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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Hi, I landed on your twitter page mentioning the database of cuneiform inscriptions and clicked through to your main page which I've been scanning.

I see now that you have a lot of information on Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt and being as I am currently in Egypt (hell, I'm the de facto chief rabbi) I'd love to talk to you.

My contact info is here: https://ydydy.substack.com/about

Thanks,

Yadidya

Benjamin Scott's avatar

I’m curious now—are you the only rabbi in Egypt? Are you even a permanent resident of Egypt and if not how can you be sure you visit more than any other rabbi?

Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Great Scott!

I rarely see and even more rarely respond with such alacrity but considering the millennia-length timescales you're comfortable with I'm gonna make the exception — particularly as I was just reading you on Twitter less than 6 hours ago!

Anyhow, it wasn't at all difficult to determine that I was the only Rabbi on Egypt, as I was the only publicly identifying Jew in the country (three elderly women and two half-claims excepted)!

I moved there due to October 7th and was there for nearly 2 years until.the events alluded to here (and fleshed out in just a bit more detail in other recent letters):

https://ydydy.substack.com/p/shabbat-shalom-donald-trump

If you wanna chat, here's all my contact information.

https://ydydy.substack.com/about

Shabbat Shalom,

Moshe