Rabbi Shai Gluskin (@rabbishai) is one of the most avid twitterers I know. He recently created Torah Tweets, a place for those who twitter Torah to self-aggregate. (About that.) He launched it just in time for Shavuot, which begins tonight at sundown; he's also been promoting the pre-Shavuot project of twittering as much Torah as we can during the day leading up to the festival, as a way of celebrating Torah and getting ourselves intellectually and spiritually ramped-up for the holiday. In 140-character bite-sized pieces, naturally.

I haven't been on Twitter very long -- only a few months, which makes me quite a newcomer to the medium. It's weird to be such a late adopter, but I resisted it for a long time. I didn't see what was so interesting about answering the question "what are you doing?" But once I started poking around Twitter, I realized that a lot of people use the medium in creative ways (e.g. not just to offer updates on sitting in traffic or ordering lunch), and also that it's a fun way to keep in touch with some of my friends who don't blog -- and to see a different facet of some who do.

Anyway, I'm digging it a lot. I like writing within the constraints of the form (like writing haiku -- predictably I twittered a lot of haiku when I was starting out, though the frequency of those small poems has decreased as I've found other ways of writing small) and I like the conversational quality that the medium encourages. Anyway: today I've been making a ton of tiny Torah posts! In case any of you who read this blog aren't on twitter (or happen not to be following @velveteenrabbi), but are curious about the kinds of tiny teachings one can twitter, beneath the cut you'll find a dozen of today's #Torah tweets from me.

Enjoy, and may your Shavuot be sweet!