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Nashvillian, Jwitter refugee (1n1m1), retired, loves medieval history & roots music & food & books, she/her, Boomer white/cis/straight trying to help

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · Dec 30

As a response to the far too numerous recent references On Here to "moneylenders in the Temple" (usually meaning Trump), here's a thread about why that phrasing is not merely incorrect, but a carryover from medieval Christian antisemitism & actively harmful to Jews today. 1/

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 2h

You just can’t get started prepping your Seder too early.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 2h

Well, I’ve already agreed that Talmud isn’t central to the synagogue service. But the reason that the Shema is central is explained in the Talmud. And if you want to know what times to say it, you have to look at Talmud because Torah (and the rest of Tanakh) won’t tell you. Talmud explains Torah.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re an atheist why are you accepting Christian slanders as accurate?

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 3h

LOL. It’s like the Highlander: there can only be one.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 3h

I think they see ICE as their competition. Of course they’re going to be cool with protests aimed in that general direction.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 4h

Not central to services, but central to life. And actually, worship services as we know them today were first defined in the Talmud.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

The Talmud is central to all of Judaism except for Karaites, Reform, and Beta Israel. I mean, this person is utterly ignorant, but he’s right about that.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

Christianity isn’t very different at all. It’s just that ideas about the imminent end of the world hadn’t changed, a consistent christology hadn’t developed, principles of belief hadn’t been systematized, organization hadn’t been developed, sacraments hadn’t been invented, and a lot more.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a Grishaverse book. I enjoyed w.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 7h

The opinion/editorial side of the WSJ is still completely separated from the news side. You can (as of today) count on their reporting to be factual. This may get changed from above, but it hasn’t been yet.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

Big issues! Religious and political ones! We think they’re dangerous and they think we are.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

See, you have made up a new racial category. If you were thinking strictly about skin color, you’d group the child in with whichever racial group already had the same skin tone. Race is in our heads, not in any biological criteria.

You sound like you want to learn. Please read some books.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

the context of the parable, would be an Evangelical Protestant living among Catholics. 2/2

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

You are accidentally using Christian categories to talk about what you presume Jews thought. For Christians, a non-Christian is a ‘pagan’. For Jews, a ‘pagan’ is a polytheist. Samaritans are monotheists, so no Jew categorizes them as ‘pagan’. (They also weren’t foreigners.) A better analogy, in 1/2

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

One reason it’s problematic is that the common mistake of thinking‘moneylenders’ instead of ‘moneychangers’ is the result of centuries of antisemitism: bsky.app/profile/nina...

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · Dec 30

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

LOL

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

There’s no point to berating Jews because Christians don’t do what you want.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

Then maybe you ought to be aware that there are ways of reacting to the Bible that are different from fundamentalist acceptance or ex-believer rejection. (Honestly, even most Christians don’t read it either of those ways.)

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

You’re aware that there are people in this world—even in this conversation—who are neither Christians nor former Christians, right?

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

Doesn’t it interest you to see all the different layers? Why this thing at this time but that one at another?

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 21h

There is no actual biological or genetic basis of race. Please come back when you have read some textbooks on human genetics and on sociology. Oh, and on religious studies as well. Until then, byyyyye.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 21h

Race is a social construct and has no basis in biology. I mean, you’ve gotten a lot of things wrong in this discussion, starting with assuming that you understand religions’ relationship with written scriptures, but I thought everyone understood that “race” doesn’t actually exist.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 22h

Babe Ruth coulda done it, if they hadn’t made him stop pitching.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1d

Koiné Greek.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1d

I am judging everyone who says this looks good but says “ugh” about gefilte fish.