Jon Spira-Savett

Rabbi in Nashua NH; learner and teacher and podcaster about ethics; co-convener, Greater Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group; Red Sox and "Good Place" fan

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This week Jews start reading the #Torah from the start once again, a cycle we'll complete over the course of one year. But what exactly *is* the Torah, when you Zoom out on the whole? Here's a short overview with some possibly surprising takes. https://t.co/YBNrZ9sHtk

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@ZoharAtkins Fascinated! Would love to try it out.

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A year of #jewishethics -- I have a video series that will grow this year, many of them tied to the weekly #Torah reading. Here is #1, about speech: https://t.co/50h303kJug

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My 5-minute video exploring what the #Torah is, in a nutshell, when you look from the vantage point of the whole. https://t.co/XorkypZVAh

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I am continuing my project of reading my college notes on a (sort-of) daily basis over 4 years on the calendar date I wrote them. Here is where you can find it all, including my latest entries about #economics and #socialstudies. https://t.co/1TWv16iVfN

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#haazinu My ode to another year through the #torah https://t.co/pgxol1Lxel

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A year of #jewishethics, starting with the power and ethics of speech courtesy of the first chapters of the Torah. Check it out every week: https://t.co/0quX26WmZg or https://t.co/7cg1BUhcVc

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Some words of Torah on this week's reading, #Balak -- on saying to ourselves that we are still blessed. https://t.co/t1HY30AR9x

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Why I'm an *American* Jew, still. Thoughts right before the 4th. It's a couple years old but I stand by every word still. #July4th #usa https://t.co/OpElEDkVog

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I've been doing a whole lot of writing and recording, myself and with others, around themes of #Purim as they relate to the world of after #October7. Here they are in one place, in all formats. Shabbat Shalom and somehow Chag Purim Sameach. @RavShmuly

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Why #exodus is the most important book of all time. https://t.co/zBctDykslX

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My D'var Torah for Parashat #vaera, on questioning and conviction, which is on its own terms and also of course about #israel and #gaza as it everything. https://t.co/nwQaLiKTLU

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More musings on this week's #Torah reading Parashat #Shmot, the women who saved babies, and us. It's about the text and Christmas and Israel-Palestine and more. https://t.co/4dUF42lju5

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A teaching about hope in life and in our current world, inspired by #Chanukkah and the dreidel of all things. https://t.co/Xepxd7Sund

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Amazing piece about #chanukkah #israel #gaza from @rabbijilljacobs https://t.co/RdlJIQR6OZ

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Here's my current long-form take on all the sociological and political resonances of the #chanukkah #hanukkah story and history. https://t.co/AcJTDPNCeL

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Jews and power, and the meanings of the name Yisrael -- my D'var Torah (draft) on #vayishlach https://t.co/rbXePMaYZC

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Today is the anniversary of the UN vote on the #partition of Palestine in 1947 into a Jewish state and an Arab state and an international Jerusalem-Bethelemem area, linked in an economic union. The Jews accepted it and the Arabs rejected it. https://t.co/x4p7H5AtTj

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Gratitude Is Our Name (Even Now) -- My D'var Torah for "Shabbat #thanksgiving". Grateful today for the return of hostages, heartbroken and worried for those still captive and families not returned whole, concentrating on my many blessings. https://t.co/QEI969J3Vn

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#bringthemhomenow #israel #gaza #torah Musings on Israel, Gaza, anti-semitism and last week's Torah reading #toldot https://t.co/b7UD9LdH8Z