Baruch Katz

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Software developer. Hassidic Jewish thinker. Husband and father. Science fiction lover. Stranger in a strange land.
@chanele @mazeldon Interesting! I think we started it just after Sukkot, but I'll have to double-check with officemates. We are in Eretz Yisrael. as you may have figured. #jewdiverse
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This toot is your reminder to
- drink a glass of water
- check if you need to eat something
- take any meds you need to take
- unclench your shoulders and jaw
- do something kind for yourself

And in case you haven't been told today, you're amazing, you're super loved, and you're doing a great job 💞💞

#SelfCare #MentalHealth

Hi, Babkans! Thanks for having me. I'm a Jewish studies professor who studies contemporary U.S. Jewish communities and the people who study them (meta!) using anthropological approaches. I am especially interested in the majority of U.S. Jews who are talked about as marginal or "bad" because they don't observe Jewish law, are intermarried, or what have you. The other part of my job/life is Jewish ethics. But I really post more about dogs, gardens, or silliness than work stuff. #introduction

Random reminder that traditionally we start "vesen tal umatar" on the evening of this Sunday Dec 4 in our davening!

#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

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Here's a 17th century #judeoarabic commentary on Isaiah citing many standard commentators (Radak, R' Yonah, Rashi, etc.) #hebrewmanuscripts #culhebrewmss

https://archive.org/details/ldpd_15995915_000/mode/2up

Catalog record here: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7927068 (call number: MS X893.1 BC P437)

Yeshaʻyah : [perush be-ʻAravit] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

Internet Archive
“Security researcher Sam Curry and his colleagues discovered that they could hijack Sirius XM-enabled cars, armed only with the VIN number that was printed on its windscreen.” And of course they want to make it illegal to do the research to discover these bugs, too. https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/
Pluralistic: The urinary tract infection business-model (03 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Each of us has a role in making the world a kinder place.