and though you'll never know all the steps...

...you must learn to join the dance! | ✡🎗🧡 | Róisín, conversion student, tired millennial, doing my best. I support human rights for all humans, no exceptions, ever. I don't read DNIs; if you have one, you can assume my proship, leftlib, antiauthoritarian, antireactionary, pro-harm-reduction, she/her genderfluid bisexual aroace dyke ass is probably on it. Hashem's fanciest slug. :3

[an-colm-fuinniuil]

Genuinely why is it so hard for people to make a habit of not being shitty to each other

[an-colm-fuinniuil]

In the interest of sticking to my principles, by the way, I include myself in this. I think we're hitting a place of exhaustion where everyone is burned out and stressed to the limit and the center cannot hold forever. I've seen this happen a few times; the currents of tumblr's milleu sometimes spin off into nasty little whirlpools where it feels like we all woke up today and fell out of the asshole tree and hit every asshole branch on the way down. Crabs in a bucket, assholes falling from the asshole tree; I also see myself doing it and I'm not okay with that either.

We all need to do better before we fucking eat each other alive.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Thinking of the flight trajectory of Artemis II and how it'll be a historic flyby but they won't be landing, and the verse in Kiddush Levana (Sanctification of the New Moon)....

כשם שאני רוקד כנגדך ואיני יכול לנגוע בך כך לא יוכלו כל אויבי לנגוע בי לרעה

"Just as I am dancing before you (the moon) and cannot touch you, so too all my enemies shall not be able to touch me to harm me."

[id in alt text]

[jewish-lgbtq]

The Hormonukiah, a functional menorah made out of testosterone bottles by Minneapolis-based trans Jewish artist Levi Moos.

[notaplaceofhonour]

remind me to reblog this for rosh hashanah but you NEED to try mead in sparkling apple cider

[notaplaceofhonour]

Mead n Cider Cocktail (for Rosh Hashanah)

coat bottom of glass in a layer of honey

1 part mead (honey wine)

4-5 parts apple cider

optional honey-dipped apple slice for the rim

I go for a traditional (just honey) mead & sparkling cider (martinelli’s), but you could use really any mead/apple cider combo if you want

[some-israeli-guy]

Normally I wouldn't know where to get mead but I'm in Europe now so I'll try to find a bottle to bring home

[notaplaceofhonour]

Reblog by @notaplaceofhonour

💬 4  🔁 43  ❤️ 78 · good news! there’s Holy Cat Meadery in Jerusalem and Mead In Israel (in Rishon Le Zion I think?), and I know at least Hol

There are a few in Israel, but I assume it’ll be much easier to find in Europe!

[ketubahring]

I Am My Beloved’s, And My Beloved Is Mine.

(Ani l’dodi v’dodi li, from Song of Songs)

I’ve always loved how this little line carries so much weight in Jewish tradition. You’ll see it on wedding bands, ketubot, and said under chuppahs.

Judaism holds this beautiful belief that soulmates are two halves of the same soul, split apart and sent into the world to someday find each other again. It means love isn’t only chance, but destiny, something written into the fabric of who we are.

I think that’s why Jewish love carries such a sense of tenderness and eternity to it. It’s not only about this lifetime, but about something much bigger that transcends time. That’s what I wanted to capture in this illustration. A quiet, steady kind of love that feels both deeply human and a little bit sacred. 🤍

Copyright © 2025 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[ketubahring]

Crack open a pomegranate and you’re peering into a tiny galaxy of mitzvot.

In Jewish tradition, its many seeds symbolize abundant good deeds; a beloved saying claims there are 613, echoing the 613 commandments, so on Rosh Hashanah people eat it and pray, “May our merits be as many as its seeds,” with some families even counting for fun (the real number varies).

In Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), those countless seeds hint at scattered divine sparks waiting to be uplifted through each mitzvah, while the fruit’s little crown gestures to the Divine Crown and the sanctity we bring into everyday life.

That’s why pomegranates decorate holiness: woven onto the High Priest’s robe, carved on the Temple’s pillars, and topping Torah scrolls. Each seed a reminder that holiness multiplies through many small acts.

💌 Message me for inquiries.

Copyright © 2025 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[emunah-vered]

I don't eat strict kosher or fast, because I can't without putting my life at risk.

Feels bad knowing people think my desire to not die is because I'm selfish and entitled. Silly me, I thought חי was our most dearly-held value or something.

If I thought HaShem wanted me to martyr myself, I'd be fucking Catholic.

[jewish-burrito]

Have you recently finished a work of art or a craft project? There's a bracha for that.

id: Baruch hanotein lanu kisharon litzor yofi v'lehenot mimenu.

Praised be the One who makes us able to create and to enjoy works of beauty./end id

[zorciarkrildrush]

Gives us the skill to create beauty and enjoy it

[hebrewbyinbal]

This week, I opened up to my email family about some of the challenges I'm facing as a Jewish Israeli business owner.

The truth about Amazon targeting my books is alarming.

It's terrifying to see things unfold that I never thought I'd experience.

I know I'm not alone in feeling this way.

The world seems chaotic, and the hate is overwhelming.

Every day brings new obstacles that test our strength, values, and principles.

But I keep reminding myself:

We're built to endure.

When everything feels overwhelming, and it seems like the odds are against us, that's when we find our inner strength.

That's when we recall why we started this journey.

The noise will fade, the chaos will settle, but what we create with purpose and love will last.

As we welcome Shabbat, I'm choosing to trust that our love is stronger than their hate.

Our light is stronger than their noise.

Our community is more resilient than their systems.

We'll get through this together.

Shabat Shalom 💙🤍 שבת שלום

[emunah-vered]

have any other students or gerim sat shiva for a non-Jewish immediate family member? How did it work for you? Did you attend non-Jewish services for the dead? Is it even possible to juggle sitting shiva with a semi-Catholic wake and service at a church?

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

“There’s no such thing as a reform jew” yes but there’s such thing as the reform movement in Judaism and though it have an iffy start it is now a safe and accessible home for a wide variety of Jews who want or need to determine their own level of observance and be accepted for it

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

My family were orthodox shtetl Jews before the Holocaust and then the frameworks that allowed them to live a religious life were no longer accessible. My grandparents are not religious. My mother married a non-Jewish man but *insisted* on my sister and mine’s involvement in religious life and she chose a reform synagogue because it worked with the way we lived our lives. And let me tell you - I would not be as religious as I am if it was for Reform Judaism. I would not be as connected to Judaism as I am if it wasn’t for Reform Judaism. I am a non-kosher eating, barely Shabbat observing lesbian in an interfaith relationship yet at my synagogue I am completely accepted and I daven and participate in community events and I love my reform synagogue I just love it

[gogogadgetgolem]

I love this post because it shows that you CAN in fact be religious and be Reform. There's this attitude that I've seen that if you're religious, then that means that you're Orthodox. No shade to my Orthodox siblings, but that's bullshit. There's shades of nuance and a HUGE scope of what it means to be religious within Reform spaces alone. I know Reform Jews who keep strictly kosher, are shomer shabbos, etc. And I know Reform Jews who are almost entirely secular. And everything in between. I exist in between. I don't eat non kosher animals, but I drive and use electronics on shabbat (I do try and limit it though to things that are meaningful to me and spend time with friends which does necessitate a car). I pray daily (when I remember. I'm working on it.) go to Torah studies, go to services, light shabbat candles on Friday nights, and am working on my relationship with tznius. I love my religion and you don't have to be Orthodox to be religious.

And that's Reform alone. There's also a huge scope to religious observance in Conservative and Orthodoxy and Reconstructionist!

I'm at home in Reform Judaism.

[travelbasscase]

You don't have to be traditional to be a serious Jew. Serious observant Jews are in all denominations. You can be a Haredi Jew doing the brachot by rote memory with no kavanah, and you can be a Reform Jew who may not do Musaf but is always connected to HaShem, their faith, and their community.

Jews are Jews.

[shelvesofsiddurim]

Jewish denominational labels are just that - labels, and imperfect ones at that. They describe things in a broad sense, which isn't always the worst thing, but this broadness hides the nuances that are present within each movement. No one movement is greater or lesser than another; they just provide different views of the path that connects a person to HaShem.

Observance is a journey and every person goes about it at a different pace.

[gators-and-graph-paper]

This post is a perfect example of Reform Judaism’s ethos — that we should craft a personal relationship with HaShem by finding meaning in the practices that we take on.

The flexibility of the Reform Movement’s approach to things like daily prayer, kashrut, and being shomer Shabbos means that I can go on this journey at my own pace, and the idea that there should be intention behind what one chooses to observe helps me feel stronger in my faith and connection to HaShem.

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

“There’s no such thing as a reform jew” yes but there’s such thing as the reform movement in Judaism and though it have an iffy start it is now a safe and accessible home for a wide variety of Jews who want or need to determine their own level of observance and be accepted for it

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

My family were orthodox shtetl Jews before the Holocaust and then the frameworks that allowed them to live a religious life were no longer accessible. My grandparents are not religious. My mother married a non-Jewish man but *insisted* on my sister and mine’s involvement in religious life and she chose a reform synagogue because it worked with the way we lived our lives. And let me tell you - I would not be as religious as I am if it was for Reform Judaism. I would not be as connected to Judaism as I am if it wasn’t for Reform Judaism. I am a non-kosher eating, barely Shabbat observing lesbian in an interfaith relationship yet at my synagogue I am completely accepted and I daven and participate in community events and I love my reform synagogue I just love it

[gogogadgetgolem]

I love this post because it shows that you CAN in fact be religious and be Reform. There's this attitude that I've seen that if you're religious, then that means that you're Orthodox. No shade to my Orthodox siblings, but that's bullshit. There's shades of nuance and a HUGE scope of what it means to be religious within Reform spaces alone. I know Reform Jews who keep strictly kosher, are shomer shabbos, etc. And I know Reform Jews who are almost entirely secular. And everything in between. I exist in between. I don't eat non kosher animals, but I drive and use electronics on shabbat (I do try and limit it though to things that are meaningful to me and spend time with friends which does necessitate a car). I pray daily (when I remember. I'm working on it.) go to Torah studies, go to services, light shabbat candles on Friday nights, and am working on my relationship with tznius. I love my religion and you don't have to be Orthodox to be religious.

And that's Reform alone. There's also a huge scope to religious observance in Conservative and Orthodoxy and Reconstructionist!

I'm at home in Reform Judaism.

[travelbasscase]

You don't have to be traditional to be a serious Jew. Serious observant Jews are in all denominations. You can be a Haredi Jew doing the brachot by rote memory with no kavanah, and you can be a Reform Jew who may not do Musaf but is always connected to HaShem, their faith, and their community.

Jews are Jews.

[shelvesofsiddurim]

Jewish denominational labels are just that - labels, and imperfect ones at that. They describe things in a broad sense, which isn't always the worst thing, but this broadness hides the nuances that are present within each movement. No one movement is greater or lesser than another; they just provide different views of the path that connects a person to HaShem.

Observance is a journey and every person goes about it at a different pace.

[notaplaceofhonour]

remind me to reblog this for rosh hashanah but you NEED to try mead in sparkling apple cider

[notaplaceofhonour]

Mead n Cider Cocktail (for Rosh Hashanah)

coat bottom of glass in a layer of honey

1 part mead (honey wine)

4-5 parts apple cider

optional honey-dipped apple slice for the rim

I go for a traditional (just honey) mead & sparkling cider (martinelli’s), but you could use really any mead/apple cider combo if you want

[notaplaceofhonour]

[emunah-vered]

[gnomemeister]

broke: not my circus, not my monkeys

woke:

[weisswodka]

Shabbat Shalom!💚

[magica-pseudoacademica]

“[T]he very term “religion” has been foreign to Judaism until relatively recently, when the dialogue with Christianity has compelled Jews to recognize and use it. Indeed the Hebrew language does not really have a word for “religion”. In modern Hebrew the word dat has been pressed into service to translate “religion”, but it is a word which properly refers to law, not belief. A more obvious contender might be the word emunah, which is a key word in the Jewish religious vocabulary, but emunah properly means “trust”: belief in, rather than belief that.”

— Nicholas de Lange, Judaism (2002)