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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1h

I'd say that I gravitate more towards Rambam on these.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 2h

My mother in law calls it "the frikkin fours".

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 4h

Didn't Rambam also say that we can't say what God actually IS because that would be too limiting, but we can say what God is not? Or something like that...

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 4h

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a used rack-mount Allen & Heath board, perfect for the sized gigs I was doing. Bulletproof and every fader/switch/knob had the perfect amount of resistance.

Okay, I think I'm done now.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 4h

Geeking out time:

I ran passive Yorkville mains and subs because I absolutely loved the clarity of their 12" cabinet. The super popular JBLs at the time always sounded muddy to me by comparison. My monitors/backup speakers were active Yorkville cabinets.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 5h

These days I can't afford the truly good stuff, so I just get whatever headphones I need at Walmart.

For the price they can't be beat but I have no illusions that I'm not missing stuff with them. Well, also Bluetooth compression and such.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 5h

They were especially helpful if a single channel was giving me an issue.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 5h

When I did live sound I found the best noise isolating monitor headphones - they were made here in the US and aimed at live drummers. Because shows aren't always well lit they had red foam inside the left side.

Whatever I heard through those headphones was virtually identical to the mains.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 5h

I call this ability "thinking sideways".

I used to come up with unusual connections between Jewish texts for divrei Torah when I was younger and could never understand why others thought what I did was a big deal.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 5h

Nice

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 6h

I never went to a pumpkin patch when I was growing up because my family didn't do any of the typical October/Halloween things.

When I worked for a preschool and learned that a pumpkin patch is just a bunch of pre-cut pumpkins laid out in a field I was pretty disappointed.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

They haven't been able to make real money doing anything else and the tide is beginning to turn against them in the general discourse.

The solution, as always, is porn.

(I bet they suck at that too)

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, he's the other guy.

I saw both but Mark is the one we brought in more often.

That's a great story about Singer!

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

To that end, we've made a collective decision that believing that the Messiah has already been here in the guise of Jesus means that someone is outside of the tent.

Having no belief at all, however, doesn't prevent entry in the slightest.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

Halakha has nothing to do with how the vast majority of the Jewish community determines who does and does not belong under our umbrella.

It DOES however affect things like who one can marry without them going through a conversion.

We're an ethnoreligion, so our boundaries vary by circumstances.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

He'd then turn it into a series of lessons on the typical missionary arguments and what they got wrong from a Jewish perspective. Sort of an innoculation against it.

Also anti-cult stuff.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 7h

USY is Conservative, part of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

The youth movements definitely aren't for everyone.

Mark Powers was one of the "Jews for Judaism" guys. He would go into schools/youth groups and pretend to be Jews for Jesus and wipe the floor with the participants.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

That last one is new to me! Fascinating!

Also, have you hung out with Mark Powers (there's a name I haven't thought of in decades) - he used to be the go to guy for USY if they wanted to do sessions on missionaries.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

I will say this:

If he keeps along this path, Americans are going to learn VERY quickly just how much of our staples/basics are sourced from China.

Apple juice, sauce, puree, and (I believe) vinegar are mostly from China these days. They might get packaged here, but they are from there.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

This was an excellent read!

From a different angle, something that you reminded me of:

In Jewish educational settings the teachers who react the harshest to students questioning belief almost ALWAYS have the most trouble answering those questions for themselves, hence the reaction.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

As someone Jewish, the early point about ethnoreligions not having as much emphasis on belief really resonated. "Praxis and culture" are both much more important in the Jewish community.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

There's a Mexican place in Atlantic City that has a table side guac cart and it's a really fun aspect of eating there.

Part of it is being in full control of what goes in besides the avocados, including how much heat (if any).

It's also just a fun little shtick in a restaurant with good food.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 8h

That's the one.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12h

Liz Hinz notes that Exodus 8:2-6 warns the tyrannical Pharaoh that if he does not let the oppressed go, "the frogs shall come up on you and on your officials."
I remember that in the Hebrew, it is unclear if it is "frogs" or "1 Giant Frog."
Solution: The Resistance Frogs should form Voltron.

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