Operating a homelab as an observant Jew raises questions that no modern operations manual addresses. Which jobs can run autonomously through Shabbat. Which alerts may wake me.
Two souls reunite through sanctified obligation
Faith in God unites, guides, and saves humanity.
Sharvit’s study enriches Jewish faith and messianic hope.
Rosenzweig and Levinas uplift Jewish faith through goodness.
God’s blessing guided my proposal and marriage journey.
The wrong question is whether you can use a phone on Shabbat. The right question, for those of us who build the systems, is what halakhic status the work of our machines holds while we rest.
Two groups misunderstand am segulah for opposite reasons. Anti-Semites read it as supremacy. Interfaith softeners read it as embarrassing exclusivism to be flattened. Both readings are wrong, and the actual content is harder than either.
Stubbornness becomes destiny under divine justice
The English word charity descends from Latin caritas, love. The Hebrew word tzedakah descends from tzedek, justice. Translating one as the other does not just lose a connotation; it inverts the underlying legal and ethical structure. The classical Jewish concept is harder, more demanding, and more interesting than what English makes of it.