rjmedwed.bsky.social
Bible and Jewish law teacher. I sometimes write articles about food, cocktails, and other stuff. I like to be outside a lot and also ride bicycles. 🏳️🌈 He/Him
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In college I wrote a paper where I argued she's actually the real role model because she's the only one who didn't compromise her values
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Thankfully, it was to the kids, too!
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Exactly. And I got responses exactly like this from other folks, and I had to clarify many times how I was talking about due process and not at all his beliefs, and such
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it does, sure, but it's the very, very last line that is what I need people to understand, and, judging by my FB community, very barely there
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Fair
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Right - but, the rabbis didn't much care about that nuance, either
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Really? Even though the after party was all kinds of debauchery?
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Right, and I'm definitely not going in that direction, it just seems like there *could* or *should* be a connection, somewhere, way back when. Maybe.
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Right - that part I knew, but, I mean, can we go back even farther, historically, and find a connection? Since "dessert" can often relate to the pleasure aspect...
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All day long white liberals are on this site, begging for Obama, Harris and Black women in general to save them but I don’t believe most of you are willing to fully reject white supremacy and facism to save yourselves, much less step into the fray to protect us.
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Pretty much all of @sbearbergman.bsky.social's Flamingo Rampant books - I highly recommend, well, all of them
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is it not a coming out story?
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Sure, but I'm not sure how discussing halacha stays separate from that, in reality
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I'm not sure it's possible to stop being political, tbh. I mean, I know how we might try, but I don't think it's actually a thing we can do.
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I don't know how much long form they do, or if it's high-level enough, but Hey Alma is usually good, too.