Rejected from many prestigious fellowships • Educator @YUNews • Talmud @tabletmag • PhD @thenewschool • Founder @18_forty • I read over Shabbos @ShabbosReads
Joined August 2010
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Welcome, friend!
Twitter is my public diary—a mix of narishkeit, ideas, and opinions.
Thanks for visiting.
Some writing things I’m proud of:
📖 on sin and failure: amazon.com/Sinagogue-Failure…
📖 on Jewish humor: israelbookshoppublications.c…
💡academia page: yeshiva.academia.edu/DavidBa…
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David/Dovid Bashevkin retweeted
Jalen Brunson. NBA Champion. Finals MVP.
Hard work pays off 🏆
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Never slept. Always dreamed.
The official Nike championship commercial for the New York Knicks has arrived 🔥
(h/t @RTNBA )
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David/Dovid Bashevkin retweeted
Mike Breen: "IT'S OVER! IT'S OVER! KNICK FANS, THIS IS NOT A DREAM! YOUR LONG, LONG WAIT HAS ENDED! GO AHEAD AND CRY! AFTER 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE FINALLY NBA CHAMPIONS ONCE AGAIN!" 🏀🏆🎙️
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Longest active title droughts in major North American sports:
Congrats to the Knicks for finally ending a 53-year championship drought.
Longest active title droughts in major North American sports:
• Cardinals — 79 years (1947)
• Guardians — 78 years (1948)
• Kings — 75 years (1951)
• Lions — 69 years (1957)
• Hawks — 68 years (1958)
After more than half a century, New York is finally off the list.
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Kiddush, kiddush! Lchaim, lchaim! #LGK
In the merit of all the previous generations—Patrick Ewing, Starks, LJ, Melo, Oakley, Latrell—in the merit of all the fans who waited, never gave up — in the merit of this incredible squad, brothers in arms—the New York Knicks are once again NBA champions.
Mazel Tov! Mazel Tov!
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It was time.
It has been 53 years since the Knicks won a championship.
Garden in Hebrew — גן — is numerical value 53.
It is time.
#LGK
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David/Dovid Bashevkin retweeted
It has been 53 years since the Knicks won a championship.
Garden in Hebrew — גן — is numerical value 53.
It is time.
#LGK
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In the merit of all the previous generations—Patrick Ewing, Starks, LJ, Melo, Oakley, Latrell—in the merit of all the fans who waited, never gave up — in the merit of this incredible squad, brothers in arms—the New York Knicks are once again NBA champions.
Mazel Tov! Mazel Tov!
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Why did I return to his Torah this Shabbos?
Long story short, I am finishing a book on the Talmud—an essay on each tractate that I began with this Daf Yomi cycle and he has a piece in tractate Kinnim—a notoriously difficult mesechta—that is honestly one of the most profound pieces of Torah I have ever read.
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His writing style is quite unique less flowery than Rav Kook but both new and old Hebrew — modern, rabbinic, almost Nachmandian.
Structure is quite different than most other Torah writing. More like essays. Clear discipline in citing only from Chazal and classical Rishonim but footnotes make it clear that yes, he’s aware that achronim may discuss this as well.
It’s genuinely a privilege that we have such a serous Torah scholar within our midst just posting on social media. If you’re not familiar with him or his Torah I would urge you to do so. It’s sweet, profound, substantive, but never feel ideological. Serious analysis that is willing to go where the sources take him.
כן ירבו כמותו בישראל!
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Good Shabbos to all those who continue to believe, even with the odds stacked against them.
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Good Shabbos to all those who see goodness within the Land of Israel.
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Jun 12
is anyone else struggling to say the word trillion without using the dr evil voice?
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Jun 12
I wasn’t clear enough.
When I said “move on” I meant from the details of *this* specific case. Divorce as now finalized so further discussion at this point is just gossip.
Continue to advocate for those in need of gittin and anyone in a chained marriage.
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Raphi and Adeena reached a divorce settlement and have finalized their divorce.
Let’s move on, folks.
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