Dad. @ChalmerRachel’s husband. Orthodox Jew obsessed with religion, history, theatre, & philosophy. sethchalmer.com | hamletschimera.substack.com
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6 Oct 2024
Please help if you can, please share, and please pray for the healing of Eli ben Yehudis. gofund.me/00a8655d
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Jun 10
On a @JDVance speech, “America is an idea,” and the canon of Great Books. open.substack.com/pub/hamlet…
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Jun 9
I have a game on @chesscom going with a player who’s based in the Vatican. I know I’m gonna win; he’ll never willingly sacrifice a bishop.
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Jun 9
This is true, and, many Jewish Democrats have political whiplash because Judaism used to be on the Good side of this line and is now on the Bad side.
Jun 9
Something pretty obvious I was talking about with a Dem strategist the other day:
Nobody in the party has a problem celebrating Islam, Hinduism; any faith brought to US via later immigration.
But celebrate Christianity loudly and other Dems look at you funny, assume you’re RW.
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Jun 8
If you’ve not read Sam Harris’ substack yet, it’s really worth it. Here are the immediately preceding paragraphs to the one below:
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Jun 7
Like everything else in the Milky Way, it is moving 1.3 million miles per hour.
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Jun 7
Havoc is the only thing wreaked. No one ever wreaks contentment or ennui.
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Jun 4
The allegations against Platner are better corroborated than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were and it will be interesting to see who manages to be consistent in their beliefs about such things.
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Jun 5
What was the communist statistician’s goal?
To socialize the medians of production.
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Jun 1
“An abstract word is like a box with a false bottom: you can put in any ideas you please and take them out again without anyone being the wiser.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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May 30
The sort of guy who cheats on his wife cheats at other things.
Conscientiousness is consistent across a person's lifetime.
It's a perfectly fine reason to think less of a candidate for public office.
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May 29
Question at the intersection of interfaith relations & technology: Has Magnifica Humanitas caused a sudden spike in Jews learning sefer Nehemiah large enough for @SefariaProject to detect?
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May 27
You should read Yuval Levin's reading of the papal encyclical:
thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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May 26
A good article by Z. Wainer, I. Kurtz, & @dpkenter: ejewishphilanthropy.com/enga…
I can't help thinking that it should be *some part* of the communal conversation to note that some troubles keeping men invested in Jewish life may derive from the choice of gender-egal synagogues.
May 14
My defense of Orthodox gender roles in synagogue does NOT appeal to the legal technicalities. Rather, it explores the social goods that seem to ultimately result from the gender restrictions that are not, I admit (on an individualist level) fair. hamletschimera.substack.com/…
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It is actually funny that we basically just had to find the right genus of squamate to milk. Like we were directionally correct about snake oil being a miracle drug.
May 23
We really need a better name for the category of drug than “GLP-1 agonist.”
I propose either “lizard oil” or “tincture of monster.”
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May 21
Today's post is about how reading Psalms in English is a subversive act and when you do it you will learn things about G-d, worship, and yourself that will surprise you
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May 20
i have good news for everyone worried about trolley problems: motion is impossible
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May 19
Presenting: the definitive and most fully faithful translation of the opening of the Odyssey:
Sing, Muse, of the man called Ulysses,
Full of twists like an eel chasing fishies,
He snagged gold of Troy's,
Then got lost with his boys,
Who turned out to be negligent sissies.
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May 19
Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."
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May 19
$250K to @GiveDirectly, $250K to @Masbia, $250K to a Jewish day school scholarship fund, and $250K on several days’ worth of out of season berries and cherries for my kids.
May 19
You've inherited one million dollars but you're only allowed to spend it on other people. What are you going to do first?
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May 19
Only sick & vile terrorists would attack a house of worship that also has a daycare full of children because they have issues with the faith or due to political conflicts at home or abroad, whether at a Muslim Center in San Diego or a Jewish Synagogue in Michigan. Stop the hate💔
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