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Apr 19, 2026, 6:55 AM

The Altar and the Algorithm: An Experiment in Human-AI Entanglement

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By Joe Nalven I’ve been exploring how we (humans) “think” with AI. This essay is a further experiment about “thinking,” about “knowledge” and about how users of large language models (LLMs) get entangled in LLM output. This experiment is not...

Apr 9, 2026, 9:48 PM

The mysterious word צויתי in Parshiyot Tzav and Shemini

There is a mysterious word that appears but twice in the entire Torah, and both times in Vayikra (Leviticus)– once in Parshat Tzav and once in the subsequent parsha Shemini. This word is צֻוֵּֽיתִי (TZUVEITI) “I have been commanded’. וּפֶ֩תַח֩ אֹ֨הֶל...

Richard Diamond

Mar 31, 2026, 8:13 PM

Israel Doesn’t Have One Purpose. It Has Five. That’s the Problem.

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The fracture in Israeli society is not a failure of leadership or civility. It's a war between four incompatible visions of what this country is actually for — held together by one thing, and increasingly nothing else. Every country has...

Mar 30, 2026, 10:22 PM

When You Are at War with a State: Do You Treat the Entire Population as the Enemy?

Every day in Israel, sirens interrupt ordinary life. Families stop what they are doing and run to bomb shelters. The missiles being launched toward Israeli cities are not aimed at military bases. They are aimed broadly at civilian areas, neighborhoods,...

Mar 29, 2026, 1:09 AM

The Fire That Doesn’t Burn on Its Own

There is something about the atmosphere in Costa Rica that makes you feel like things just happen on their own. The "Pura Vida," the waves of Puerto Viejo, the jungle growing at its own pace - everything projects a...

Richard Diamond

Mar 29, 2026, 1:08 AM

Rethinking Ein Sof

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(This post is a summary of The Kabbalistic tradition names the originating condition Ein Sof, meaning “without end.” The name is deliberate in its austerity. It does not describe the originating condition positively — it cannot, because every positive...

Mar 28, 2026, 12:24 AM

Parsha Tzav – Korbanot Through Study

In Parsha Tzav, as we study the detailed laws of the Asham (guilt) and chatat (sin) offerings performed on the altar in the Mishkan and later in the Beit HaMikdash, we are invited to consider the relationship between two...

Mar 28, 2026, 12:16 AM

Shabbat HaGadol 5786: Leaving Egypt

בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר חַיָּב אָדָם לִרְאוֹת אֶת עַצְמוֹ כְאִלּוּ הוּא יָצָא מִמִּצְרַיִם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שמות יג), וְהִגַּדְתָּ לְבִנְךָ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא לֵאמֹר, בַּעֲבוּר זֶה עָשָׂה ה' לִי בְּצֵאתִי מִמִּצְרָיִם In each and every generation a person must view themselves as though they...

Moshe Grussgott

Mar 27, 2026, 11:30 PM

The “Satmar” Neo-Marxists: An Odd Horseshoe Study

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1) The Jewish Horseshoe The Horseshoe Theory of politics asserts that the extremes on the far right and the far left actually have more in common with each other than they do with the center. In American politics, a great...

Mar 27, 2026, 8:23 PM

Tzav: Don’t tell me what to do!

Picture this: your partner’s absolute favorite dessert is cheesecake. You’ve already shopped for every ingredient. You’re practically counting the minutes until they leave so you can start — because tonight, you’re making them that cheesecake. The one that melts...

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