Three years ago on Purim I accompanied my late father to the reading of the Megillah at a small Hasidic shtebel across the street from his home. The speech of the guest Rabbi got me so angry I began to write a very long piece on the Purim holiday. I managed to write two long parts,. Not long after my father’s physical condition deteriorated and he passed away, almost exactly three years ago. I was busy with more important things, so I never did get around to finishing it off. Every Purim I consider finishing it, but I always end up deciding not to.
But yesterday I saw in the New York Times a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg putting forth Bibi’s thesis that Iran is the new Amalek. I was so floored I decided I must finish up the piece. I will over the next few days. In the interim, if you like, you can busy yourself reading the first two parts, which are actually more literary analysis than political commentary. Here is Part I and here is Part II.
On other fronts, the blog is now on Twitter! From the beginning there has been an RSS feed, but personally I never use RSS. I recently joined Twitter because I am taking an online course on iPhone development and doing a Twitter app is an exercise. While the social networking partof Twitter is of no interest to me (since I despise humanity), I have found some good uses for it, incuding using Twitter as a substitute for RSS (I follow some vendors and some tech blogs I like).
I don’t have comments on this blog, because I don’t have the time to get into long conversations on very complex topics. I do occassionally answer people’s emails if they are thoughtful and interesting, but I don’t feel obligated if I dont want to. If you send me a, ahem, message (I won’t use the other word) on Twitter I might more likely respond. I tend to get wordy (have you noticed?) and the 140 character limit is perfect for short, pithy responses that don’t waste too much time.