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[wholeheartedsuggestions]

what is the best day of the week?

monday

tuesday

wednesday

thursday

friday

saturday

sunday

Voting ended onFeb 19

[z-makes-art]

ashkenazi x sephardi sapphics <33

watercolor, colored pencil, ink, marker, gel pen

(hebrew text says the words for love in ladino, hebrew, and yiddish! - amor, ahava, libe)

[the-beginning-of-somewhere]

“My children have defeated me!” sticker

Text from the end of the Oven of Akhnai story, Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia 59b:1-5.

[vampirejuno]

Having a much older, much more experienced person tell you you're doing well in your shared hobby is better than crack, especially when the hobby tends to be 80% retired ppl. Like, hell yeah I'm gonna get a good grade in birdwatching and I'm not even 50. Child prodigy moment

[vampirejuno]

Spotted a bird today that turned out to be a yellow-bellied sapsucker (uncommon here this time of year apparently) and received several "well spotted!"s and "good find!"s. You wish you were me

[gliklofhameln]

Our Foremothers

Joan Snyder (American, b. 1940)

1995

Lithograph, etching, and woodcut on paper

[lazarusemma]

“An “angel” is anything that carries out a mission for God. This includes forces of nature. […] Photosynthesis? That’s an angel. Gravity? An angel. Magnetism? Angel. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah (chapter 1) says than an angel only performs one job. That job doesn’t have to be destroying Sodom; it could be peristalsis, centripetal force or condensation.”

— Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Angels (via he-harim)

[headspace-hotel]

Im obsessed with this idea and I will not be able to stop thinking about the angel that caramelizes onions

[copperbadge]

I am also obsessed but I’m considering the idea that caramelizing onions is really just an example of the Maillard reaction, which is also what causes bread to toast, chicken skin to crisp up when you roast a chicken, cheese to brown on pizza, and milk to become caramel. 

Basically I’m saying that there could be an angel of the Maillard reaction and they really won the angel mission jackpot. 

[dduane]

This will, of course, also be the angelic Power responsible for bacon getting brown and crispy when you fry it.  :)

(And a side issue for those linguistically interested: the Greek word from which the English “angel” is derived, Αγγελος / angelos, just means “messenger”. …For certain values of “just.”)

[animatedamerican]

(Making it a precise translation for the original Hebrew word, מַלְאָך / malach, which means, yes, “messenger.”)

I do very much like the idea of the angel of the Maillard reaction. For a terrible cross-linguistic pun, we can suppose that its name is Carmiel.

[heartydior]

[ponyoisms]

t shirt that says YOU DONT UNDERSTAND MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD and the back says NEITHER DO I

[jewishgay4il]

יהודים.

[mariacallous]

What is Sigd? | My Jewish Learning

Sigd is an Ethiopian Jewish holiday celebrated on the 29th of Cheshvan, exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur. The Ethiopian ...

Sigd is an Ethiopian Jewish holiday celebrated on the 29th of Cheshvan, exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur.

The Ethiopian Jewish community lived in complete isolation from other Jewish communities for many centuries, until the mid-20th century when many Ethiopians were air-lifted to Israel. For this reason, the Ethiopian Jewish community, called the Beta Israel, developed many holidays and celebrations that do not exist in other Jewish communities.

The name “Sigd” means “prostration” in Ge’ez, an ancient Ethiopian liturgical language, but it is related to the word sged (same meaning) in Aramaic, one of the languages of the Talmud.

Sigd is about accepting the Torah and yearning for Israel and the Temple. It is thought to be the date on which God first revealed himself to Moses.

Traditionally, members of the Beta Israel community fast on Sigd, read from their scriptures (which are called the Octateuch, the five books of Moses plus Joshua, Judges and Ruth), recite psalms, and pray for the rebuilding of the Temple. It is also a time for renewing the Israelite covenant with God. The fast ends mid-day with a feast and dancing. For this reason, though it is connected to Yom Kippur, it shares many resonances with Shavuot.

Since 2008, Sigd has been recognized as a state holiday in Israel. In Israel today, it is celebrated for an entire month leading up to the 29th of Cheshvan, and it is an opportunity to raise Ethiopian Jewish visibility and educate Israeli Jews about Beta Israel customs.

[marithlizard]

This is the best thing I've seen all week and I had to share. (source) Explanation in the alt text:

Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

[progressivejudaism]

[mouthandheart]

boss is coming.

quick! change tabs so she doesn't see im reading mishneh torah gifts to the poor on company time

[mouthandheart]

It is so exciting to celebrate the new year (finally) officially Jewish! Shana tova!

[fox-teeth]

Shana tova u’metuka / Good and sweet new year this Rosh Hashanah

(I recently learned griffins were of great symbolic importance to medieval German Jews and I want to bring them back)

[fox-teeth]

Chag sameach!

(on RedBubble)

[frameacloud]

Image description: In an Autumnal color palette, a drawing of a tiny griffin hardly larger than the nearby apples and pomegranate fruits. The griffin holds a wooden ladle of honey in its claws. The signature on the corner says Erin Roseberry 5780. Description ends.

[fox-teeth]

Rosh Hashanah Griffin: beloved by the Jews of tumblr and their friends for the fourth year running.

Fun fact about this artwork: a postcard version of it is in the special collections of the Library of Congress, as part of the Small Press Expo (SPX) collection.

[amervalk]

I went to a local Renaissance festival and wore this very traditional Jewish style outfit. The veil was hand sewn and painted! It was worn by Jewish women during the high Middle Ages.

Even now , it resonated through the times. I felt connected to part of my past I am rediscovering.

[hermthejewishwyrm]

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" oh yeah?! Well I asked my rabbi and he said "it depends"

[mouthandheart]

I'm officially Jewish!!

This day has been so wonderful, I am so grateful to my friends, family, and community.