For fellow Jews who can't bring themselves to engage directly w/a Yom Kippur service this evening, I'm gonna post a guest sermon that my grandfather, the late Robert A. Riesman Sr., delivered on Yom Kippur in 1975 It's about the Book of Jonah It's beautiful—and deeply ironic, given his politics 🧵

Thank you so much, great stuff. Speaking as a christian, I thought the beef with Assyria was quite personal, given that they had basically practiced ancient genocide against Israel? It wasn't just forgiveness of a military empire, but a sparing of someone that had done huge damage to the chosen.

Thank you for this. Wishing you a meaningful day, whatever that may look like.

I loved this. And yes, so ironic. The story is about compassion for foreigners, perhaps enemies... One thing that I miss about Twitter is being able to share long threads like this through Threadreader.

Beautiful, indeed. So much to think about. Thank you.

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For some background, here's a long article I wrote about my grandfather a few years back: archive.is/bUFXZ/