Two Pockets For the Internet
Tech Tribe Dispatch 188
💡 Think:
Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa taught that every person should have have two pockets, with note in each. In one pocket, “the universe was created for me,” and in the other pocket, “I am mere dust and ashes.”
There are two teachings, in Hayom Yom, the daily collection of aphorisms and thoughts compiled by the Rebbe, that I think are a must for the Internet:
In one pocket:
“Keep away - to the ultimate degree - from a campaign of attack. Not because we lack the means of prevailing or because of timorousness, but because we must consecrate all our strength exclusively to strengthening our own structure, the edifice of Torah and mitzvot performed in holiness and purity”.1
In the other:
“We are "day workers." Day means light. Our work is to illuminate, to enlighten the world with the light of the Torah…”2
🏃 DO:
🎤 Join us on Wednesday, January 25th for our next Twelvex talk with Michal Schick, Jordan Hoffman and Liel Leibovits — Twelvex: From Golems to Robots
🥩 Join us Friday, February 3rd for #FirstFridaySociety: Can We Grow Kosher Cheeseburgers? Limited seats.
🍷 SXSW is rapidly approaching and with it: #openShabbat! Last year we SOLD OUT our 400 seats. Don’t wait for the last minute this year.
🤖 Our Curated Conversation: Can Rabbis Be Robots is coming to you! SnapShalom - see you in office this Wednesday, January 18th.
Jewglers, catch it in the NYC office (or on Google Meet) on Thursday, February 9th!
🎧 Listen:
Beautiful song set to the words of Afilu b'hastara, composed by Tech Tribe sessions musician Daniel Zamir featuring Berry Sakharof and Eviatar Banai.
🎉 Mazel:
💁♀️A big shoutout for our in house artist (and Mordechai’s sister), Sefira Lightstone on being profiled in Meet 10 Anglo Israeli women making new Judaica.
🎂 Happy Birthday to Aly Silverberg!
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📚 Read:
🐁 Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property.
🕯️ To My Baby Sister in Heaven. A Virgin Islands emissary finds light in a dark, cold world.
🎓 High-Tech Execs Mentor Underserved Israeli College Students. Project Up-Start sponsors hope to spread Chabad on Campus project worldwide:
🤖 Joanna Stern asks if it’s possible to Cheat at an AP Lit class with ChatGPT
🔥 Lit:
This week, light Shabbat candles in NYC at 4:33
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😍 Fave:
A shoutout for two amazing Tech Tribe members now available to join your team.
Shoshana Wodinsky, a stellar ad tech reporter, is moving on from Market Watch.
Simon Firestone, is a great Data Scientist, will be leaving Meta and is ready to enhance your company!
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