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I enjoy reading and writing articles that are well-researched and hopefully inspire people to do good.
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2017-10-01 20:37
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 sources offered in the Facebook
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politics
2017-08-17 00:36
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) so despised? The quick answer
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life
2017-08-09 08:13
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 another story blogged
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history
2017-08-04 05:54
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 Affair; relevant
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language
2017-07-21 07:10
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 each language has certain
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judaism
2017-07-19 07:36
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 shepeṭarannee me`onsho shel zeh - בָּרוּךְ
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judaism
2017-07-18 04:18
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 (in the year of 3515
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introduction
2017-07-17 09:08
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 [2]: "turn it over and
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