The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Esther | Twenty-Something | Sephardic Jew | Central Asia | Middle East | North Africa

[solar-starfish]

Happy one month to me.

[american-radical-deactivated201]

West Beirut - 1998

[solar-starfish]

Hi, Tumblr.

It’s been a minute.

I have been up to the craziest shit since I gave up on you last year and stopped posting. I’m prepping for my craziest adventure yet (and that’s saying something) so I figured I’d log on and see what content is kicking around that might be beneficial or enlightening in some way, shape, or form...

Career’s going great. Degree’s going great - Almost done. Research is stellar. Global travels and work experience are all piling up. I’m shipping off on short notice to do the craziest shit I’ve ever done in a couple of days. Life is good. Hope I don’t die.

[solar-starfish]

I'm out. I'm done with the immaturity on this site. It's not even worth checking every few days now.

[solar-starfish]

Me: My stomach hurts.

Moroccan Mom: Zit Zitoune!

Me: I have a headache.

Moroccan Mom: Zit Zitoune!

Me: My throats hurts.

Moroccan Mom: Zit Zitoune!

Me: I have a terminal cancer and only 3 days to live.

Moroccan Mom: Zit Zitoune!

[nativepeopleproblems]

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי, אֶלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אָשֶׁר קדְשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לִרְדּוֹף צֶדֶק.

Blessed are you Adonai our god, ruler of the universe, who has sanctified us through your commandments, and commands us to seek justice.

[theironman]

[avivayalla]

Can we just shorten messianic Judaism to messi. Judaism because that’s what it is a gosh darn mess.

[crushis]

[davidcorensweet]

As a kid, I was completely obsessed with Splash, the movie

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

#beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world too pure

[alichaaban]

[pentomic-deactivated20250709]

traditional Ashkenazi Jewish music genres

-A Verse From the Torah/Talmud/Pirkei Avot/Shulchan Aruch/Zohar/etc, But Put To Music And Made Incredibly Catchy And You Will Never Be Able To Stop Singing It

-Our Hometown Has Been Completely Destroyed, But It Will Live Forever In Our Hearts

-This Love Song Is So Sweet And Gentle And Wait Both Of These Lovers Are Dead

-Hooray, We Made It To <Holiday> Without Being Slaughtered

-It’s Time For Atheist Socialist Secular Revolution, But In Yiddish

- ya na nai nai nai nAI NAI NAI NAI

-Get Fucked Nazis (A Soviet Jewish Partisan Song)

-Get Fucked Commies (The Same Partisans, Four Years Later)

-WHY AREN’T WE IN ISRAEL

-ba bum ba ba bum (bu du dum)

-This Is What A Love Song Sounds Like At Triple Speed And In Yiddish

-Save Us, O G-d, From <Insert Tyrant Here>

-rumANIA RUMANIA RUMANIARUMANIA

[solar-starfish]

-ya na nai nai nai nAI NAI NAI NAI

I lost it.

[solar-starfish]

We even used the deluxe edition. :) Chag Pesach sameach!

[stankonia]

[thequeenbey]

Happy Anniversary, Bey & Jay! (4/4/08)

[apriki]

[drtanner]

Shit, I lost it at “I am the 11th plague”. 

[solar-starfish]

It’s just not Pesach until a small child is having a breakdown because they weren’t the one to find the afikomen.