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Rabbi Josh Yuter
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways - Is. 55:8. Jewish stuff + bad jokes. All opinions subject to change.
Me: Time to get up!
Toddler: No!
Me: Time to get out of bed!
Toddler: NO!
Me: I bet I can get to the living room before you!!!
Toddler: 🏃
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Opinion: That private relationships are routinely exposed, dissected, and criticized in public on social media might, just might, impact people's attitudes towards dating, marriage, and even friendships.

You can't expect trust and vulnerability when living in the Thunderdome.
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
R. Yohanan: Come and see the strength of the priests, there are no parts of the bird lighter than crop and feathers, yet priests could throw them 30 cubits
#DafYomi 64a
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Cliff divers are ledge end airy.
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Mishna: All those who ascend the altar do so via the right, all those do descend do so via the left
#DafYomi 63a-b
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
R. Yosef called those who mocked him, "The children of Keturah" (Gen. 25:4)
#DafYomi 62a-b
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Observation: The great irony of the AI age is all the flaws people observe in AI are found just as readily in humans.

The trouble with creating AI in our image is that it's created in our image.
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Rainbow over the National Library of Israel
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Y. Demai 1:3
R. Pinhas b. Yair went to the house of assembly, but was stopped when the Ginai river overflowed.
R. Pinhas b. Yair: Why do you prevent me from going to the house of assembly?
The river split for him
#DafYomi
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Y. Demai 1:3
R. Abba b. Zamina cit. R. Zeira: If our predecessors were angels, we are but men. If they were men, we are donkeys.
Note: R. Jocko Homo: We are Devo.
#DafYomi
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Y. Demai 1:3
R. Yirmiya sent R. Zeira a basket of untithed figs.
R. Yirmiya: Would R. Zeira eat untithed figs?
R. Zeira: Would R. Yirmiya send me untithed figs?
#DafYomi
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The Temple was largely in the territory of Yehuda, but the holiest of holies was in the territory of Benjamin
#DafYomi 53b-54a
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Magnificent chart from @korenpublishers
#DafYomi 51a
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Hetler: A rabbinic dispensation for associating with Nazis.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I only write poems with rhyming couplets because I believe in diversity.
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Y. Demai 2:1
R. Nahman: Impurity is frequent/common, mourning is not. Sages only issued decrees regarding that which is frequent/comment
#DafYomi
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Rava: Does one issue halakhic rulings for the Messinic era?
Abaye: If so, don't teach any of the laws re slaughtering sacrifices! Rather, study and receive reward
#DafYomi 45a
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Periodic reminder that since the dissolution of the Sanhedrin, no rabbi is a "real" rabbi.

Yes, myself included.
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Proposal: A supermarket that resells invalidated sacrificial meat.

We'll call it, "Pigguly Wiggly"
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Rava: Any verse that was not explained by R. Yitzhak b. Avudimi and any baraita not explained by R. Ze'eiri was not explained
#DafYomi 43b
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You know your life has changed when a breakfast indulgence is Kellog's Corn Flakes
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
R. Elazar (or R. Yohanan): A man's wife doesn't die until creditors ask him for money and he doesn't have it per Prov. 22:27
#DafYomi 29b
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Rabba b. b. Hana cit. R. Yohanan: Every instance of finger and priesthood refers to the right hand
#DafYomi 24b
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Mishna: An uncircumcised priest invalidates the service
Gemara: R. Hisda per Ez. 44:9, 7
#DafYomi 22b
October 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
One more reason to love the Bar Ilan
October 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM