Standing on One Foot

Kyra/Gidona (she/her). 28. This is my Officially Jewish (!!!) sideblog. My main blog is @midshipmank. My icon is by Cassandra Jean.

[nonbinaryjudean]

dark/gothic judaica: an aesthetic that could be an artistic goldmine

Torah Ark Curtain from 20th century North Africa // Scene from a production of The Dybbuk by Vilner Trupe, 1910s // art by E.M. Lilien just in general // veil & style by Mirjam on wrapunzel // Jewish Henna by Bella Ríos // 1910s Jewish dress from Galicia // "Hebrew Dark Academia" pin posted by jewish_opinion on pinterest // Marissa Nadler - a gothic folk musician who is Jewish // Rosh Hashana card from CJH Museum Collections // Art from Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel, Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Scholastic, 1990 (this book was an essential part of my childhood) // "Schemajah Hillel," page 18 from the book "Der Golem", illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag // The Praying Jew (Rabbi of Vitebsk) by Marc Chagall, 1914 // Yemenite-Israeli dancer Rachel Nadav lighting the Shabbos candles // Tefillin Bag, c.1930, Eretz Yisrael. belonging to a Shmuel Yankovitz // Lili Liliana in "Der Dybbuk", 1937 // The Tzadik’s Son, 1912, by Lazar Krestin // Marrakesh Mezuzah // Pomegranate photo from unsplash

[jewreallythinkthat]

There are more converts in Jumblr that I've met in my life and I love every single one of you. You're putting/have put in so much effort to learn Jewish history and practice and you're all so fucking valid I can't put it into words. You're just at Jewish as those of us who were born into it and never let anyone tell you otherwise. You rule.

I am gently kissing you all on the foreheads and offering you rugelach

[dikleyt]

I made an intersex-inclusive version of the Jewish Progress Pride Flag by Keshet.

[outraged-honk]

I am thankful for converts to Judaism.

I am glad you made it home 💙

[tzipporahs-well]

We love being home 🏠 💙 🕍

[the-lesser-light]

Alright! Everyone made it to the other side of the Red Sea? We had our yearly bread cleanse? And most importantly: Did anyone see Elijah?

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Judaism is not a dead religion, it is not a religion that had to be “reborn” or “revived”. We have endured and survived, and to pretend that you can pick and choose from it, without being part of it, carrion pecking at the flesh of a very living being, is ignorant, arrogant, and disrespectful. Judaism is so much more than a mystical wellspring for non-Jews to profit off of, whether that be monetarily, spiritually, or as a means of societal currency.

-Kabbalah, Cabala, & Qabalah: Coercion, Appropriation, & the Desecration of Sacred Tradition (2024); Jewitches

[jewishsuperfam]

enjoy this pesach meme

[daciancatamite]

my idea for a new tumblr dash UI update. what do you all think.

[voxiferous]

"I know AI commits content theft, destroys the environment, and gives people psychosis, but can I just use it to --"

Do not use it in my house Do not click it with your mouse Do not put it on my dash Do not kiss its ugly ass You have a brain that's full of pee Do not use ChatGPT

[vaspider]

[disfiguredgrace]

I LITERALLY CAME UP WITH THISS THIS WAS MY IDEA WQHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKK. okay not exactly but still. i still have the idea hold on

[girlactionfigure]

[clarabosswald]

“It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history.”

via the new york times

[ketubahring]

Queen Esther ❤️‍🔥

Copyright © 2026 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[nesyanast]

Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures

[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.

[vaspider]

I just saw someone say, "I'm a convert, so I'm technically Jewish," and it made me want to scream and cry.

Converts - adoptees (the term my rabbi uses and I prefer) - you are exactly, precisely, as Jewish as any other Jew. It is halachically forbidden to distinguish between converts and any other Jews. Your soul is a Jewish soul. Period. You're not even supposed to ask if someone's a convert or not. It doesn't matter. You're Jewish.

And if you won't stop minimizing your Jewishness for your own sake, do it for every other convert who deserves not to have their Jewishness minimized or qualified.

Please.

[captainlordauditor]

I know we talk about the oxen a lot, but there's some wild fun stuff in the Talmud too. An incomplete list:

rabbi dick measuring contest

a king's 1am influencer bro routine

"King David had 400 sons and they were all hot"

an argument about the legality of literally fucking yourself

HOA rules for where windows on your house can go

"as we all know, werewolves have tails in human form"

two guys who got off on charges for homosexuality by telling the witness that it was two witnesses against one

judge using fruit to prove eye witness testimony is unreliable

"quarrels are like peeing"

a bunch of rabbis defining different types of bed and one of the definitions they use is a bed specifically for throwing your clothes on

someone insisting that the law saying "you need a jury of x amount of people" means that x should be half the jury + 1 resulting in the suggestion that you need a jury of 45 people for a murder trial

your mom jokes

"why does it say Solomon had 4000 horses AND that he had 40,000 horses?" "he had 160 million horses"

science more questionable than Pliny

the demand that a captive bear who killed someone be present at the trial

diagram of punishments for illegal haircuts

"in order for a town to be big enough to have a court it needs to have 10 idlers of the synagogue"

a rabbi claiming that you can only be a judge on the national court if you're a hot wizard

In conclusion: the Sages would do numbers on tumblr.

[chaosisorderao3]

Unironically The Talmud is my go to example when trying to prove or explain the notion that we as humans really just haven't changed across the generations throughout history and meme culture truly is the same.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Good to know humans have always had laundry chair.

[jewishtransdyke]

Iirc, on the page right after the one with the literally-fucking-yourself debate, there's a debate over whether fish can (in any meaningful sense) do labor.