Akiva Weisinger

The correct take on RHCP is that they're a great platform for one of the greatest guitarists alive to do awesome guitar things while jamming with his idiot friends

thank you for your service

Jahmyr Gibbs winning this game by himself

Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.

If your response to a fatal attack on a synagogue outside of Israel-Palestine on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar is to make it entirely about Israel-Palestine, in either direction, consider that you are part of the problem.

Never in my life have I ever thought "I wish this actress was a virgin"

Goes without saying, of course

Two Jews are murdered for the crime of going to shul on Yom Kippur. Bluesky being.... predictable about it

This literally happened in the Byzantine Empire

Two Men Enter the Vacated Space By: Akiva Weisinger | The Lehrhaus The death of Nadav and Avihu is difficult to explain, perhaps even impossible to approach through the medium of language. In a composition crossing the boundaries of original drashah, Breslov thought,...

Reposting my piece from July for its Yom Kippur adjacent content

literally a mishnah calls it the happiest day of the year

"Please get this man out of my office"

Things that are incredibly funny if you know some stuff about Chabad history, from Herbert Weiner's "9 1/2 Mystics"

"Whoa man, I just realized you also could have been The Rebbe how they did decide between you two?"
*R. Shmaryahu Gourary has a PTSD flashback*

Remember that Yom Kippur is a day for introspection, not blaming others, so coming up with a new set of al chet's for people to say in which they confess the sins that you want them to confess is not helping yourself or anyone else.

and why should halakha care about astrophysics

There's no way radioactivity is fire if even microwaves aren't

One of the best people on here, donate if you can

i would say the most debasing thing i ever did to impress a girl was attend a hazony book launch and trust me that is saying a lot

Hazony was always a sloppy scholar and bad reader with clear tendencies towards ideologically distorting texts, and it's terrible that he broke containment

A Parable of Barriers | The Lehrhaus In honor of Rosh Hashanah 5786, Akiva Weisinger retells and reimagines the parable of the king "who wished to be seen, but did not want to be seen."

I would like to describe this piece as "an excavation of latent meaning within one of the most important parables in the Hasidic canon" but that makes me sound like a pretentious twerp, so I'm just going to say that I enjoyed the process of writing this.

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A Cairo Genizah of a Community Inspired by something student pointed this out: kind of crazy how the Cairo Geniza succeeded and the library of Alexandria didn't.

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We should start fighting conspiracy theories with ones that are deliberately designed to motivate better policy outcomes than what we've got. Everything's gone to hell anyway, why not

Gonna start telling people that the antivax movement is a Big Pharma conspiracy. What do you do when the main treatment for something has its patent expire and is thus unprofitable....

I once posted on twitter "just because someone was instrumental to the allies winning world war ii does not mean they weren't antisemitic egoists who deliberately exacerbated a famine resulting in millions of deaths" and I got both tankies and conservatives mad at me, falling into the trap I had set

I once went to an event with Hazony and I asked him an obvious question he should have been prepared for and he ducked it. I don't even remember what it was. He's a fraud.

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Ken, one of the dumbest people alive, gets way too much credit as a journalist for essentially checking his emails

I can't even imagine how dumb you'd have to be to think the person who runs the account posted it instead of what is clearly a hack. But what do I know, I don't have to figure out how to fundraise off of this

"unlike Republicans they stick together like glue"
LMAO