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Shammai
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A man once said to me, "Teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot." With the builder's cubit in my hand, I pushed "Block"
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Here are the 39 categories of forbidden Bluesky post, in case anyone was wondering
1. Carrying 2. Burning 3. Extinguishing 4. Finishing 5. Writing 6. Erasing 7. Cooking 8. Washing 9. Sewing 10. Tearing 11. Knotting 12. Untying 13. Shaping 14. Plowing 15. Planting 16. Reaping 17. Harvesting 18. Threshing 19. Winnowing 20. Selecting 21. Sifting 22. Grinding 23. Kneading 24. Combing 25. Spinning 26. Dyeing 27. Chain-stitching 28. Warping 29. Weaving 30. Unraveling 31. Building 32. Demolishing 33. Trapping 34. Shearing 35. Slaughtering 36. Skinning 37. Tanning 38. Smoothing 39. Marking
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Art of the four rabbis who entered the Pardes, the Orchard of God: Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher, and Rabbi Akiva. The art is from the "Magnificent Parchment."
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Planet A @adventurecabaret.bsky.social It is reasonable to wonder how much antisemitism derives from the fundamental offense of Judaism, which is the claim that if you're not a Jew, you don't matter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

(Fact check: yeah kinda)
A comic drawing of a bald man with greenish skin and a large nose, vaguely resembling Shrek. He is making a flat-handed gesture meant to say "It's okay, don't worry about it." But his speech bubble has been edited so that he is saying "Absolutely not, go fuck yourself."
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Here we have a CCA (Culturally Christian Atheist) assuming their particular religious stance is beyond all reasonable controversy. My theory is that being part of the in-group allows you to just make that presumption, even when the stance in question is actually a minority of a minority opinion.
Religions require you to profess to believe in things that are patently untrue. Is that even controversial?
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The subtext is that Jacob was cooking
Genesis 25:29. Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the open, famished.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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How many such cases? Would you say, ten million?
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Thanks Hillel very cool
The "Zohran for New York City" logo, edited to say "If I am not for myself." The "Zohran for New York City" logo, edited to say "Who will be for me."
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This is a new one on me. I'm counting it as a lie because of the reference to "Judeosatanists" -- the text is taking about how gentiles could nullify the status of their idols, not commanding anything.
Korobochka mirror @cirnosad.bsky.social Why do so many roman statues have missing noses? Well, it's because of the Talmud. Avodah Zarah 53a commands Judeosatanists to destroy the nose of statues, to "nullify it". It also hides the skull proportions. This proves the Judaisers ultimately won during the early centuries.
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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It's all in the Sefaria See 'n Say
A See 'n Say toy. It's a plastic toy for children with bright colors. It shows a variety of animals, and you pull a lever to make the central spinner point to a random animal. It will then say that animal's noise, e.g. "The mouse says, squeak!"
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It's gotta work
Sign in page for Bluesky. The account name is @ "the louvre of" dot bsky dot social. The password is entered as just "the louvre of," no spaces.
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Most people on Twitter don't send Tweets like this. We're asking people to review replies with potentially harmful or offensive language. Want to take another look before Tweeting? Rabbi Elazar @ElazarbShimon Look at this worthless person, he's so ugly. Is everyone from his town that ugly?
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The third panel of the "say the line, Bart!" meme. The entire class (except Bart Simpson) cheers in joy after Bart has said his classic line.
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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For example, this responsum by the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/defaul...
Page 17 of 18 begins: 1. A Jew becoming a Christian is an apostate and whatever laws apply to an apostate apply to a 'messianic Jew.' In essence, 'Messianic Jews' have become Christians, even if technically they remain Jews in certain matters of personal status. 2. Synagogue membership is only for Jews. Therefore since Messianic Jews' have become Christians in their religious belief and affiliation they may not be accepted as…
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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It might be a dril?
A Tweet from @dril. "jail isnt real," i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram the hallmark gift shop with my shitty bronco.
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Hey, someone asked me that and I was totally chill about it. At first.
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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irresponsibly posting my location on social media
An image from Google Maps prominently showing a road called "Cubit St."
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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No, comma, don't. All lowercase, with multicolored drop shadow. It's a still image from the video "History of the entire world, I guess" by Bill Wurtz.
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Context. I quoteposted the older post of Mr. Beat's, before his clarification and apology. I'm actually a fan of his YouTube channel; it wasn't really my intention to direct any hate his way.
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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It's always strange when someone gets mad at me and adds me to every list they have (I told them off for saying "the Abrahamic religion is a pedophile sex cult")
List of lists by ChevyDem She/Her (@chevydem.bsky.social). She has 12.3K followers and is following 12.7K accounts, with 2.8K posts. Their bio says: "Sculptor,potter,wirter, thinker of thoughts and singer of songs. Just another eternal being experiencing a dream. I have opinions, most are rooted in tangible reality. Atheist Liberal Democrat. Twitter Xpat. DM=block #Resist #Democrat #Atheist #NewAtheism". Their moderation lists are: Accounts that follow you then unfollow you after you follow them. Fascist bigoted vegans. (Description: These toxic vegans want to force their life choices onto the rest of us. They're beyond nasty and toxic. They can't just live and let live.) Religious intolerance. (Description: Religious people who are intolerant of Atheists.) Sex Accounts. (Description: People who are here just looking for a hookup. These people are not bots or scammers. There's nothing wrong with them, they're just highly sexualized. Subscribe to this list if you're just not interested in encountering them." Bots, Scammers, Romancers, Sex/Only Fan and Bitcoiners. MAGAs Found in the Wild.
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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They literally did make one, you know.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_...
The Christian Shield of the Trinity. It shows three circles labeled "The Father," "The Son," and "The Holy Spirit," with a fourth circle labeled "God" in the center. Each of the three outer circles is connected ot the other two by an edge that reads "is not," and to the center circle by an edge that reads "is." The result is that it essentially reads, "The Father is not The Son is not The Holy Spirit is not The Father," and "The Father is God, The Son is God, and The Holy Spirit is God."
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Zooming in on the this paragraph that mentions Hillel: This seems immensely flawed. "Love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord" is in the Torah. How can one say Jews reject it?
The positive formulation of the Golden Rule is not identical to "Love your neighbor as yourself" in the first place.
Self-preservation and self-interest are not only legitimate, but essential to sustaining an ethical life. It is why, when the rabbinic sage Hillel was asked by a would-be convert to distill all of Jewish teaching into a single sentence, he did not quote the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Rather Hillel said, “What is hateful to you, do not do to another.” One cannot love another as yourself, argued Hillel and Jews throughout the ages. The best we can do is to love another because they are like us, kamokha, created alike in God’s image. There are limits to love. There is a place for self-concern.
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Isildur saying "No."
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Let's not bicker and argue about it
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's profile picture, with a speech bubble added so she appears to be saying the quoted post. (The quoted post says "Get in, losers, we're repenting.")
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM