נישט קיין צדק נישט קיין שלום

Talia, she/her, 26, lesbian disaster. Y’all should look up doikayt. ✌️16 Tamuz 5780 ✌️ this is a side blog, i will follow back as “mediocrityisoverrated.” please be kind, and welcome! 🧿

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[fae-gele]

community is everything. I am extremely blessed by the beautiful friendships that have come from finding the pools of incredible radical Jews. so happy to spend the rest of chanukah with one such friend

[sobbingoverthechallah]

imma spiritualize my material pursuits

ergo, there is something Divine about me cram-writing a 15-page seminar paper that's due in two hours

[heavenslittlemachine-deactivate]

me drowning in a lake while my friend, 11th century french rabbi and prolific scriptural commentator Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a) stands nearby: help im drowing help me rashi

Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a): "drowing" is likely a scribal error for "drowning." "im drow[n]ing" is to say: my lungs have become filled with water, and i am struggling to breathe. "help" once followed by "help me" a second time: the first [help] is directed to the Holy One, blessed be He, and means: "may He help us by swiftly delivering the World to Come;" the second (i.e., "help me") is to invoke direct assistance in this world, spoken as if to a personal friend. the meaning of "rashi" here is unclear.

[sobbingoverthechallah]

Is that a Daniel Kahn lyric in your header? 😃

You sent this in March (yeesh) so my apologies for not responding sooner! It's just supposed to be "no justice no peace" in Yiddish, or as close as I could get to translating it way back in 2020.

That being said, I am a *huge* fan of Daniel Kahn and his music with The Painted Bird! I've recently been listening to some of his music from his album The Fourth Unternational, and the overall listening experience been quite cathartic.

[reachabovethetrees]

Have you ever seen such joy and tenderness on a man’s face? NO. BECAUSE YOU’LL NEVER BE AN ETROG.

[shelomit]

#this post cured me of the negative effects of compulsory heterosexuality and replaced them with love of judaism

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Oh gosh I remember seeing this last year while I was super high and I started crying.

[ladyknightthebrave]

WHY ARE THEIR ETROG’S SO BIG??? WHat tHE fUCknG

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I CAN’T BELIEVE I FINALLY GET TO USE THIS GIF

[sobbingoverthechallah]

microdosing d*ath contemplation erev yom kippur by almost merking myself with food poisoning

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

I made Gary (my gecko) a tiny Tallis and yarmulke for Rosh Hashanah and he wished u all happy new year

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Happy Rosh Hashanah again from OP of the shalomander

[shadowbrightshine]

This is for hannah

[anyab]

Hello, i am highlighting this campaign led by multiple grassroots organisations in Lebanon, mostly in support of people that are part of marginalized communities that are often overlooked during humanitarian emergencies(such as migrant workers, Syrian and Palestinian refugees etc...). Share and support if you can.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION: VOICES OF THE UNSEEN

EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION: VOICES OF THE UNSEEN As the indiscriminate attacks in Lebanon continue with over 120,000 (Statistics by OCHA)

[sobbingoverthechallah]

wild that i made this tumblr account the same day i talked to a rabbi for the first time. anyway happy six years, glad to still be here with all of you :)

[librarycard]

i am not afraid to keep on living. etc

[librarycard]

me after one bagel sandwich

[jewish-sideblog]

Things I am afraid to ask my Rabbi, who has more important issues to deal with:

Is it customary to touch the mezuzah if I'm just sticking my head in the room?

If I go in the room for a second and then I leave, is it customary to touch the mezuzah both times, or is there like a 30-second cooldown timer?

Is it customary to touch the mezuzah if my hands are just, like. Really greasy and I don't wanna have to wipe it down later?

What if it's pork grease? (Sorry, Rabbi, you know there's not a kosher restaurant for a hundred miles. If I'm eating treyf anyway it might as well be bacon)

Is it customary to touch the mezuzah if I've got a lot of groceries and my hands are full?

If my hands are full, can I just give the casing a lil smooch directly with my lips? I kiss my fingers after I touch it anyway. Can't I just cut out the middleman here? The middleman is my fingers and they're busy holding several jars of pickles and bottles of Manischewitz

[lemonjew]

#i advocate for french kissing the mezuzah #<- prev

i have a feeling you’ll enjoy this.

[keshetchai]

I assume some of this is a joke, and I'm not a rabbi— but in all seriousness:

Absolutely do not touch the mezuzah with pork grease fingers. Or any grease, for that matter. I know this is a haha joke, but also, do not do that. (Those are wayyyyy too expensive to risk getting dirty for starters.)

The mezuzah scroll contains the name of G-d which is holy and has a whole host of requirements for proper treatment. Therefore it is not placed on the doorframe of a bathroom. Likewise, great care is taken to make sure the mezuzah does not fall to the ground.

Similarly, Chabad writes:

For the same reason, it is improper to place a kitchen garbage can in close proximity to a mezuzah. When one takes out the garbage, care must be taken not to hold the garbage bag on the same side where the mezuzah is affixed, rather it should be held in the hand further away from the mezuzah. This is applicable even if the mezuzah is placed in the enclosed case and the parchment is not exposed at all.

The halacha is that you don't place a mezuzah on a bathroom door. But it's only minhag to kiss the mezuzah, and the practice of touching it at the entrance of your home seems to be about reminding yourself of the initial mitzvot. Touching the mezuzah varies in sources (Halachapedia), but at any rate, the focus is on the major entryways to your residence or a building. Less so all the other rooms. It would be preferable to simply look at the mezuzah case (to remind yourself of the covenant), or maybe bow (similar to how sephardim sometimes bow to the Torah scroll rather than touch their tallit fringes to it).

Edit: Like....okay yes some of these are questions a rabbi should be hearing! But also c'mon, it's a good general rule to not wipe bacon grease on ANY religious object, nevermind one that specifically is there to remind people of a set of laws that include not eating the aforementioned bacon.

[sobbingoverthechallah]

becoming a medievalist and getting a doctorate isn't enough i need to severely critique Augustine of Hippo's conception of "faith" as being devoid of questioning

[sobbingoverthechallah]

i'm on spring break (so not in my normal place of living) and i went to a little havurah at a friend's house for kabbalat shabbat and it was fully the first time i've really davened or even felt remotely connected in... maybe like two years? and we all masked up and it was so nice and welcoming? i wish i could bottle up that feeling of being actually surrounded by community again.

[sobbingoverthechallah]

judaism makes me sad now. there’s no more joy in my practice, and the practice is nonexistent. any of that connection i had is gone. idk where to find it but at this point i’m not sure if it’s going to come back. I hope it does, though.

[wizard-spells]

There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

[ivysentry]

They’re a grassroot organisation that regularly supply Palestinians with fresh food!

[sobbingoverthechallah]

Everyone’s got little things that get them through their day. I knit on the bus and ponder the unknowable nature of that which is Divine