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Ezra Brand
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Ezra Brand writes Talmud & Tech, a personal blog at ezrabrand.com about history, philosophy and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ezra Brand's writing on the Talmud, Kabbalah and technology, including the 16th-century printed Talmud page and the steam-engine analogy for the human mind. The comments only cite or link the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Independent scholar | Research interests include the Talmudic era, digital humanities, and AI.
What Hacker News says?
> But my point is that those marginal notes are an artifact of the 16th century print edition. It's not anything inherent in the Talmud text. OK, fair enough, if ‘the Talmud text’ is taken to be only the Mishna and the Gemara. (Though when I think of the Talmud it’s the printed edition that comes to mind, with all its accompanying commentary.) EDIT: I had a look at your blog and saw you actually addressed this exact…
Comment linking /i/162112983/myth-the-talmud-is-divided-into-two-parts-mishnah-and-gemara
on “Linux Kernel Explorer”Long-time HN lurker here! Was excited to see this discussion around my major interests of Talmud, Kabbalah, and tech. There are a lot of misconceptions and mystique surrounding the Talmud. I'd like to take the opportunity to clarify some fundamental aspects, as relates to the discussion here: The famous "Talmud page" (discussed in the links in the parent comment) was set by a Christian printer in the 16th century. I…
Comment linking /p/beyond-the-mystique-correcting-common
on “Linux Kernel Explorer”Before electric computers, the human mind was a steam engine: https://www.ezrabrand.com/p/releasing-the-pressure-a-dive-in...
Comment linking /p/releasing-the-pressure-a-dive-into
on “LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models”