singin snek @glitternoodle@cybre.space

when you're praying, but you're just kind of running thru the words without any mental focus, is that:

kavaNAH

if you didn't clean your house when you meant to, it's ok! you can always clean it later. in the long run, the cleaning is more important than the timing #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

ok but i think the real question is how a loaf of bread wound up balanced on one of your ceiling rafters to begin with??? #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

wow, i can't believe the sages didn't resolve the halakha about what to do if you see a mouse go into a house with a loaf of bread then a marten come *out* of the house with a mouse and also a loaf of bread. now what am i gonna do about this extremely common occurrence????? #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

"a mouse does not typically generate crumbs" citation fucking needed there, buddy #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

the rabbis are now positing Indiana Jones–level mouse capers with swapping out specific crumbs of leaven for specific other crumbs and i'm worried about what kind of mouse infestations they were living with back then #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

for all that it creates halakhic complications, i do think there's something poignant about the idea of a field with a grave whose precise location can no longer be remembered. with time, our personal tragedies will fade, become a general ache instead of a pointed sting. the things that grieve us may even turn somehow into soil, into rich earth for crops to grow in, to the point that when, in later times, the whole field is redug anew, no grave is found at all. healing is mysterious and quiet; its edges are not always clearly defined #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

oh my g-d the resolution to this two paths question (if each person comes to ask separately, they're both pure; if both come together, they're both *impure*) is some quantum double-slit-experiment nonsense and i love it #DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

two paths diverged in an old mishna, and i—
i took the one less traveled by
which was possibly ritually impure?
but it's also possible it was the *other* road that was ritually impure. so anyway, after that, i handled some Ritually Pure Objects, and now my question is...
#DafYomi #Pəsaḥim10

i've been putting the dust jackets of Alter's Bible translation on my wall (like i do), and under the last one, i put the jacket for the Chicago Manual of Style, which makes it look like a secret fourth part of Tanakh: the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, and . . . the Editings