R.P. Schwartz

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I'm always conflicted about learning mishnayot in his memory--he was a big fan of Jewish learning, not so much of the belief in neshamot having an aliyah. But maybe I'll do it to be contrary. I think he'd appreciate that.

Yehi zichro baruch.

@haroldpollack.bsky.social

On Being the Tree June 18th, 2011 On being the tree by Mark Kleiman Category: Crime Control In a discussion of parenting styles, a friend (who prefers anonymity) wrote about an insight gleaned from a book on training ...

The social media phase of my life seems behind me, but it matters that I share my memories of him and his contributions. In SAR High School, we still talk about "being the tree." (You can read the blog post here: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., or see his book When Brute Force Fails.)

Shiva asar b'Tammuz is the yahrtzeit of Prof. Mark A. R. Kleiman. I used to re-up my story about him on Twitter every year, but I'm not there and the story is probably gone. He was very much larger than life, and his work, which I encountered almost 15 years ago, continues to shape how I think.

tfw you are in very remote, very Francophone Quebec, someone in a supermarket speaks to you in French, and you respond in Hebrew.

This man protested for democracy against the Maduro regime and came to America, where he thought he would be safe.

We sent him to a gulag for it.

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I'm so sorry for your loss.

(My first post on Bluesky, and it's an attempt to make Frum Bluesky happen.)

And about the tefillah for pre-Rosh Chodesh Sivan you say nothing?