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tora (40)in #ssm • 7 years ago
Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey on Same-Sex Marriage
This draft (there may be numerous typographical errors) is not an instruction as to how to vote in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, but a critique of the views and…
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tora (40)in #politics • 8 years ago
Qoraḥ (Korach) and politicians
This I wrote a while back, it is long, the footnotes even longer (to be honest this could have been broken up into four parts). ==== Why is Qoraḥ (read small-time politicians)…
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tora (40)in #life • 8 years ago
Forever Young, I want to be...?
This recent story, from 8 August 2017, about a chip "that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient’s own body" (see more here) made me think of…
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tora (40)in #history • 8 years ago
The Damascus Affair
While not strictly speaking, a discussion of Tôrā, these are my "cliff notes" collated from quite a while back regarding various sources discussing the tragedy of the Damascus…
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tora (40)in #language • 8 years ago
Aramaic-Hebrew-Arabic
Quick post today. Language and its use interests me deeply, language snobbery, as well as why people are so obsessive about one language being superior to another, when clearly…
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tora (40)in #judaism • 8 years ago
Blessing for the Bar Mitzvah Boy
This is another post that was also written a while back, enjoy:) When a bar-miṣwah boy gets his aliyah, in many synagogues his father is instructed to say: baroukh…
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tora (40)in #judaism • 8 years ago
The three weeks
I put this post together in 2015, but it is relevant for the three weeks: . Today we commenced a small period of mourning, spanning the 8th, 9th and 10th of Tebheth. On the 8th…
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tora (40)in #introduction • 8 years ago
Torah Codes are Amazing! They possibly predict everything and anything!
In Pirqê Abhôth (Pirkei Avos ('A) | Pirke Avot (MH)) [1] (yes it's a footnote you may want to check out), we are given a useful piece of life advice by a certain ben Bagh-Bagh…
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