[bluebeargames]

Game I’m currently working on:

Post Apocalyptic Hexcrawl Deck

Draw cards, chart your map, fight, survive.

This is an in-development post apocalyptic, single or multiplayer hexcrawl (printable) card deck. The idea is that this deck describes what your character notices with their senses (mostly sight), before going into the next tile, on one side of the card, and once you choose based on those observations, the card gets flipped over to reveal what the character's senses were hinting at.

Right now, it’s just a collection of PDFs on Google Drive.

post_apocalyptic_hexcrawl_deck - Google Drive

[sexycaketin]

I’m making a game and I need test players!!

[palsprojects]

Finished the black light kippah! It’s up for sale now, but if you order it, know that it may take a week to ship. I’m waiting on my shipping supplies to arrive in the mail.

Black Light Kippah - PAL 's Ko-fi Shop

A premade kippah made from black light reactive yarn.

[palsprojects]

Anyone interested in buying a black light reactive kippah? I’m in the process of making one just out of the black light yarn but I can make patterns using other yarn mixed in.

[palsprojects]

I decided to open a crocheted Judaica shop again! This time it’s a ko-fi shop because fuck Etsy.

Right now only kippot are available, but I might expand in the future. Maaaaybee I’ll make golems again someday.

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[prof-grace-aspen]

Yesterday’s Torah reading was extremely important to me. So much so that I immediately put it into my tumblr profile. Tzedek, tzedek tirdof.

Justice, justice, you must pursue.

Rabbi talked about a few interpretations for why this word is repeated, and it got me thinking too.

I think to me the repetition represents how justice is something you are never done with, and how often you will have to fight for the same thing over and over and over.

Like right now, with gay marriage in the USA. It’s at risk. I admit I did think, back when it first won in court, that we were done, and it was the law forever. I didn’t realize it was never actually enshrined as law on the federal level. Same with abortion. I never knew it could so “easily” be overturned. Trans rights once given have been taken away.

So yes. Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof. We must pursue justice over and over, even justice already obtained. The fight is never over.

[mazikeentheshedimqueen]

A star of David seems like the obvious reach for a cross alternative regarding Jewish defense against vampires, but I would argue that a mezuzah is the more natural alternative (given that mezuzot are supposed to keep dybbuks out). The problem is that mezuzot are fixed in place, so it will keep your house safe, but if your out, you're going to need something else--an amulet of some kind maybe, containing the scroll, which leads me to the question:

Have we considered teffilin?

I mean, if you're concerned about encountering vampires while out on the town, maybe get a special necklace holding the scroll, and if you're doing actual fighting--tefillin might be cumbersome and also can be hella expensive--but if you're specifically expecting to interact with them and aren't expecting to be able to do much more than chant and maybe stake them, would tefillin be a good way to go?

[sexycaketin]

I agree that the scroll makes more sense than a Star of David.

However, (don’t quote me on this) I think the scroll is supposed to be secure enough that it doesn’t swing, so I don’t thing a necklace would work.

Maybe a tight leather wrist cuff that contains the scroll would work or a modified tefillin, where the strap is shorter and has a buckle. It would be less cumbersome than a regular tefillin.

[son-of-avraham]

I don't know if I ever made this a post, but as a random piece of advice for people converting: get to know some reconnecting jews.

Get to know the guy who went to shul only for the high holidays as a kid but is now putting up his mezuzah. Be in community with them. Seek out those sharing their journey openly, and seek out as diverse an array of reconnecting people as possible.

I have always felt a special kinship with reconnecting jews, and frankly, I felt that they could deeply understand me as I was deep in conversion. I feel in so many ways, the converted jew is a reconnecting jew

[sexycaketin]

I have learned the Alef Bet 🎉

Now I am slowing trying to read Bereshit.

I want to know if I’m pronouncing things correctly, and I’m in a discord that has a “find a chevruta” channel, but I’m afraid to post in it because I don’t want to waste someone’s time listening to me sound out each letter.

[astra-the-dragon]

oh you can for sure find all kinds of online resources. but a person is going to be the best help. what's your learning goal?

[sexycaketin]

The ultimate goal is to learn Biblical Hebrew so that I can get more in depth with my Torah study, but the short term goal is to learn how to pronounce everything properly so that I can pray in Hebrew instead of English.

[astra-the-dragon]

that's lovely owo

there are many siddurim that include transliteration. do you have a preferred nusah (denomination)?

Sefaria doesn't appear to have transliteration, but it's a good resource in any case.

[sexycaketin]

I’ve used the Reconstructionist weekday siddur for years, which doesn’t have transliteration unfortunately, just straight up English and Hebrew.

I’m not against using a different siddur, though. Do you have any recommendations? If not, that’s fine, I’ll do some googling.

[astra-the-dragon]

oh, I haven't said Amida regularly for a good seven years now. I'm not the one to ask.

I've always loved Koren, but I'm biased, and they're expensive. plus I don't think they do anything not Orthodox.

[sexycaketin]

Okay, I’ll check out Koren, and do some googling. Thank you!

[sexycaketin]

I have learned the Alef Bet 🎉

Now I am slowing trying to read Bereshit.

I want to know if I’m pronouncing things correctly, and I’m in a discord that has a “find a chevruta” channel, but I’m afraid to post in it because I don’t want to waste someone’s time listening to me sound out each letter.

[astra-the-dragon]

oh you can for sure find all kinds of online resources. but a person is going to be the best help. what's your learning goal?

[sexycaketin]

The ultimate goal is to learn Biblical Hebrew so that I can get more in depth with my Torah study, but the short term goal is to learn how to pronounce everything properly so that I can pray in Hebrew instead of English.

[astra-the-dragon]

that's lovely owo

there are many siddurim that include transliteration. do you have a preferred nusah (denomination)?

Sefaria doesn't appear to have transliteration, but it's a good resource in any case.

[sexycaketin]

I’ve used the Reconstructionist weekday siddur for years, which doesn’t have transliteration unfortunately, just straight up English and Hebrew.

I’m not against using a different siddur, though. Do you have any recommendations? If not, that’s fine, I’ll do some googling.

[sexycaketin]

I have learned the Alef Bet 🎉

Now I am slowing trying to read Bereshit.

I want to know if I’m pronouncing things correctly, and I’m in a discord that has a “find a chevruta” channel, but I’m afraid to post in it because I don’t want to waste someone’s time listening to me sound out each letter.

[astra-the-dragon]

oh you can for sure find all kinds of online resources. but a person is going to be the best help. what's your learning goal?

[sexycaketin]

The ultimate goal is to learn Biblical Hebrew so that I can get more in depth with my Torah study, but the short term goal is to learn how to pronounce everything properly so that I can pray in Hebrew instead of English.

[sexycaketin]

I have learned the Alef Bet 🎉

Now I am slowing trying to read Bereshit.

I want to know if I’m pronouncing things correctly, and I’m in a discord that has a “find a chevruta” channel, but I’m afraid to post in it because I don’t want to waste someone’s time listening to me sound out each letter.

[sexycaketin]

Is it wrong to only really want to date another Jew?

Like, I want a home full of Jewish traditions, and I’m considering going to rabbinical school after I learn Hebrew.

I have no problem with interfaith relationships, I just don’t want one.

Maybe I’m just spoiled because my first and only partner happened to be Jewish. It’s not why I fell for her but it was definitely a bonus.

[sexycaketin]

Matched with someone on Taimi, found out they’re from NY, so on a long shot asked if they were Jewish. They are not; I mention that I am.

Conversation goes on, and randomly they ask me about my thoughts on circumcision.

At least they didn’t ask about Israel?

[sexycaketin]

What’s the reason for “of the universe” being written both as

״העוֹלם״

and

״שׁל עוֹלם״

For context, the top one is part of “King of the universe” and the bottom one is part of “Master of the universe”

Is it like a grammar thing, or were the prayers written at different times so they’re slightly different, or something else?

[sanson-ki-mala-pe]

If I understand what you mean, I think there are two different things going on here-- something called the construct state that can be used to express things you'd use 'of' for in English, and the development of של which is also used to express possession.

You can see the construct state used in the term for hospital--בית חולים--literally 'house of the sick.' In this term, instead of בית being pronounced like 'bayit', it transforms and turns into 'beit' for the construct state. Another example is in Shalom Aleichem, where 'king of kings' (מלכי המלכים) means that מלך turns into מלכי for the plural construct state. The only reason that מלך doesn't change in מלך העולם is because in the singular construct form, מלך doesn't change forms and is still spelled and pronounced like normal.

At some point, I don't really know when or how, Hebrew gained the ability to not just express possession via suffixes at the end of words like normal, but to express it with של as well. So you can say תפילתי (tfilati) for "my prayer" and תפילתו (tfilato) for "his prayer," but now we can say תפילה שלי and תפילה שלו as well.

[sexycaketin]

Everything you wrote totally went over my head; I think I don’t know enough about Hebrew (or like, language structure in general) to understand, lol.

But thank you for explaining! I’m going to make sure to not lose this post, and when I have a better understanding of the language, I’ll come back and reread this.

Again, thank you!

[sexycaketin]

What’s the reason for “of the universe” being written both as

״העוֹלם״

and

״שׁל עוֹלם״

For context, the top one is part of “King of the universe” and the bottom one is part of “Master of the universe”

Is it like a grammar thing, or were the prayers written at different times so they’re slightly different, or something else?

[jewish-microwave-laser]

pls..... i need jewish bears,,, im fading..,, h elp.. please send,,..

[misguidedandperplexed]

[sexycaketin]

Okay, I just learned the Alef Bet (without vowels; I’ll watch the vowel video tomorrow); now I’m trying to read my Siddur, and I need help.

“רבונו שׁל עולם״

is pronounced

“Rab-oh-noh shel olam”?