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pangur-and-grim

this is huge… a three chair event

pangur-and-grim

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no27-chilis-honda

am i doing this right? (happy shavuot <3)

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rimonoroni2

btw the idea that Judaism has "six/eight genders" or whatever is actually referring to the fact that talmudic law has sections naming and addressing the roles of intersex people in the community. this is ofc still extremely interesting from a queer theory/historical gender perspective not only because it suggests a robust historical awareness of intersex bodies in Jewish communities, but because it is a recorded instance of people consciously constructing and deconstructing gender roles in an attempt to navigate the relationship between sex and gender as different entities. but the aformentioned "six/eight genders" framing is extremely reductive, not to mention that it erases intersex people from a topic that is quite clearly about them.

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starlightomatic

to be real with you. i see anti-convert sentiment way more frequently from gentiles than from jews

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ketubahring

I keep thinking about Miriam’s Well and how the legends say it followed the women through the sand for years, causing plants to bloom wherever it went. In my head, that water was made of starlight. It was the only thing keeping everyone’s spirits up when the world felt so bleak.

Shabbat shalom 🤍

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etrogjam

'Right-wing and centrist Jews hear leftist Jews protest the sins of power, such as the murder, theft, and displacement practiced by the State of Israel, and accuse the critical Jews of not loving the Jewish people, of severing ourselves from the people through our protest.

That accusation severely distorts Rabbinic Judaism almost 180 degrees. There is no commandment to love the collective. There is a commandment to love individual Jews, which is predicated on maintaining an open relationship of correction and rebuke for each other’s wrongdoings: “Any love that is not together with rebuke is not love”. Every individual Jew’s connection to the Jewish collective is a relationship of Divine liability and accountability: our sins are your problem. The only way you can be exonerated is to do your best to protest our sins, to interrupt them to the best of your ability.

For secularized Zionism, a Jew expresses commitment to the Jewish collective by shutting up, complying with abuse of power, and calling that love. For Rabbinic Judaism and, we believe, for God, a Jew expresses commitment and belonging to the Jewish collective by speaking out and objecting to tyrannical behavior and by continuing to affirm that the Jewish people can merit Divine blessings when we fulfill Torah’s expectations of responsible behavior.'

- Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein "Love, Rebuke, and Accountability: What Does it Mean to Have to Love Other Jews?" sermon delivered March 2024

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antiqueanimals

Frances Mabel Hollams (1877-1963). Chargers of the Brigade of Guards Waiting on a State Occasion. Oil on canvas.

#art #animals #horses

creekfiend

the thing is that fiddler on the roof is basically an examination of what it takes to break Tevye of his initially stated confident claim that adhering to tradition will keep the jews of anatevka safe, and the respective boyfriends of his daughters ARE characters, but they also are essentially psychological hurdles for Tevye to face. like, they represent challenges to his cultural and societal instincts, and his instincts as a father, and they are set in a pattern of increasing difficulty of acceptance. so in some ways it is unfair to be like "well obviously Motel is the objectively superior boyfriend" because like, that is the position he occupies in the narrative. he is Tzeitel's childhood friend and they know each other very well and he loves her more than anything and he is a member of the community and while he is poor and doesn't have great social standing, he has transferrable skills and is clever and savvy about scouting out opportunities to increase those things & dedicated to providing for a wife. and crucially he isn't asking Tzeitel to leave her support network! it is easiest for Tevye to accept him, and it is generally also easiest for us to accept him. I feel like something that gets lost a little bit is that... like, Tevye's hesitation to give his blessing to his two youngest daughters is not *entirely* based on his cultural inflexibility. it's also based in concern for his daughters. like yeah, if you were a parent you probably wouldn't want your daughter meeting a guy and then a couple of weeks later leaving everyone she knows and loves to go live with him in a prison camp in Siberia. that's not great. it's intentional that that is an aspect of Perchik's storyline and that it isn't just, like, "this guy is a revolutionary but he's also a member of our community" or whatever. it's not just his politics or the fact that he doesn't have any money and can't provide stability it's *also* that he is asking her to go with him to a prison camp in Siberia! this is explicitly stated by Golde, even. and she's right! it isn't the behavior of a man who is prepared to prioritize his partner. the point isnt that she's made a good decision. it's that given that she has made *this* decision, what does Tevye do? how much does what he decides to do really change or impact anything? and it's interesting to see that with Perchik he ultimately comes down on "well I can't change your mind but I'm your father and I love you" whereas with Fyedka it's simply a bridge too far for him and it breaks him. I think that makes contrasting the choices the younger two daughters make re: boyfriends much more interesting and relevant than comparing them to the situation with Motel. Motel is basically the introduction situation to ease us into understanding how Tevye handles having his ideas and values and decisions challenged.

Tevye's ideas and values and decisions are complex, and his struggles with his daughters' choices are multifaceted, and his instincts AREN'T just the result of him being a stick in the mud or old fashioned or judgmental. there's a lot to consider about each situation, and I think the things he goes back and forth with himself about each of them is really fascinating and is such a smart way of mirroring the things that the shtetl jews broadly are starting to realize they have to accept about the world they live in. What can you accept and what can't you accept about the things that are happening around you? etc etc

anyway.

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quixoticsweetheart

I've been torturing my 3rd graders with terrible spellings of Chanukah all week long

#images #photos #hanukkah

reliqvia

beautiful women will be like “i baked a cake” and you will say “oh ? what flavour is it” and they say well its a honey rosewater apricot pistachio cardamom vanilla fig jam earl grey poppyseed orange blossom extra virgin olive oil chiffon sponge soaked in raspberry elderflower champagne lipgloss pomegranate matcha ginger blueberry cherry blossom magnolia petal almond passionfruit persimmon syrup with whipped amalfi lemon limoncello ricotta goats cheese honeycomb black pepper bergamot lemon thyme lemon balm rosemary chantilly whipped cream cream cheese feta cheese italian meringue frosting . like ok. i want to spend the rest of my afternoons walking around inside your beautiful mind like a garden

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bobemajses

From the series “Remnants: the last Jews of Poland.” Photographs by Tomasz Tomaszewski, 1980 - 1985

In a five-year voyage of personal discovery, Tomasz Tomaszewski and his wife Malgorzata Niezabitowska crisscrossed Poland to document the lonely survivors of this country’s once-vibrant Jewish community. ″To most Poles, especially those born after the war, Polish Jews are as abstract and as remote in history as the mysterious Etruscan people to contemporary Romans,″ the couple wrote in an introduction to the photo exhibit, ″But Jews lived here with us for 1,000 years. Normally, when a culture disappears, it takes a millenium or more. With Polish Jews it took only 20 years. What was left on this soil from the great and luxurious Jewish civilization? Our attempt to answer this question was for us a temptation and at the same time a need to face a painful and complex problem." Between 1980 and 1985, the couple drove more than 48,000 miles in their car, interviewed more than 3,000 people, and Tomaszewski took more than 7,000 photographs.

#images #photos #poland #💔

captainlordauditor

judaism: dont marry two sisters

judaism: marry one sister and be gay lovers with her brother

internerdionality

i mean there was also a guy who married two sisters. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but Jacob did very much marry two sisters.

captainlordauditor

Yes and it went so badly that halacha tells us Do Not Do That

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