Raphael Davidovich

Rabbi etc.* Torah, Jewish things, Chassidus, Machshava, History, Political Thought

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

In all seriousness, the most fascinating thing to come out of the recent divorce kerfuffel is that somehow all of American frum society decided within 24 hours to change the transliteration of גט from “get” to “gett”! 🤯

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@JYuter I agree with you, but I’m guessing it’s for opposite reasons.

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

An independent Israel exists because the Jewish people have focused their energy on building a state. An independent Palestine doesn’t exist because the Palestinian people have focused their energy on destroying a state.

[Josh Hammer @josh_hammer]

Two things are true:

(1) Israel must improve its Christian-specific P.R., and the Pizzaballa incident yesterday was another unfortunate unforced error.

(2) If you believe this was anything other than a bureaucratic mishap, you fell (again) for a deliberate disinformation op.

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

“In the midst of a war, a local cop not informed a small group of people had been authorized by the government to go in a restricted area politely told them they were not allowed to, then the situation was resolved quickly” has been turned into an international incident

Madness.

[Eli Rubin @Eli_Rubin]

The Haggadah in Chabad Literature

An essay by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, freely translated by Eli Rubin

https://t.co/3HJ77WxhXL

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Scary and an effective ad.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@DBashIdeas do you see a connection between this and how we can view written Torah and Rabbi Yishmael’s principles of Oral Torah?

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

Books would be shorter if the average IQ was higher.

Higher fluid intelligence seems to be highly correlated with more rapid generalization from fewer samples.

Thus, the length of books is often just to repeat ideas enough times, and enough different ways, for more typical brains to grasp it.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@DBashIdeas Source?

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@z_e_silver @skjask I don’t know where you’ve been the past 25 years, but three of the assertions you made in your post are patently false. I hope others speak up here.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@ldkop Not a plot hole, a discovery! They were shatnez! And this is (evidently) the source for IMO the strangest Rama’s in all of Shulchan Aruch; there is a minhag to wear some form of Shatnez on Purim! Rabbi Akiva Males wrote an article that appeared in the Hakirah journal about it.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@InspiroQuest @grok please take the exact text of all the posts in this thread and put them in a single post. Do not abbreviate or summarize any single idea.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

@Manifest_Lord @grok please put the text found in all the images of this thread and put them in the text of a single post.

[Neuron Powers 🧠 @neuronpowers]

A Finnish teachter quietly solved phone addiction.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

That’s how I understand The Little Mermaid.

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

Watching it as an Orthodox Jew you realize it’s pro-assimilation propaganda

[Pesach Wolicki @RabbiPW]

President Trump caused many more to die with this tweet. The protesters pressed on, emboldened by his message. Betrayal.

[Raphael Davidovich @rdavidovich]

Remember how everyone laughed at Sarah Palin’s “death panel” speech?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

An elderly woman in Canada was euthanized only hours after telling doctors she wanted to live and receive hospice care instead.

She had become very ill after heart surgery and was being cared for at home by her elderly husband, who doctors noted was experiencing “caregiver burnout.”

According to an official review, the woman told one assessor she wanted to withdraw her request for assisted death, citing “personal and religious values,” and asked for hospice care instead.

Her hospice placement was quickly denied, and her husband requested an “urgent” reassessment for assisted dying, saying he could no longer cope with caring for her.

She was euthanized that same evening.

Reviewers later said the short timeline failed to properly examine her true wishes, with the case raising serious questions about Canada’s approach to euthanasia.

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

.⁦@JMilei⁩ shared some words on this week’s Torah portion at Davos

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Fun fact: The lowest civilian to combatant ratio in the history of modern warfare is not a “genocide.”

It’s literally just war.

It you don’t like these outcomes, don’t start them.