Hey guys,
I usually share my new videos with you here right after I upload ‘em but this time I’m a week late.
What happened is that my previous LITERALLY UNPRECEDENTED and POTENTIALLY WORLD FIXING video was so deeply shadowbanned by YouTube that it was shown to exactly 17 of my 23,000 subscribers.1
Publishing a video like that to absolutely no public whatsoever would not only do no good, but it very literally places me and my off camera interlocutors in bodily peril. So I researched on Fiverr for the top promissory advertiser and paid him my food money to get the video some coverage.
Well, 5 star rave reviews and personal promises aside, all he did was bot bang it.
In and of itself that's not too bad. It does no good, but it might offset the peril ever so slightly via the implication that the video is popular.
But, what my Bengali bot banger accidentally accomplished was awesome.
By the time the fellow fed it through his his machine I had a uploaded the new video above and I guess the algorithm figured I was suddenly popular so they quit blocking me for 2 days, the result of which was that this video got a few hundred genuine views, 7 new subscribers, and 4 comments actually worthy of publication. (You wouldn't believe the volume of dumbass agrammatical antisemitic fertilizer generally on tap.)
Now before all that happened I was working on a post regarding the video specifically for you guys, inclusive of a fresh translation of the Moreh Nevuchim’s2 introduction (from the original Judeo-Arabic), but the sudden surge of genuine international interest in the video inspired me to take it in a bigger direction.
I would still LOVE to share it with you guys. Rambam's linguistic precision is famously unparalleled (every Orthodox Jewish male graduates with at least 5,000 hours spent in pursuit of the full implication of his words even on matters as low consequence as small-claims torts), so when it comes to his telling us why he published the Moreh, well, it's heady stuff.
But, as he writes in the aforementioned introduction, עת לעשות — It’s Time for Revolutionary Action — so I set aside my multiple lengthy first-draft scrolls on the beauty and brilliance of Rambam's life and work in order to create something more monumental.
To be released shortly.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the video, share it with friends, and join in the comments. We’re going to do big things together.
B’Ahava,3
Yadidya
“Guide For The Perplexed”
“With Love” (footnoted, rather than translated within the text as such a sign-off in English would be awkwardly intimate and, “In Friendship”, not intimate enough to match my genuine sentiment)