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so this article about polish catholic photographer agnieszka traczewska, who's become close with several hasidic communities in israel, is fascinating—and these are literally the most humanizing photos i've ever seen of hasidim:
a hasidic bride walks through a narrow alleyway with her family, in jerusalem
children in costume celebrate purim in jerusalem's mea she'arim neighborhood
hasidim celebrate lag ba'omer on har meron
a street in bnei brak before the start of shabbat
riki's father washes her in the kitchen sink, safed (my favorite)
hey, so this is actually my mom ^^ she was quite upset that Haaretz portrayed her as catholic, because she doesn't identify with any religion- but she is a goy from Poland and a woman, which made it very hard to get close to hassidim, but she's been doing it for 12 years nonetheless. ^^ Reblogging to add some of my favorites from both her older and newest album:
really strange how you can be almost at peace with something that happened to you but it will continue to be a defining moment of your life for the rest of your life. you wont think about it much anymore but in a conversation about a film someone will mention the year it was released and you’ll think to yourself, “that was before it happened” and you’ll see an old photo and think how strange it is to have existed before it happened and somehow it’s like living a life in two acts
(smoking a cigarette) the average american is afraid of what is new and what is foreign, and especially of what is adult. they are trapped forever in daycares of their own design, reading books and watching shows made for children. And while there are interesting things made for children, by and large, they tend to stick to inoffensive, intensely juvenile things that won't challenge them much. And worst of all, if you suggest to your Average American that they should try to step outside of their narrow box, especially if they're trying to become artists, animators, film makers, novelists, etc, everyone acts as if you've just bombed the daycare. Wow.
who gives a shit if the heated rivalry actors are queer or not. if they're queer then good for them for getting to play queer roles and if they're straight but this cheerfully willing to have hot sweaty gay sex with other men on television for our entertainment then more power to them too. other straight men should take notes. whats the issue here again
My quite possibly only flex is that when I type "cha" into my search bar, it autofills chabad.org and not ChatGPT.
I originally wrote this back in 2019 in response to someone saying:
So, let me get this straight... the entire religion (of Judaism) is built around legal loopholes? Is that what I’m gathering here? (Feel free to correct me!)
And it remains relevant to people (gentiles) who characterize Judaism as rules lawyering or all about loopholes or worse, who imply we are trying to be "sneaky" or "pull one over on God."
My answer:
the religion is built around living in an ethical society per our contract (covenant) with G-d. but you can’t just have a bunch of words without putting them to use, & understanding them in practice, you know? the fulfillment of the covenant is a living discussion.
it’s not legal loopholes, because a loophole is often an inadequacy in the law that gets taken advantage of, but these are all built-in, part of our understanding. In this case, we have a contract (covenant), and we’re going to put it to use in every way possible, explore every inch of it, turn it inside out, and apply it to real life examples, define the parameters, argue those definitions, and then survey the conclusions.
I can say “you need to say the evening shema (a prayer) in the evening” but we can’t just say that, we need to explore a bunch of related things, like:
when in the evening does this happen? is there a difference between twilight and evening? if we say the evening prayer can be said from the time the priests partake of teruma, then when is that? if it’s the first watch of the evening, how many watches are there? if you were out all night for a wedding, but it’s not yet dawn, is it too late to recite the evening prayer? — IN SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS, KE$HA WILL WRITE TIK TOK, AND WE’LL NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF PARTYING UNTIL YOU SEE SUNLIGHT!
— when do they (the priests) ritually bathe in preparation for this [taking of teruma]? what about when poor people who cannot afford extra candles - do we consider how early they eat an evening meal in order to make sure they can afford the light [when we define evening]?
why did we discuss evening prayer before morning prayer? why does torah give us night before day? when is bedtime for most people? can we say the evening prayer until dawn? if yes, people might put off the prayer until dawn, which could lead to laziness or mistakes.
Also, when is dawn? but more prudently at the moment, when is evening? evening is when the stars are visible, but...how many stars? also, if you are lying alone in a dark house and can’t see the sky, how do you determine if it is too early or too late for your evening shema?
and that whole discussion is from the beginning of the Talmud, in its hyper-condensed form. That is what we do.
It’s not a series of loopholes and ways to weasel out of doing something. It's an intentional exploration of how something is done right, what doing it means, how we can accomplish it.
nothing gets taken for granted, everything is questioned, debated, discussed until it is understood enough to be applicable. and there may be lots of ways to understand.
if someone sees this line of thinking and goes “ah, loopholes to get out of it/wiggle away from it,” then you are mistaking lacework for loopholes.
....and if Kesha sees sunlight, it is now too late for her to say her bedtime shema. she should recite morning shema instead.
(note I think per anon my original phrasing was lacework, not loopholes, but maybe I edited for clarity later? Very possible, I'm a chronic editor.)
"Israeli food is a fake worse copy of other people's food-" you're talking about Jewish food.
Jewish food is, in many cases, a version of local cuisine that Jews have adapted to Kashrut laws, and to their meager means, as Jewish communities, despite the stereotype, tended to be poor. The baked goods are made with fat other than lard. The meat is replaced with chicken, or even fish. The dairy sauce is replaced with vegetable based sauce. That's Jewish food. You're mocking Jewish food.
And in some cases it's fusion Jewish food. Because some communities exist now only in Israel, because their country of origin kicked them out and they had nowhere else to go. And when Jews of different communities met, they began cooking together, taking things they liked from each other's cuisine and creating whole new things.
And chances are you never even tasted it. You just saw "Israel" and decided it's bad. Because you're racist and antisemitic.
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Bagels literally only exist because of antisemetism and jewish ingenuity
this is my memory of you
Megan Williams, To The Five Year Old Boy In The Hotel Elevator Who Asked Why I Was Crying
- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.
NDA stands for Non't Dalk Aboutit
from the earth to the moon (1865) - jules verne
i am not okay, i love everything about him
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" oh yeah?! Well I asked my rabbi and he said "it depends"