start opening all my "sorry I need to bug you about this" emails with "harsh reminder"
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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Expanding on this: The horseshoe is that both extremes agree on the premise of identifying all Jews with the State of Israel.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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*
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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 30/09/2026
Sukkot 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?
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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mamdani 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.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PSA: Stop being weird about the Talmud, folks. Being weird about the Talmud is Nazi garbage.
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The More You Know
Alt: The More You Know
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026
Antisemitism 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.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ALL 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.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blocklists go brrr
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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 09/09/2025
Yerushalmi Kodshim wing, leads you through a one-way turnstile into a tacky gift shop
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tip 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.
Post by "Denis - The COVID Info Guy", @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social.

The post includes a headline from ITVX and reads as follows:

UK: "Dorset boy aged 6 among rising number of young people suffering strokes"

At age 6, Connor Halloran suffered a devastating stroke caused by an AVM, leaving him unable to move or speak. His case comes as Oxford scientists report a 67% rise in strokes among people under 55.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grayscale image, originally from XKCD, showing a complicated structure of rectangular blocks all stacked on top of each other, with a single thin rectangle hidden in the corner holding the whole thing together. The structure is labeled "All American Jewish culture," and the thin rectangle is labeled with an image of Sunkist Fruit Gems.
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Jessica 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?
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boonque 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
Text thread 

Person A: I thought that Sukkot starting was a count from Yom Kippur ending, or is that all tied to a moon cycle?

Person B: It's all moon stuff, RH is new moon, big thoughts, and Sukkot is big moon, no thoughts

A: Nice!
So Sukkot is a himbo holiday?

B: Big time. You shake a lemon and some sticks and live outside and eat fruit and try to be happy
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd say my number one issue today would be the laws about ritual purity
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dubious 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 🥜
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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 23/09/2026
Anyway, 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!
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I absolutely agree - it is a problem that Most American Jews vote Democrat. The fact that it's not "All American Jews" is simply infuriating
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On 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…
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He 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.ca
Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WOULD YOU DEFEND OUR CITIES WITH HAYSTACKS, NOBLE LEADER!?
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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?
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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Question 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?
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bringing rogue AI to a grinding halt by using numbers and symbols in my password
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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 10/10/2025
Frogs? 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
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 22/09/2026
I survived fasting on Yom Kippur and all I got was a sense of emotional clarity
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Talmud has entered the chat 😂
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
…but liking, commenting, and subscribing can annul the severity of the decree
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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a Yom Kippur movie
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Glad to see some inclusivity at the Yom Tov aisle! #HolidaySeason @jewwhohasitall.bsky.social
A photo of circular challah loaves in plastic bags at a supermarket. They are prominently labeled "Round Holiday Egg Challah."
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'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.
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DIEzenthSLAY 🏳️‍⚧️ @hyzenth.nexus · 20/09/2026
Yeah it's a classic part of any Passover seder, the Four Penguins
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The Ragman of Gotham @rebofrags.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Beit Hillel says Fudgie for break fast
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New 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
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*puts on autumn crown, falls into a turkey circle* @klezmerstyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
he 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
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
literally the only people who are white are Jews, which means being antisemitic is praxis
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