tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148426582024-03-17T01:07:30.620-07:00Drew Kaplan's BlogA blog in which Drew Kaplan describes recent goings-on in his life, Jewish stuff, musings on life, etc.Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.comBlogger754125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-8246777823261630252022-12-25T12:01:00.008-08:002023-01-03T06:02:41.551-08:00Attending my 6th AJS Conference, AJS 2022<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95KPQ3T3pW0sifhOgT1ALbRAQ22doxs6bBs19EBLtIOd8st-19Xi4_cNaebGquholBuujrfjlIbGa4NWaXftwqpJfjNCwi7BV-DAdj-8ssWD9g01HA8s6FjYsE3tKaYWpw8AOS--T-J4Ar9z9gAt0ox8pGRrApqs01BjWjcSrTssBE8IeRos/s658/Sunday%20night%20beers%20with%20rabbis%20at%20AJS%202022.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="658" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95KPQ3T3pW0sifhOgT1ALbRAQ22doxs6bBs19EBLtIOd8st-19Xi4_cNaebGquholBuujrfjlIbGa4NWaXftwqpJfjNCwi7BV-DAdj-8ssWD9g01HA8s6FjYsE3tKaYWpw8AOS--T-J4Ar9z9gAt0ox8pGRrApqs01BjWjcSrTssBE8IeRos/s320/Sunday%20night%20beers%20with%20rabbis%20at%20AJS%202022.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was great connecting with fellow rabbis over beers Sunday evening<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">I was in the fortunate position to attend the 54th conference of the <a href="https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/" target="_blank">Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)</a> last week, which was my 6th time attending this conference. I am appreciative to the my work for both allowing me to attend, as well as to pay for this professional development opportunity.* As this conference always is for me, it was reinvigorating, inspiring, intellectually stimulating, and an opportunity to learn new vocabulary.<br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a id="highlights"><b>Highlights</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;">For me, in addition to re-connecting with people, as well as meeting new people, highlights of the papers I heard were the following:</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6roilAPB2UX64gZtLq4FBr9GJnf1YgJFjYPoMBNJJm-vTkIQGWCicl3JFbKIkLLJxnJqpGmhLO8AEKLZVikTb4-hxFmM1pIcUUx_aYGzKZZ_RXnMSD4TEQWY1JJtWeuCQTFcPY8v5_Hpgh4eGWdu2cekXoyx1eHShfZItIPPvLHtsRKuBvQ/s825/Shlomo%20Zuckier%20speaking%20about%20the%20term%20halakhah.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="825" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6roilAPB2UX64gZtLq4FBr9GJnf1YgJFjYPoMBNJJm-vTkIQGWCicl3JFbKIkLLJxnJqpGmhLO8AEKLZVikTb4-hxFmM1pIcUUx_aYGzKZZ_RXnMSD4TEQWY1JJtWeuCQTFcPY8v5_Hpgh4eGWdu2cekXoyx1eHShfZItIPPvLHtsRKuBvQ/s320/Shlomo%20Zuckier%20speaking%20about%20the%20term%20halakhah.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier delivering his paper<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The rabbis took the term גבר as a man in the Bible and made it a rooster in Mishnaic Hebrew - Roni Shweka, part of his fascinating paper, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">“'Torah scholars who are similar to women, but act mightily like men': Once again on construction of rabbinic masculinity"</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Chaya Halberstam mentioned in a response to a question that even though it seems Rabbinic Literature studies are a bit behind involving new methodologies, they are also WAY ahead of most other fields of studies of late antiquity (*cough* Josephus studies *cough*)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">W</span><span style="font-family: arial;">hile Tannaim and early amoraim discuss הלכה למעשה or not, later amoraim understand הלכה as always actionable, said Shlomo Zuckier, as part of his summary of his "Halakhah, Ma'aseh, Precedent, and Analogy: A Talmudic Reading" paper. This, to some degree, follows up from <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2018/12/highlightsnotes-from-papers-delivered.html" target="_blank">his 2016 AJS paper</a>.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Yael Landman suggested considering "halakhicization" as a term, rather than "halakhah" as a fixed notion</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yonatan Brafman pointed out is that halakhists are not often considered by those who consider modern Jewish philosophy, even though they engage in it - their language is not composed in the way of philosophy, even if they are doing it. He also pointed out that a lot of folks who discuss "halakhah" as "The Law" in the 19th and 20th centuries often use it in a negative and backward sense.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shulamit Shinnar observed that illness is a form of temporary handicapping and it can adversely affect the way one views future possibilities of their life. <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aaron Adler pointed out that Rambam wrote <i>Mishneh Torah </i>from ages 23-30 and he went through religious changes, which is reflected in changing his mind up until its publishing in 1138, thus not contradictions - he changed his mind, as part of his </span><span style="font-family: arial;">"Early Mishneh Torah Editions and Rabad's Glosses" paper.</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRphnG5kES5x5PXcPjbRUpHVHYKNfwsXXxGehQLJH0HZCZ6GsP9oPUJdWUmp4bRp_s5SpeQi_RgfIdbf7bYAinJG4gEEH3I2dLXnLeWdIikhtzwC4oikgI7cf-JPHaqlcLeHmoitCBjFTn8C2xl6d4L8Oix9Dans1yT4FKXpqLKKls9aiqM0/s1112/Sophia%20Schmitt%20delivering%20her%20paper%20on%20We%20Didn%E2%80%99t%20Start%20the%20Fire%20-%20Preventing%20Fire%20Disaster%20in%20Jewish%20and%20Christians%20Neighborhoods%20of%20Medieval%20Ashkenaz.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="1112" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRphnG5kES5x5PXcPjbRUpHVHYKNfwsXXxGehQLJH0HZCZ6GsP9oPUJdWUmp4bRp_s5SpeQi_RgfIdbf7bYAinJG4gEEH3I2dLXnLeWdIikhtzwC4oikgI7cf-JPHaqlcLeHmoitCBjFTn8C2xl6d4L8Oix9Dans1yT4FKXpqLKKls9aiqM0/s320/Sophia%20Schmitt%20delivering%20her%20paper%20on%20We%20Didn%E2%80%99t%20Start%20the%20Fire%20-%20Preventing%20Fire%20Disaster%20in%20Jewish%20and%20Christians%20Neighborhoods%20of%20Medieval%20Ashkenaz.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophia Schmitt delivering her paper</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />A few other papers I wanted to note as being quite interesting to me:<br /></span><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">"A New Theory for the Origin and Function of the Kaddish" by Reuven Kimelman</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">"We Didn’t Start the Fire: Preventing Fire Disaster in Jewish and Christians Neighborhoods of Medieval Ashkenaz" by Sophia Schmitt </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">"Code-Switching: Refining our Understanding of Greek and Latin in Rabbinic Literature" by Daniel Golde</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One other paper I missed, but heard a few people singing its praises was "Bringing the Bible to Babylonia: The Bavli's Infusion of the Mesopotamian landscape with Biblical narratives" by Omer Shadmi.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jp2MRm1yRlHgplVjQN_XjobMC3QPfIlTXQiXFxAZYwIBUt6v3H0mJVxRHirlryMTmIhXGbN_635g6q3_gKRYvqNoA6PoASQ7eDoyfJPkDJDFHbqP_6h_Zuh-CnikpDo-LIx1Q4PRjhzf6hVhwM1H9SuCqaqxluoWUPL1w0ZNaaw5QeBQuos/s988/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20visits%20Lehrhaus%20in%20December%202022%20with%20Rabbi%20Charlie%20Schwartz.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="988" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jp2MRm1yRlHgplVjQN_XjobMC3QPfIlTXQiXFxAZYwIBUt6v3H0mJVxRHirlryMTmIhXGbN_635g6q3_gKRYvqNoA6PoASQ7eDoyfJPkDJDFHbqP_6h_Zuh-CnikpDo-LIx1Q4PRjhzf6hVhwM1H9SuCqaqxluoWUPL1w0ZNaaw5QeBQuos/s320/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20visits%20Lehrhaus%20in%20December%202022%20with%20Rabbi%20Charlie%20Schwartz.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting up with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz at Lehrhaus<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a id="completionism">Not Seeking Completionism</a></b><br />One of the typical practices I engage in at previous AJS conferences has been to seek to attend every single panel session offered, which includes the final session, although I know a lot of people have already departed or they have flights to catch. While I attended every single session on the first day of the conference, for the final day of the conference, I could only attend one of the two, as I had a plane to catch for the second one (if I were to have attended that final session, I would not have gotten home until late). As far as the middle day, I skipped out on the first one to go visit Lehrhaus to check out the space, as well as to record an episode of <a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/show/" target="_blank"><i>The Jewish Drinking Show</i></a>, which will be very exciting when it publishes next month. And there was an afternoon session on Monday that none of the panels seemed particularly interesting to me, so I decided to use that time to visit the book floor as well as to chat with various folks, which ended up being quite a good opportunity to use at that time.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNr0-d9IQlQy6nG_q1KzUDdUwls-3GhlZKSJKkGMVOkamqeNM9O27u9DS3iyWCo3wwUmSBfnwN8zw2Datw1OzndISn_4M6aQm5b5astXwqb-LElfTUI1uYv21nZtbsrdPgoIclwbAYStRV-yhv4I9GDAax3Wo8kcUpsRjpEeG0tTY9MQx2PVQ/s756/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20enjoying%20kosher%20wine%20at%20the%20AJS%202022%20welcome%20reception.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="756" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNr0-d9IQlQy6nG_q1KzUDdUwls-3GhlZKSJKkGMVOkamqeNM9O27u9DS3iyWCo3wwUmSBfnwN8zw2Datw1OzndISn_4M6aQm5b5astXwqb-LElfTUI1uYv21nZtbsrdPgoIclwbAYStRV-yhv4I9GDAax3Wo8kcUpsRjpEeG0tTY9MQx2PVQ/s320/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20enjoying%20kosher%20wine%20at%20the%20AJS%202022%20welcome%20reception.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying kosher wine at the welcome reception<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a id="lookout">On The Lookout for Drinking Content</a></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">As there were a couple of papers delivered at last year's AJS concerning drinking content, especially within rabbinic texts, one of whom I was able to <a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/havurahtannaitic/" target="_blank">feature on as a guest for <i>The Jewish Drinking Show</i></a> (the other one declined as she was not used to podcasting), I was curious and open to see what would be shared. While there had been <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604911918472314880" target="_blank">a drinking text mentioned in the course of one of the papers I heard</a>, actually, there was one paper that had nothing in the title to do with drinking, yet it was chock-full of Talmudic drinking texts, all of which were entirely new to me if they came from the Palestinian Talmud. In Prof. Shulamit Shinnar's "The Animalization of Illness in Rabbinic Literature: Models of Illness and Rabbinic Subjectivity", she discussed a whole bunch of incidences of people drinking wine and what would happen in their exposure to potential venomization (<a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604595906552233984" target="_blank">see here for the front side of her source sheet</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604596262417977345" target="_blank">see here for the back side of her source sheet</a>). This was particularly fascinating to me and I look forward to see if that ever gets published or what she wants to do with that material, but that was particularly exciting as I was not expecting a drinking paper there, but it was all about Talmudic drinking texts. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5Frj7bWAuGMvVfhwctquVS7T6_GD8LMKnKN18J1u2cYMmWb8YMgCHOHhGDKdLOPDiYrIj_jwCUDZxLX5wY6dQJ27x4ggYpt_tsp1r5eAlH4qST5zliDxPJgu0v2YE3kBWvRMXrrKamvir585-_nD9_vNmf63oVWHl_DIG8qe8XjVp9yqRWg/s792/Time%20and%20Difference%20in%20Rabbinic%20Judaism.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5Frj7bWAuGMvVfhwctquVS7T6_GD8LMKnKN18J1u2cYMmWb8YMgCHOHhGDKdLOPDiYrIj_jwCUDZxLX5wY6dQJ27x4ggYpt_tsp1r5eAlH4qST5zliDxPJgu0v2YE3kBWvRMXrrKamvir585-_nD9_vNmf63oVWHl_DIG8qe8XjVp9yqRWg/s320/Time%20and%20Difference%20in%20Rabbinic%20Judaism.png" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Souvenir from the Schnitzer Book Awards Dinner<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a id="meals">Meals</a></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">A wonderful opportunity was made available for the first evening of the conference: attending the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards Reception and Dinner Sunday night only required signing up ahead of time and costing no money. Wow! It was an incredible gift that I made sure to take advantage of. In addition to drinks beforehand, they also offered wine during the meal and the food was incredibly delicious. I also had a brand new culinary experience for me: having lox on top of a latke - it was such an incredible delightful experience. Additionally, the book awards allowed us to take home the winning books of the award, so I made sure to pick up <i>Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism</i> by Sarit Kattan Gribetz, about which I am very excited to read, as I know she is an incredible scholar. I also had wonderful conversations over that dinner table and meeting people and that was such an incredible experience. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For Monday dinner, I met up with a friend for a delicious Chinese dinner at The Kosher Wok. For lunches on Sunday and Monday, there was an incredible opportunity for those who keep kosher as AJS conferences are typically not located near anywhere that is under kosher certification, but this was a phenomenal opportunity, as there was <a href="https://www.cloverfoodlab.com/clover/locations-hours/?l=cloverpru" target="_blank">a local kosher-certified restaurant</a> that was not only close by, but one did not even have to go outside in the mid-December Boston weather to reach and it was a very delectable food, so that was quite felicitous. Also, while I did not take advantage of this for Sunday lunchtime, I did for Monday lunch which was pre-ordering the food on their app and it being ready as soon as I left my conference session, so that was also wonderful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9caMC365LW13Sx4O-H87-3tKxX6LPkgFtb6iDZL655EbEubaO03En6xh6Gtjv_dUC7UF7tupyrDZksM8D2HmOloGAv8xzSX_8IvgGQFEcQcRxJPsAqEJBbol2UXQQo8a8UfdgkGmsd9Y2G_3NHkDWBhpKk6VyJEcT4f0KQo4oSpAAKm32reI/s1043/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20meets%20Professor%20Henry%20Abramson%20at%20AJS%202022.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="1043" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9caMC365LW13Sx4O-H87-3tKxX6LPkgFtb6iDZL655EbEubaO03En6xh6Gtjv_dUC7UF7tupyrDZksM8D2HmOloGAv8xzSX_8IvgGQFEcQcRxJPsAqEJBbol2UXQQo8a8UfdgkGmsd9Y2G_3NHkDWBhpKk6VyJEcT4f0KQo4oSpAAKm32reI/s320/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20meets%20Professor%20Henry%20Abramson%20at%20AJS%202022.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was wonderful meeting Prof. Henry Abramson<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a id="minyanim">Minyanim</a></b><br />Although having minyanim for prayer was useful for praying amongst others, I also found it to be an opportune space to either re-connect with people, as well as to meet people for the very first time. This was especially so, since Orthodox Jews are a minority at AJS, so it's an easy way of connecting with people, as there are not so many at these minyanim. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwaftcPKIcWVKUufXRo__Z6KkmQjhlnWJf15ZQZDfziA3-M-gt90X7sgEa_YFwfyCk8X55J_wDHWdSG9CnbS0eS5nAGeqgJDKFup-eSX99R35aD25zCss6HFao1wYag1kQM_DJybuu25p3UzKGO1y8H_WO3M4QvLqd8o3DMFHuifIyye4iLG4/s1152/Monday%20morning%20shaharit%20at%20AJS%202022.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="1152" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwaftcPKIcWVKUufXRo__Z6KkmQjhlnWJf15ZQZDfziA3-M-gt90X7sgEa_YFwfyCk8X55J_wDHWdSG9CnbS0eS5nAGeqgJDKFup-eSX99R35aD25zCss6HFao1wYag1kQM_DJybuu25p3UzKGO1y8H_WO3M4QvLqd8o3DMFHuifIyye4iLG4/s320/Monday%20morning%20shaharit%20at%20AJS%202022.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hallel was quick and efficient<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I did get to meet Prof. Henry Abramson, which was wonderful, as well as meeting others who might be potential guests of <i>The Jewish Drinking Show</i>. One further note: as both mornings of AJS were Hanukah, that meant including Hallel - if you want to know how academics do Hallel, it's straightforward with no singing; I actually greatly appreciated that😉</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeV37UgZBEpyVR7ayfQHL1VR5EXbWYr3iGuLaZKgIzGQmRYMJa3obO3Ctis2Gb9yRFKzabqUSNHwZHKULmJqtUwF8v2U35Wbc2yFwhI_uGrX-Ynyu6Rk6TuCqJ28BjAcFE7QH6zl_iqvNW6HegmhQzRLnqkGSKDaF2o37rsbiu5aFGMolFQ0/s1086/Rabbi%20Bryan%20Kinzbrunner%20and%20Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20at%20AJS%202022.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1086" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeV37UgZBEpyVR7ayfQHL1VR5EXbWYr3iGuLaZKgIzGQmRYMJa3obO3Ctis2Gb9yRFKzabqUSNHwZHKULmJqtUwF8v2U35Wbc2yFwhI_uGrX-Ynyu6Rk6TuCqJ28BjAcFE7QH6zl_iqvNW6HegmhQzRLnqkGSKDaF2o37rsbiu5aFGMolFQ0/s320/Rabbi%20Bryan%20Kinzbrunner%20and%20Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20at%20AJS%202022.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was surprised to see signs requesting always masking<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a id="masking">Masking</a></b><br />As most of the country has moved away from masking this year, I assumed there would be no expectation of masking at AJS 2022. However, as I <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2022/12/ajs2022upcoming.html" target="_blank">pointed out prior to the conference</a>, the <a href="https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/preliminary-program#preliminary" target="_blank">conference website requested</a> people wear masks: "We ask conference attendees to wear masks, fully covering their noses and mouths, when in the AJS convention spaces, unless actively eating, drinking, or presenting in a session. We will have masks available at the registration desk. Please know that neither the Sheraton nor the city of Boston has a mask mandate, so other hotel guests may not be wearing masks." This was some weak wording and I expected similar messaging. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBu88PZyQvNMOPva3yI48xwYmdW_4CsnkjaEGsXYSekwZxPWwV_UofABylSTPa5zKdO-2V-2wYZ8LjpPi8rFnyv1mtMZSgn8jSggCyuuA_hdNNXZ4pBMKmZVmLGQWp5DoUPKSgOg9a0E533BWKsuEJsGTQkSLXTo_eSvSlU1ztKNJydh9VwxY/s1162/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20masking%20up%20in%20sessions%20at%20AJS%202022.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1162" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBu88PZyQvNMOPva3yI48xwYmdW_4CsnkjaEGsXYSekwZxPWwV_UofABylSTPa5zKdO-2V-2wYZ8LjpPi8rFnyv1mtMZSgn8jSggCyuuA_hdNNXZ4pBMKmZVmLGQWp5DoUPKSgOg9a0E533BWKsuEJsGTQkSLXTo_eSvSlU1ztKNJydh9VwxY/s320/Rabbi%20Drew%20Kaplan%20masking%20up%20in%20sessions%20at%20AJS%202022.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I ended up wearing masks during the sessions<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, when I arrived at the conference, I was surprised to encounter signs that were actually strongly recommending people always mask unless eating, drinking, or delivering a paper. This communication was not well done, creating some weird ambivalence. While I knew attendees who adamantly refused to ever wear a mask there, I at least decided, out of a sense of courtesy, to mask while in sessions when people were delivering papers, but I did not mask outside of the sessions. Yes, this is drastically different than last year's conference where there was a mandate in place even for those delivering papers and that was understandable at the time, especially with the rise of Omicron, but this year's conference was much different and a lot of us were not used to having to wear masks anymore. We shall see what happens with masking for AJS 2023 in San Francisco....<br /> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a id="paper">Submitting a Paper Proposal?</a></b><br />One question I have received every single time I attend is "Are you delivering a paper?" While it was flattering my first two appearances, it has begun to grow on me. Attending last year's conference, I got an idea in my idea for a paper to submit, although I did not pull the trigger to submit a proposal for it this year. However, both in the weeks leading up to this year's conference, as well as at the conference, I received a lot of encouragement to deliver a paper, in general, as well as for the topic I have in mind, in particular. However, a further piece of advice I had never previously considered, but heard from a handful of people is to put a panel together, which makes the chances of getting the paper proposal accepted a lot higher. So, I am currently working on seeking out a panel to put together to submit along with my paper proposal.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a id="guidebook"></a></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/conference-files/ajs-conference-program-books/ajs2022_guidebook_web.pdf" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="402" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnH4JSpWHRXT9h5LOdt69Gv_UYW3A_KI9yaRa0QjWJZMbOCILKYZGQZE3gC1an4gNTeUxIvlHG-ZSexjDnPwhgKQJj4422VoJTbIvqzw58b1eBNQc6OK8yBcLXSkl0CDcjkUfG62uhdgulCln96Md0ATjQ-41EmdJAJ-l_itRkVWTmhwK4mvg/w214-h320/Association%20of%20Jewish%20Studies%20conference%202022%20guidebook%20cover.jpg.png" width="214" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br />Conference Guidebook</b><br />Perhaps due to what happened at last year's AJS with so many sessions being reshuffled or outright cancelled, causing everyone to stay updated by looking at the conference app, the conference program books contained no information about any of the schedule nor any program content. Instead, the book contained select information about the conference, as well as exclusive advertisements, offers, and opportunities from conference sponsors and exhibitors.This was useful in that I ripped out the pages with the hotel map and got rid of the rest of the guidebook, following the conference program in the app. Again, while I do not know if last year's events directly caused this change, it's my speculation. I am totally fine with this change as I largely used the conference app in previous years anyway. I wonder what the older conferencegoers must have thought of this change.<br /></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a id="panels">Tweet Threads of Panel Sessions I Attended</a></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sunday 18 December 2022</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604494834353336321" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Magic, Methods, and the Mishnah: The Dynamism of Medieval Texts"</span></a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604532016392855552" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Refining our Research Methods in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Scholarship on Rabbinics"</span></a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604561052934569988" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Human-Divine Relations in Liturgy and Theurgy"</span></a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604588972306534401" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Gender, Embodiment and Animality in Rabbinic Texts"</span></a></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Monday 19 December 2022<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604868737831964672" target="_blank">"What Is Halakhah: Methodological Reflections"</a> <br /><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604904679950925824" target="_blank">"On Bavli Narratives/Normativity in Midrash and Talmud"</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1604960937672179714" target="_blank">"Late Antique and Medieval Reflections on the Hebrew Bible in Their Contexts"</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday 20 December 2022 <br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1605197801071198208" target="_blank">"Social Consideration and Innovation in Medieval Ashkenazic Halakhic Culture"</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">* I am thankful to my current employer, Majestic Care of Cedar Village, for allowing me to attend, as well as Jewish Home of Cincinnati for funding this professional development opportunity.<br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-70278845908176355792022-12-14T04:02:00.005-08:002022-12-14T04:07:38.561-08:00Looking Forward to Attending AJS 2022 Next Week!<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbtuq4USDMkfIFTiZgF-yeSh4l7l_Oer-NCV5IINjptAY9QhW9Ycrim6tIChmMvC1cvPbRv-RjXtOjAGfZqzEE-QSQaxw7xkxDr5tZUn6REkKtopbbFJeBzGz_C9tdC_YQr6VDQ4Di5R64SimZtj9VdWomZwUzQmh1JNSykx3j1NJq-kpo6g/s2363/Association%20of%20Jewish%20Studies%20conference%202022%20logo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="2363" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbtuq4USDMkfIFTiZgF-yeSh4l7l_Oer-NCV5IINjptAY9QhW9Ycrim6tIChmMvC1cvPbRv-RjXtOjAGfZqzEE-QSQaxw7xkxDr5tZUn6REkKtopbbFJeBzGz_C9tdC_YQr6VDQ4Di5R64SimZtj9VdWomZwUzQmh1JNSykx3j1NJq-kpo6g/s320/Association%20of%20Jewish%20Studies%20conference%202022%20logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm once again looking forward to attending this year's Association of Jewish Studies (AJS) conference! This year's conference, <a href="https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/conference" target="_blank">the 54th annual conference</a>, will be my sixth time attending.<br /><br />After having attended in <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2008/12/brief-reflections-on-recent-ajs.html" target="_blank">2008 </a>and <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2010/12/ajs-day-3.html" target="_blank">2009</a>, this will be my fourth AJS conference out of the past six conferences (having attended in <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2018/12/highlightsnotes-from-papers-delivered.html" target="_blank">2016</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BriQlZdn3u8/" target="_blank">2018</a>, and <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/12/ajs21.html" target="_blank">2021</a>).<br /><br />Just as with attending last year's AJS conference, I am grateful to my employers for permitting and funding my attendance as professional development. In addition to it providing me with intellectual stimulation, it also provides some fascinating fodder for me to bring back to the residents of the senior living facility where I <a href="http://rabbidrew.info/work/dpc/" target="_blank">work</a>. In fact, last year, I spoke about highlights of papers I heard; I plan to do similarly this year.</span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>While I enjoyed the intimacy of last year's conference, as many people either decided not to attend in the first place, or decided not to attend in the weeks leading up to the conference (seriously, it was a really fascinatingly small conference-size, allowing a greater opportunity to connect with conference attendees), I hope we do not have another experience of panels collapsing and people presenting papers scrambling to re-assemble a new panel with whomever was left. That was unfortunate and caused people to have to check for updates online for each set of panels.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>One thing that will be interesting will be with regards to face masks. While face masks were expected to be worn at all panels and any official conference program (but not in the hotel bar or while eating or drinking), which made sense, as the new variant, Omicron, was on its rise, it will be interesting to see what happens at this year's conference. Fortunately, according to communications sent out by AJS last year, there were no reported cases of COVID-19 following the 2021 conference, which is great news. However, how will people behave at the 2022 conference? A lot of people are over wearing face masks. Nevertheless, the <a href="https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/preliminary-program#preliminary" target="_blank">conference website requests people wear masks</a>: "</span><span face="AvenirNextLTPro-Regular, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #2f343e; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We ask conference attendees to wear masks, fully covering their noses and mouths, when in the AJS convention spaces, unless actively eating, drinking, or presenting in a session. We will have masks available at the registration desk. Please know that neither the Sheraton nor the city of Boston has a mask mandate, so other hotel guests may not be wearing masks.</span><span>" This should prove interesting, as I suspect that a lot of people will wear masks, while many, many others will not. <br /><br />In any event, I am greatly looking forward to the conference starting in just four days for the intellectual stimulation, new ideas, re-connecting with people I have known for years, and for connecting with people I will be newly be meeting. I'm excited!<br /></span></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-63530772259392725272022-08-22T06:45:00.001-07:002022-08-22T06:45:10.780-07:00Experiencing Asheville's Breweries<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaJCehgVSp9yW4HSn0iihhkZ5DXPUEJiRvcrP4RgsRIiRuZDOYbBkY3KCyHqSNB-LtIT_7auxeC5F_uHiV1BEuWxfIEn5sn9Rb4ihZ8xQuEjvvvcsL_mda2b11fulgUy0asGsyMwhgoCArdkVrm_I3TPo4a5eI5c8ffhqu-0pzv-sTqCvkjQ/s759/barrel-aged%20beers%20at%20Burial%20Beer.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="759" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaJCehgVSp9yW4HSn0iihhkZ5DXPUEJiRvcrP4RgsRIiRuZDOYbBkY3KCyHqSNB-LtIT_7auxeC5F_uHiV1BEuWxfIEn5sn9Rb4ihZ8xQuEjvvvcsL_mda2b11fulgUy0asGsyMwhgoCArdkVrm_I3TPo4a5eI5c8ffhqu-0pzv-sTqCvkjQ/s320/barrel-aged%20beers%20at%20Burial%20Beer.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">barrel-aged beers at Burial Beer</td></tr></tbody></table>A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went away to Asheville to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. Fortunately, she allowed me to visit some breweries in the afternoons/evenings of our few days there.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While you are welcome to read on about my beer experiences, I will share with you that the two breweries that really stood out to me were <a href="https://burialbeer.com/" target="_blank">Burial Beer</a> and <a href="https://dssolvr.com/" target="_blank">DSSOLVR</a>. Three other breweries that were outstanding were <a href="https://www.bhramaribrewing.com/" target="_blank">Bhramari Brewing</a>, <a href="https://www.wickedweedbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Wicked Weed</a>, and <a href="https://hiwirebrewing.com/" target="_blank">Hi-Wire</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're interested, here is further information about my experiences visiting brewery taprooms in Asheville:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Day One</b>: As we arrived to Asheville, I figured it would be easier to visit some breweries not in walking distance to our hotel first. As such, our first beer stop was <b>New Belgium’s Asheville location</b>. While New Belgium’s primary facility is in Colorado, this is their eastern US facility. It has a nice space with an outdoor area, overlooking a river. I ordered a flight of sour beers:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Le Terroir Grand Reserve (dry-hopped green Walnut lambic sour) = tasty and intriguingly earthy (like asiago cheese)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Dominga (mimosa sour) = clean, refreshing, palate cleanser</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">La Folie (sour brown ale) = fine</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Adding Corners Three Chambers Rye (sour ale with abruzzi rye and licorice root) = very tasty with chocolatey/coffee notes and some dryness, as well as some earthiness</span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyN32glMp9X2aqjzNArvvPfgsS_fWFJdaVdHqm0oKawBCgE8wYZwrvuRgzW-_UkdtdgQCiCf2eWmmiA-QSR00KCmpqY2e32XGVSibHKQO2_hdbpRQYHAUYeDWKqAigBvpFLgxMQQFTLMG5A88ORSeNTBm_zzb5XZ72gnLO1ySgWvyLlJB4t2M/s726/Sour%20flight%20at%20New%20Belgium.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="726" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyN32glMp9X2aqjzNArvvPfgsS_fWFJdaVdHqm0oKawBCgE8wYZwrvuRgzW-_UkdtdgQCiCf2eWmmiA-QSR00KCmpqY2e32XGVSibHKQO2_hdbpRQYHAUYeDWKqAigBvpFLgxMQQFTLMG5A88ORSeNTBm_zzb5XZ72gnLO1ySgWvyLlJB4t2M/s320/Sour%20flight%20at%20New%20Belgium.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sour flight at New Belgium<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We then moved on to <b>Cellarest</b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">, where they offer neither tastes nor flights. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nice
little tap room with open air patio and also indoors with open garage
doors with fresh air filtering in. </span></span>I enjoyed their Enkindle (ruby saison) with notes of cherrywood and smoked black tea - tasty!<br /><br /></span>After settling into our hotel, we went out to DSSOLVR, where I ordered two IPAs:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Eternal Mourning: Citra, which is a funky foeder-aged IPA with simcoe, amarillo, crystal, and citra hops that had Brettanomyces in it - it was pleasantly funky. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Ghosted in the Juicy, a double dry-hopped IPA with huell melon, azzacca, citra cryo, mosaic lupomax and phantasm cryo blend hops - this was really, really tasty with a thick mouthfeel - this was really good.<br /></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Day Two</b>: Having enjoyed <a href="http://mattersofinterest.info/whitelabstastingroom1/" target="_blank">my visit to the San Diego location of White Labs seven years ago</a>, I was intrigued to kick off my brewery visits for day two at the <b>Asheville location of White Labs</b>, where I got a flight:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Tropical IPA with WLP001 California Ale Yeast - Supplied tasting notes: dragon fruit, dank. My favorite of the flight - I like the fruitiness and the dankness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Tropical IPA with WLP077 Tropicale Yeast Blend - Supplied tasting notes: passion fruit, peach, vanilla - Easy-drinking.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Triple Hop Hazy IPA with WLP007 Dry English Ale Yeast - Supplied tasting notes: pineapple, mango, orange blossom - Definitely dry with hop resin.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Triple Hop Hazy IPA with WLP090 San Diego Super Ale Yeast - Supplied tasting notes: dried apricot, strawberry, mint - Eh okay.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LNXj0UpOwEnHfkwWNP2W_sRT7Mi4im0Xwc4ZOTzqckUl3I-JZKQlhvMlmoxtLS3Ek5xGQJV0J0O46F4WBn9cVkCv-YPl91MSPP8nXv8PrgxWehEP5dCeE521kuwBd98X5MJsSP3HVj_co2KdVDU5kKWvwCqixDyQ-c3PRAKsYbEM4rsok2E/s980/Wicked%20Weed%20IPA%20flight.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="980" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LNXj0UpOwEnHfkwWNP2W_sRT7Mi4im0Xwc4ZOTzqckUl3I-JZKQlhvMlmoxtLS3Ek5xGQJV0J0O46F4WBn9cVkCv-YPl91MSPP8nXv8PrgxWehEP5dCeE521kuwBd98X5MJsSP3HVj_co2KdVDU5kKWvwCqixDyQ-c3PRAKsYbEM4rsok2E/s320/Wicked%20Weed%20IPA%20flight.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hoppy IPA Day flight at Wicked Weed<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I knew I needed to visit <b>Wicked Weed</b>, since people rave about them </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(yes, I know they’re an ABI brewery, but had to visit); </span>I got the Hoppy IPA Day flight, where they don’t allow you to make your own flights; only set flights:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Pernicious IPA: Tropical mango hop aroma, dry finish</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Coastal Love hazy IPA: Pineapple citrus and tropical fruit notes, semi-dry finish. Relaxing and dank</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Perni-Haze hazy IPA: Citra and Simcoe. Citra-y pleasingly lately dank - my favorite of the IPAs in this flight</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Freak of Nature DIPA: Big pine grapefruit peel and dank hop aromas. Clearly, my favorite overall of this flight</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Following the flight, I also ordered a half-pint of Valkyrie DIPA - fermented with kveik yeast and dry hopped with Citra, El Dorado, and Idaho 7 - citrussy, hazy, sharp (my wife says that it tastes like cleaning supplies).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We then moved on to <b>Burial Beer Brewery</b>; they do not do flights, but I got a couple of half-pints:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">A Collection of Idiocy From A Top Notch Moron (DIPA double dry-hopped with Strata, Motueka, Simcoe, and El Dorado, finished with lots of Cryo) - Juicy and dank🍺😃</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Not A Thing Left To Say (TIPA triple saturated with Citra incognito, Cryo and pellets. Double dry-hopped with Citra, Cashmere and Riwaka) - Really delicious and juicy; </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">nectarines and Dank</span> 🍺😃</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We moved on to Wicked Weed's <b>Funkatorium Brewery</b>, where I ordered their limited release flight:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Marina - Peaches and apricots: Nicely tart</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Mirtelo Morte - Barrel aged golden sour with blueberries</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">La Mure Morte - Barrel aged sour fermented with blackberries: Solid </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Cerise Morte - Barrel aged American sour fermented with cherries: Refreshingly cherry-licious</span></li></ul><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv_n426ujiaFwDkLTH7Wdl1uZOtKzQYgKqYSjb85cgIZUZvyMUUcUnShJ-7Wt4VsoxXSdKKrnrW3US_LwJgwdMp-JuaTP4d09gdmvc0Aiuap1aiKBlr7ex6MKjGSezWPz-z0rJC667zvf-og4bL_ZUXZRw2xWQR3N1xsh6KaDBxQrpapIPeM/s737/Orville%20and%20Wilbur's%20Awesome%20Adventure%20Flight%20at%20Bhramari%20Brewing.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="737" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv_n426ujiaFwDkLTH7Wdl1uZOtKzQYgKqYSjb85cgIZUZvyMUUcUnShJ-7Wt4VsoxXSdKKrnrW3US_LwJgwdMp-JuaTP4d09gdmvc0Aiuap1aiKBlr7ex6MKjGSezWPz-z0rJC667zvf-og4bL_ZUXZRw2xWQR3N1xsh6KaDBxQrpapIPeM/s320/Orville%20and%20Wilbur's%20Awesome%20Adventure%20Flight%20at%20Bhramari%20Brewing.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orville and Wilbur's Awesome Adventure Flight at Bhramari Brewing</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Day Three</b>: We kicked-off day three at <b>Bhramari Brewing Company</b>, where the only flights one can order are one of three - a sour flight, an IPA flight and a miscellaneous flight. I went with the miscellaneous flight, entitled Orville and Wilbur's Awesome Adventure:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Haunted Graffiti - DDH Multi-Grain Farmhouse - Grains: Barley, Rye, Oats, Spelt, Millet, Wheat, Corn, Sunflower, Sorghum, and Buckwheat; Hops: cryo Citra, cryo mosaic, cryo eukanot: Very bright up front with citrusy juiciness early on in the palate and then goes dry towards the finish</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Cubism Dream - BBA German pilsner: This is a really fun beer as the barrel provided some fun to this beverage, maybe some vanilla maybe some butterscotch. Definitely my first-ever bourbon barrel-aged pilsner!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Phantom Syren - Leichtbier: It's basically a light lager - okay</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Perfectly Imperfect - Rauchbier urbock: A very clean and easy-drinking rauchbier </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This was certainly an interesting array of flavors!<br /><br />We then stopped at <b>Twin Leaf Brewery</b>, where I had a half-pour of Fleurs de Soleil, a farmhouse ale with black tea and honey - it was decent. We then went to <b>Eurisko Beer</b>, where they also don't serve flights, so I got two half-pours: </span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Under the Sycamore Trees, which is a saison with lemongrass and cucumber. It is a collaboration with Petty Thieves Brewing Company. Nice and clean.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">He left Us, a hazy IPA with Galaxy, Sabro, and Chinook hops, which is pleasant and enjoyable - solid for the style.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We then returned to <b>Burial Brewing</b>, where I ordered a couple of barrel-aged beers:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The Garden of Earthly Delights (5% ABV) - Barrel-aged golden sour aged on rhubarb, ginger, orange zest, rose hip, dark fig, and chamomile: This was quite herbal! Pretty clean</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Please Rescue Me From My Own Ignorant Barrage of Non-sequitur - Imperial Stout with decaffeinated coffee, macadamia nuts, vanilla, cinnamon, and maple syrup (14% ABV): incredibly tasty and strikingly smooth! I love the smooth coffee flavors! This was my favorite beer of the trip!</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We walked over to <b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhne30Y5B8oqxsSNAiX2eLjVZ6LCgAbS4Pw2IqVpCbV4L8kgnS57KE84rZN1OkwEinjuHW03BuUT8uXToQH-NksSdu5IjzXlCiBSVlSunzdEpIlzaAdhPMf5oOAxyoqBm_VWrVBC3lMu5QWTLuOjyL-oUgruO21TRPBSO0wsX9NYIz-r0u0x34/s737/Surprisingly%20good%20flight%20at%20Hi-Wire%20Brewing.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="737" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhne30Y5B8oqxsSNAiX2eLjVZ6LCgAbS4Pw2IqVpCbV4L8kgnS57KE84rZN1OkwEinjuHW03BuUT8uXToQH-NksSdu5IjzXlCiBSVlSunzdEpIlzaAdhPMf5oOAxyoqBm_VWrVBC3lMu5QWTLuOjyL-oUgruO21TRPBSO0wsX9NYIz-r0u0x34/s320/Surprisingly%20good%20flight%20at%20Hi-Wire%20Brewing.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surprisingly good flight at Hi-Wire Brewing</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Thirsty Monk Brewery</b>, where I ordered a tripel, which was okay, but an incredibly forgettable tripel…. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then we went over to one of the locations of <b>Hi-Wire</b>, where I ordered a flight:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Super Haze - hazy IPA: Pleasant, light hazy IPA - appropriate for warmer weather</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Simple Brett: Simple, bretty, and light - easy-drinking for the summer. I actually think this is an incredibly appropriate use of brett</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">9th Anniversary Bulleit BBA amber lager: Intriguing: I have never had an amber lager aged in bourbon barrels before - it has a lot of sweetness</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Puncheon-aged Brett: Intensely tart for a brett beer </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Admittedly, I had low expectations for Hi-Wire, but it was really quite good!<br /></span></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUDABgnbPGIE7PpswlTdjalaz7GGlbfBMzHBoVmAunNYTUffXgOIssbsyDVxsdRaP_fAVEcYs9Gir6OlyYyfsLqFRlKyUMoSu7shLkHACUosJ88q622wh4_2CUJXX9j7-rTH-s4ReN3ESQMd7Opy1UFvT2eIoTwnJWoXf8uycrVXqxbxM_90/s725/Delicious%20beers%20at%20DSSOLVR.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="725" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUDABgnbPGIE7PpswlTdjalaz7GGlbfBMzHBoVmAunNYTUffXgOIssbsyDVxsdRaP_fAVEcYs9Gir6OlyYyfsLqFRlKyUMoSu7shLkHACUosJ88q622wh4_2CUJXX9j7-rTH-s4ReN3ESQMd7Opy1UFvT2eIoTwnJWoXf8uycrVXqxbxM_90/s320/Delicious%20beers%20at%20DSSOLVR.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delicious beers at DSSOLVR</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">We then returned to <b>DSSOLVR </b>for the 7th and final brewery of the day. Even though I had visited two nights prior, I knew that I wanted to return because the beers were so incredibly delicious. This time I ordered heavier beers:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Psycho Sigmund's Viennawine (11.5% ABV) - a Vienna malt-based barleywine style ale: Very sweet - almost like a bubble gum quality of the sweetness. Of course, there's also incredible dark fruits such as dates or raisins. While I would prefer this to be aged in bourbon barrels, as it has some youthfulness to it, it is still tasty.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Absolutely Aliens 30-month barrel aged Mexican imperial Stout (12% ABV) aged 30 months in Bourbon barrels with poblano pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, and cocoa nibs: Very delicious chocolate and vanilla notes. Cannot really taste the peppers. Wonderful smoothness to the mouthfeel.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was a tasty trip that was accompanied by warm weather that had some rain mixed in, but not too hot of a weather. It turned out to be a lovely time to go, especially as the town was not particularly crowded. Furthermore, one thing that is nice about Asheville is that it is fairly walkable. When we needed, we could get our car and drive outside of the downtown, but there is a lot that one can do <br /><br /> <br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-1432601307158078442022-01-10T08:05:00.009-08:002022-01-10T08:10:33.108-08:00Fascinating Audio Content by Rabbi Irwin Kula<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLzFjZ97jvO9zr3MuBD3g0HRQpW_LTQYeiVSo4LXUVn-Tl5qhJqyWB7M7MRYBspax_AJT2fVsjpQ39J_qaOn5BPRtVF3YMWH27ET33CBfq6P7ADFXZ-m0_uz70UvpIAsPPItq8PTNPvlabhD-qRiEHyWpeWNlMRY8AwCeanZ0p2NqjhUoeSQU=s1024" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="734" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLzFjZ97jvO9zr3MuBD3g0HRQpW_LTQYeiVSo4LXUVn-Tl5qhJqyWB7M7MRYBspax_AJT2fVsjpQ39J_qaOn5BPRtVF3YMWH27ET33CBfq6P7ADFXZ-m0_uz70UvpIAsPPItq8PTNPvlabhD-qRiEHyWpeWNlMRY8AwCeanZ0p2NqjhUoeSQU=s320" width="229" /></a>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In recent months, I have noticed that I have been referencing some of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Kula" target="_blank">Rabbi Irwin Kula</a>’s ideas to other rabbis. Specifically, audio recordings of Rabbi Kula, whether on podcasts or elsewhere. As such, since it is becoming so frequent, I have decided to collect a handful of these and share them, as I have found them to be very valuable and I hope others find tremendous value in them, as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I will note that Rabbi Kula can talk a bit saltily, so I just wanted to put that warning out there. Nevertheless, the richness and freshness of his ideas are very rewarding, even if (or perhaps, because of) being so against the grain that one may typically encounter in regular organized Jewish life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">The first of these talks was his <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PD55Ulep2fWJTd8b4JV2EQ7p7wglwWwZ/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Texts Without Borders”</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, which was delivered on November 8, 2011 at the first session of the third cohort of the <a href="https://rabbiswithoutborders.org/">Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship</a>, which had been recorded by Clal and posted on their website. While I cannot seem to find the recording on their website now, the recording is what I had downloaded from their website and am sharing with you. While I had been in the room for this recording as I was <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2012/05/rabbis-without-borders-fellowship.html">part of this cohort of the fellowship</a> (and you can hear my laugh at certain points), I have returned to listen to this talk on multiple occasions, as it is lively, invigorating, and fresh content, especially for rabbis.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently chanced upon a couple of
episodes of <i>Judaism Unbound</i>, the first of which is good, while the
second one is great:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/2017/1/24/episode-53-draft-title-irwin-kula">Judaism
Unbound Episode 53: Death and Rebirth - Irwin Kula Part I</a> (17 February
2017)</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/2017/1/24/episode-54-draft-title-ii-irwin-kula">Judaism
Unbound Episode 54: Judaism's Job - Irwin Kula Part II</a> (24 February 2017)</span></span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">And here are two further podcast episodes that
feature him:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.jewishla.org/podcast/ep60-jays-4-questions-irwin-kula/">Jay’s
4 Questions #60: A Conversation with Irwin Kula</a> (16 January 2019)</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/coburn-ventures/episodes/71-Values-based-Branding-with-Irwin-Kula-e18d92d">Coburn
Ventures #71: Values-based Branding with Irwin Kula</a> (21 October 2021)</span></span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I hope you enjoy this audio content and if you
have any further audio or video content of Rabbi Kula you would like to
recommend, please feel free to share with me</span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🙂</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-74483252594634831522022-01-03T06:15:00.000-08:002022-01-03T06:15:04.356-08:00Launching "What's New with Drew?" Series<p><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeCuSiZOzD0jKZkjS1galxD7HnqTb0Dhbf2Qy3daFf7XlGdGDEQucVw7ltb6qv7l9DJ-ofJRr_1d62IM0YbFUyTje02q3jITRuWwQafTuLHKf4c9pahjc6k_2gofrWIlhfK7LVkMxMaMpJLTyMlJDaXBhlIR1Ixus3rQ5TlBPeTFqXjJbH5mU=s940" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeCuSiZOzD0jKZkjS1galxD7HnqTb0Dhbf2Qy3daFf7XlGdGDEQucVw7ltb6qv7l9DJ-ofJRr_1d62IM0YbFUyTje02q3jITRuWwQafTuLHKf4c9pahjc6k_2gofrWIlhfK7LVkMxMaMpJLTyMlJDaXBhlIR1Ixus3rQ5TlBPeTFqXjJbH5mU=s320" width="320" /></a></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;">Since I get asked frequently, "What's new?", I realize I don't share enough about my life and what's going on with me online. Therefore, I have been inspired to share what's been going on for me, both personally, as well as professionally. (Not only will it help others gain a sense of what I am doing, but it also helps me consider what is going on in my life.) While I do not know if this will be a weekly share, or if it will be multiple times a week, I imagine I will be experimenting with this format. While this will be available on this website, I will also be sharing it on <a href="https://drewk.substack.com/" target="_blank">my Substack</a> (for instance, this post is also <a href="https://drewk.substack.com/p/whats-new-with-drew" target="_blank">available here</a>).</b><p></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Personal:</span></b></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/12/2021podcasting.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">2021 was a huge year for my podcasting</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, not only for my podcast, but also appearing on others’ podcasts</span></b></b></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The new Star Wars show, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Book of Boba Fett</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> came out on Wednesday, which was a nice start to the series (I haven’t yet posted anything about it yet, but I may still do so) - </span><a href="https://youtu.be/1-vL_WwFOyw" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">here’s a clever breakdown of the episode</span></a></b></b></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">It was AMAZING to watch the incredible comeback in the Rose Bowl by the Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday night, as well as </span><a href="https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2022-rose-bowl-game/2022/01/128351/ohio-state-players-break-several-program-and-rose-bowl-records-in-48-45-win-over-utah" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the record-setting performances by CJ Stroud and Jaxon Smith-Njigba</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">🏈 It was a phenomenal performance! I am very excited to see how the Buckeyes will fare in 2022, with an explosive offense and a new defensive coordinator😀</span></b></b></p></li></ul><b id="docs-internal-guid-9dfb738e-7fff-fa75-05b2-5f593cb9158a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5bf1f062-7fff-8aba-3899-683f8659247a" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Professional:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Senior Living Facility:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Morning Minute Musing #153: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6881249446420586497/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Attending My First Conference Since The Beginning of The Pandemic</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (the previous week, I had </span><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/12/ajs21.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">attended my 5th AJS Conference</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">On Wednesday, I shared highlights from the aforementioned conference with residents over bagels</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6882702984778682368/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">took my 86th COVID-19-test at work</span></a></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Like other Fridays, I </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6882729105863778304/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">distributed challah knots/rolls the weekly </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Shabbat Newsletter</span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> at the senior living facility where I serve as the Director of Pastoral Care</span></a></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The aforementioned </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CJaOXxZQiOAbgd5d2BiBfAxWT8rXq4-B/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Shabbat Newsletter</span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> is available here</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_pkjX9Bwo0Bkcb0Msj98yWTjj6xAKSPtkaDaOxqoOw/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Here is the lineup of entertainment on the internal broadcasting channel I curated for the residents at the senior living facility where I work</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lw6xTjJrf8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">My weekly Torah portion presentation for the residents at the senior living facility where I work</span></a></p></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Jewish Drinking:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I was sad to have to announce that we are </span><a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/reschedulingtrip" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">postponing the inaugural Booze in the Holy Land trip due to complications related to the pandemic</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I was glad to share </span><a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/kosherbarstart" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a kosher 12-bottle bar post</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Daily Drinking Halakhot</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">#263: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CX_Y4vRLLz7/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Drinking or eating items that are for healing are not permissible to consume on Shabbat</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">#264: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYB8_JrLWCl/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What is the permissibility of using beverages to extinguish burning clothes on Shabbat?</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">#265: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYEg1AOrZsH/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What happens if one's wine barrel cracks on Shabbat?</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">#266: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHF5jwLaFn/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">More on fire-extinguishing on Shabbat</span></a></p></li></ul></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Other Links of Interest:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://jewschool.com/nfts-aint-the-moshiakh-173588" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Russel Neiss - "NFTs Ain’t the Moshiakh"</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Doc_RPS/status/1477587052648706051" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dr. Rivka Press-Schwartz Twitter essay on sexual abuse in the Orthodox world</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://seforimblog.com/2021/12/gelatin-supposed-retractions-and-abraham-goldstein-part-1/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Marc B. Shapiro - "Gelatin, Supposed Retractions, and Abraham Goldstein, Part 1"</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://seforimblog.com/2021/12/gelatin-abraham-goldstein-r-moses-isserles-and-more-part-2/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Marc B. Shapiro - "Gelatin, Supposed Retractions, and Abraham Goldstein, Part 2"</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Not a new article, but it’s come up this week in a few conversations: </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Jill Lepore - “Does Journalism Have a Future?”</span></a></p></li></ul></b> </b><p></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-60549520692248137322021-12-30T05:20:00.021-08:002021-12-30T05:33:44.767-08:002021: My Biggest Year of Podcasting<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaWJWgcgw6EAiGwy45agN5L4fS-ps_ukyMQtxruvEDePTzfLRiQtO312d5ie4sq74g0-rHYjH9xfdb4nNOOn-zp5VqiarGL2gahhGGeUg5tRlc_zbqOhPtLE6iimprvUbQx-BEWNkloMPfz274-Jh2zRgiTJ7n_Wxkpn4ttSz7UQyKApvgSXA=s1280" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaWJWgcgw6EAiGwy45agN5L4fS-ps_ukyMQtxruvEDePTzfLRiQtO312d5ie4sq74g0-rHYjH9xfdb4nNOOn-zp5VqiarGL2gahhGGeUg5tRlc_zbqOhPtLE6iimprvUbQx-BEWNkloMPfz274-Jh2zRgiTJ7n_Wxkpn4ttSz7UQyKApvgSXA=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">2021 was my biggest year of podcasting yet. This was likely due to the pandemic.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Granted, 2020 was a big year for podcasting, in general, and for me also, especially since 2020 marked the first full year of running my own podcast, which I had begun in the fall of 2019. What I think marks 2021 differently than 2020 is also appearing on more podcasts others published. The most numerous of these are my appearance on a podcast about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), although I appeared on others, as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of the 48 podcast appearances on which I appeared in 2021, 31 of these were for my own podcast, <a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/show/" target="_blank"><i>The Jewish Drinking Show</i></a>. While this was fewer than the 44 episodes I published in 2020, if one combines all of my appearances on podcasts, it still felt like more than 2020. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSWZ2-MKWiZN4etya_hvt6n0s8ZqiSl9qCgF3f9WJGknxTdSZ_Xho7ZVjxc_oLlWXzF-6-uzerANLF2cubqTlZ6SmadI_qdRrKhofl5qjU7COad04J8QCdQIb4RIn6vnfV4k6O9RSjubiYlki-umTayUnXBbH9zSHyLbiSA2l2-1o49W5piTU=s1150" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1150" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSWZ2-MKWiZN4etya_hvt6n0s8ZqiSl9qCgF3f9WJGknxTdSZ_Xho7ZVjxc_oLlWXzF-6-uzerANLF2cubqTlZ6SmadI_qdRrKhofl5qjU7COad04J8QCdQIb4RIn6vnfV4k6O9RSjubiYlki-umTayUnXBbH9zSHyLbiSA2l2-1o49W5piTU=w320-h179" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 2021, I appeared ten times on an MCU podcast<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having mentioned my ten appearances on an MCU podcast, it was largely driven by all of the new Marvel shows that are that have been coming out in Disney Plus, which has been really exciting and has really driven my fandom this year, vastly far surpassing my interest in Star Wars. My interest in Star Wars in recent years has been waning, in general, and certainly in comparison to the MCU. Although I did appear on a few Star Wars podcasts, it wasn't at the same level. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh20RDxAFLZniehtFYdzHDW2efk41E0OyeICgute-bw8jN4nViWKLNNM8GoJIWSI3dr782zWhJUV4yHzAZoIx9EZ5KJT8LppaxbM3FjipSCTGjr7XCbBR-UweZJi0tWBEPIdL7guulqqw41ppIhPPYIdHb-ZxWpnVWkOhiNsXh8hX92yPZcDzQ=s1060" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1060" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh20RDxAFLZniehtFYdzHDW2efk41E0OyeICgute-bw8jN4nViWKLNNM8GoJIWSI3dr782zWhJUV4yHzAZoIx9EZ5KJT8LppaxbM3FjipSCTGjr7XCbBR-UweZJi0tWBEPIdL7guulqqw41ppIhPPYIdHb-ZxWpnVWkOhiNsXh8hX92yPZcDzQ=w320-h179" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I appeared a couple of times on <i>Let There be Light</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In the Jewish realm, I appeared on the <i>American Israelite</i>'s podcast a couple of times in-studio as a sort of rabbi-in-residence for the podcast, <a href="https://lettherebelightpodcast.com/" target="_blank"><i>Let There be Light</i></a>. I also appeared on a couple of other podcasts, primarily to promote <i>The Jewish Drinking Show</i>. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">One other thing that also upped my podcasting game this year was getting a proper microphone for such endeavors. I was able to get this after someone had gifted me an Amazon gift card for a video-editing project that I did and I very much appreciated that token of their appreciation, which was just enough to get a Blue yeti microphone, which definitely elevated my audio quality for podcasting, whether appearing as a guest or for hosting.<br /><br />Here is a listing of my podcast appearances in 2021:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Wars Podcasting:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://starwarsmaven.info/highrepublicstn/" target="_blank">Discussing the First Releases of the High Republic Books on <i>Skywalking Through Neverland</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://starwarsmaven.info/wapoj56/" target="_blank">Discussing “The Bad Batch” Episode 6 on the What A Piece of Junk! Podcast</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://starwarsmaven.info/swcwpodcast/" target="_blank">Discussing Star Wars Clone Wars on the “Who’s the Bossk?” Podcast</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">MCU Podcasting:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/02/mcufeb2021podcast.html" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">4: Discussing<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">WandaVision<span> </span></i>ep. 5 and trailer for<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">The Falcon and The Winter Soldier</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/truebelievers12/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">12: Discussing<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">The Falcon and The Winter Soldier</i><span> </span>ep. 5 and the<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings</i><span> </span>teaser trailer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/tb14/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">14: Discussing “Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies”</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/tb17/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">17: Discussing<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Loki</i><span> </span>ep. 1</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/blackwidowpodcast" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">22: Discussing<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Black Widow</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/lokis1finale" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">23: Discussing the season 1 finale of<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Loki</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/tb29/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">29: Discussing episode 5 of<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">What If?</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/s1finalewhatif/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">33: Discussing the season 1 finale of<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">What If?</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="http://mcumaven.com/1stavenger-podcast/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">34: Revisiting<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Captain America: The First Avenger</i></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">True Believers #<a href="https://fpnet.podbean.com/e/true-believers-mcu-podcast-ep35-captain-marvel-2019-infinity-saga-chronological-timeline-re-watch/" target="_blank">35: Revisiting <i>Captain Marvel</i></a><br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jewish Podcasting:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://rabbidrew.info/dnd2021/" target="_blank"><i>Drinking & Drashing</i> episode 17</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://rabbidrew.info/bridgingconnections/" target="_blank"><i>Bridging Connections</i> episode 23</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://rabbidrew.info/ltblpjune2021/" target="_blank"><i>Let There Be Light</i> season 2 episode 2</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://rabbidrew.info/lightnov2021/" target="_blank"><i>Let There Be Light</i> season 2 episode 20</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Jewish Drinking Show (in reverse chronological order):<br /></span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-size: 14px; 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box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/asparagustalmud/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0061f4; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Angels and Asparagus: Discussing a Curious Talmudic Beverage</a><span> </span>with Professor Mika Ahuvia</span></li><li style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/prayingundertheinfluence/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0061f4; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Praying Under the Influence (& Providing Halakhic Guidance)</a><span> </span>with Rabbi David Polsky</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /><br /><br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-17216024250376039402021-12-22T13:34:00.000-08:002021-12-22T13:34:06.166-08:00Attending the 2021 AJS Conference<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSDx2gqQ7BcJF0Wfc6uizk3z7YiTbeXUdCUM1KHmaMM_c539sJEQMauU0QKt7h0fPmcu7piHxcG_Wk40liCEXaRQIJMmKlWOw0T3J7I7B4ouy7Lu2A9lv01XE0nuCQApiO3no0shO2fAOZgg5LRRET_ATTfT3npCmy0vYp2WVBrsFGNrdlKIU=s738" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="738" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSDx2gqQ7BcJF0Wfc6uizk3z7YiTbeXUdCUM1KHmaMM_c539sJEQMauU0QKt7h0fPmcu7piHxcG_Wk40liCEXaRQIJMmKlWOw0T3J7I7B4ouy7Lu2A9lv01XE0nuCQApiO3no0shO2fAOZgg5LRRET_ATTfT3npCmy0vYp2WVBrsFGNrdlKIU=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masks were required at AJS 2021</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having attended <a href="https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/2021program" target="_blank">the 2021 Association for Jewish Studies conference</a> these past few days, it was quite an experience. While it was my fifth time attending this conference,<a href="#previous">*</a> it was the first conference I have attended since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was also different than previous Association for Jewish Studies (hereafter, AJS) conferences in that masking was required. (In fact, they updated the guidelines on Friday requiring even the speakers to remain masked when speaking.) It was also different in that many would-be attendees decided not to attend. As described in <a href="https://www.jta.org/2021/12/20/culture/jewish-scholars-gather-under-the-shadow-of-omicron-heartening-many-and-rankling-others" target="_blank">Rachel Kohn's JTA article on the conference</a>, the conference was half the size that it usually had been, compared to in pre-pandemic years. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Unfortunately, many of those who decided in the days leading up to the conference to not attend were people who had papers to read at the conference, which led to not only many papers being read by people other than their authors, it also led to many panels having to be either canceled in full or shifted around amongst their remnants. As such, the printed program booklet was not reliable, as it did not reflect the panels taking place. Fortunately, the website and the conference app were updated to reflect which panels were actually going to be happening and with which panelists, so that was helpful.<br /><br />As with previous conferences, I found it intellectually engaging and very intellectually stimulating, not to mention I also learned a lot, as well as learning some aspects of contemporary scholarship, both within rabbinic literature and beyond. I definitely appreciated and enjoyed the sessions on Rabbinic literature, as I have in the past. However, a few other panels that were beyond Rabbinic literature were certainly chock full of terminology and references to scholars with whom I was not familiar at all and it was an interesting to try to understand what I could amongst those.<br /><br />Having started <a href="http://jewishdrinking.com/show/" target="_blank">my podcast (The Jewish Drinking Show)</a> in the fall of 2019, most of the guests I've had on the show have been recorded through either Skype or Zoom. As such, I have not met most of the guests on my show in-person and it was a delight to meet several of them there in-person. It was, of course, also great to reconnect in-person with a bunch of people and meet new ones, as well. Speaking of meeting people, since the conference was half as attended as it had been in pre-pandemic years, it also had a more intimate feel to it, which was great for chatting with people and for conversations, so it made the experience all that much more special.<br /><br />I am very fortunate that my work paid for my conference attendance and I'm also very excited to bring back many of the learnings I experienced at the conference and share it with the residents of the senior living facility where I <a href="http://rabbidrew.info/work/dpc/" target="_blank">work as the Director of Pastoral Care</a>. While it is out of the box thinking to bring back such content for this demographic, I think there will certainly be residents that will greatly enjoy this content being shared with them. In addition to bringing back insightful tidbits of knowledge and information from this conference to the residents of the senior living facility where I work, it was also a helpful for me for thinking about other such content I can provide to them, and possibly even guest speakers.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh39Ex4wC2TWThpIXJ2aKr0jt9ghprShplEVoQZ-ZcIRK398G7HfVJS38rZBKVKELN_vRUo4ev3r-uD-qBKBvGjg3b5Ogwinnw-ilTcbY1yPIja1LFwIVMpsZXjwAS_OJk3uGOwUdNaO32FE6zZffaVFSsjaK0GdF7k9FDd_hqEwgOwKCI87P4=s776" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="776" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh39Ex4wC2TWThpIXJ2aKr0jt9ghprShplEVoQZ-ZcIRK398G7HfVJS38rZBKVKELN_vRUo4ev3r-uD-qBKBvGjg3b5Ogwinnw-ilTcbY1yPIja1LFwIVMpsZXjwAS_OJk3uGOwUdNaO32FE6zZffaVFSsjaK0GdF7k9FDd_hqEwgOwKCI87P4=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I greatly enjoyed the panel discussion on Deborah Romm</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While I certainly enjoyed the panel discussions on Rabbinic Literature, perhaps the panel I enjoyed the most was "The Romm Printing and Publishing House in Vilna: Between Scholarly, Environmental and Gender Innovation", which featured Ada Gebel speaking on "'Shas Vilna' as a Maskilic Project in the Spirit of 'Mekitze Nirdamim'" and Mordechai Zalkin speaking on "Deborah Romm: Innovative Publisher, Visionary Businesswoman and Cultural Agent" - these were so fascinating and enlightening, not only into Deborah Romm, who was largely responsible not only for the growth of the Romm printing house in the late 19th century, but particularly for the famous "Vilna Shas". What emerged from that session was that Deborah Romm was quite the impressive business lady and orchestrated the printing of the Vilna edition of the Babylonian Talmud, which is the printing of the Talmud that remains with us to this day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My favorite paper was none other than the brilliantly sharp Christine Hayes (who delivered the absolute <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2018/12/highlightsnotes-from-papers-delivered.html" target="_blank">best response to papers I have ever heard</a> (and about whom I also <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/09/hartmanhayes2021.html" target="_blank">previously wrote here</a>)), whose paper “'If all the seas were ink…': The Pre-modern Migrations of a Trope” was a fascinating textual exploration of the intellectual history of a phrase found not only in Rabbinic literature and the Qur'an, but also eastern literature. Rounding out my top five are Jonathan Milgram's "The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law", Yael Wilfand's "Reconsidering Portrayals of Rabban Gamliel’s Travels in Light of the Journeys of Roman Emperors and Governors", Shira Shmidman's "Rami bar Hama: Historical Figure or Literary Construction of the Talmud’s Redactors?", and Orit Malka's and Ayelet Hoffman Libson's "The Concept of the חבורה in Early Rabbinic Literature".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you were interested in checking-out my tweeting of these sessions, including my notes, you are welcome to do so here: <br /></span></p>
<b>Sunday Sessions</b>
<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1472598329959890945" target="_blank">First session: “Disability Studies and Rabbinic Literature”</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1472646631959015435" target="_blank">Second session: "Rabbinic Texts, Institutions, and Authority in Roman Palestine"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1472700462981910536" target="_blank">Third session: "The Use and Abuse of Judaism for Critique"</a></li></ul>
<b>Monday Sessions</b>
<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1472945808010006540" target="_blank">First session: "The Romm Printing and Publishing House in Vilna: Between Scholarly, Environmental and Gender Innovation"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1472976854588047363" target="_blank">Second session: "Formal Bavli & Mishnah Studies"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473022379651649537" target="_blank">Third session: "Law and Society in Tannaitic Literature"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473051723761655823" target="_blank">Fourth session: "Religious Adaptations in the Time of COVID-19"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473077908587614211" target="_blank">Fifth session: "Midrash in the 21st century"</a></li></ul>
<b>Tuesday Sessions</b>
<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473302929851486209" target="_blank">First session: “Rabbinics in the Early Islamic Period”</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473332826967883776" target="_blank">Second session: “Jewish Studies in the Public Sphere”</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1473371713761169409" target="_blank">Third session: “Methods in the Study of Rabbinic Literature and Late Antiquity”</a></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="previous"> *</a></span>Listing of previous posts on AJS Conferences:<br />
</p><ul><li>(I did not post anything here re: attending AJS 2018 (but you can check out <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BriQlZdn3u8/" target="_blank">this picture</a> from that conference))</li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2018/12/highlightsnotes-from-papers-delivered.html" target="_blank">Highlights/Notes from Papers Delivered at the 2016 AJS Conference</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2010/12/ajs-day-3.html" target="_blank">Day 3 of AJS Conference 2009</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-2-of-2009-ajs-conference.html" target="_blank">Day 2 of AJS Conference 2009</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-1-of-ajs-conference-2009.html" target="_blank">Day 1 of AJS Conference 2009</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2009/12/association-of-jewish-studies.html" target="_blank">Association of Jewish Studies Conference #41: I'm There</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2008/12/addendum-to-thoughts-on-ajs-conference.html" target="_blank">Addendum to Thoughts on AJS Conference</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2008/12/brief-reflections-on-recent-ajs.html" target="_blank">Brief Reflections on the Recent AJS Conference</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2008/12/ajs-association-of-jewish-studies_24.html" target="_blank">Day 3 of AJS Conference 2008</a></li><li><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2008/12/ajs-association-of-jewish-studies.html" target="_blank">Day 2 of AJS Conference 2008</a></li></ul>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-80566547412543138192021-11-19T06:19:00.006-08:002021-11-19T06:29:46.079-08:00Discussing My 2021 Trip to Israel on the Let There Be Light podcast<p> <br />While I have unfortunately not shared much in this space on my trip to Israel this year, I did have the opportunity to discuss it a little bit on a recent episode of the <a href="https://lettherebelight.buzzsprout.com/" target="_blank">Let There Be Light podcast</a>, the official podcast of <a href="https://www.americanisraelite.com/" target="_blank"><i>The American Israelite</i></a>.
Here is a video clip from that episode in which I discuss my trip (with regards to <a href="https://www.americanisraelite.com/news/israel_news/article_64c81bea-4184-11ec-b98d-2303ca07222c.html" target="_blank">this article</a>): </p>
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You can <a href="https://lettherebelight.buzzsprout.com/1194278/9538417" target="_blank">listen to the episode in its entirety here</a>:
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-22397375851191739422021-09-30T07:51:00.001-07:002021-09-30T07:51:06.725-07:00Considering a Couple of Essays from the Second Issue of the Sources Journal: Hartman & Hayes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1TVuU8dOAiE/YVW3V2I3k8I/AAAAAAAACR0/so6SD-Gajo0rCy6PfedxhKbW_4sw_oGWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Donniel%2BHartman%2Band%2BChristine%2BHayes%2B-%2BSources%2BJournal.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1TVuU8dOAiE/YVW3V2I3k8I/AAAAAAAACR0/so6SD-Gajo0rCy6PfedxhKbW_4sw_oGWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Donniel%2BHartman%2Band%2BChristine%2BHayes%2B-%2BSources%2BJournal.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having previously read <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/bittonkurtzersources1.html" target="_blank">a couple of essays from the first issue of the <i>Sources</i> journal</a>, I was excited to have <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1435923434178060295" target="_blank">come across newly-released essays a few weeks ago</a> from Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman and Dr. Christine Hayes in the second issue of <a href="https://www.sourcesjournal.org/" target="_blank">the <i>Sources</i> journal</a>, I was curious to read them...and I did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dr. Hayes on Rabban Gamliel's and Rabbi Joshua's Conflicts</b> <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having appreciated Dr. Hayes work (and having heard her give a phenomenal <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2018/12/highlightsnotes-from-papers-delivered.html" target="_blank">response at the 2016 AJS Conference</a>), I was very curious to read <a href="https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/shaming-disagreement-purposeful-difference" target="_blank">her "Shaming, Disagreement & Purposeful Difference: A Talmudic Teaching"</a>. While I was, at first, curious why she would have published an essay in this journal, I appreciated her focus on Talmudic incidents between Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua/Joshua. She does a phenomenal job in this essay, in which she says she is "interested in slowing down the action in order to identify the inflection points, the moments when a different choice might have led to a different outcome or to the same outcome but without the psychic trauma."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She notes that a lot has been written on various themes involved in these incidents, although she focuses on the "analysis of the anatomy of conflict" in these stories, such as "the rush to narrate the actions and intentions of the other in a negative light", "the recourse to shaming and humiliation", and "the instrumentalization of one party by another to further a personal or political agenda." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been bothered by Rabban Gamliel's actions and Dr. Hayes does a wonderful job fleshing out the various problematics involved in his actions. I highly recommend her analysis of these stories!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, then she seeks to contemporize the lessons she has fleshed out, which is interesting, as she goes into vague territory: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">When shaming is adopted as a strategic move to hasten some desired result, it fuels the cynical belief that truth is not enough. At a time when purveyors of falsehood threaten democracies everywhere, trusting that truth is enough—indeed, insisting on it—is urgent. Finally, when the public square is policed by shame, it is quickly abandoned by all but the shameless. A society governed by those incapable of feeling shame is a society no one wants to inhabit.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">While it's unclear what she is driving at, she then turns her ire on social media:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">Resisting the urge to shame and humiliate may also mean disengaging from the technologies that encourage these habits. To realize the purpose of difference—asserted with such confidence by Mendelssohn—means cultivating practices of interaction that are currently disincentivized by modern technologies of communication. Any technology that “rewards” reflex responses to disembodied and faceless others entrenches the habits that fuel destructive conflict. Replace the amygdala-inflaming outrage machine known euphemistically as “social” media with the slower rhythms and deliberative exchanges of actual social encounters. Trade in the solipsistic performances of the inaptly named “Face”book for encounters with actual faces. </span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It seems clear to me that Dr. Hayes not only does not use social media, but even worse, demonstrates that she does not even understand it. It comes across that she is seeking to demonize social media just by reading headlines about it. It lacks a deep and serious engagement with it. Moreover, despite what Dr. Hayes argues, Facebook <i>does </i>offer "slower rhythms and deliberative exchanges" of ideas-exchanging.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another problem with what she wrote, especially "When shaming is adopted as a strategic move to hasten some desired result, it fuels the cynical belief that truth is not enough" is that sometimes, it offers an opportunity to expose bad behaviors in society. What immediately comes to mind is that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner" target="_blank">Eric Garner's killing</a>. Sure, she writes, "You would not want to be denied an opportunity to give an account of yourself, to learn, to apologize, to change, to grow; and you would not want to be instrumentalized", so we should want those police officers to change and to grow, but social media can be a helpful way of changing these bad things in society. Shedding light on such immoral behavior <i>is</i> a good thing, even if Dr. Hayes seems to want to not allow that from this essay.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In sum, I like what she wrote about Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Joshua, but she should stick to what she knows, Talmud, and stay away from discussing social media, which she does not.</span><br /> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rabb Dr. Hartman on Liberal Zionism in North America</b> <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">While I have heard Rabbi Dr. Hartman before, I had not really known much about him, so I was curious to see what he had written in <a href="https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/liberal-zionism-and-the-troubled-committed" target="_blank">his "Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed: A Shifting North American Discourse"</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He starts out by identifying that he is a “troubled committed Zionist”, which he describes as being "both unconditionally committed to Israel’s survival and deeply honored to be part of a generation of Jews who are building the homeland of the Jewish people." He continues:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">I view Israel as one of the most exciting projects in Jewish history: to build our own country in accordance with the highest Jewish and liberal democratic values. To be a committed Zionist is to be invested in shaping the outcome of this project.<br />...<br />To be a Jew is to be troubled, to view one’s life, and one’s society, through an aspirational lens, always striving to be more. I’m troubled because this project is an ongoing process that requires constant revision. I’m troubled by the enduring gap between ideals and reality.<br /><br />Today, I am troubled because something very wrong is going on in our country, because our commitment to human rights and equality, to treating all people as created in the image of God, is inconsistently applied in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. I’m troubled because Israel, however committed to peace, is no longer resolute in pursuing it. I’m troubled because our power has afforded us the ability to maintain the current political status quo while desensitizing us to the moral abuses it conceals and legitimizes. I’m troubled because we can—and must—do better, but many of us are no longer trying.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I found all of this to be fascinating. And he writes that </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">As the majority of Israelis became the “untroubled committed,” most North American Jews remained “troubled committed” (even “hyper-troubled,” but as the Pew surveys demonstrated, still committed, nonetheless). At the same time, a segment of liberal Jews became “troubled <i>un</i>-committed."<br />...<br />Until recently, the “troubled uncommitted” were relatively marginal. The real fear in the American Zionist community, up to a few years ago, was to combat the growth in the “untroubled uncommitted”—those who simply had become disenfranchised and disinterested in Israel. The newfound fear, however, is the drift of the “troubled committed” toward the growing camp of the “troubled <i>un</i>committed.” </span><br /></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He goes through many fascinating aspects, including different arguments (which I highly recommend reading), ultimately coming to suggestions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">Liberal Jews in North America will not embrace Zionism unless it is a liberal Zionism, and will not embrace Israel unless Israel embraces liberal values. That does not mean that Israel needs to mirror American liberal values, or that it needs to embody the best of these values. Given our distinct geo-political realities, there will always be differences in both ideology and policy between Israelis and North Americans. In addition, as most liberal Americans and Jews have come to experience, America itself does not always embody these values; for that matter, no country on earth fully does. Liberal Jews must believe, however, that there exists a core affinity between Zionism, Israel, and basic liberal aspirations.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He then articulates six suggestions for this. I highly recommend this piece!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Looking Forward to Further Reading</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having read these two essays a few weeks ago, I am excited to continuing to read further essays in this issue.</span> <br /></p><p></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-35435805268154410252021-09-24T04:11:00.005-07:002021-09-24T04:11:51.564-07:00Next Book Project?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/09/powerat30released.html">published
my most recent book prior to turning 40</a>, some people have already began
asking: “What will the next book be?” Although I do want to begin working on
somewhat of a follow-up to this most recent book, that will most likely not be
my next book project (but I will discuss that further). </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Someone
asked me this week if I would be writing a book on Jewish drinking and that is
what the next one may be. While I composed weekly <i>divrei Torah</i> on the Torah
portion for 17 Torah portions a couple of years ago, I am thinking about resuming
that series this Torah reading-cycle, which I can then turn into a book in
about a year from now.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another
possibility, that someone had asked me about this past spring is to compose a popular-oriented
book on drinking in Jewish life. This would be focused on holidays and
lifecycles primarily. For that work, I would have to start from scratch, but it’s
doable.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Returning to
what I had mentioned at the outset, having published a book of 30 essays on
early rabbinic (Tannaitic) literature called <i>Power at 30</i>, drawing on
Yehudah ben Tema’s age-based description of a man’s life, the next one would be
something along the lines of Discernment at 40, which would be comprised of 40
essays on later rabbinic literature. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fortunately,
I have some essays I have written for <i>Textual Insights</i> that would work
well for such a volume:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/rabbitakkanahinfields/">Rabbi Yehudah
HaNasi’s Enactment in the Fields</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/initial-considerations-of-occurrences-of-incidents-in-which-rav-yehudah-quotes-rav-and-shmuel/">Initial
Considerations of Occurrences of Incidents in Which Rav Yehudah Quotes Rav and
Shmuel</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/hostbreaks-guestblesses-bavli/">“The Host
Breaks & the Guest Blesses”: An Investigation of the Babylonian Talmud’s
Blessing of a Guest for One’s Meal Host</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/rybl-megillahchanges/">Two Significant
Changes to Megillah-reading by Rabbi Yehoshua, son of Levi: Initial
Considerations [Megillah 4a]</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/drinking-praying-talmud/">Drinking &
Praying? How Do the Rabbis Approach Drunken Prayer?</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/rabbimeir-megillah12a-indirectquote/">Who
Indirectly Quoted Rabbi Meir? [Megillah 12a]</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/purimdrinking-megillah7b/">Drinking on Purim
[Megillah 7b]</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/beerinjugsaz33b/">Storing Beer in Jugs that Had
Been Gentile-Owned [AZ 33b]</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/beeraz31b/">The Amoraic Prohibition Against
Gentile Beer? [AZ 31b]</a></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One piece
that has been on my mind to write since 2006 is on Rabbi Zera’s reportage of Jewesses
enstringing upon themselves, so that needs to happen (although I have posted a
couple of little posts on this topic at <i>Textual Insights</i> <a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/jewessesenstringingetiologicalpossibilities/">here</a>
and <a href="http://texts.rabbidrew.info/epistemological-considerations-of-rabbi-zeras-reportage-niddah-66a/">here</a>).</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
also few posts from <i>Matters of Interest</i> I am considering including in such
a volume, as well (although they would need to be improved):</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://mattersofinterest.info/sagesanddoctorsfaceoff/">Sages and Doctors
Face-Off: A First Consideration of a Story in the Talmud</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://mattersofinterest.info/mountainlikeabarrel/">Considering the
Amoraic Midrashic Imagery of God Enclosing the Jews Beneath Mt. Sinai (Shabbat
88a)</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://mattersofinterest.info/differentwineblessing-talmud/">Blessing for
Different Wine</a></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I clearly
have a lot of researching and writing to go before that collection of essays is
ready….</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the
meantime, we shall see what I work on….</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-76091224797812664562021-09-23T06:40:00.001-07:002021-09-23T06:40:16.857-07:00New Book Published (1st Edition): Power at 30<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am excited to announce that I have published my newest book! Entitled <i>שלשים לכח - Power at 30: 30 Essays on Early Rabbinic Literature</i>, this book is <a href="http://rebdre.ws/1ed30" target="_blank">currently available in PDF online</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TB_6NkbQzd4/YUx9RfSbQyI/AAAAAAAACRk/OlrLsK0Ff60llBViUZHMHc41BZax5jLQACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Power%2Bat%2B30%2B30%2BEssays%2Bon%2BEarly%2BRabbinic%2BLiterature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2000" height="228" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TB_6NkbQzd4/YUx9RfSbQyI/AAAAAAAACRk/OlrLsK0Ff60llBViUZHMHc41BZax5jLQACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Power%2Bat%2B30%2B30%2BEssays%2Bon%2BEarly%2BRabbinic%2BLiterature.png" width="320" /></a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/powerat30tentativetoc.html" target="_blank">announced the table of contents a half year ago</a> (yes, it was tentative, but what was announced then is what it still is), this release comes out while I am still in my thirties (my final week, but still in my thirties).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am very excited to share this collection of essays, all of which are on Tannaitic (early rabbinic) literature. A huge focus is on the Mishnah and Tosefta, as a majority of the essays are dedicated to those two bodies of literature. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As I am not fully satisfied with this version being the final version, I am not currently making it available for purchase in hard-copy; it is available only in pdf version at this time. I welcome comments on essays in this volume.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For those interested, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2017/06/my-first-book-gets-published.html" target="_blank">my first book was also a collection of essays on Rabbinic literature</a>, entirely having been previously been published as blog posts. 27 of the 30 essays in the new book have previously appeared as blog posts, but I have done some significant improvements on many of them. My previous book is <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2019/08/publishing-my-second-book-essays-on.html" target="_blank">a collection of essays on BBYO history</a>. <br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-27751959303049490822021-08-02T15:15:00.002-07:002021-08-02T15:15:53.705-07:00Recent Appearances on MCU Podcast<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wN3nAjNMyN4/YQhuGu3uGUI/AAAAAAAACQw/Y8UvI-NGXj88SN1qM_Knbzw9ln4orFR-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/True-Believers-episode-22-Black-Widow-300x298.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="300" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wN3nAjNMyN4/YQhuGu3uGUI/AAAAAAAACQw/Y8UvI-NGXj88SN1qM_Knbzw9ln4orFR-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/True-Believers-episode-22-Black-Widow-300x298.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having previously mentioned here that I have appeared on an MCU podcast to discuss <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/02/mcufeb2021podcast.html" target="_blank">an episode of <i>WandaVision</i></a> and <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/faws5podcast.html" target="_blank">an episode of <i>The Falcon and The Winter Soldier</i></a>, I realized I wanted to share that I have had further appearances on the MCU True Believer's podcast to discuss MCU material.</span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Granted, once I <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mcumavenbegins.html" target="_blank">created a separate website for my MCU fandom</a>, I have been sharing these appearances there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I <a href="http://mcumaven.com/tb14/" target="_blank">appeared on episode 14 of the podcast to discuss “Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies”</a>, a sort-of trailer for not only MCU movies past, but also snippets of movies to come.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I appeared on the podcast to not only <a href="http://mcumaven.com/tb17/" target="_blank">discuss the first episode of <i>Loki</i></a>, but also <a href="http://mcumaven.com/lokis1finale/" target="_blank">the season finale of <i>Loki</i></a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>And I also <a href="http://mcumaven.com/blackwidowpodcast/" target="_blank">appeared on the podcast's epic <i>Black Widow</i> episode</a>.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7icV_q-8skA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>In addition to it making me think more about this content, it has also been quite helpful to have these interactions, both with the hosts and, in the case of the <i>Black Widow</i> episode, with the other guests, to better understand the MCU and its various material.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I will keep you posted as to further appearances.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>In the meantime, you are welcome to check out my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mcumaven" target="_blank">MCU Facebook page</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMuephi30udjNydbt4ugHQ" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mcumaven/" target="_blank">Instagram account</a>.<br /></span></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-78820000750649043252021-08-01T05:33:00.004-07:002021-08-01T05:33:26.114-07:00Updated Highlighting of Talmudic Texts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--uzVGaHMgqY/YQaSXLX6QFI/AAAAAAAACQY/7-O_vO-Ep_MtBJenPPQLtqodPiNeHkwnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s614/Talmudic%2BLayers.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="528" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--uzVGaHMgqY/YQaSXLX6QFI/AAAAAAAACQY/7-O_vO-Ep_MtBJenPPQLtqodPiNeHkwnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Talmudic%2BLayers.png" width="275" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />While speaking with someone over Shabbat yesterday, we got to talking about different layers of the Talmud. In conversation, identifying various layers came up, and I mentioned how I <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2005/12/drew-academic-study-of-talmud-part-two.html" target="_blank">used to use a few colors for various Talmuldic aspects</a>, but have since expanded it to over a half-dozen, highlighting various aspects of text in the Talmud. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As such, I present here my list<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Tannaitic texts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Amoraic formal halakhic statement</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Amoraic non-formal halakhic statement</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Amoraic explanation of a Scriptural verse</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Amoraic statement about an incident</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Story (non-Tannaitic)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Stam</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Introduction to a text</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One further aspect I recommend that is currently absent from that list is differentiating between early Amoraic formal halakhic statements and later Amoraic formal halakhic statements, with the delineation being those of the first three Amoraic generations versus those of the fourth generation and on (e.g. Rav, Shmuel, Rav Yehudah, Rabbah, and Rav Yosef being in the first category, while Rava, Abbaye, Rav Papa, Rav Ashi, and Ravina being in the latter category). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While it is obvious to separate Tannaitic texts from all others, as well as stammaitic texts, I had initially (over a decade and a half ago) lumped all Amoraic texts together. But I soon began to realize that they are not all alike, differentiating between apodictic (formal halakhic) statements and explanations about mishnayos, Scriptural verses, stories, and more.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Separating out the introductions to texts (e.g. תניא, איתמר, etc.) was something I did, since I did not consider it to be part and parcel of the text, itself, but rather a marker of what the text was and how it was being used.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I find these separate colorings of layers to be helpful in approaching various discussions in the Talmud, in aiding my differentiating the aspects of the sugyos to better understand them. If you find these helpful, as well, wonderful!<br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-64340029620474447642021-08-01T05:20:00.006-07:002021-08-02T15:02:41.088-07:00Few Further Firsts over Memorial Day Weekend<p>As things get better with the pandemic, there have been some further relaxations. </p><p>Having <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/returntoshul.html" target="_blank">returned to shul back in March</a>, and with <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/masklesshul.html" target="_blank">masks no longer being necessary at shul</a>, it has been interesting to take note of further changes. <br /></p><p>During this Memorial Day weekend, I experienced a few firsts from prior to the pandemic:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>On Saturday, for the first time since mid-March 2020, our family went to a Shabbat lunch<i> in someone else's house</i>. </li><li>On Sunday morning, I played softball for the first time in a couple of years. </li><li>On Monday, I went back to my parents' house for the first time since January 2020. </li></ul><p>These are a lot of firsts, indicative of the changes happening with the vaccinations in the decrease of the Coronavirus.</p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-30763560961771560842021-05-28T03:17:00.004-07:002021-05-28T03:17:42.737-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #111-#120<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplan.info/mmm" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm61-70.html" target="_blank">#61-#70</a>, <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm71-80.html" target="_blank">#71-#80</a>, </span><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm81-90.html" target="_blank">#81-90</a>, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm91-100.html" target="_blank">#91-#100</a>, </span>and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm101-110.html" target="_blank">#101-#110</a>, </span></span>here are </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#111-#120</span>:</span></p>#111 - Curious about BitClout
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#112 - Experimenting & Learning How to Market to Seniors
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#113 - Transitioning to Referrals
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#114 - Getting Press Coverage is Great, Except When They Attribute Factual Inaccuracies To You
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#115 - Remembering Names Goes Far
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#116 - Beginning to Pivot Away From Success
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#117 - Excited About Coffee/Espresso Machine at Work
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#118 - Increasing PPE at Work
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#119 - 3 Quick Things I Have Learned in One Year at a Senior Living Facility
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#120 - Dipping My Toes Into Cryptocurrencies & NFTs
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-88501918160298411082021-05-27T18:13:00.001-07:002021-05-27T18:13:10.592-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #101-#110<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplan.info/mmm" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm61-70.html" target="_blank">#61-#70</a>, <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm71-80.html" target="_blank">#71-#80</a>, </span><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm81-90.html" target="_blank">#81-90</a>, and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm91-100.html" target="_blank">#91-#100</a>, </span>here are </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#101-#110</span>:</span></p>#101 - Transition! (& Anxiety)
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#102 - Cataloguing to Avoid Duplicating
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#103 - Zoom Meetings Helping Prepare for IRL Meetings?
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#104 - Why Bother with Instagram Stories?
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#105 - Instagram Story Highlights?
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#106 - Teaching Source-Based Classes In-Person Again
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#107 - Growing Beyond a Podcast
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#108 - Create a Separate Brand for a Passion Project or Keep It Within My Own Media Streams? Why Not Both?
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#109 - COVID-19 Exposure & Precautions
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#110 - Stepping-up my PPE for a Couple of Weeks
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-73373256783486746082021-05-26T03:56:00.000-07:002021-05-26T03:56:01.077-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #91-#100<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplan.info/mmm" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm61-70.html" target="_blank">#61-#70</a>, <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm71-80.html" target="_blank">#71-#80</a>, </span>and <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm81-90.html" target="_blank">#81-90</a>, here are #91-#100:</span></p>
#91 - Rabbinic Branding Deployment
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#92 - Clapping it up for Kevin Feige & Marvel Studios
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#93 - Raising up many students
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#94 - Quashing Covid Rumors at Work
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#95 - Carousel of Masks
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#96 - Not interested in "This user posted for the first time in a while"
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#97 - It is helpful to have good wifi in one's office
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#98 - Beginning to Transition from Pandemic Mode
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#99 - Bye, Face Shield
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#100 - Clergy can visit!
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-68574251997508976552021-05-24T06:01:00.000-07:002021-05-24T06:01:04.699-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #81-#90<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmmorigin.html" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm61-70.html" target="_blank">#61-#70</a>, and <a href="https://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm71-80.html" target="_blank">#71-#80</a>, </span>here are #81-#90:</span></p>#81 - Developing Self-Awareness
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#82 - Reputation=Brand?
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#83 - Happily Surprising Feedback on COVID-19 Testing Videos
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#84 - Publishing Videos to Academia.Edu Not Just Simply Because It's Another Platform
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#85 - Excited to Find Out About OBS
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#86 - Having been on the job for 9 months, I can't help but think about trimesters
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#87 - Apparently, social media algorithms do not like quantity 😥
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#88 - Rabbis and Technology
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#89 - Rabbinic Branding: Identifying Content Niche
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#90 - Rabbinic Branding: Identifying Style/Characteristics
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-71414413018000268332021-05-23T06:02:00.006-07:002021-05-23T06:08:50.071-07:00Strange to Experience Masklessness at Synagogue<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/returntoshul.html" target="_blank">returned to attending shul a couple of months ago</a>, it has been nice to be able to come together at shul amidst this pandemic amongst other masked shul-goers. For me, it has been particularly nice, as our shul has followed CDC guidelines with regards to masking, social distancing and more (not all shuls do (there is a shul across the street that has been largely mask-optional for a while)).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/health/cdc-mask-guidance-vaccinated/index.html" target="_blank">the announcement from the CDC on May 13th that vaccinated people do not need to wear masks inside with other vaccinated people</a>, our shul decided on May 16th that we can shift to adapt to the updated CDC guidelines, as announced in an email:</span></p><blockquote>In light of the very recently issued CDC guidelines regarding mask wearing the Board voted to enact the following change to our Sha'arei Torah Participation Guidelines:<p></p><ol><li> For individuals who are fully vaccinated, wearing a mask in the sanctuary is now optional.</li><li>All un-vaccinated people must wear masks, including children 3 and up.</li><li>While no active vaccine verification process will be in place it is incumbent upon each participant to be honest and responsible to their fellow congregant, neighbor, and friends. Those who are not vaccinated are to adhere to our guidelines and wear a mask.</li></ol>
The Board acted quickly to make this change to help create the best environment for the late-night torah study event along with the upcoming days of our davening as we celebrate Shavuot together.<p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Walking into shul that night for the all-night Shavuot learning was a strange sight to see for me. I have gotten used to seeing masked faces in indoor spaces, so to see a room largely masked was - despite being expected - still a shock to me. While there were a couple of people who remained masked, it was more of a visceral reaction than an intellectual reaction, as I knew I would be unmasked, as would many others. That having been said, I felt kind of naked, as I felt strange in not wearing a mask in public.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That continued through yesterday, as it was the first Shabbat since prior to the pandemic that masks were not mandated [for vaccinated folks]. It's one thing to see people for all-night learning at Shavuot, but it's another thing to see Shabbat morning services where people are together in a regular fashion, yet...unmasked. It's still kind of strange for me to experience, yet it makes sense. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nevertheless, I am still glad that <a href="https://www.americanisraelite.com/news/local_news/article_c6019abc-b7f0-11eb-97b7-e31fdd85e1a4.html" target="_blank">our shul is following CDC guidelines closely in opening up</a> and I hope things go well with the process, as we continue on this journey to getting closer to pre-pandemic processes.<br /></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-21614931689182021032021-05-23T04:52:00.005-07:002021-05-23T04:52:48.559-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #71-#80<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmmorigin.html" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm61-70.html" target="_blank">#61-#70</a>, </span>here are #71-#80:</span></p>
#71 - Balancing Getting Things Done with Interpersonal Interactions
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#72 - Loss of a Boss
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#73 - Glad to Have Taken a Break from Podcasting
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#74 - Now using outlines for podcasting
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#75 - Whoops - I haven't been pushing out more awareness of my podcast😮
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#76 - Using New Social Media Tools
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#77 - Reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination
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#78 - Rabbinic Branding Should be Taught at Rabbinical Schools
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#79 - Are "Vaccinated" Shirts at Work Braggy?
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#80 - Excited to discover uploading videos to Academia.edu!
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Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-42198917216909773712021-05-19T13:49:00.010-07:002021-05-19T13:49:50.716-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #61-#70<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmmorigin.html" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, and <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/05/mmm51-60.html" target="_blank">#51-#60</a>, here are #61-#70:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">#61 - Answering "What's New?"<br /></span></p><p></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RpqbIkGS0Lw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#62 - </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Goodbye, 2020</span><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ase6PERzXU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#63 - </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Happy first Monday of 2021</span></p><center><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bL1-pW1nlCs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></center><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#64 - </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Excited for this first Tuesday of 2021</span></p><center><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cBiwDxDyF-Q" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></center><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#65 - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Newfound Appreciation for "Do or do not; there is no try"</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t_PQ8AenMFU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#66 - </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Getting Things Done (and Patience)</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bw61EkBu-qs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#67 - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"And" as a quasi-filler term?</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5hMNbo9zYEk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#68 - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Glad to Get Vaccinated</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0W55xo8Ute0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#69 - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Three Key Aspects For Video-Speaking</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1HvtPJIqZug" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#70 - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love feedback</span></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/93lhSVngfMg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-84294138748407768972021-05-06T05:17:00.000-07:002021-05-06T05:17:14.751-07:00Morning Minute Musing Series: #51-#60<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having catalogued my <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmmorigin.html" target="_blank"><i>Morning Minute Musing</i> series</a> episodes <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm1st10.html" target="_blank">#0-#10</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm11-20.html" target="_blank">#11-#20</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/03/mmm21-30.html" target="_blank">#21-#30</a>, <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm31-40.html" target="_blank">#31-#40</a>, and <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/04/mmm41-50.html.html" target="_blank">#41-#50</a>, here are #51-#60:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">#51 - Experimenting with Star Wars-related content on LinkedIn<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PuFfpzG4VeY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#52 - Content on LinkedIn isn't always sales pitches<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PEnidVSWldE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#53 - The Term "Overthinking" is Peculiar To Me<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hsPL4XMDYOQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#54 - Finally Taking YouTube Seriously<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PeL2_BRw5lo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#55 - Providing Information On Projects</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WNle47cxvgM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#56 - Discovering YouTube as an Awareness Play<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FeDOfs1ZUdI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#57 - Thankful/grateful for some firsts<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Unri8J5g8nQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#58 - Analysis Paralysis<br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vNKDW715Zu4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#59 - Thank you, Lucasfilm, for closing out 2020 strongly</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lG5IwHz_iZ0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br /><br />#60 - My Greatest Weakness: Lack of Monetizing Content<br /></span><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4K60pv3dixo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-73054969684969439702021-04-23T13:20:00.001-07:002021-04-23T13:20:44.716-07:00The Snyder Cut Doesn't Deserve All the Praise and Hype<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewKaplan/status/1383948095780655107" target="_blank">recently finished watching the Snyder Cut of <i>Justice League</i></a>, I mentioned it and a friend of mine shared some compelling thoughts on the movie. When I asked him where he was planning on sharing them, he didn't want to put his name behind these comments and allow drama around him to ensue. So, I volunteered my site.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LEN7dtr8-5c/YIMqkylXynI/AAAAAAAACN4/7_3rGQTGEtsZxOzNjjFxzYN-lGCD17g9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s711/Snyder%2BCut%2BJustice%2BLeague.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="711" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LEN7dtr8-5c/YIMqkylXynI/AAAAAAAACN4/7_3rGQTGEtsZxOzNjjFxzYN-lGCD17g9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Snyder%2BCut%2BJustice%2BLeague.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cannot take any credit for the following - this is a much better articulation than anything I would have written. However, I really like what he wrote about developing characters and bringing them to the screen, as opposed to what Marvel did. I thought the village girl smelling Aquaman's sweater was super unnecessary. I also found the introduction of Martian Manhunter to be a strange introduction. And that post-apocalyptic was so bizarrely unnecessary and ruined the pacing of the film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I will still say that it was an impressive movie and a massive improvement over Whedon's theatrical release, but these criticisms still stand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are my friend's words:</span> <br /></p><p>I feel like everyone praising the <i>Snyder Cut</i> is like the Emperor's New Clothes. I don't know where DC's mistakes end and Snyder’s begin, but, for one thing, they rushed to make a <i>Justice League</i> movie way too soon. Marvel took their time and had a few hits before bringing all the (already established in previous movies) characters together in <i>Avengers</i>. <br /><br />I believe that one of Snyder’s justifications for the length was that he had to introduce several characters. Well, then he shouldn't have done that. (Or maybe had to do that, if that was DC's fault.) Cyborg, Aquaman, and Flash should have had their standalone movies BEFORE <i>Justice League</i>. One of the few things I liked better about the <i>Snyder Cut</i> was that it gave us more of a Cyborg origin story. But that shouldn't have been shoved into the Justice League movie. The movie should have been a team origin story. Cyborg should have had his own movie first.<br /><br />Giving Snyder the benefit of the doubt that DC forced him to rush things along and make <i>Justice League </i>sooner, I still don't think the length was justified. Off the top of my head, moments like that village singing to Aquaman as he leaves was useless, especially since he came back to the village a few scenes later. (As well as that woman randomly smelling his shirt, which was weird.) </p><p>And Wonder Woman in that cavern that recounts the history of Darkseid's previous invasion was useless. She ends up sharing all of that with Bruce Wayne. In Whedon's version, where they just show her recounting the story to Bruce Wayne, I simply assumed it was part of the history she was taught while growing up. (“Hey mom. What’s that random building on the far side of the island I’m growing up on all about?” “Oh, that’s where we keep the motherbox. It’s actually an important part of our history so I should probably tell you about that.”) So that whole cavern scene in the Snyder Cut just made a way-too long movie longer than it should have been. </p><p>Plus, all the slow motion, including Flash reversing time. Too much extra stuff. Those are just some examples of scenes I felt made an already too long movie unnecessarily longer. <br /><br />In a way, Snyder also had a perfect storm that Joss Whedon didn't. Snyder had an extra few years to brainstorm, no set (theatrical) release date, and didn't have to worry about people sitting through a 4+ hour movie in one sitting in the theaters. So I'm very skeptical this was 100% his original vision for the theatrical release. <br /><br />Snyder also completely destroyed what an epic villain Darkseid is. He's the Thanos of the DC universe. But he put Darkseid in the flashback battle, instead of Steppenwolf like Whedon did. So our intro to Darkseid is him getting his butt kicked within a few minutes of his introduction, and fleeing Earth in shame. I can't take him as seriously as Thanos after a brief scene like that. Marvel spent years slowly building up Thanos. The first time we see Thanos is at the end of the first <i>Avengers</i>, and all we get is a sinister smile in the post-credits scene. And by the time he's fully introduced and fleshed out, he totally stole the show in <i>Infinity War</i>. He was the real star of that movie. We've already gotten Darkseid's intro and humiliating defeat. So Whedon did right by replacing Steppenwolf in that flashback scene. Which also made more sense of Steppenwolf’s exile.<br /><br />Another thing that made the <i>Snyder Cut</i> too long was that post-apocalyptic future scene towards the end. Furthermore, the placement of that was horrible; it ruined the pacing. Immediately before that, we had a proper, "And they lived happily ever after (for the time being)" moment, and then Snyder shoves in that really long, dark scene. If anything, it should have been earlier in the movie. <br /><br />He also introduces Martian Manhunter. And, apparently, he might have had plans to include the modern Green Lantern as well (not the one that dies in the flashback). Yet, he supposedly complained that he had too many characters to introduce in one film. If it was so important to introduce Martian Manhunter, then the character could have tagged along in another pre- or post-<i>Justice League </i>movie, like the introductions of Black Widow (<i>Iron Man 2</i>), Hawkeye (<i>Thor</i>) and Falcon (<i>Captain America Winter Soldier</i>).<br /><br />There was also too much of Lois Lane mourning Clark's death. I liked how it was sort of a twist in the Whedon version when she showed up for the first time as Batman's secret weapon to help Clark get his senses back. <br /><br />People are now saying "Bring back the Snyderverse." And I'm wondering - do they not remember how he only did an okay job with <i>Man of Steel</i>, and <i>Batman vs. Superman</i> was really panned? (People endlessly mocked the ridiculousness of the whole, "Save Martha!" line after that latter movie came out.) Batman spent most of that movie trying to kill Superman and, in <i>Justice League</i>, it's like Snyder completely ignored that fact and made it like Batman really missed and wanted to bring his BFF back to life.<br /><br />At the end of the day, I had fun watching it. And, like I said above, there were some things I thought were an improvement, such as fleshing out Cyborg more and how they brought Superman back to life was explained better and, therefore, made more sense. I am also happy for Snyder that he got his shot at this, especially given the circumstances under which he had to leave the last version. But everything else I wrote above makes me feel like it doesn’t deserve all the praise and hype it’s getting.</p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-3348795974995918372021-04-22T17:14:00.003-07:002021-04-23T13:20:27.533-07:00Podcast Appearance Discussing the 5th Episode of Falcon and Winter Soldier<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Muli, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Having previously<span> </span></span><a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/02/mcufeb2021podcast.html" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">discussed the 5th episode of<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">WandaVision</i><span> </span>on the True Believers Marvel MCU Podcast</a><span face="Muli, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, I returned to discuss the 5th episode of<span> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Falcon and The Winter Soldier</i><span face="Muli, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>on<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-gsn2w-10159fe" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d19a3; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">the podcast’s 12th episode</a><span face="Muli, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. We also squeezed in a discussion on the teaser trailer for<span> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings</i><span face="Muli, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">:</span></span></p>
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(With Bonus Shang-Chi Trailer Reaction)" width="100%"></iframe>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842658.post-87363049156244371512021-04-21T09:28:00.005-07:002021-04-21T09:34:04.101-07:00Creating MCU Maven, My MCU Fansite<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-19yqhwTeZJk/YIA5qAkYxzI/AAAAAAAACNg/gZxcq3SgPXwZkYchBON0afUdGxBQ_JRiACLcBGAsYHQ/s940/creating%2BMCU%2BMaven.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-19yqhwTeZJk/YIA5qAkYxzI/AAAAAAAACNg/gZxcq3SgPXwZkYchBON0afUdGxBQ_JRiACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/creating%2BMCU%2BMaven.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other</span><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> night after having recorded a second podcast appearance on an MCU podcast (having <a href="http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/2021/02/mcufeb2021podcast.html" target="_blank">appeared a first time</a>), I got caught up in a deliberation: should I continue posting the videos and other related content simply simply to my own personal social media channels (e.g. this site and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfoYkM1z1ucnbPQu_sB96qQ" target="_blank">my personal YouTube channel</a>) or should I create a separate MCU stream of social media and other things? </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">So I began channeling Gary Vaynerchuk's advice of "Just do both", so that's what I decided. I will continue posting the stuff on my own personal social media, but also I decided to create <b>MCU Maven</b>, with <a href="http://MCUMaven.com" target="_blank">a website</a> on </span><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://mcumaven.com/creation/" target="_blank">Sunday evening</a>. This also includes an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mcumaven/" target="_blank">Instagram account</a>, a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mcumaven" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>, and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMuephi30udjNydbt4ugHQ" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>. I have no intention of creating a separate Twitter account for MCU Maven, opting to stick with <a href="http://twitter.com/DrewKaplan" target="_blank">my personal account</a> for sharing MCU content. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">For the time being, I am planning on largely focussing on video content that I am publishing, including my podcast appearances, as well as my quick episode highlights. Another area concerns trailers, as I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1K3NwT3Vmc" target="_blank">did for <i>Falcon and Winter Soldier</i></a>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">While I don't have necessarily any further plans for MCU Maven, I am excited to play around with this new experiment as a dedicated place to share my content that I'm putting out and to share with other fans. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If people have suggestions or content they would like to see, I am very open to suggestions.</span></span></p>Drew Kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969020134924433950noreply@blogger.com0