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Tilde Co-Founder, OSS enthusiast and world traveler.

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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      when I was a kid I once asked a neighbor what could be wrong with reading certain secular books. "Surely our faith should be strong 1/

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    2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      enough to withstand whatever questions these materials throw at us?" He told me even the discussion was heretical & with a straight 2/

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      face told me it was axiomatic. "It's apikorsus (heresy) because the Rambam (Maimonides) said so. Who are you to question that?" 3/

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    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      Of course the Rambam was more enlightened than that and after searching I realized he had said no such thing, but that never stopped 4/

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    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      anyone from making pointlessly wrong claims like that that could never be falsified in practice. I often asked people what the point 5/

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    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      of disbelieving in evolution was. It's not required by the faith 6/

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    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      (aforementioned Rambam believed Genesis allegorical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of_Genesis#Rabbinic_teachings …) & sets up an unnecessary confrontation with science 7/

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    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      the bubble was so complete that it was almost impossible to even get anyone to engage with these questions in a serious way 8/

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    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      so when equally nonsensical political ideas make their way into the filter bubble, they can be frustratingly difficult to correct 9/

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    10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      to be clear, I had a number of great teachers and mentors who put up with my questioning, and that process helped me establish a 10/

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @yoz

      personal rhythm for questioning assumed axioms in a semi-hostile environment, which has served me well. But on the whole 11/

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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @yoz

          the environment is hermetically sealed and hostile to new information, which is unfortunately diff from historical jewish culture 12/12

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        3. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          This thread puts the Orthodox Jewish community in one big basket. I find that disturbing, and surprising coming from you. @yoz

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        4. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @wycats

          I never got the sense you were only exposed to a limited segment of the community. So many wouldn't fit this description. @yoz

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        5. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @wycats

          E.g., I can't count how many times throughout my education we had lectures dedicated to the Genesis/evolution problem. @yoz

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        6. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @wycats

          And you have rabbis like R. Soloveitchik (https://books.google.co.il/books?id=rIhh_Rx7utwC&pg=PA5&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false …) and R. Aviner (http://www.ravaviner.com/2009/07/were-there-dinosaurs.html …, citing R. Kook) @yoz 1/

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        7. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @wycats

          just to name a few examples, who aren't really bothered by the issue and published stuff to that effect. The hiding and @yoz 2/

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        8. Ariel Caplan‏ @amcaplan 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @wycats

          witch-hunting were never present or relevant in my community or for my mentors and teachers. Don't paint us all the same. @yoz /3

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        9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 2 Nov 2016
          Replying to @amcaplan @yoz

          I've said many times to many people that the saving grace of my upbringing was that there's still a healthy dose of 1/

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