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[boredeasily]

bathroom light

[northwindow]

Halina Poświatowska, translated by Karolina Zapal and Ryan Mihaly

[ble-ss-ing]

[leroibobo]

a jewish incantation bowl in babylonian aramaic from 400-800 ce.

incantation bowls were bowls inscribed with scriptual quotes and buried face down to protect against evil influences. they were used by christians, jews, manichaeans, and mandaeans in upper mesopotamia and syria.

[vulturesouls]

An angel, ca 1555 AD.

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

British Museum

[safefromharma]

Princess Diana, 1983

[visualtraining-deactivated20240]

from the introductory slideshow of a carmelite monastery’s website

[scavengedluxury]

Puppet show, 1970. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[bobemajses]

Jewish amulets from Ukraine, 18th - 19th century

[cutulisci]

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg share one final kiss before execution on June 19, 1953.

[archimodels]

unknown author

[minyitheraccoon]

Botticelli’s Bed & Breakfast by Jan Pienkowski

[gliklofhameln]

Isaac Bashevis Singer eating rice pudding in 1975. Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

[mmagpye]

Merab Abramishvili, Guardian Angel, 2001

[wishicouldcrossthesea]

yemenite ballerina rachel nadav lighting shabbat candles, 1945

[kvetchlandia]

Alter Kaczyne Dancer Shulamit Ram, Warsaw c.1930

[prorochestvo]

Wherefore, Wherefore

Did the soul

From it exalted height

Fall into abysmal depths?

Within the fall the power lies

To rise again.

— The Dybbuk, S. Ansky, 1910s, originally written in Russian, later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. Translated in English by Joseph C. Landis

[drunkwhenimadethis]

From 'Attention and Will' by Simone Weil