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Finishing Yoma

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 by warskeptic_edyb37

I’m still working on something about the scapegoat, etc. but I wanted to take a break to discuss today’s daf,… Read more Finishing Yoma

That’s Not How Trees Work

Posted on September 13, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

In this week’s parsha, among all the “G!d will totally wreck you if you don’t love Him” stuff, there’s this… Read more That’s Not How Trees Work

It’s a Mess

Posted on August 30, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

Eiruvin 19a returns to one of my least favorite themes in the Talmud: non-Jews are polluted and immoral. It starts… Read more It’s a Mess

Too Smart for your Own Good

Posted on August 24, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

There’s a famous discussion at the end of Eiruvin 13b about the futility of human existence: … Beit Shammai and… Read more Too Smart for your Own Good

The Land of the Living

Posted on August 11, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

Eiruvin 2 returns to one of my favorite themes in the Talmud, which is relating the circumstances of the diasporic… Read more The Land of the Living

Wait, wrong Sephiroth

Gamliel is my My Least Favorite Scholar

Posted on August 8, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

Gamliel is probably my least favorite scholar. We’re coming up on the end of Tractate Shabbat – or at least… Read more Gamliel is my My Least Favorite Scholar

Take it From the Cops*

Posted on June 5, 2020June 8, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

(Written with Melissa Schober) This post has been updated. For details, go to the end. Let’s talk about cutting police… Read more Take it From the Cops*

The Haitian Revolution and the Insurrection Act

Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

If you’re one of my students, chances are good that you have at some point either asked yourself or even… Read more The Haitian Revolution and the Insurrection Act

Eating Dirt

Posted on June 2, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

At the same time that I was reading Saturday’s daf (Shabbat 85), I was catching up on the previous week’s… Read more Eating Dirt

No Kings

Posted on May 12, 2020 by warskeptic_edyb37

Back at the beginning of January, I started Daf Yomi, a 7.5-year process of reading the Talmud. I’ve been posting… Read more No Kings

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