Hi! I'm relaunching Stories from Jewish History today. 🥳 Thank you for being a subscriber and bearing with me as I figure out what works, and what doesn't, for this newsletter. After lots of experimentation and deconstructing everything I don't love about email newsletters, I've come up with a format that I'm excited about. Instead of longform articles, think of this newsletter as "show notes" (like podcasts have) for my popular Sunday Twitter threads.🙋‍♀️ By way of quick introduction, I'm Tamar Marvin, and some of my best friends are medieval rabbis. I have a tendency to think and talk about these extraordinary thinkers, from the towering giants to the lesser-known, as though I've sat with them over cups of anachronistic coffee. My threads on Twitter, and these notes here, are my attempt to bring great Jewish thinkers to life for you, as they are to me. My background is as an intellectual historian (my Ph.D. is in Medieval & Early Modern Jewish Studies) and I'm currently a third-year yeshiva student/professional halacha-nerd-in-training.📚 Last year, I highlighted obscure figures deserving of a little more historical love. For 5783, I'm working through the great Rishonim, up to and including the Mechaber (Rav Yosef Karo). Each week we'll cover the basics about a famous Rishon, his life story, and his major contributions. Up first: Rashi.📰 In addition to a weekly featured rabbi story, each newsletter, which goes out on Tuesdays, will include a recommended resource and notes on my current reading. (Inspired by @ShabbosReads!)I hope you'll find this new format valuable and readable—please let me know what you think. You can reply below ⬇️ or respond to this email, which will go to my Gmail inbox. 📥