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Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:02:48 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about We Were Here, Hades, Subnautica, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, Hell Is Us, Saints Row, Sektori. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
PREVIEW — James Tabor — Historical Investigation: Roman Soldier as Potential Father of Jesus. Tabor conducts historical investigation of ancient textual evidence suggesting Pantera as potential alternative name associated with Jesus's biological father. Tabor examines archaeological evidence including the tombstone of Roman soldier Julius Abdes Pantera, originally from Jerusalem vicinity, exploring whether this military officer rather than canonical Joseph was Jesus's biological father. Tabor emphasizes this historical hypothesis challenges traditional religious narratives while raising complex questions regarding Gospel documentary reliability and the relationship between historical evidence and theological tradition within early Christian communities.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Send us a textEpisode 95 of 'The Open Forum' where Christians, Atheists are invited to join the discussion. Guests will be invited on a first come first serve basis. Please note we can only have a maximum of 10 panelists (including efdawah panelists) at any one time.Link to join the panel: TEARS OF GAZA Donation Link: https://givebrite.com/gazacrisis© 2025 EFDawah All Rights ReservedDonate to Ijaz's medical expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/ijazthetriniWebsite : https://efdawah.com/https://www.patreon.com/EFDawahhttps://gofund.me/7cb27d17https://www.paypal.me/EFDawahhttps://www.cashbackmycharity.co.uk/?...https://www.facebook.com/efdawah/Timestamps:00:00 - Intro01:05 - EF Dawah Panel join: Catching Up02:05 - Donation Appeal for Br. Ijaz03:01 - Format of the Stream04:53 - Book recommendation about the Bible07:01 - Textual criticism of manuscripts of the Bible18:24 - Issues with reconstruction of the Bible 23:03 - Pagan influences on Christian theology29:23 - Inviting Guests30:34 - Frank (Christian) joins32:52 - Debate on historicity of biblical manuscripts37:37 - Unreliability of the Gospels & their Authors45:54 - Aaron (Jew) joins: shares his background 49:21 - Analysing the biblical manuscripts' historicity52:53 - Christian claims about the bible's reliability 54:11 - Refutation of the claims about the Bible58:28 - Brew (Christian) joins58:55 - Coexistence of Muslims & Christians1:01:17 - Discussion on1:04:02 - Problems with modernization of religions 1:08:19 - Discussing the downfall of modern society1:12:09 - Evaluating the issues with Christians today1:17:51 - Discourse on God's nature & existence1:21:16 - Examining the beliefs of Brew1:27:52 - Debate on Immigration1:31:25 - Advice to Brew about Family1:37:23 - Dawah to Brew 1:40:48 - Being Inspirational despite health issues1:45:10 - Message to Brew 1:48:24 - Fighter (Muslim) joins: shares his beliefs1:49:41 - Discourse on Vigilante justice in Islam1:55:26 - Reality of Islamic Extremist Groups2:02:10 - Ends never justify the means2:04:45 - Br. Sarmad joins2:05:25 - Message to Muslims about fringe groups 2:17:11 - Hypocrisy of the West about human rights2:21:01 - Advice for Muslims2:34:11 - Br. Da'wah Trucker joins2:36:11 - Inosa (Christian) joins3:18:09 - Closing Remarks & Wrapping UpSupport the show
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Wendell H. Marsh (Mohammad VI Polytechnic University) to explore his groundbreaking book Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025). Marsh takes us deep into the intellectual world of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a towering figure of West African Islamic scholarship, whose bilingual manuscript History of the Blacks becomes a lens for examining colonial disruption, epistemic resistance, and the literary life of African thought. We unpack how Marsh reimagines African Islamic texts not as anthropological artifacts but as living documents of literary and philosophical engagement. From Kamara's struggle to publish in colonial Senegal to the broader implications for postcolonial humanities, this conversation challenges us to rethink what counts as knowledge, who gets to preserve it, and how textual traditions shape futures across continents.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Interview with Darren Shu Jeng Ting, MBChB, PhD, author of Performance of Foundation Models vs Physicians in Textual and Multimodal Ophthalmological Questions. Hosted by Neil Bressler, MD. Related Content: Performance of Foundation Models vs Physicians in Textual and Multimodal Ophthalmological Questions Mastering Ophthalmology in the Digital Age
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Textual study of the daily section of Tanya, the foundational text of Chassidic philosophy.
Segment 1 • Todd recently eulogized Phil Johnson — but Phil's alive and well. • Why wait to appreciate people until after they're gone? • Todd takes a walk down memory lane with some notes from his very first Bible. Segment 2 • Todd rediscovers thoughts, questions, and even doubts about Scripture's reliability. • Textual criticism confirms the New Testament is trustworthy and accurately preserved. • The gospel's counterintuitive nature proves its divine origin — no human would invent a Savior who dies for His enemies. Segment 3 • Reflections on faith, freedom, and misplaced celebrations: July 4th fireworks and Christmas commercialism. • Catholic and Mormon doctrines questioned and dissected. • When faith drifts from Scripture, truth gets muddied and lost in tradition. Segment 4 • Mormons teach three strange “kingdoms of glory”. • Christ sets believers apart for one destiny, and one heavenly kingdom. • Catholic and Mormon doctrines don't appear overnight; they grow when Scripture is rejected as the final authority. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn't be more thankful for you if we tried!
In our latest episode, Robby and Tim talk with Will McGugan, creator of the Rich and Textual open source projects and founder of Textualize and Toad (not yet released), about the challenges of turning beloved open-source projects into real businesses. Despite Rich and Textual's huge adoption in the Python community, he says he waited too long to monetize, focused too much on technical perfection, and tried to build infrastructure before a killer product. He also burned himself out and wishes he had simplified and hired earlier.McGugan believes the terminal is a neglected but essential interface, prized for speed and flow. Rich and Textual modernized terminal output, but monetizing open-core dev tools proved difficult. His new project, Toad, aims to be a universal AI front-end for the terminal - open-source, protocol-driven, and able to plug into different agent back ends like Claude and others. The goal: seamless workflows and modern UX in the environment developers already live in.Big takeaways: monetize early, ship a killer app sooner, don't overcomplicate structure, and avoid grinding yourself into the ground.
5. Creation, Ragnarok, and the Cautionary Tale of Post-Conversion Norse Mythology Eleanor Barraclough Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Accessing Norse belief systems requires caution because the main textual sources, such as the Prose and Poetic Eddas, were written in the thirteenth century in Iceland, after the conversion to Christianity. Snorri Sturluson, a poet and politician murdered in thirteenth-century Iceland, composed the Prose Edda as a handbook to preserve the myths. Norse creation mythology describes life beginning in Ginungagap, the eternal void where the fire world (Muspel) met the ice world (Niflheim), forming the primordial ice giant Ymir. The mythological destruction, Ragnarok (the doom of the gods), involves the fire giant Surtr and Loki arriving on Naglfar, a ship terrifyingly constructed from the fingernails of dead people. 1920
Topics covered in this episode: Cyclopts: A CLI library * The future of Python web services looks GIL-free* * Free-threaded GC* * Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers* Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Cyclopts: A CLI library A CLI library that fixes 13 annoying issues in Typer Much of Cyclopts was inspired by the excellent Typer library. Despite its popularity, Typer has some traits that I (and others) find less than ideal. Part of this stems from Typer's age, with its first release in late 2019, soon after Python 3.8's release. Because of this, most of its API was initially designed around assigning proxy default values to function parameters. This made the decorated command functions difficult to use outside of Typer. With the introduction of Annotated in python3.9, type-hints were able to be directly annotated, allowing for the removal of these proxy defaults. The 13: Argument vs Option Positional or Keyword Arguments Choices Default Command Docstring Parsing Decorator Parentheses Optional Lists Keyword Multiple Values Flag Negation Help Defaults Validation Union/Optional Support Adding a Version Flag Documentation Brian #2: The future of Python web services looks GIL-free Giovanni Barillari “Python 3.14 was released at the beginning of the month. This release was particularly interesting to me because of the improvements on the "free-threaded" variant of the interpreter. Specifically, the two major changes when compared to the free-threaded variant of Python 3.13 are: Free-threaded support now reached phase II, meaning it's no longer considered experimental The implementation is now completed, meaning that the workarounds introduced in Python 3.13 to make code sound without the GIL are now gone, and the free-threaded implementation now uses the adaptive interpreter as the GIL enabled variant. These facts, plus additional optimizations make the performance penalty now way better, moving from a 35% penalty to a 5-10% difference.” Lots of benchmark data, both ASGI and WSGI Lots of great thoughts in the “Final Thoughts” section, including “On asynchronous protocols like ASGI, despite the fact the concurrency model doesn't change that much – we shift from one event loop per process, to one event loop per thread – just the fact we no longer need to scale memory allocations just to use more CPU is a massive improvement. ” “… for everybody out there coding a web application in Python: simplifying the concurrency paradigms and the deployment process of such applications is a good thing.” “… to me the future of Python web services looks GIL-free.” Michael #3: Free-threaded GC The free-threaded build of Python uses a different garbage collector implementation than the default GIL-enabled build. The Default GC: In the standard CPython build, every object that supports garbage collection (like lists or dictionaries) is part of a per-interpreter, doubly-linked list. The list pointers are contained in a PyGC_Head structure. The Free-Threaded GC: Takes a different approach. It scraps the PyGC_Head structure and the linked list entirely. Instead, it allocates these objects from a special memory heap managed by the "mimalloc" library. This allows the GC to find and iterate over all collectible objects using mimalloc's data structures, without needing to link them together manually. The free-threaded GC does NOT support "generations” By marking all objects reachable from these known roots, we can identify a large set of objects that are definitely alive and exclude them from the more expensive cycle-finding part of the GC process. Overall speedup of the free-threaded GC collection is between 2 and 12 times faster than the 3.13 version. Brian #4: Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers Will McGugan commented on a LI post by Bob Belderbos regarding lazy importing “I'm excited about this PEP. I wrote a lazy loading mechanism for Textual's widgets. Without it, the entire widget library would be imported even if you needed just one widget. Having this as a core language feature would make me very happy.” https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/src/textual/widgets/__init__.py Well, I was excited about Will's example for how to, essentially, allow users of your package to import only the part they need, when they need it. So I wrote up my thoughts and an explainer for how this works. Special thanks to Trey Hunner's Every dunder method in Python, which I referenced to understand the difference between __getattr__() and __getattribute__(). Extras Brian: Started writing a book on Test Driven Development. Should have an announcement in a week or so. I want to give folks access while I'm writing it, so I'll be opening it up for early access as soon as I have 2-3 chapters ready to review. Sign up for the pythontest newsletter if you'd like to be informed right away when it's ready. Or stay tuned here. Michael: New course!!! Agentic AI Programming for Python I'll be on Vanishing Gradients as a guest talking book + ai for data scientists OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas https://github.com/jamesabel/ismain by James Abel Pets in PyCharm Joke: You're absolutely right
Abstract: Numerous discussions of the similarities between the LDS temple endowment and Masonic rites exist, which give the impression that the two overlap considerably. Rather than focus on the similarities themselves, this paper seeks to quantify how much the two rites overlap by performing a textual analysis. In the first section, the named entities, clothing, props, and participants in the ceremonies are compared. In the second section a line-by-line comparison identifies similar wording, structure, and meaning in the text, which results in a 10% to 17% overlap between the texts. The third section involves comparing sequences of one to five words in the text. For this task, three additional texts were included for comparison: portions of the Pearl of Great Price, the Odd Fellows rite, and the mystagogical catechesis (an initiation into mysteries). In some instances, comparisons indicate more similarity between the Masonic and Odd Fellows ceremonies than between the LDS endowment and the Masonic rite. The post A Textual Comparison of Masonic Rites and the LDS Temple Endowment first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.
In this conversation, Dr. Mark Strauss discusses his journey into Bible translation, the evolution of the NIV over the years, and the current state of Bible translation. He shares insights into the translation process, the philosophy behind different translation approaches, and the significance of understanding ancient idioms. The discussion also touches on the historical context of the King James Version and its relevance today. In this conversation, Dr. Strauss also discusses the complexities of Bible translation, the challenge of textual criticism, the influence of theological biases, and the highly charged discussion about gender-inclusive language. He emphasizes the need for translators to balance accuracy with readability and addresses common misconceptions about translation work. The discussion also highlights the significance of choosing the right translation for personal and communal use, as well as the challenges faced by translation committees in navigating denominational differences.Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.bibleandtheologymatters.com/
Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025), is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa. The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara (1864–1945) wrote History of the Blacks, a monumental history of West Africa, in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. He sought to publish a bilingual Arabic and French edition of the book by working with humanists in colonial institutions, but the project was ultimately undermined by the disregard of the French state. Textual Life considers Kamara's story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change. Wendell H. Marsh argues that Kamara's scholarship reflected what he calls the textual attitude, an orientation to the world mediated by reading. Colonial humanists shared this attitude even while upholding racial and religious hierarchies, and they took an interest in African texts and traditions. The bureaucrats and technocrats who succeeded them, however, disdained such dialogue—for reasons that bear a striking resemblance to the algorithmic antihumanism that is ascendant today. Drawing on Kamara's body of work, colonial archival documents, and postcolonial knowledge production within Senegal, Textual Life offers a decolonial vision of the humanities. By engaging with African and Muslim intellectual resources, Marsh shows how thinkers like Kamara who were subjected to colonialism can help us find a future after empire. Wendell Marsh is Associate Professor of African Literature and Philosophy at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Madina Thiam is Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network