[leahbasavraham]

Tu B’av by Karin Foreman

[cultureunseen]

BLACK JEWS (…nuff said.)

[no-context-daf-yomi]

You see Gamliel named his son Shimon who then named his son Gamliel who then named his son Shimon who then ב״ה named his son Yehudah who then please no make it stop named his sons Gamliel and Shimon, but when someone says Rabban Gamliel, they’re probably referring to Rabban Gamliel ben Shimon ben Gamliel or for Rabban Shimon, it’s usually Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel ben Shimon ben Gamliel, likely because of their temporal proximity to Yehudah haNasi and their leadership after the destruction of the second temple, but it can be entirely context dependent. Do try to keep up

[hyperpotamianarch]

See, Gamliel the Elder (the first one), was also son of Shim‘on, but people forget about this guy so if someone talks about Rabban Shimon they probably don't talk about him, unless they say Shimon ben Hillel.

At least they took a couple more generations to get to the second Hillel, but wait until you hear about Yehudah Nesi‘a, the grandson (or great grandson?) of Rabbi Yehuda haNasi.

Just tuck "elder" at the end if you're talking about the earlier ones, and don't bother talking about post Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Nesi’im. They're not relevant, since we go by the Babylonian Talmud.

Well, except for Hillel the Second, codifier of the Hebrew calendar. And Gamliel VI, if you want to keep track of the last Nasi. And yup, there were six of them by the end.

[no-context-daf-yomi]

You know, I knew there were more generations of this, but I only wrote what I could remember off the top of my head because I was scared to look up how long it went. And I was right to be scared. I could not keep up

[homunculus-argument]

A god that dictates seemingly arbitrary and oddly specific rules to its followers, not because it demands absolute blind obedience, but because it's fascinated by human creativity and wants to see what kind of rules-lawyering the followers come up with in order to circumvent the rules, or how to interpret them in a way in which they can still abide by the rules when the letter of the law would be impossible or highly inconvenient to obey.

Like the command says "You Must Not Wet Your Hands With This Specific Substance", and there's one faction that has decided that since it's practically impossible to not ever touch the thing, your hands won't be touching it if you're wearing gloves. Another sect has decided that it doesn't count if you only handle the substance when it's frozen solid, so your hands don't get wet from touching it. A third one has figured out how to obtain or produce some substance that is essentially identical in every way, but has a slightly different chemical structure, so it's not the same substance.

And then there's the ones who figured out how to handle the entire process by only using their feet.

[patches-dark-souls]

Judaism at its best is almost this verbatim

[jewish-lgbtq]

The Hormonukiah, a functional menorah made out of testosterone bottles by Minneapolis-based trans Jewish artist Levi Moos.

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

Everyone talking about Shavuot dishes is inspiring to make something (I've never done Shavuot before) so I decided to pull out my jewish cookbook and found this

Problem: this was published in 1871 and obviously does not provide specifics like modern recipes

Solution: I'm crowdsourcing answers

cheese curd meaning...cottage cheese? Ricotta? Smth else?

We're talking 3 egg yolks + 1 egg white? Or 5 egg yolks + 3 egg whites?

hot oven...350f? 425f? Just use whatever temp the puff pastry says? (I hate making PP so I'm buying pre-made)

[xclowniex2]

1. Not cottage cheese, cheese curds. So the curds of curdled milk. Cottage cheese is like a child or grandchild of cheese curds so maybe could be used. https://www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/blog/history-british-cheese-part-2-pre-20th-century-cheese-making-practices/

2. 3 eggs with one full egg and two yolks. That's my understanding as an avid watcher of eating history with max I forgot his surname. So I may be wrong.

3. Victorian ovens were often between 375f and 450f. So I assume just pick whichever is closet to pastry label temp

You could always try to reach out to eating history with max whatever his surname is to see if he could help

[kassygirl]

Do you mean tasting history with max miller?\genq

[xclowniex2]

Yes!

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

Awesome, thanks for the help! I'll check out the YouTube channel + see if I can make or buy those cheese curds

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

And so the process begins

Step 1: make cheese

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

CHEESE ACQUIRED

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

why yes i DID use the extra egg whites to glaze the puff pastry

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

oh this smells like REALLY good

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

yayyyyyy

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

VERDICT: incredibly good I ate four in ten minutes. Mrs Levy thank you for sharing this with the world 🫡

[snissel613]

I think one of my all time favorite takes is that sheidim used to exist, but then the Rambam paskened that they don’t, and well, he is the Rambam

[troybarnesbucky]

it’s 5786 and we still have a major agunah crisis in our community and it’s getting to the point where if jewish women are not given a seat at the table — meaning, if we’re not given any autonomy or voice in discussions of matters that PARTICULARLY affect us, like gett refusal — we will see more and more jewish women refusing to participate in the system as a whole.

i say this not to be pessimistic or not as a casual observation but rather as a fact that i was told from a long-time agunah activist: if the system cannot be reformed as it has been in the past to meet our needs and realities, jewish women will, in time, refuse to participate in the jewish system as a whole, and will stop believing in its importance.

and why should we? why should we accept a system that chains women to marriages at the will of any man? how is that acceptable? how is it that divorce proceedings were more lenient towards women in the medieval era than they are now?

lastly, free adeena and ALL agunot! i support any and all women that participate in the tsniut protest.

[snissel613]

I think one of my all time favorite takes is that sheidim used to exist, but then the Rambam paskened that they don’t, and well, he is the Rambam

[romehbo]

if this site goes down u can find my posts in the cairo geniza

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Magnus Hirschfeld!

Hirschfeld was born 14 May in 1868 into a German Jewish family. A pioneering sexologist, he advocated for the acceptance of queer identities, including the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in Germany. He founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin – the world’s first sexology research centre – which developed some of the first modern gender-affirming surgeries.

In 1933, the Nazi party forced the closure of the Institute, and destroyed much of Hirschfeld’s work. Nonetheless, his research remains an important influence on queer liberation and studies of sexuality.

[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)

[jewishmuppet]

my goyish friend after I explained to him why we cover the challah for kiddush

[oneheadtoanother]

[ignorethisatyourperil]

[astra-the-dragon]

the old 'what if the world was made of pudding'

[notaplaceofhonour]

what I love about that last rebuttal is it almost certainly took more time and effort to go and get two different goat cheeses than any simple verbal answer would have lol.

“hold on, this question is so ridiculous I need props to deal with it”

[lawbreaker13]

Asking rabbis questions still goes like this by the way

[hyperpotamianarch]

You left out a lot. Like the time they asked him to tell an obvious lie, so he said a mule hang a sign on her son's neck to remind people of a debt that was owed to her. Their reaction was "but mules can't give birth!", so he told them that yeah, but they asked for an outright lie.

[terefah]

a blessing for transitioning genders, rabbi elliot kukla

[nbandtransmascblogging]

[closetactivist]

Check out this article in the Forward on the emergence of transgender rabbis in America, including links to profile pieces on Rabbis Elliot Kukla, Reuben Zellman, and Emily Aviva Kapor:

https://forward.com/news/180303/first-generation-of-transgender-rabbis-claims-plac/

[daloy-politsey]

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