Writing Archive

Earlier essays and seasonal pieces. Nothing here was deleted — only moved off the featured index. Return to Writing.

• Day in Court Before the Permit — Home Minyan, RLUIPA Exhaustion, and Non-Domination

  Becket SCOTUS amicus — RLUIPA exhaustion / day-in-court for a home Shabbat minyan; not a merits win; domination by delay as CR seasonal hinge.

• A Public Covenant for the Classroom — The Jewish Students’ Bill of Rights

  K-12 Jewish Students’ Bill of Rights — six standards as public covenant; ADL K-12 near-flat residual; announce ≠ district adoption.

• Statecraft or Scripture — Pacific Jerusalem Embassies and the Old Testament as Diplomacy

  AFP Pacific Jerusalem embassies — statecraft or scripture; spiritual motive where the aid ledger is tiny; Aliyah-adjacent prophecy as live diplomacy.

• Who Is a Jew — Status, Halacha, Heresy, and the Light That Remains

  Status yes/no (mother or true Bet Din); Halacha via the Thirteen Principles; denier still a Jew but a heretic; even a heretic can do teshuvah — Elul/RH/Ten Days/YK.

• Four Parties, Two Agreements — Surplus Arithmetic After List Lock

  After list lock — change-bloc surplus arithmetic; ToI PRIMARY two agreements; Lazar/Maariv Yashar 25 / Likud 19 / Winter 4.

• Yom Teruah Returns — When Memory Hands the Horn Back

  Day Two restores the blast after Shabbat’s zichron; memory prepared the ear; malchuyot, honest weights, civic appearance as covenantal.

• Zichron Teruah — When Ahavah and Yirah Share One Day

  RH on Shabbat — silent shofar as zichron teruah; ahavah and yirah as two wings; palace and table coincide.

• Remembrance of the Blast — 9/11 on Erev Rosh Hashanah 5787

  9/11 on Erev RH 5787 — memory as public work; covenant vs empire of fear; Jews as targets and citizens; diaspora security without flattening.

• The Permanent Architecture of the Jewish State

  Ha’azinu as witness — permanent architecture of sovereignty, limited power, and civic virtue under covenant.

• Ha’azinu and the Architecture of Non-Domination

  Ha’azinu as covenant document — free will, limited kingship, and non-domination under higher law on the RH threshold.

• Center for Humanity — Tree of Life, High Holidays, and a City That Remembers

  Tree of Life Center for Humanity + Federation High Holiday security — a city that remembers and guards.

• If They Were Wise: Considering the End on 28 Elul

  28 Elul — lu chakhemu; consider the end while the King is still in the field.

• See Now That I, I Am He

  Haazinu 5th / 28 Elul — last weekday shofar; see now that I, I am He.

• The Field Closes Tomorrow — Threshold Work on 28 Elul

  28 Elul — last full weekday; the Field closes tomorrow; threshold work before the palace.

• No Clean Sixty-One — List Lock, Winter’s Swing, and the Momentum Question

  Post-list-lock polls — no clean sixty-one; Winter’s swing; momentum as contested band.

• Who May Watch the Watchers — Voter Tracking, Privacy, and the Road to 27 October

  High Court on CEC real-time voter-tracking — privacy, GOTV, and who may watch turnout.

• Sanctions as Family Politics — Britain’s Settler Ban and the Export of a Cleavage

  UK sanctions top-up — family fight exported into state policy; attribute, verify, then argue.

• No Terror Army on the Ridge — Hermon, Iran’s Regime, and the Border Test

  Hermon ridge — no terror army on the border; Iran’s regime as the unfinished principal.

• Making the Material Spiritual — Type 2 Iran Cycle (Brent $100 / 27 Elul)

  Brent $100 / 27 Elul — dual title holds; make spirituality from material shock, not worship the print.

• Yisrael Af Al Pi Shechata — A Jew Remains a Jew, and the Covering Has a Name

  A Jew remains a Jew; ideology covers but does not revoke — name the covering, leave return open.

• I Will Hide My Face — And See What Their End Will Be

  Haazinu 4th / 27 Elul — I will hide My face; I will see what their end will be.

• The King Still in the Field, the Face That Hides, and the Work That Makes Spirituality Out of Matter

  27 Elul — King in the Field, hidden Face, and the work that makes spirituality out of matter.

• The Export of a Family Fight — Israel–UK as Traditional Jews vs Socialists

  Israel–UK as Traditional Jews vs Socialists — a family fight exported into Labour, campus, and communal bodies.

• The Rock Who Begot You, and the Wide Commandment

  Haazinu 3rd / 26 Elul — remember the Rock who begot; soak, salt, rinse; the wide commandment.

• Fat, and Kicked — Honey from the Rock

  Haazinu 3rd / 26 Elul — prosperity as the Elul test.

• Names at the Gate

  List-lock Type-2 — who is deposited before the deadline.

• Standing Firm — Rezaei Restricted Zone

  Iran’s zone claim beyond Hormuz; distinct from Chai Elul Standing Firm.

• Beyond Tolerance: Covenantal Pluralism

  Tolerance is a floor — covenant refuses domination of conscience.

• The Obligation to the Dead

  Vilnius, sacred ground, and covenantal memory before Rosh Hashanah.

• Remember the Days of Old

  Haazinu second aliyah — memory, song, and return on 25 Elul.

• Haazinu: The Song as Court Record

  Song as witness — court record in the mouth.

• Selichot and Rosh Hashanah: The King, the Ledger, and the Crown

  Elul into the Days of Awe — open ledger, coronation, judgment, memory.

• Field of Free Will — Non-Domination

  Elul free will and the architecture of non-domination.

• Hormuz Restricted Zone

  Iran’s restricted-zone claim and contested dominion at the strait.

• Maps That Disagree

  Israeli elections list-lock — polls that will not agree on 61.

• Nabatieh and the Sea

  Lebanon and Hormuz — contested dominion at the edge of the sea.

• The Infrastructure of Hatred

  CER — antisemitism as infrastructure, not mood.

• Covenantal Republicanism Master

  Master essay.

• Circumcise Heart

  Learned essay.

• Standing Firm (Chai Elul)

  Chai Elul essay.

• Parkinson’s (Work That Fills the Clock)

  Learned essay.

• Ki Tavo

  Substack: Covenantal Accountability in the Field. Also PDF.

• Nitzavim Standing This Day

  Learned essay.

• Hearing the Living Covenant (Vaetchanan, 8 Av)

  Vaetchanan, 8 Av 5786.

• Wisdom in the Sight of the Nations (Vaetchanan, 6 Av)

  Vaetchanan, 6 Av 5786.

• The Wave

  Lyrics and poem, including Foreign Waves.

• CFB Week Report — 6 Sep 2026

  College football Week 1 notes.

• Threshold Watch — CEC and Economist

  List-lock addendum.