Essays, notes, poems, and prayers
Writing
Most of this started as a Facebook post and got a second life here. Every piece carries its date in two calendars.
- 23 June 2026ח׳ בתמוז תשפ״וNote
Appreciated the Break
As someone who spends hours every day using AI tools with - dare I say - great efficacy, I'm very personally aware of how it magnifies my ability to produce....
- 18 June 2026ג׳ בתמוז תשפ״וNote
IP and Classism
Noticing the difference between artists' and programmers' attitudes towards sharing and reusing others' creative outputs - and the history of patronage in the arts and basement coding in dev -...
- 7 June 2026כ״ב בסיוון תשפ״וNote
Support All of Us
"The Israelis" "The Palestinians" I looked for two sides I found only one side The side of humanity, life, and love 8 billion human beings and counting, created in the...
- 1 June 2026ט״ז בסיוון תשפ״וNote
Critics and Defenders
Critics of Israel underweight everything good that comes out of this society. Defenders of Israel underweight everything bad. Both groups are convinced of the unassailable rightness and reason of their...
- 22 May 2026ו׳ בסיוון תשפ״וNote
Thick and Thin Intelligence
Working with AI every day really gives you an appreciation for the difference between thick and thin intelligence It's possible to be very fast, very informed, very articulate, but not...
- 16 May 2026כ״ט באייר תשפ״וNote
Sit With That Feeling
If what I write ever makes you mad Sit with that feeling And keep asking yourself why until you understand why I wrote it in the first place My time...
- 15 May 2026כ״ח באייר תשפ״וNote
Ode to Jerusalem
Jerusalem is not just my home of 15 years. It is not just a sprawling city of hundreds of thousands nestled among the Judaean Hills. It is not just a...
- 13 May 2026כ״ו באייר תשפ״וNote
Lincoln and Jefferson Trade Insults
I use AI every day for important things. Sometimes I like to use it for silly things. Some of these really cracked me up. Lincoln: Mr. Jefferson, I hear Virginia...
- 9 May 2026כ״ב באייר תשפ״וNote
Jewish Trinity
Love of Israel is love of humanity is love of Hashem. 3 loves = 1 love It's the Jewish trinity.
- 4 May 2026י״ז באייר תשפ״וNote
R Shim’on ben Yohai
Tonight does not mark the passing of R Shim'on ben Yohai - it marks his celebration. After all the thousands of students of the founding father of the rabbinic movement,...
- 3 May 2026ט״ז באייר תשפ״וNote
Equal Citizenship and Halakhic State
I'm the only person I've ever met who wants both equal citizenship with Palestinians and a halakhic state. 🤷 Right/left politics are banal. 😂
- 28 April 2026י״א באייר תשפ״וNote
Don’t Pick a Side
You can say I support genocide and apartheid all you want... You can say I support terrorists and am a naive traitor all you like... But you live in a...
- 21 April 2026ד׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
What a Gift This Home Is
After years decades centuries of being hated as a Jew, there are few things more life-affirming than celebrating the founding of this country together with my fellow Israelis. That we...
- 21 April 2026ד׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
If You Are Struggling, Get Help
I'm sharing the post below anonymously, not just out of respect for the author (though he posted it publicly) but because I believe that he speaks for countless others, from...
- 19 April 2026ב׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
Here Is Bombs
America: Here is Bombs, please use them World: Can we eat them? America: No World: Can we live in them? America: No World: Can we burn them for fuel? America:...
- 19 April 2026ב׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
Communal Self-Determination
As a Maimonidean, as a #Zionist, as a Libertarian Socialist - communal self-determination has a high place in my hierarchy of values. I think it's all the more important here...
- 19 April 2026ב׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
Why Don’t I Become a Rabbi
"If you think you know so much, why don't you become a rabbi?" My sweet brother in Moses, I'm a father of 2 with a full-time job struggling to afford...
- 18 April 2026א׳ באייר תשפ״וNote
Image and Autonomy
The divine image and autonomy are intertwined To say one is to say the other That's the foundation of the Torah's legal system
- 17 April 2026ל׳ בניסן תשפ״וNote
Radical Far Left Democrat
"Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the USA. Enough is enough." Can you believe this Radical Far Left Democrat has the...
- 17 April 2026ל׳ בניסן תשפ״וNote
Naming the Crimes
It's interesting what people assume. For those few who regularly read what I write 🙂 you'll have noticed that I've been very careful for years not to refer to members...