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Two certain MAGs looked around in confusion... Then V5 roared when he saw Jeb and began chasing him.

“...ah shit, here we go...“ Agent groaned.

[V5 and the AAHW Mag have been added!]

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Back when F-4C Phantom II is called F-110A Spectre

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Parashat Pinəḥas, 5784

(This dəvar was originally given at Kolot Chayeinu on the morning of Saturday, 27 July, 2024.)

Today's Torah portion comes from the book of Numbers, which is called that in English because it has so many lists of numbers of things. Several of those lists occur in today's portion, including a second census of all the Israelites in the wilderness. You may remember a similar census being taken way back at the beginning of the book, some forty years ago or so; we have to do another one here because the entire generation that was counted in that first census has since died. Or, well, that entire generation minus Mosheh (for now), Yəhoshú’a and Kaleiv, and everyone who wasn't yet 20 the first time around. But still, close enough. An entire generation, give or take, minus those spared by G-d or fate or what have you.

Perhaps because it's a census of the next generation, this list of Israelite adults contains some little nuggets of history along with the tribal tallies. We hear about Qóraḥ's rebellion, for example, and then we hear that the sons of Qóraḥ did not die.

It gets an entire verse all to itself, Numbers 26:11: And the sons of Qóraḥ did not die.

What do we make of this?

One approach is to take it very literally: Qóraḥ had some sons, they didn't rebel with him, they didn't die. That's the approach Ibn Ezra — a scholar from early twelfth-century Spain — takes. He notes that several psalms are attributed to the tribe of Qóraḥ, surmises that these must be Qóraḥ's descendants, and explains that some of Qóraḥ's kids must therefore have survived. Easy enough.

But if you know anything about our tradition, you know that our sages of blessed memory are seldom satisfied with a simple surface reading, and they have some wild things to extrapolate from this one verse. The Babylonian Talmud, in tractate Sanhedrin, page 110a, records a story from Rabba bar bar Ḥanah. He says he met a guy this one time who brought him to a crack in the earth that belched steam and heat so intense it could singe wet wool when passed over it at spear's length. And yet when bar bar Ḥanah listened, he heard the sons of Qóraḥ singing songs of praise from the underworld.

The Talmud doesn't cite a Biblical prooftext for this story, but we can find an allusion to it in Numbers 26:11 itself: If you take the first letter of each word in the verse, you get ו, ק, ל, ם, which together spell vəqolam, "and their voice". The sons of Qóraḥ did not die, and neither did their voice. If you listen, perhaps you can still hear it today.

What does that voice tell us? If you take Mosheh's side of the dispute, which the sages certainly do, this is a warning that no victory is final, that there will never be a perfectly stable society where no one seeks to challenge the status quo. It's a warning against resting on your laurels, a warning that leadership requires constant attention to discontent among those you hope to lead.

If you take Qóraḥ's side, tho, it suggests that defeat need not be final either, that a setback, however ruinous, to the cause of pursuing justice is never the end of the story — the sons of Qóraḥ did not die; another generation will come and carry on the fight.

This reading echoes Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's quip that dissents speak to a future age, that the dissenter's hope is that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.[1] Dissents like these remind us that the past is not flat, that the majority or official opinions aren't the only ones that existed, and that the world does not always move in a tidy line from less to more just.

Our tradition is full of dissents such as these. One that I come back to regularly as I build my own Jewish life is a dissent from Rabbi Howard Handler from 1992. At the time, Rabbi Handler was a member of the Conservative Movement's halakhic authority, the Committee for Jewish Law and Standards, which was debating whether to alter the traditional ban on homosexuality. The majority opinions adopted by the Committee reflect the ambient homophobia of the time — the consensus position includes a clause saying they will not accept "avowed homosexuals'' into the movement's rabbinical school, for example — but Rabbi Handler's dissent is having none of it. He writes:

The CJLS has made gay and lesbian Jews second-class citizens or, even worse, a tolerated minority. . . . The policies are discriminatory at best and profoundly oppressive in any event. There is no reason for us to hesitate in accepting gays and lesbians into our community with complete equality.[2]

In some ways, this dissent, with its insistence on full equality for queer Jews, goes further than the Committee would go some fourteen years later, in 2006, when the Committee finally approved a təshuvah abrogating their halakhic ban.[3] His dissent is a reminder of what could have been, that there is a radical tradition there for us in the past, no matter how hard some have tried to bury it.

Rabbi Handler wrote these words some ten years into the AIDS crisis. Despite Fukuyama's "End of History", it was a time of tremendous upheaval, uncertainty, and death. In my undergraduate gay and lesbian history class, the lecture on the early years of the crisis was the one lecture my professor asked us not to take notes on. Instead of his usual academic analysis, he just showed us pictures from when he was in college, some 40 years ago or so, pictures of his friends, with little annecdotes about each of them in turn. This one would always make sure you got home safe from the party, no matter how drunk you were. This one was so beautiful, but so annoying to be in class with. This one sang so enthusiastically, even if he wasn't always the most in tune. Each of these stories, a whole hour's worth of them, ended in the same way: And he died. And he died. And he died. A whole generation, give or take, minus those spared by G-d or fate or what have you.

In 1993, Rabbi Handler was outed and fired from the congregation where he had had a pulpit. He was kicked off the Committee for Jewish Law and Standards, and his former colleagues debated whether the movement should help him find a new job. In a decision stark in its cruelty, fourteen of these rabbis voted to deny him that help. He was left without a rabbinical position.

But the sons of Qóraḥ did not die.

Queer Jews did not simply go away. We certainly didn't get any quieter. 1992 was not the first time we asserted our halakhic rights, and it would not be the last. The struggle is far from over, but more and more, these days, it's the people who would shame us who are themselves shamed instead.

We are living in a time of tremendous upheaval, uncertainty, and death. (When are we not!) I don't know how it will all turn out. I don't know what the ledger will say when the final case has been tried and decided, the final verdict rendered with no appeal left in any court human or Divine. I don't know where things will stand when history truly, finally ends. I don't know what happens when that day comes.

But I do know it won't come for a while yet. And so even when the prospects seem bleak, when I am in despair and the possibility of bending the universe towards justice seems faint, remote, impossible, even then I keep working, keep putting my little voice out into the world. Because I want there to be a record of it. Because I want people to know I was here. Because, even if things don't all turn out the way I hope they will, perhaps another generation in some future age will be able to say "Look! Even back then, there were people who thought like this, who fought for these ideals, however imperfectly and unsuccessfully.''

Because the sons of Qóraḥ will not die.

Shabbat shalom.

This quote has been widely repeated, which makes it difficult to track down a precise source. If anyone can point me to the origin, I'd love to cite it more properly.

Rabbi Howard Handler, “In the Image of G-d: A Dissent in Favor of the Full Equality of Gay and Lesbian Jews into the Community of Conservative Judaism”, 25 Mar, 1992 (PDF)

In my experience, many Conservative shuls today go much further than even the most permissive ruling in 2006 would theoretically allow. The ruling in question explicitly says that bisexual Jews must only enter into relationships with Jews of the "opposite" binary gender, and bars gay and lesbian Jews from sanctifying their relationships with the rite of qidushin. (Instead, they create an alternate rite that heterosexual Jews are not supposed to use — it's very marriage vs civil union, honestly.[4]) I have been in many Conservative shuls in the past ~8 years where I would be, frankly, shocked if the suggestion that bisexuals halakhically ought to limit themselves to heterosexuality were met with anything other than shocked condemnation. There is the Law, and then there is the Community, and I think it's important to remember that they're not always in synch.[5]

Or at least, that's the theory. In 2017, the CJLS approved a təshuvah about trans people that, among other things, allows married Jews to stay married after one of them transitions, meaning that you can, in fact, have two men or two women joined in qidushin or a man and a woman joined with the bərit ahuvim after all. But I digress...

That said, from what I gather, both the 1992 and 2006 discussions of gay and lesbian Jews in the CJLS were acrimonious and distressing for most of those involved, so I understand why they're not exactly eager to dredge the whole thing up again.

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F-110A Spectre, later redesignated as F-4C Phantom.

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Polaroid 110a (4x5 mod), 127mm f4.7

Delta 100, 510 Pyro 1:100

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(8/12/1959) USS Coral Sea CVA-43 undergoing extensive overhaul SCB-110A at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.USN Image

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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony opus 110a 1st mov HD version

An excerpt from one of Shostakovich's most discussed and controversial works. The nature of this work lies in between of various theories. It is at times auto-biographical, anti-war, anti-totalitarianism, anti-fascist, in horror of the apocalyptic Dresden destruction but always humanitarian, dramatic and masterful.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony opus 110a 1st movement - Largo Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor https://youtu.be/elKg-oZYeUk

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Phantom Friday...

The first Air Force PHANTOM wasn't the Phantom... it was the F-110A Spectre.

It's complicated. The Air Force realized the new Navy F4H-1 PHANTOM was better than anything they had or had planned, so they "borrowed" two for evaluation, "bought" 27 F-4Bs from the Navy production and then ordered their own.

That Century-series moniker F-110 Spectre soon went away due to McNamara's plan for re-organizing aircraft designations and also because, well, come on now.

The Air Force PHANTOM had only minor changes... wider wheels with anti-skid brakes, a different bombing system, cartridge-start for the J-75 engines and a control stick in the back because the Air Force considered both crew to be pilots. The backseater couldn't land because he had terrible visibility and couldn't lower the gear, but he could at least help out with the flying and potentially get the aircraft out of trouble if the pilot up front was hit.

The Navy never got the two "borrowed" airframes back, they fudged the serial numbers to make them Air Force aircraft.

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(oh, and to respond to an unfair attack down in the comments which you may or may not see, I do not steal other people's posts.

Ever.

I may reblog someone's post and add comments but if their post isn't suitable for that I absolutely credit the blog where the image originated if I re-use it.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

As I pointed out to the commenter, historic photos are widely available and unless someone took the picture themselves they are found in many different places. The one in question, this one, sat in my collection for years and I came across it recently looking for interesting images for Phantom Friday posts. The original source of it is lost back in the dialup days. If we both happened to post it at about the same time, well, sometimes great minds think alike.)

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good god when the quartet no. 8 opus 110a hits

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SpongeBob SquarePants

37b. "I'm with Stupid" 

52a. "Chocolate with Nuts" 

60b. "Pranks a Lot" 

65b. "Funny Pants" 

110a. "The Slumber Party" 

247a. "Swamp Mates" 

254-255. "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" 

The Patrick Star Show

1b. "Bummer Jobs" 

12a. "Pearl Wants to Be a Star" 

Other

. "The First 100 Episodes" 

. "The Best 200 Episodes Ever"

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24 January 1962. McDonnell Aircraft Corporation delivered the first F-110A Spectre (F-4C Phantom II) to Colonel Gordon Graham and Colonel George Laven, USAF, at the McDonnell plant at St. Louis, Missouri. (Aka The lollipop kids)

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Dwarka Expressway has created much hullabaloo in the real estate market of the Delhi-NCR. Top real estate developers have assured and re-assured about putting your money in this eight-lane expressway. Also known as the Northern Peripheral Expressway, it covers areas such as Bijwasan, New Palam Vihar, Kherki Daula and finally meets the NH-8.

Ideal for investment purpose

If you are an end-user then plan to invest in someplace else. Dwarka Expressway is excellent for people who wish to invest with a horizon of 3-5 years. Like Sohna Road in Gurgaon, the Expressway will be in proximity with commercial areas in sectors 105, 106, 109, 110, 110A, 111, 112, 113 and 114. Sectors 100 and 101 will be used for public utilities.

Location benefit

Its close proximity to Delhi and IGI Airport will always ensure a quality price.

Better options for lesser amount

Because the stretch is still under construction, there are more chances of getting a good size apartment as compared to other areas in Gurgaon. Rakesh Kaul, CEO, Experion Developers Pvt Ltd. in Times Property Virtual Expo mentioned “Look at parking your money in sectors 108, 109 and 111 along the Dwarka Expressway to gain almost 50 per cent returns ....” This stretch will soon be at par in investment potential and will also surpass Sohna Road in appreciation, he added.

Easy connectivity

As per the new Master Plan, there will be a well-built 100m-wide roads connecting the area to the Metro corridor and the proposed diplomatic enclave. The 18km Expressway will be close to some SEZs that are coming up near Kherki Dhaula. This Expressway will reduce the travel time of commuters from west Delhi. It will be parallel to the NH8 till it merges ahead of the IFFCO Chowk.

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