Cool! I think me and my chavrutah will be finishing up Mishnah terumot in parshat terumah

I should quit twitter but I’m having fun minorly ripping Elon musk off. I’ve had a twitter subscription for about 6 months without paying anything

I was walking past a synagogue last night and I accidentally left my coat at home and this Jewish guy was going into the synagogue and he asked if I was cold and when I said a little bit he offered me his coat. That’s ahavat yisrael for you!

The insulting spam I’m getting now is sending me emails saying “you’re gay stay away from my husband,” lol how did they know?

Finished Mishnah sheviit today, almost half way through order zeraim

People who go around armchair diagnosing others are deeply annoying

Queer frum people are loved

When you get up the famous R Yirmiya story to show someone and realize R Yirmiya also did a bunch of questions like this in Elu Metziot. Notorious nitpicker, I love it

I’ve pretty much gotten Yeush about bottom surgery

There a few lines of thinking for not using the word “fascism” to describe what we’re experiencing, but I think the worst one is the claim that people won’t believe it and/or will think we’re hysterical.

Whether it’s true or not, this idea that we should erase reality is itself fascistic.

I don’t really get packing.. most cis guys don’t really have a visible bulge in normal pants. Having a visible bulge is just gonna call attention to your crotch.

Like we don’t have to prove something like an ancestor or a past life or anything. It’s okay to just find Judaism, connect with it, and be adopted by the tribe

Yeah. This was after I mentioned some fellow converts self-validating by believing some distant or less distant ancestor was definitely Jewish when the person never said that and they’ve got no proof of that. On one hand, I understand the need for feeling valid, on the other hand we just are valid

I’m not completely dismissive of the whole idea being perhaps possible altogether, but I think someone saying they know it to be true of themself is deeply offensive to the memory of Holocaust victims

Ugh, I just learned now some fellow converts are self validating by deciding they’re souls of those who died in the Holocaust. I promise you can deal with insecurity in better ways than that.

It’s actually fine for converts to just not have any Jewish ancestry.

They’re pretty impossible to get ahold of, but ugh that they’re also antisemitic :(

Free copy of my book, please download it as I would like it to be saved if this administration tries to suppress trans peoples stories www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jirrl...

History will not look kindly on this administration, because destroying minority groups is always a destructive but impossible goal, and history is written by the survivors.

But what will be the price?

Finished Mishnah Berachot with my chavrutah yesterday, started up Peah today. It’s a bit harder to stay present for…

Vayeishev noticings, continued Some thoughts on last weeks Parsha

avrahamk.substack.com/p/vayeishev-...

My meltdowns improved a lot when I was out of an abusive environment, though that’s not the same as my autism “improving.”

I also had a stalker sending me graphic threats, police also did nothing despite knowing who he was

Fr though the answer to the latke debate is “both”!

That’s the best feeling!!

Nice! I’ve learned 7 pages of Talmud, one chapter of Mishnah plus reviewing a chapter that I learned earlier, the parsha through once (hoping to read through a second time before Shabbat is over), some Midrash, and some Halacha this week

I’ve gotta quit x… just saw a popular post supporting lynchings

Vayeitzei thoughts The ladder is a great representation for some of the stuff that happens in this parsha.

Some motzei Shabbat thoughts on last weeks parsha avrahamk.substack.com/p/vayeitzei-...

It’s cool how I’ve passed in the most basic sense for years now and I still notice my face getting more and more masculine even now