Winter is Here. It's Amazing.
Tech Tribe Dispatch #88
💡 Think:
We’re sending the Dispatch a little early this week, for those who still want to sign up for tonight’s Chanukah party!
Tevet, the new Jewish month, is coldest of the year. Outside, the world, blanketed in snow and lethargic with frost, turns inwards.
We’ve reached our nadir.
But the coldest month is also the portent for the most light.
Yes, all revelation is gone. But when we look away from the externalities, we find that we gain warmth from the deepest parts within. We are no longer basking in the summery, superficial, warmth of G-d. We’ve matured. Now we are bound up in the deep, intimate embrace with the Al-mighty. Our essence, bound up, with that of G-d.
Winter is here. And it’s amazing!
Happy Chanukah.
🏃 DO:
🔥 ARE YOU READY FOR THE ULTIMATE 2020 CHANUKAH PARTY?
Join us on Tonight, December 17th for the World’s First Zoom Menorah!
We’ve built an awesome Menorah Robot that people unable to attend our socially distant IRL Chanukah party can Zoom into the part - from *within* the menorah!
🕎 Do you need a menorah? Reply to this email!
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🎬 Watch:
The greatest Chanukah movie ever made is a cartoon from the 80s featuring the voices of Leonard Nimoy, Paul Michael Glaser and Judd Hirsch.
Let us know in the comments if you’ve ever seen it before or what you think of it now!
🎉 Mazel:
👶 Michael and Aliyah Gluckstadt on the birth and bris of Zachary Marvin (Zecharia Meir)!
📚 Read:
🕎 Some advanced praise for our party tonight! (Did you RSVP yet?)
📡 Decades Before Zoom, The Rebbe Used Interactive Video to Connect the World: In 1989, the ‘Chanukah Live’ program showed satellite technology can advance connectedness, peace and unity
🏛️ Wait. Is the Menorah hidden in the Vatican? People would like to know . . .
🧔 Here’s Why I Handed Out Thirty Menorahs This Year. No, I am Not a Rabbi.
🌹 Lost Yiddish Words: Some feel the language contemporary Hasidim use in everyday life borrows from English and simplifies a richer linguistic ancestor—and yet is more alive
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