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Saw a video about a book of "six-word Jewish memoirs." Mostly the silly ones, but it got me thinking.
Here's how I would sum up my life and my relationship to Judaism in six words:
Not Tzeitl. not Chava. Maybe Perchik.
Anybody else got a good one? #mazeldon
For a Torah scroll to be kosher, it has to be hand written on parchment or papyrus.
1. Does it have to be written in that one ink or would India ink be ok?
2. Does it have to be written with a quill or a reed or would a metal pen be ok?
3. Does it need to be written in a particular style or would block capital letters be ok?
4. (Could it be written in ball point pen?)
5. Is it ok to trace over pencil lines?
6. Can children write in it?
7. What if there were a series of workshops where every participant wrote one single letter in a growing scroll, so eventually hundreds of people directly participated in the mitzvah of writing a scroll? What are allowable modern affordances that lower the barrier to entry?
Marcus Jastrow spent 40 years of his life writing an enormous dictionary that has an English translation for every single word in the Talmud.
He was ordained as a rabbi at a young age and left his native Prussia to go work in Poland. In this era, in Poland, Jews spoke Yiddish, (Christian) Poles spoke Polish, and the ruling Russians spoke Russian. (It was in this linguistically divided environment that Zamenhof invented Esperanto).
Jastrow learned Polish and gave a sermon in Polish about the Russians murdering Polish activists. It was so popular that the next day he gave it again to note takers who circumvented the ban on Jews publishing by hand-writing 1000 copies of it and distributing it on the streets.
Marcus Jastrow spent 40 years of his life writing an enormous dictionary that has an English translation for every single word in the Talmud.
He was ordained as a rabbi at a young age and left his native Prussia to go work in Poland. In this era, in Poland, Jews spoke Yiddish, (Christian) Poles spoke Polish, and the ruling Russians spoke Russian. (It was in this linguistically divided environment that Zamenhof invented Esperanto).
Jastrow learned Polish and gave a sermon in Polish about the Russians murdering Polish activists. It was so popular that the next day he gave it again to note takers who circumvented the ban on Jews publishing by hand-writing 1000 copies of it and distributing it on the streets.
Recently I heard from someone here the idea that the current "AI" LLM hype may halachically amount to idolatry.
But, is there already rabbinical psak/advice or discussion of this out there?
Asking for a friend (myself) who might be forced into such stuff by their employer.
hey #LosAngeles#SanFernandoValley#SFV#VanNuys, who is able-bodied and can come over and help me move this week? I'm just moving across the yard, it should be easy enough but my spouse and I are just too disabled. we at least offer our endless gratitude. #Crowdfund#Crowdfunding#Deaf#DeafCrowdfund#DirectGiving#Disabled#DisabledCrowdfund#FinancialAid#HelpFolksLive#HelpFolksLive2025#July #Mazeldon#Moving#MovingFund #MutualAid #MutualAidNeeded #MutualAidRequest#Tzedakah
seriously three strong people in their 20s should be able to do most of the move necessary in one day. I'm basically begging at this point.
I've made a lot of progress in physical therapy the past two years but five minutes of standing in front of my desk trying to box it up? my heart rate's nearing 140 and my back is screaming at me.
if I go at the rate I am physically capable of, it will never get done.
I'd rather get help from strangers on here than from strangers on Craigslist or other service ads sites. historically bad luck at the latter. please share and tag anyone who might be able to help.
if not please help me with money so I can hire movers to come and do what we cannot. even moving just across a yard is expensive and I haven't yet done so because I want things to be ready but at some point it will be what it is.
payment methods below:
CashApp: http://cash.app/$ceahettan (a bunch of muppets)
Venmo: https://venmo.com/californiummm (dror lieb)
ask for PayPal/Zelle.
hey #LosAngeles#SanFernandoValley#SFV#VanNuys, who is able-bodied and can come over and help me move this week? I'm just moving across the yard, it should be easy enough but my spouse and I are just too disabled. we at least offer our endless gratitude. #Crowdfund#Crowdfunding#Deaf#DeafCrowdfund#DirectGiving#Disabled#DisabledCrowdfund#FinancialAid#HelpFolksLive#HelpFolksLive2025#July #Mazeldon#Moving#MovingFund #MutualAid #MutualAidNeeded #MutualAidRequest#Tzedakah
seriously three strong people in their 20s should be able to do most of the move necessary in one day. I'm basically begging at this point.
I've made a lot of progress in physical therapy the past two years but five minutes of standing in front of my desk trying to box it up? my heart rate's nearing 140 and my back is screaming at me.
if I go at the rate I am physically capable of, it will never get done.
I'd rather get help from strangers on here than from strangers on Craigslist or other service ads sites. historically bad luck at the latter. please share and tag anyone who might be able to help.
if not please help me with money so I can hire movers to come and do what we cannot. even moving just across a yard is expensive and I haven't yet done so because I want things to be ready but at some point it will be what it is.
payment methods below:
CashApp: http://cash.app/$ceahettan (a bunch of muppets)
Venmo: https://venmo.com/californiummm (dror lieb)
ask for PayPal/Zelle.
Recently I heard from someone here the idea that the current "AI" LLM hype may halachically amount to idolatry.
But, is there already rabbinical psak/advice or discussion of this out there?
Asking for a friend (myself) who might be forced into such stuff by their employer.
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