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TIL there was almost a Classic Doctor Who story featuring Bar Kochba and his rebellion, and I will now be forever mourning the fact that it did not happen.

#doctor who #classic who #bar kochba #jewish history #to be fair it might have been terrible #but it also might have been so good #and we shall never know :(#oh well #if there are any jewish eu stories please tell me!#dandelion says #dandelion thinks about doctor who

I felt like practicing drawing historical dress, and my laptop is kinda sorta fixed now (the touch screen is still lagging and not ideal but the intitial repair is so expensive already). Anyway so here's Bucky Barnes, Magneto, and Steve Rogers as Judean soldiers in Bar Kochba's rebellion.

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#my art #digital art #marvel #magneto #winter soldier #bucky barnes #steve rogers #captain america #jewish character #bar kochba #historical dress #historical jewish dress #jewish clothes

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates. And do not contrive evil against one another, and do not love perjury, because all those are things that I hate—declares the Lord.”

These verses, from Zechariah 8:16–17, were discovered in a cave where Jewish refugees hid almost 1900 years ago. The verses, written on dozens of parchment fragments were discovered in a complex and challenging national-archaeological operation undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority on the cliffs of the Judean Desert, since 2017, in order to prevent antiquities looting.

The historic discovery comes 60 years after the last discovery of biblical scrolls in archaeological excavations. In addition to the scroll fragments, the operation uncovered additional extraordinary finds from various periods: a cache of rare coins from the days of Bar-Kokhba, a 6,000 year-old skeleton of a child – likely female, wrapped in a cloth and mummified, and a large complete basket dating back 10,500 years, likely the oldest in the world.

with apologies to Rashbi and William Blake

this is probably heretical on many levels and Lag Ba’Omer is technically over now but every time people talk about rabbi shimon bar yochai and his laser eyes the line “burnt the fire of his eyes” keeps going through my head, which inspired me to commit this lag ba’omer-themed travesty against William Blake’s “The Tyger”:

shimon, shimon bar yochai left a cave beneath the sky what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?

in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? you wrote the zohar, all that strain- in what furnace was thy brain?

and when the Star threw down his spear and akiva shed a bitter tear on what wings dared he aspire? what false messiah seized that fire?

rabbi shimon bar yochai left his cave, beneath the sky what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

#lag baomer #lag ba'omer #shimon bar yochai #rabbi shimon bar yochai #rashbi #rabbi akiva #bar kochba #shimon bar kochba #william blake #the tyger #am i jewish tumblr #the Star refers to shimon bar kochba because that's what his name means and the line was too perfect not to use it like that #since the failure of the bar kochba rebellion is also tied in with lag ba'omer #zohar #(the reference is that rabbi akiva believed that bar kochba was the messiah #until bar kochba lost #and then rabbi akiva was extremely bitter and disillusioned about him)#edit: i just realized that i referenced shimon bar yochai and his laser eyes without giving ANY explanation about the laser eyes thing #and honestly i think it's better that way #but anyway the story goes that after twelve years studying intensely in a cave #while evading capture from the romans who wanted to murder him for studying so much #he left the cave and saw a guy doing work #i.e. NOT studying #and he was so filled with righteous indignation at this person not studying intensely #and so filled with holiness from twelve years of studying intensely in a cave #that fire shot out from his eyes and consumed the poor guy #and god was like not okay dude! back in the cave with you!#so anyway he went back in the cave until he got his laser eyes under control and then he left again #the end #rabbi shimon bar yochai and his laser eyes

Can't believe I never made the connection between Jyn Erso being called "Stardust" in Rogue One and the Bar Kochba rebellion......

I'm a bad Jewish Star Wars fan lmao.

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Thinking about Magneto as a tragic Bar Kochba figure......

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#magneto #x men #marvel #marvel comics #x men magneto #my art #bar kochba #marvel fanart #magneto as bar kochba #judaism #jewish history #jewish character

Good News From Israel

This week' s newsletter is full of historic "first-time-ever" events for Israel. From the launch of the aptly named Beresheet ("in the beginning") spacecraft, to groundbreaking medical and scientific achievements. The Startup Nation is reaching for the stars. (Photo is of the Moon over the art museum in the ancient but eco-friendly port of Jaffa.)

In the 24th Feb 19 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

Israeli stem cells saved a patient from having a leg amputated.

Israel is giving grants to encourage women to launch startups.

Israel’s WaterGen has donated 10 water generators to Brazil.

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft is on its way to the Moon.

Israeli clean fuel cells are going into mass production.

A bird sanctuary right next to Israel’s Parliament.

Rain has unearthed a coin that proves Jews ruled Israel nearly 1900 years ago.

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