Replying to @hasidicus and @hungrychipmunk
This is so wholesome
Narrative and Naysaying
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- Breaking. Some Jews in ancient times committed idolatry. Big if true.The so-called “Passover papyrus” (419 BCE) opens with a greeting invoking “the gods” (אלהיא). Years later (257 BCE), a letter sent by another Judean (CPJ 4) opens with the phrase “many thanks to the gods (πολλὴ χάρις τοῖς θεοῖς)”. Some "monotheism" I'd say.
- The Jewish marriage certificate of Moe Howard, the leader of the Three Stooges comedy group, fetched over $20,000 at an auction this week in Los Angeles. timesofisrael.com/ketubah-of-moe…
- Apparently the only photo of Einstein wearing a kippa. And not in a shul but at a charity opera concert in Berlin featuring the opera singer Hermann Jadlowker. (January 29, 1930) Credit: Michael Chighel
- Rabbosai, it’s over, the goyim know. They discovered the Miami Boys Choir. Expect them to be sold out next chol hamoed.
- Did you know that Pumbeditha, the ancient site of one of the two major Talmudic acadmies in Babylonia is modern-day Fallujah?
- Jews, Arabs and Druze dancing at the grave of Rashbi in Meron. End of 19th c.
- This is how a 40 year old Litvak looked like in 1866. From here catalog.ethnomuseum.ru/entity/OBJECT/…
- Replying to @BrotherRasheedThis worked out well for the Copts in Egypt too…not.
- Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972).
