Beit Faygele

Wiscodizard's Jewish account

[gliklofhameln]

Torah Ark curtain by Siona Shimshi (Israeli, b. 1939). Made in the United States, c. 1960.

[faustian-dystopia]

"oh but actually christmas trees were originally pagan" if i dont wanna celebrate christmas cause im jewish why would i wanna celebrate it if it were pagan instead of christian? im still jewish

[wiscodizard]

Also the completely unexamined "it's pagan." Because neo-paganism is so damn white European centered.

Trees like that don't grow where my family came from originally or where they moved to. Evergreens aren't even part of my familial landscape ... Except all during December /because/ of Christmas globalization tied to white colonialism. Only after that globalization did a bunch of white people tired of being Christians say "It's pagan."

Guess what? Jesus was Jewish. I am too. I still don't fuck with him. 🤷

The origin of something isn't the same as what it symbolizes now.

[beitfaygele]

Oy, in the b'Shem haShem, Raphael is positioned behind you because healing only happens after the hurt. 🤦

This feels so clear and obvious in hindsight.... which is also amusing since Raphael is the angel behind you.

[moss-opossum]

Image description: Three versions of the same picture: a digital painting of a cluster of yellow dandelions on a dark earthy background. Handwritten in white above and below the flowers is the same text in Yiddish in the alef-beys, in romanisation, and then in English. The text reads: "מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן", "Mir veln zey iberlebn", and "We will outlive them". /end description

[council-of-beetroot]

[bobemajses]

Amuletic headdress worn by Jewish women of Greece and Turkey while pregnant. It has the names of the 3 angels that captured Lilith embroidered onto it. From Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 19th century

[maimonideznuts]

We are Jews, the people of the book, and that book, and those books too... Please help I've been trapped under an avalanche of books

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[dykescully]

dykes for trans rights quilt - sarah-joy ford

[theprofessorofdesire]

Creatures from the Kennicott Bible, an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in A Coruña, Spain in 1476 by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah and illuminated by Joseph ibn Hayyim 🔮🦇👼🏼🐉🐻🐊🐒🦚🪞

It is regarded as one of the most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew and one of the most lavishly illuminated Sephardic manuscript of the 15th century. According to the historian Cecil Roth, one of the most outstanding aspects of this copy is the close collaboration it shows between the calligrapher and the illuminator, rare in this type of work.

In 1476, Isaac, a Jewish silversmith from Coruña, son of Salomón de Braga, commissioned an illuminated Bible from the scribe Moses ibn Zabarah who lived in Coruña with his family on behalf of his patron. He spent ten months to scribe the Bible, writing two folios on a daily basis. Illumination of the manuscript was the responsibility of Joseph ibn Hayyim, who is remembered thanks to this work.

The first documentation of the Jewish presence dates to 1375. Jewish population in A Coruña grew rapidly throughout the Late Middle Ages. It is thought that after the persecution of Jews in Castile, a large number of Jewish people took refuge in Galicia. The Jewish community in Coruña traded with Castile and Aragon, and in 1451 they contributed to the rescue of the Murcian Jews with a large sum of money, which could demonstrate the prosperity of the community.

[upennmanuscripts]

See the whole thing on the Internet Archive! (With plenty of info and a link to the record at the Bodleian Library, where the Kennicott Bible lives now. You can also download a PDF)

[terrasu]

Edible menorahs or menorah themed (the last picture is a themed lunch for a kid)

The black and white cookie one was captioned "Januca" so that's another spelling out there?

[beitfaygele]

Starting a presentation with this bland ass "white wedding" and the halakhic polyamory problem ...

And ending with this! Also the real problem is, no matter how much you open up the halakhah for variant 'marriage,' its all still based on the one-penis policy.

[koenji]

Iraqi Jewish Afsa Amulets for child protection, 1925-1935, gold, wood, stone and ceramics. The center for Jewish Art. (png). These amulets resemble two breasts with a small Hamsa placed between them and were traditionally attached to a newborn's blanket or bassinet to ward off the evil eye and protect mothers in childbirth. One seen here also incorporates a Saba iyun or "Seven eyes" amulet, a blue ceramic circle with seven holes. Jewish amulets often incorporate Hebrew references to names of G-d because of the belief that true protection comes from G-d.

[fittingoutjane]

My tween-aged son is learning prayers for his bar mitzvah. And he's ADHD and has a hard enough time reading English, so it kind of takes a lot of practice.

So, we practice at odd times. Like the other week, I was drilling him on Veeahavta while driving the kids in the car. (Yes, I was reciting from memory, not reading, don't read and drive, kids.)

I moved from reciting to chanting, and of course memorization of random sounds isn't learning, so I started translating as well.

"Speak of them in your home and on your way!" I announced, scholarly enthusiasm growing as my children looked on cynically. "Look at me, speaking on my way! And teach them diligently to your children, I'm doing that, too!"

Brief pause.

"Um, I just missed the turn." Eagerness returning stronger than ever, "It is a mitzvah to get lost while speaking of Torah!"

Children dissolve into giggles at last.

[beitfaygele]

It /is/ a mitzvah to get lost in Torah! Why do you think we spent 40 years wandering the desert after getting it?!

"There is no Torah but to stumble over it! "

[along-the-silkroad]

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 604–562 BCE. MET (ID: 86.11.60). "I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain."

This cylinder is one of many commemorating the extensive building program carried out by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 B.C.), which transformed the city of Babylon into a grand imperial capital. Following a long-established Mesopotamian practice, clay cylinders were inscribed in cuneiform script baked to ensure their survival into the distant future, and deliberately buried in the foundations of buildings as they were being built or restored. Often they record the restoration of structures that were already ancient, especially the great temples of the city, but in this case the cylinder describes Nebuchadnezzar’s building of a new outer city wall, which "no previous king had done." The wall itself was identified by archaeologists in the early 1900s; it is unknown how densely the outer city was populated, but the area enclosed by the wall suggests that Babylon was at this time the largest city in the world. The inner city of Babylon was guarded by further fortification walls.

Cylinders such as this were made to be buried, and their text was intended primarily for the gods. However, it was also hoped that future kings might find them in the course of performing their own restorations, and so perpetuate and honor the builder’s name. In this regard, Nebuchadnezzar took all possible measures: as well as foundation cylinders and some larger inscriptions on stone, the baked bricks of Babylon carry the king’s name and titles, impressed with a stamp before baking. The stamp was pressed into to the top surfaces of the bricks so that, like the cylinders, their inscriptions would not normally be seen by human eyes; nonetheless, they occur literally millions of times at Babylon, hidden in Nebuchadnezzar’s palace and city walls.

[xclowniex]

[what-even-is-thiss]

The blood god does not want more blood. The blood god gave you that blood. Why do you keep trying to give it back to him that’s kind of rude

[minyicho]

edit: yeah they did

[wiscodizard]

Fun fact - on Sukkot for the Festival of Water Drawing, the Talmud states priests would do acrobatics, juggling (including torches🔥), and various feats of strength and agility. My favorite is one who would walk on his hands and do handstands balanced on his thumbs.