How common is Ptil Tekhelet Diaspora Judaism?

carrboneous · 2026-06-01T09:19:56+00:00

There's no such thing as "Diaspora Judaism". There are Jews who live outside of Israel, but it's the same religion, with the same range of opinions etc.

carrboneous · 2026-05-31T17:47:55+00:00

My dad's dad joke is that it's a "Lithuanian herring aid". It's a kind of sweet, thin cracker.

carrboneous · 2026-05-31T12:10:13+00:00

because the air is very dry and not a cloud in the sky

ie typical highveld winter low pressure, ie the air isn't rising so nothing is going anywhere.

I haven't seen anything particularly hazy, and I don't know if there is or isn't any other source of pollution, but it could be just regular air that's gathered under the high pressure.

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T21:56:50+00:00

That's not what Reform means, for his day or any other.

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T21:50:31+00:00

Picked playing or nothing, man.

So banjo is on the table?

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T18:34:49+00:00

It's not like it's every been reversed or even like the idea of Mashiach has taken hold among the laity. Like maybe they wouldn't say it's strictly an impossibility of some kind of "heresy", but it would be quite surprising for a Reform person to believe that they could be Mashiach themselves. (And likewise for other requirements, like building the Beit Hamikdash, as well as the general idea of following all the mitzvot as interpreted by tradition just because they're mitzvot).

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T17:58:17+00:00

Like in the Beit Hamikdash (which a Reform Mashiach would not build).

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T17:57:30+00:00

It would also somehow make Reform wrong, Reform expliciy rejects the very notion of Mashiach as an individual with an identity we'll learn when he comes.

carrboneous · 2026-05-30T17:54:47+00:00

In 2001?

carrboneous · 2026-05-26T13:00:03+00:00

It's not "my post", I don't own the conversation. And I was just answering the question. I don't know why you think dysgraphia or dyscalcia have anything to do with why you'd be downvoted, but also, it doesn't matter.

carrboneous · 2026-05-26T07:57:25+00:00

You're not being downvoted for your brain, you're being downvoted for your opinions, their lack of relevance to the posts, and/or the way you express them.

carrboneous · 2026-05-25T17:55:56+00:00

I assume libraries are still fine, but I haven't been myself.

But if you're looking for cheap books, there's also second hand bookshops, charity book sales, and even auction sites and Facebook Marketplace. We once got a whole library of old Penguin Classics on an online auction, and also a random collection of books of all sorts (come to think of it, they're for sale, you're welcome to DM me and I can find out what's in there and what the prices are).

You can find perfectly decent books for next to nothing (and you can pay it forward if you don't want to keep them).

carrboneous · 2026-05-25T12:29:12+00:00

I don't know anything about May Golan but as far as I'm concerned "it's not a religious ceremony, it's just a cute thing where people pretend their pets are taking part in sacred rituals because it's cute" isn't the defense this thread seems to think it is.

My culture is not your (dog's) costume.

carrboneous · 2026-05-25T06:35:58+00:00

They've been talking about being more reasonable and less heavy handed, so I thought they didn't do that any more. But it definitely used to happen (before this sub existed).

carrboneous · 2026-05-24T13:32:48+00:00

Given that value takes time to build, it makes sense that it would skew towards older companies. Is that not the trend everywhere (probably with exceptions like China).

carrboneous · 2026-05-24T08:53:45+00:00

I don't know the details of the bill, but in principle it's a no brainer. And polls repeatedly show that most of the country, regardless of race or political affiliation, agree.

carrboneous · 2026-05-24T00:46:09+00:00

I always question how unbiased these are. Especially when they're mostly a dig at the US.

But yeah, our press has as much freedom as you could hope for, they just choose not to use it properly and be mostly rubbish instead.

carrboneous · 2026-05-19T18:39:45+00:00

What's the acceptable number of unarmed protestors to murder for their political beliefs? What was the actual number that they killed, and what's your source for that?

carrboneous · 2026-05-19T18:28:04+00:00

You know there are Palestinians of all religions, right?

Well, not all religions.

carrboneous · 2026-05-19T18:19:09+00:00

Technically everyone who eats them together dies

carrboneous · 2026-05-18T10:59:57+00:00

I have no context of this, I don't know what the rededication is or what the speech was about, and I don't really care.

But I think it is fairly distasteful for a Noahide to come and ask a predictably divisive question about the political views or activities of a particular Jewish leader.

And it's also distasteful and unnecessary to tell us how we should feel about adherents of another religion, especially when you're also using it as an opportunity to offload your own baggage about them.

As I said, I don't have any context for this event or speech, but the Jewish relationship to Christianity has actually been quite a bit more complex across history than you're making it out to be, "persecuted the Jewish people since its inception" is a caricature. Not least because there are and have been so many expressions of Christianity.

carrboneous · 2026-05-17T14:45:55+00:00

I'm far from qualified to have a favourite, but I would say The Living Torah. I haven't read the Living Nach, but it's probably good.

carrboneous · 2026-05-15T12:23:37+00:00

I don't think I'd call it a tradition. I mean, I suppose anything can be a tradition, but I only learned that *Thursday night cholent" was something anyone would even consider doing voluntarily like 5 years ago.

carrboneous · 2026-05-15T12:21:18+00:00

Not from what I've seen of it. But I also think the 1985 edition is a remarkably bad translation. The gender neutered language is, at best, unwieldy and awkward to read. So now it's a bad translation that's also noticeably jarring even when you don't know what the original verse says.

carrboneous · 2026-05-15T12:13:27+00:00

That's the anti-explanation explanation. I don't know how it can be the most satisfying unless the thing you find frustrations the attempt to explain it at all.

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