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anyways in regards to that last post about goyim making inappropriate ‘all the jews wanna do is fight g-d’ post, it makes me think back to how before/the early stages of me converting, i was v much in the same mindset because i was young(er), and ngl, kinda reactionary and stupid. and yes, i quickly unlearned that and realized part of my mindset about taking those jokes so seriously was my own insecurity around my beliefs and spirituality after being raised in a southern xtian household and feeling like i had to take those frustrations out on something.

which was probably why i was such an annoying person when i was identifying as an atheist, but after i mellowed the fuck out, started to look into judaism, and learned that no, it’s not just the *angry old man shaking fist at g-d* religion that i kept seeing posts about, that’s when i started to really appreciate it. and i know it’s asking a lot of gentiles on/off this website to just take two seconds to maybe, idk scroll through a juduaism 101 page on myjewishlearning or chabad.org and see that we aren’t just some angry ppl that want revenge on g-d for the shoah. like why the fuck would i take the time to study, be frustrated with learning a new language, and try to remember to light some candles and not use my phone for 25 hours a week if i wasn’t at least admirable and at most completely devoted to g-d? like that shit makes me chuckle. and by chuckle i mean makes my ass itch like a fucking inflamed diaper rash.

harpyhormones

for real tho gentiles heard “wrestles with g-d” once and just like fuckin took off with it at a million miles an hour like

i dont think you understand that grappling with scripture, with message is important here, this isnt some “im gonna fistfight g-d lol” thing

like anything on this subject im not gonna pretend to speak for all jews but like seriously as a religious jew the way a lot of you have reduced us to a character archetype feels really unsettling, and moreso that youve done it so inaccurately and you think were like…. barely holding back against g-d

i am religious because, grapple with the meaning of messages tho i may, i still believe in g-d and love g-d and that is important to me and for goyim to look in from outside and presume to joke about that relationship is deeply, deeply insulting to me

harpyhormones

like we talk a lot about how we as a people and we as a culture tend to disagree a lot, tend to discuss everything a lot, how you ask three of us a question you get four answers

but WE are talking about US, and that is different from YOU talking about US

and we are generally talking about discussion and disagreement and interpretation, and the fact that so many of you heard that and immediately went to “ready to fight g-d at the drop of a hat” is just so fucking presumptuous on your part

and this is just one facet of it but it really is like wild that its just become one more way for progressive gentiles to talk about jews as this Other, you talk about us as tho were like… some kind of fantastic creature, something in a codex, not just… people

gladiates

Jakab and Komor Square Synagogue, Subotica, Serbia. Photo by Boris Ivanović on Unsplash.

bonefarm

My little sister is a nurse in a hospital that specifically caters to heart/lung things. I talked with her today a bit about the covid vaccine and how I felt guilty signing up for it when I’m absurdly low risk and she didn’t even hesitate when telling me to GET IT.

Apparently they’re seeing a lot of high risk people not getting the vaccine because of microchips or what the fuck ever the conspiracy theory of the week is. By getting the vaccine, even if you’re low risk, you’re protecting those who are gullible enough to reject it because FacebookDotEagleDotTrump said it’s BAD (and those who might have a legitimate medical reason not to.)

Anyways. Get the vaccine. Protect dumb boomers & MAGAs whether they like it or not. My little sister is tired of watching grandmas die because Quanon said the gubernment was gonna track their casseroles.

creekfiend

This just singlehandedly erased all my remaining guilt about getting the vaccine in rural GA, thnk u

thebibliosphere

Just to add onto this, I’ve had friends telling me they feel guilty for getting vaccinated before me, even though I’m high risk and they’re not. So I’m going to tell you what I told them: by getting vaccinated you are protecting me.

You are protecting me and every other vulnerable person who either can’t get vaccinated for health reasons, or who is unable to get the vaccine at present because wait times are a mess. Please do not feel guilty about getting vaccinated before vulnerable people, you are still helping us. You are not taking spots from us, you are contributing to making society safer for both yourself and the vulnerable people in your life. Do not hesitate because you don’t feel vulnerable enough. Do it for the people in your life who are.

Thank you.

idkinsertfanreferencehere

HEY VATICAN GIVE US OUR STUFF BACK

(I’m looking through the archive and I cannot count on my fingers how many of these documents are ones that I learned were “lost to history” and that we “don’t have early manuscripts of” or are “missing the questions to the responsa” and we’re not! They’re not! The Vatican has them!)

sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051

I assumed this was going to be about the Menorah

But it was worse, somehow

idkinsertfanreferencehere

Yeah, I mean there are the originals of Gaonic responsa literature, copies of rashi’s commentary dated to the century he lived in, Babylonian Talmud pages from before the 10th century, richly illustrated prayer books and tehillim that are dated and placed to inquisition-era Spain but sure as hell don’t mention the fact that they were looted off of the people the church murdered, a Sefer Torah from the 12TH CENTURY, just. So much. So much and they have no right to any of it.

idkinsertfanreferencehere

no you know what I’m not done. We have been begging for hundreds of years, politely, academically, kindly, for the Vatican to return what it stole. Or if not that, to allow for Jewish scholars to have access to their archives (the number of questions and arguments that resulted from divergent manuscripts later in history that these documents could solve!) or if not that then at least acknowledge that fact that these documents were at best stolen, most likely looted, and at worst taken at swordpoint and killed for, and they refuse. They refuse to do even that.

fromchaostocosmos

i would also like to point out that any projects funded by the vatican during specific centuries were only possible because the vatican looted and stole from us or by enforcing special taxes that were just for Jewish people only

they did this in the sanctioning of state expulsions which members of the clergy helped the state by over seeing that Jewish people left because you had clergy members all through out the country

and as the oversee this the process they would go through Jewish people’s belonging and steal: what limited amounts money we had (because despite what you think most Jewish people for most of our history in Diaspora lived in poverty), stealing religious items like what is listed above, stealing anything that might could it made out gold, silver, or had value, but could be melted down so if you had silver kiddish cup it was taken and would get melted down to be used for something else that need silver

all of these stolen items be compiled together with a large cut going of anything of monetary value going to the state which is why they did this a lot and the rest going to the vatican to be used at their desecration

if you look at history often after the expulsions those countries end up doing very financially poorly and if look at what is going on right before the expulsions there is ramping up of antisemitism as well as mismanagement of state funds, the government in need of funds (usually an increase of taxes which makes the people angry) so the government goes for the tried and true method of get rid of the Jewish people who they hate and will get them good PR with the people while also getting free funds by stealing from said Jewish people

the other method it the special tax method: so most countries in Europe (and Russia) when Jewish people were not expelled had essentially a Jew tax which basically was added on tax to any other taxes that were being paid that were for Jewish people only to pay. The amount of money to would vary with no rhyme or reason and it was depend of the mood of who ever was in charge or if they needed more money that month or if they felt like being an asshole

the tax was charged on towns and ghettos not really rather then normal taxes where it goes by person

the government would take most of this money, but it was expected to give a cut of it to the vatican

so when you go to Europe and you see these stunning churches that feats of architect and artworks like say the notre dame (which was funded by the vatican) if it was funded by the vatican it was funded with stolen blood money

(also a huge amount of same churches will also be have built on Jewish bones because they were built using Jewish slaves so another fun fact for and within the design is often lots of very antisemitic imagery to add icing onto the shit cake for us Jewish people)

anyways i’m totally up for showing up to vatican and just taking us stuff back if anyone wants to go (like if you american like me when we can actually travel again) cause fuck the vatican and fuck every single pope ever

hypatiasblood-deactivated202112

I went on a European educational tour trip thing last year and I ended up in Spain going to the monastery in Montserrat. Wanting to avoid the seventeen thousandth church I’d been dragged to (seriously so frickin many) I took a tour of their art museum. And in there I found these.

They aren’t even fucking hiding the shit they stole from us. I was so annoyed.

yidquotes

“The Torah defines someone who’s righteous not as someone who had succeeded, but someone who has persevered. It creates a paradigm of what righteousness is – trying to do what’s right, getting up from failure, and keep moving forward.”

— Charlie Harary