[ani-shachaf]

From Arrogance or Humility in Prayer

[ani-shachaf]

Man I WANT to be excited about ReligionForBreakfast's new learning platform, but I have some serious questions about the "#LаndBаck, Spirituality, and Indigеnous Sovereignty" event. The professor has some Frее Palеstinе posts on Twitter that make me wonder if the class would truly be safe for me as a Jеwish student. His work seems to largely be focused on the Americas, but given the current war (and especially since the event is being held on October 10th) I can't imagine Israеl won't be brought up in some way.

Does he recognize Jеws as an indigеnous people? does #LаndBаck include thoughts on what it means for the Tеmplе Mount to be under the control of the second largest religion in the world rather than the indigеnous one it stole from and colonizеd? Or will this be an "all Israеlis (who btw are definitely all Jеwish, what do you mean there's other [also indigеnous!] ethnic groups here?) are white colonizеrs" class

And if this professor is anti-Israеl, is that a one-off case and there are multiple viewpoints in this community? Because if so then that's fine, I think it's truly for the best to hear and learn from people you don't necessarily agree with, but if this is going to be a space where you HAVE to agree with X sentiment and if you don't then you're a Bad Person™......then I'm not interested.

[ani-shachaf]

Watching Minecraft videos in Hebrew for listening practice and I heard 2BOF say "gapple-im," which I thought was kinda funny but then it got me thinking that if you wanted a Hebrew equivalent (the words gold and apple smooshed together), it'd literally just be תפוז. lol

I suppose the better way to say golden apple would be תפוח מוזהב? Wiktionary claims Golden Delicious apples are תפוח מוזהב דלישס so it's seems I'd at least be on the right track, but google's showing me a lot of other options. Now I'm just curious how the hell you translate Golden Delicious apple.

???תפוח עץ גולדן דלישס? תפוח עץ מוזהב/דלישס

Is the עץ necessary? I'd think that was referring to the tree itself, not the fruit, but I'm pretty sure if it was referring to an apple tree then עץ would go before תפוח, not after. ...this is why you should avoid dictionary diving

side note but I always see people playing in English. Java has a Hebrew option and Bedrock doesn't, but there's no way EVERYONE'S playing Bedrock. There's not exactly anything to dub in the game so is the Hebrew language option just really bad? or do people play in English to improve their English reading skills

[ani-shachaf]

petition to say גלילור instead of קליידוסקופ

קליידוסקופ is longer, nobody can agree on the niqqud (though I will concede that this is largely irrelevant, the wikipedia page says it's קָלֵידוֹסְקוֹפּ while milog says it's קָלַיְידּוֹסְקוֹפּ and that second vowel is kinda important), and tbh I just think גלילור sounds better

[koenji]

[koenji]

Vintage Israeli postage stamps depicting zodiac signs by the Israel Post, 1961. (png) Inspired by ancient synagogue mosaics in the land of Israel, particularly from Beth Alpha (6th c. CE), Hammat Tiberias (4th c CE) and Sepphoris (5th c. CE). Zodiac imagery entered Jewish culture through Babylonian astrology and Greco-Roman art during the Hellenistic period, becoming prominent in Jewish mosaics during the Roman and Byzantine periods. These artworks reflect indigenous Jewish interaction with other Mediterranean cultures, shaped by the succession of empires ruling over the Land of Israel.

[maimonideznuts]

Happy birthday trees, happy birthday in particular to the Jerusalem Pine, also called the Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis)... You don't deserve the Antisemitic slander. Imagine being a native tree and western leftist antisemites call you a coloniser.

A fucking tree.

Happy Tu Bishvat Jerusalem Pine

[mazaloza]

from @it-was-me-zion

[iliothermia]

[ani-shachaf]

man I wanna see Nefesh Mountain, but the two concerts they're doing in my area are either an 8 hour round-trip drive (no thanks) or a 4-hour round-trip drive on Shabbat (whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy would a Jewish band have concerts on Shabbat 😭😭😭)

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

HEY JUMBLR

Why are there six revi’im on lule? How are you supposed to chant that? Is this why the text trails off?

(for reference, this is Psalms 27:13, JPS translation, page 1442)

[ani-shachaf]

There's a few different ways people interpret them; Sefaria has a sheet going over them here

[iliothermia]

[ani-shachaf]

I live in a city only a couple hours away from Chapel Hill, and my pre-move synagoguе's had a chair set aside with a picture of Keith in it, and been praying for his safety, for nearly 500 days

This morning, we celebrated his return, a bar mitzvah, and a simchat bat. עם ישראל חי

I am so incredibly relieved to hear that Keith is alive; I didn't dare hope that he'd be alive up until the exchange actually happened...but that chair now has a list of all the hostagеs that are still captive. He returns to the news that his mother passed away in December.

I don't know where I was going with this, I just...have a lot of emotions about all of this and like many other leftist Jеws, don't really feel like I can talk about it with anyone who isn't Jеwish.

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

Normal languages: yeah we have present tense, past, future, conditional, sometimes imper-

Hebrew: We have Prophetic Perfect

Other languages: you have… wh a?

Hebrew: sometimes prophets talk about things that will happen as though they already did, to reflect the complexity of Gd’s relationship with time!

Other languages: how do you even -

Hebrew: PROPHET TENSE!!

[ani-shachaf]

I finished my Conservative conversion in August 2019, right before I ended up moving several hours away for school. Then ofc Covid happened and I'm still avoiding public spaces as much as possible bc I already have breathing problems. I don't want to take ANY risks

and I feel kinda guilty, like I just converted and ran, but that was absolutely not my intent.

Having moved again, the local Conservative synagogue seems to be more traditional, so I might try going to their services once my car is fixed? I don't know though, because in an ideal world I'd love to convert with a traditional Sephardic community (that accepts and respects the fact that I do not want to be treated as a woman)

But I want to make aliyah, and you need to have been part of a Jewish community for at least 9 months after converting and get people from that community to vouch for your conversion to make aliyah. Apart from the Taglit trip I made in 2022 I basically haven't been part of a community outside of watching online servives.

I'm going to be here for a few more years to get this degree and hopefully save up funds, so it's not like I'd be with this community for 9 months and then vanish (hell the process of making aliyah itself would probably take from several months to over a year) but it still feels bad.

I did come across a reddit post saying that if you haven't been in a community that long then they'll basically allow you to live there for a while while converting in Israel... but I don't know if that's even possible for a trans person.

idk. makes me wish I could just suddenly discover that someone way back on the maternal line was Jewish, but I've already looked back to fuckin 1740 (which is as far back as I can go without paying money, afaik) and it's just lrish all the way down lol

[jujusjunk]

One thing I always found interesting is this one video I saw as a kid that said:

If you were to get rid of every single Bible, Torah,Quran and any other holy book. The only book that would remain is the Quran because no one has memorized the other word for word, cover to cover.

So now I have a question, is that true? Now of course in Islam we have people called Hafiz where they have the Quran memorized. I have around 12 parts (حزء) of the Quran mostly memorized, as in I can read them fluently and I have the major Surahs in them memorized. I try to finish the Quran at least twice a year and once in Ramadan which is coming up. Maybe one day I’ll choose to become a Hafiza but I’m not sure. Anyways, we’re sure the Quran will be restored pretty easily, I’d say within a few days.

Now do Christians or Jews have that? Genuine question btw I just wanna know.

[ani-shachaf]

Well firstly, I'd ask: What counts as a "holy book?" Is a self-help book that contains 2-3 verses from the Christian Bible a "holy book?" A software program that teaches children how to chant Torah portions for their b'nei mitzvot? Because there's been so much written about various sacred texts that even if every copy of a sacred text was destroyed, you could almost certainly reassemble them from various scholarly and mundane sources.

Secondly: Are we including "holy books" that were never written down in the first place? There are many religious traditions that have sacred texts that are purely passed down orally, or were only transmitted orally until very recently.

Thirdly: The Quran is ~78,000 words in Arabic, which is slightly less than the ~80,000 words in the Torah (meaning specifically the 5 Books of Moses), and significantly less than the 305,411 in the entire Tanach. Obviously the Protestant and Catholic Bibles (which have more books in their canon than Protestant ones, but that's a whole other post) add even more words, making it less and less plausible for a single person to have the entirety of them memorized. There are people out there who have memorized several chapters or one or more books of sacred texts (for example, these people who have memorized most of the Guru Granth Sahib which is nearly 400,000 words in length!) and these texts could be recreated if they all collaborated. Unless a religion prohibits memorizing its texts, I would imagine that would be the case for pretty much any religion that has one.

[slyandthefamilybook]

"I can't believe in the year of our Lord 2025 I just got called culturally Christian. My brother in Christ you're going to hell and that's your cross to bear"

[ani-shachaf]

I'm honestly kinda confused by the complete and utter silence on my main dash about the cеasefirе. y'all were BEGGING for it and reblogging all kinds of misinfo and now that's it's finally happening and we've gotten the first round of еxchanges there's nothing but crickets. I've only seen jumblr say ANYTHING about the hostagеs or the prisonеrs; which frankly is probably for the best. if I saw anyone try to argue that all the prisonеrs were wrongfully held I would lose it.

Is everyone just waiting to see if things actually hold? bc that's a fuckin first, tumblr LOVES to jump the gun and post (usually incorrect and/or unverified info) about stuff as it's happening

[brykman]

Photographer Chris Levitan captured a rare and mesmerizing moment involving Capella, the brightest star in the constellation Auriga. Without any editing, his lens recorded an intriguing figure of double inverted triangles, likely caused by the diffraction of light in an ice crystal that passed through the exact angle as soon as the camera clicked.

Capella, with its apparent magnitude of +0.24, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, positioning itself as a cosmic beacon 42.2 light-years away. Its proximity to the Celestial North Pole makes it even more special for astronomers and sky lovers alike.

[kick-a-long]

Well… it’s pretty hard to argue with.