Language. Faith. Memory. Systems.
A blog about overthinking everything that matters (and some things that don't).
Dew of Your Youth is about thought, memory, matters of faith, and the systems we build to keep our thinking from dissolving.
Jewish texts, personal workflows, family archives, and languages learned along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to organize your soul with Markdown, welcome.
Language learning as obsession, memory systems, and pedagogy.
Obsidian, Hugo tweaks, DevOps rants, scripts that almost worked.
Jewish rituals, Torah journaling, spiritual processing, the Elul Logs.
Genealogy deep-dives, travel stories, cultural identity unraveling.
Heritage & Identity
Fred Green and the Rambach Photograph
Jan 9, 2026 2 minutesFamily recollections about a missing Rambach portrait by Fred Green, his early work with Boston police photography, and his boxing ties, recorded as oral history pending documentation.
Heritage & Identity
Fredrick Philip Green (1865–1939)
Jan 1, 2026 5 minutesA 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.
Faith & Practice
Kabbalah and the Boundaries of Tradition
Dec 26, 2025 4 minutesHow 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
Faith & Practice
From Insight to Verdict
Dec 18, 2025 One minuteA 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.”
Heritage & Identity
Judeo-Arabic Signage in Djerba
Nov 6, 2025 2 minutesSome signage from my recent trip to Djerba
