A genealogical and family-history note on Fredrick Philip Green (Shraga Feivel), tracing his origins from Lithuania to Sweden and the United States, and distinguishing between documented records and family memory.
How Kabbalah became woven into normative Judaism despite disputed origins, and why disciplined restraint beats revisionist erasure.
Featured image by
Roy Lindman,
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A critique of Elon Gilad’s confident pop-Judaism: how narrow philological claims about sufganiyot, meat-and-milk, and Mishnah variants get inflated into sweeping takedowns while ignoring broader sources and transmission. The piece argues for proportion—respecting evidence, the weight of commentary, and oral tradition instead of cherry-picked “gotchas.”
Some signage from my recent trip to Djerba
A review of the sources on Avrum Saranduk
I will now start a weekly vlog in Hebrew - similar to what I do with the Daily Derja.
What I do when a word refuses to stick—why brute force fails, and how I hack the brain’s tagging system.
For Nerds! Tracking Elul in Obsidian: Logs, Charts, and Scripts
Elul logs - the next iteration!
Some tips and tricks I use with Obsidian. Plugin recommendations and workflows.
