Devastating. I’m reading “tormented master” as it happens. It’s going to read differently. Nachman himself had demons. I find the whole thing to be tragic, confusing, shitty. This is really going to force me to figure out how to separate ideas from conduct. Green’s ideas are foundational for me.

Same here. In so many ways he’s formed and shaped how I see this moment Jewish ideas. He’s been massive in forming my understanding of hasidut overall and its ever evolving relevancy and power. I don’t know what justice is right now. I feel sick for anyone impacted by his behavior. Baffled and raw.

Thx for sharing!
- This made me think of Lysistrata.
- Seems to say something about the last 10 years but not much more -- women have reacted to recent threats, men less so.
- What would 200 years of this data tell us?
- What does "all figures adjusted for time trend" specifically mean? (fine print)

Whatever is going on, the censoring and pandering doesn't seem to be working anymore www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/b... Maybe if Hollywood just went full raunch they'd do better ?

My own uneducated guess is that there will be a ceasefire that is “temporary” and that some but not all hostages will be released during it. I hope we get to that soon.

Quite right .. this seems as unlikely as Israel’s leadership exit offer. I really wish we could see what the real non-public positions were .. how far each side is willing to go in a brokered negotiation. I guess there are good reasons why we can’t see this though.

Agree. Not only is it already indefinite (Bibi's interests alone would seem to ensure that) but at least as stated above the argument assumes there would be no hostage deal as part of a ceasefire. The previous actual ceasefire and all real proposals I've heard for additional ones include this.

Perfect ... enemy of good ... something something. Amos Oz Z''L was constantly trying to keep the goals on both sides reasonable. Rather than a perfect solution (and this applies to war as in peace) let's start with SOME solution. Good (if achingly quaint) interview: www.haaretz.com/2015-03-13/t...

I wrote about this and some other related stuff here multitorah.org/2024/01/02/p...

Also in in MeXico right now .. in a bario called XoXimilco … so highly relevant

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He’s lost his income … the adidas thing alone was worth > $1B… I’m sure he has some terrible damage control consultant who thought of this rubbish if he didn’t. Why O why do I even know about this? Is there some overarching reason I should? Or can I ignore this person’s existence form now on?

totally

Thanks for letting me go down this small rabbit-hole :)

Yah I mean there's a lot of evidence that there's no standard way to do this and people just make sh*t up :) I know it applies to certain place names too ... I mean is it Berdichev or Berditchev ... Bratslav or Breslov or for that matter Chasidic Chassidic or Hassidic?

Here's another system! (thanks Google) ... I have no idea if there's a standard one www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/IAY...

ikh veys gornisht vegn Cyrillic ... however in Yiddish ... is this question distinct from the general problem of transliterating any word? How so? I guess there's a need for consistency, such as in projects like this: www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/file... .. but this isn't the only system? Fun question!