I’ve had a big shift recently from “ok well I guess this is happening” to “ok well I guess this is who I am.” It’s really strange to be confronted every day with who you are after so many years of living in a fog, just trying to make it to the next day. Until last year I had specially designed my life to hide from the spotlight as much as possible, but then in the midst of great personal grief all my personality came bursting out with a vengeance - I have barely begun to process it. Has the popularity of your tweets and designs surprised you?īut in all seriousness I have no idea how this happened. I have *no* idea where that thought came from - I knew essentially nothing about Maimonides at that point. I laughed at the note for a good 15 minutes and then went back to sleep. I woke up with a start with the thought “Maimonides Nutz!” (and also “Who put the Ram in the Rambalamadingdong”) and wrote it in my notes app. I was super sleep-deprived and a little loopy. I had to wake up every couple hours to rock him back to sleep. It was last June in the middle of the night. Let’s talk about the origin of Maimonides Nutz. When I had the opportunity to chat with Sophia over e-mail, we talked all things Jewish Twitter, good and bad internet moments, and what she would say to the real Maimonides. Yes I’m a girl, yes I tweet under the name of a 12th century sage. Oftentimes, I won’t even understand the Jewish thing she’s referencing (shout out my Reform Jewish Hebrew school education for teaching me the V’ahavta and only the V’ahavta), but when I do get the joke, I am always (1) laughing and (2) impressed by Sophia’s ability to transform Jewish knowledge into a meme. Her tweets all center on her Jewishness: There are jokes about Kol Nidre, golems, the Talmud, and everything in between. (Personally, I am obsessed with her Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdoff design.) Now, she has nearly 10,000 followers, a Patreon where you can support her work, and a robust online shop selling Jewish-themed merch. Sophia began tweeting under in the fall of 2019, not expecting much.