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its a fight to keep on living each day.
Last Saturday I married the person I love most. who would have thought a comment on instagram 3years ago would lead us here. so happy to be blessed with so much love. thank you to all who have left us kind wishes, and congrats. its been a long road for us, on top of not having any family support. but we made it and are doing it! next step babies?????
Can’t Believe it will be our 6 year wedding anni Feb 18
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Love Black Women
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Any POC could literally do the same exact thing and we would either be dead or beaten. This coutries police force is a joke.
The epitome of white privilege.
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Chag Sameach!
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Ruth and Naomi by Hilary Sylvester. Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die — there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you! - Ruth 1:16-17
Mentioning death was no farce - the immensely patriarchal society in which Ruth and Naomi resided ordained that no father or husband meant no income or social standing. Yet still, Ruth cleaved to Naomi, like Chavah cleaved to Adam. When Ruth gave birth to a son, her husband Boaz is regarded as nothing more than a sperm donor (Ruth 4:17) and the women of the town declared “a son has been born to Naomi!”
Is this a story about Lesbianism, which was not forbidden at all in the Law (Torah)? Whatever the answer, it is a story of love and loyalty between two women. - Paul Halsall
We have always been here.
Vintage LGBT love photography post
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Please add more if you have them <3
Most of these are from homohistory.com and the curator Jeffrey has done an excellent job preserving LGBT+ history. Check his site out if you fancy more of these!
i had an anon awhile back ask me about faith vs belief issues in xtianity and judaism and here’s an important note i made during my introduction to Judaism class:
Christianity Is… have faith, and you will be saved. Judaism Is… question, and you will find meaning.
I don’t understand this. Could someone elaborate?
Christianity emphasizes that faith/belief in God/Jesus will bring salvation/redemption. The Christian faith (in my personal experience) very much emphasized starting from a place of faith and acceptance/belief first and foremost. The starting point is accepting or announcing you belief in Jesus and Jesus’ miraculous salvation/redemption of humanity and then working from there.
The logic of xtianity follows in similar ways - for example, the claim that the trinity is not three, but one singular entity, a statement which is difficult to make without running into heretical claims like modalism.
For example the working definition of the Trinity (via Catholicism):
“it is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds”);[9] and in their relations with one another, they are stated to be one in all else, co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial, and each is God, whole and entire.
this asks people to believe that three is one, whole and entire, but also one is three, without division, by divine mystery.
In other words, xtianity generally asks people to accept the conclusion on faith with the promise of salvation or redemption. (It also uses tautologies or ime, sometimes falls into the fallacy of “Begging the question” - like since Original Sin didn’t exist prior to Christianity, then should we not assume that Christianity created such a concept in order to convince people of the necessity of salvation from Original sin?)
xtianity is an orthodoxy, which is about correct belief or faith.
By contrast, Judaism does not start with a singular conclusion to the religion that must be accepted on faith. Judaism is an orthopraxy, which is about correct behavior/ethical conduct first and foremost.
Judaism does not start from faith on something, it starts on questioning what we are asked to do, why we are here, what is coming, what is meant, if God exists (or doesn’t) and so on.
We’re told to do something, and then we are expected to examine and question why, & for what purpose, and to use questioning to find personal/communal meaning.
Or to put it another way yet again,
xtianity begins with “Because Jesus died for humanity’s sins, we should do this and believe in him…”
and Judaism is more like “Why do we do this and what does it mean (why does it mean that? Why do we not do something else? Why…?)”
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There is a whole branch of scholarship in Judaism regarding what should be considered a divine commandment, why it should be considered as such, and what’s its purpose (and whether we should be looking for a purpose). That is, we take it for granted that there’s 613 commandments, but various scholars have made different lists for it.
Cindy: Hey… can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: You really want this? Sincerely? Not ‘cause this one’s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?
Cindy: Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, I’d go to hell. And if I was good, I’d go to heaven. And if I’d ask Jesus, he’d forgive me and that was that. And here y’all are sayin’ ain’t no hell. Ain’t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as God’s concerned, it’s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. It’s like a verb. It’s like … you do God. And that’s a lot of work, but I think I’m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe I’ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You know… Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?
Rabbi: Ask me again.
Cindy: Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: Yes.
I cried so hard during this scene.
First of all, this is beautiful.
Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.
Third of all, this is beautiful.
Adrienne KILLED it in those scenes. I wept with her!
“It’s like a verb.” She wants to work on her faith continuously and that was gorgeous and so honest.
THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT DO U UNDERSTAND. We aren’t a people who actively convert people. You’ll never see a Jewish person try to convert you. We believe in everyone’s right to believe what they want. But it was so nice to see someone who wasn’t raised in it be able to see value in my faith. I have never seen anything like that on tv before
bringing this back, because it delights me.
I’m trying to gracefully get out the water like this. She even did a hair flip!
SCREAMING
Mind yo business 😂
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Happy Tuesday! 💜 #goodmorning #smile