Ari E-B, Federation rabbi 🔯🖖

Celebrated first contact day by burning bread. Spock would have said it was illogical, but I think Nimoy would have understood. #FirstContactDay

Local grocery store lost power yesterday. They announced at 7pm that they were giving away all the ice cream because it wouldn't survive the night. Guess what everyone in the neighborhood is having for shavuot?

The guy at Home Depot said he couldn't make a key shaped like a challah.

Apparently hanging this picture on the front door has become a family tradition.

Happy "I have no idea what time it is" day to all who celebrate.

Every shabbat is coronation shabbat for hashem.

TIL that Theodore Bikel holds the record for most performances of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.

Stolen from a friend on FB who is far funnier than I am.

I have prayed in many synagogues with many people. I have prayed with people who ate shellfish, drove on shabbat, had sex without marriage, stole copyrighted music, and didn't keep taharat hamishpacha. Stop letting Christians drag us into their culture wars.
https://forward.com/news/543608/gay-orthodox-jew-protests-ban-from-hollywood-hills-synagogue/

Well, at least they can't blame us for this one.

Apparently, Americans most frequent cultural experience is going to a library.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx

The Gemarah is really clear that a safer Torah is written on the outside of non-separated animal hide (gvil). Rambam says anything else is not kosher.

Ashkenazim completely reversed this, using the inside of separated parchment (klaf), and basically no one complains.

It seems bizarre to me that we completely reversed the ruling from the Talmud with essentially no dissent.

Do you think they'll try him as an adult?

Celebrate #piDay by watching this super cool video:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/11r2ylr/oc_happy_piday_the_ratio_of_randomly_dropped/