obviously muktzeh

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔬𝔞𝔡 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔢𝔤𝔶𝔭𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔶

[obviouslymuktzeh]

so happy to be able to have people celebrate with me

[obviouslymuktzeh]

my housemate (?) wanted to buy me a piece of jewelry to wear with the dress i’m making to the mikvah, and i found a bracelet with a hamsa. i’ve never bought anything with that imagery on it before, i guess it’s an extra touch of special.

[obviouslymuktzeh]

last beit din meeting before mikvah today.

[obviouslymuktzeh]

today i learned that there is not, as a matter of fact, an obligation to be happy on shabbat. so tired of old ladies who don’t know nearly as much as they think they do telling me things about halacha that aren’t true.

[obviouslymuktzeh]

built my first sukkah this year

[obviouslymuktzeh]

i’m starting to feel like elul/tishrei season, esp rosh hashana, always involves personal tragedy for me

[theartofimaginaryfriends]

[itspileofgoodthings]

But also living with unhappy people day in and day out is extremely hard and wearing.

[obviouslymuktzeh]

People keep saying how they’ve used this time to introspect and think about life and god and everything in new ways, but it always hurts me because there’s nothing new or changed in my life, just more and more of the same old terrible things and more and more of these heavy thoughts

[obviouslymuktzeh]

This feels very terrible to admit but I lowkey can’t stand my rabbi’s mother

[jewblog]

oh man i know a lot of people gloss over non-food brachot in daily life because life is busy and a lot goes on (including v observant ppl), but saying the brachot on thunder and lightning in the dark as an incredibly powerful storm rages outside is . . . something else.

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

Your own

Personal

Eliyahu HaNavi

Someone whom ravens brought bread,

Someone

not

dead

[alternativetodiscourse]

I’ve been thinking a lot about compassion in Judaism, and being kind. In that light, I would like everyone to know that my current favorite Jewish supernatural headcanon is that, instead of driving vampires away with crosses or stakes through the heart, we say the Mourner’s Kaddish for them. I mean, that’s just so adorable. You see this threatening undead creature, and instead of yelling murder, you feel bad for them, and you mourn for them. Imagine being a vampire at the receiving end of that, having been chased away for years and years and told you’re a monster when you come across someone who sees you and your existence and accepts that you’re in a pretty bad place and offers help in the best way they can. I’m actually tearing up about this a little. If someone adds to this post I’ll love them forever.

[animatedamerican]

It doesn’t work for zombies.

This is one of the hardest things she learns, in the business.  Saying the Mourner’s Kaddish will slow a vampire, to stare at you with wide shocked eyes (and once, memorably, to weep blood-tinged tears), unable or unwilling to lift a hand against you.  It will calm a dybbuk, enough to make it stop whatever destruction it’s begun, and almost always enough to start a conversation about why it clings so desperately to the world of the living, what it’s left undone, how it can be freed to move on.  You have died, the Kaddish says, and we mourn you as we would mourn our own dead, because someone must.

But there is no soul and no mind left in a zombie, no vestige of the self it once was, nothing left for the Kaddish to speak to.

She says it anyway, with every head-shot, with every flung grenade.

Not because she still hopes one might hear her, but because they are dead, and the dead should be mourned.

[hagar-972]

…this is gorgeous.

[ozzyonedge]

Happy Tu Bishvat - Celebration of the new year of the trees.

ט"ו בשבט שמח, ראש השנה לאילנות.

🌱🌳✡️

[obviouslymuktzeh]

My rabbi told me today to apply for an apartment even though my job won’t get back to me and let him cover my rent difference, and I’m grateful I guess that he wants to do that for me but also just scared. I just want to be able to live on my own and idk why that’s so impossible.

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

A Litmus Test For Jewish Groups

1. How do they treat Jews of Color? If you’re not sure, ask a Jew of Color. 

2. How do they treat non-ancestral Jews (”converts”)? If you’re not sure, ask a convert 

3. How do they treat Jews in the LGBTQ+ community? If you’re not sure, ask a Jew in that community 

While there are many other marginalized groups that can be mistreated and excluded in Jewish communities, the shittiness of a Jewish community is almost always roughly proportional to their shittiness of the first two groups - because that involves how they define Jewishness - and if not those, then the third usually covers it, and indicates the general shittiness level of the group

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Tbh I would definitely add disability to this list, both because traditional practice has often intentionally excluded people with disabilities and because I have yet to see enough effort being made in many Jewish spaces to make things actually accessible. It’s also a great litmus test for how much the space cares about accessibility in the broadest sense of the term.

[blueredfetch]

Tempted to go through chanukahproject tag and leave ratings based on fire safety:

"menorah is on large tile surface, nothing else in sight 10/10"

"menorah is on paper towel right next to plants -8/10"

"menorah placed right next to pile of stuffed animals -10/10"

"windowsill is clearly too small for menorah to stand on it 3/10"

"menorah is on metal surface 12/10"