Bread, Meat, or a Meal? Hebrew and Arabic as Cousins
Hebrew לחם means bread. Arabic لحم means meat. Trying to understand how that happened sent me back to Daniel, the korbanos, and a disagreement between Ibn Ezra and the Ramban.
Learning & Languages
Dew of Your Youth
טַל יַלְדֻתֶיךָ Tehillim 110:3
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.
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Faith & Practice
הרווח שבין מחיאות הכפיים
ה-ma של מיאזאקי, ‘שדה הריקות’ של נישיטאני וה״מה״ של משה מצביעים כולם על דבר אחד: המרחב הפנוי שבו אפשר לקבל.
Faith & Practice
The Space Between the Claps
Miyazaki’s ma, Nishitani’s field of emptiness, and Moshe’s mah all point to one thing: the open space where something can be received.
Tech & Tools
Pairing Elixir with Cheese, Part II: In Search of Something Salty
Embeddings taught my Elixir cheese catalog that cabernet means red wine, but a search for salty proved similarity isn’t the same as a good pairing.
Tech & Tools
Pairing Elixir with Cheese
I built a cheese catalog in Elixir, letting an LLM fill in flavor profiles and pairings — then used pattern matching to keep the data honest.
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Learning & Languages
Language learning as obsession, memory systems, and pedagogy.
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Faith & Practice
Jewish rituals, Torah journaling, spiritual processing, the Elul Logs.
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Heritage & Identity
Genealogy deep-dives, travel stories, cultural identity unraveling.
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Tech & Tools
Obsidian, Hugo tweaks, DevOps rants, scripts that almost worked.
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