Erin Biba: My best advice is to follow lots of Jews and then don’t believe anything you hear because the number one rule of Judaism is we disagree on everything 🤣 (Seriously we have a 2,700 page religious text w/517 chapters that is just rabbis arguing with each other about religious laws and practices.)

Anyway.

i'm curious

I’m glad!! Most people aren’t 🫠🫠

i'm all ears!

My best advice is to follow lots of Jews and then don’t believe anything you hear because the number one rule of Judaism is we disagree on everything 🤣 (Seriously we have a 2,700 page religious text w/517 chapters that is just rabbis arguing with each other about religious laws and practices.)

I remember how shocked I was the first time I saw it & asked the cantor what the bulk of the text was on each page. (It looked like David Foster Wallace gone wild.) “The disputes.”

theres something very beautiful about a page of talmud that way. like the rings of a very argumentative tree

Perfect put.

I so love Talia's phrasing.❣️

Maimonides faced a lot of opposition for cutting out the weirdness of the Talmud.

Like, G-d enters the chat for one of the debates, and admits he’s wrong. Where else are you going to get that?

I've said it on the other place so I'll say it here: the Oven of Akhnai is the Marbury v. Madison of the Talmud

I always tell that as a golfing rabbis joke, myself.

Is that the original version of this gem?

Wait, I have to learn to read Rashi in a different script? Why not just use the regular one? **Zero Mostel warming up in the background**

This is genuinely my favorite thing about my religion.

Same. Also that the disputes include how to get a snake out of a vagina (Shabbat 110), Rabbi Yochanan's defense of interesting sex (Nedarim 20), and a very weird story about how a demon banished King Solomon (Gittin 68).

Hypertext avant le lettre.

There is a several-hundred-year-long argument about the size of olives.

I love us.

👀

yeah I honestly love how Talmudic scholars would argue over the interpretation of a small bit of text for 500yrs, only to finally go "ah well guess we'll never know"

Bonus: follow enough Jewish folks long enough and when the food arguments break out you'll end up with the BEST collection of recipes.... Which reminds me, I should make some babka.

Also, you might wind up Jewish. Not that I know anybody (or like a dozen of us) that that’s happened to or anything….

Listening to Jewish posters over the years has definitely affected my overall philosophies in a very positive way. (I’m very into community support/repair.)

It me lol

Heheh I think some folks have here on me. I dunno, the older I get the more hedge witch I become so 🤷‍♀️

And very few of those arguments have a definitive resolution

Doesn't one of them end when one of the Rabbis dies and the other one says something like "There, G-d says that I am right"?

Are you thinking of the Oven of Akhnai? That's one where God says the one rabbi everyone disagrees with is actually right, and the other rabbis say "too bad, it's still 12 against 2, overruled."

see that’s something about judaism that christianity just pushes to the side and it’s like, what the fuck? that’s the coolest stuff!

I deeply appreciate a religion that is based on questioning everything, including god.

Especially Gd. Gd knows what Gd did.

I shake my fist and grumble because me and gd are beefin’. Again.

One of my favorites! I also saw this one yesterday to add to my collection.

Intolerance

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We can’t even agree on how many plagues the ten plagues consisted of.

Rabbinical Can-You-Top-This is a classic.

I contend there were eleven because I like that number

I firmly maintain that that’s a joke about the sort of things a bunch of old, drunk rabbis say to prank each other.

THE STORY CLEARLY SAYS THERE WERE NINE

Sure there were 10, BUT WHAT BASE WAS THAT IN?

I stand with Rabbi Akiva, there were 250!!!

We gave a design workshop in Tel Aviv once and the participants started arguing with us and then with each other and it was the best.

Hahahaha I love it.

I've done workshops in a lot of places and contexts, and the cultures that are all about staring at the instructor in respectful silence and/or not asking questions in front of each other, oof that's a lot of effort, and anxiety.

A can confirm we do not agree about anything. The joke is that if there are two Jewish people in a town, there's three synagogues - one for one person, one for the other and the one neither of them go to.

I learned more from Jwitter (ז״ל) than anywhere else. If Jewsky is even half as helpful, it will still be amazing.

"Two Jews, three opinions"

And arguments about how many opinions that means each Jew has ma thematically and getting a thread of math nerds going.

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