the key in the dream captured me
and i was scrolling through twitter
and
one of the rabbis i follow
was responding to someone
who wrote an article about
i actually think
it was referencing shavout
more that the daf yomi
but
perhaps it referenced both
i've not read her article yet
but
one of the rabbis
said
that's why i can never get into the daf yomi
i'm reading a perfectly reasonable argument
about who owns half a chicken
and then
someone decides to compare our relationship to god
with an abusive relationship
i might be paraphrasing
and then
another rabbi i follow
said to her
yeah
the daf yomi is for me
like trying to drink water from a fire hose
and
there's clearly something wrong with me
because i said
hey
that sounds like a key
what is this daf yomi thing
and
it isn't really all that easy to get the kind of simple answer to that
that you can of most things
but then
i found that interview
and
i thought
this is not something you have any reason
to expect is right for you
if ya can't read proust
what da fuk
but
i'm interested in the talmud
i don't want to read the bible
or torah
or whatever permutation
but
the commentary
the context
and the argument
and the whole culture around it
has kinda fascinated me for a while
and
i don't want to just read it
because i don't think i have enough background
for that to be interesting yet
i expect it would be hard to read
because my attention span
is no longer suited to philosophical argument
those trolly articles
made that clear
so
what are my options
well
there are some youtubes
but i'm having some trouble wading through that
i need the right kind of guide
there are some apps
i don't think they explain
i think they are just text
but
i have not fully explored yet
and then there's this
which seems very promising
i am not sure why i follow so many rabbis
but whatever you might say about the algorithm
i get rabbis in my feed every day
and not just rabbis
i get enough of a sub-set
to know it's internally called jwitter
so
why
when the rabbis aren't keen on it
am i trying to pick up the gaultlet
idk
and maybe i won't ultimately
but this convinced me
it was at least a key
