#judaismposting

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alright we gotta fucking talk about the Shamir because why has nobody ever told me that the Talmud relates that King Solomon used a supernatural worm that could disintegrate any material with its sight to build the First Temple ????

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Earliest known American Ketubbah (Jewish wedding contract), and sole known illustrated 18th century American Ketubbah, dated 2 Sivan, 5511 (May 15, 1751). Celebrating the wedding of Shalva bas Solomon (Sloe Meyers) and Hayim ben Moshe haLevi (Hayman Levy). They were members of New York’s only synagogue, Kehilah She’arit Israel (Congregation Remnant of Israel), which is the oldest Jewish congregation in North America (established 1654).

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“I threw everything together in a jumble, the mandates of the political agitator and the mementos of a Jewish poet. Portraits of Lenin and Maimonides lay side by side — the gnarled steel of Lenin’s skull and the listless silk of the Maimonides portait. A lock of woman’s hair lay in a book of the resolutions of the Sixth Party Congress, and crooked lines of Ancient Hebrew verse huddled in the margins of Communist pamphlets. Pages of The Song of Songs and revolver cartridges drizzled on me in a sad, sparse rain.” - Isaac Babel, “The Rabbi’s Son,” in Red Cavalry

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"Am I in Jerusalem? This is a question to which one will never answer in the present tense, only in the future or the past." - Jacques Derrida, How to Avoid Speaking: Denials

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excerpt from yehoyesh’s yiddish translation of shir hashirim (song of songs)

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"This land is a volcano: it houses language. One speaks here of many things that could lead to our failure. One speaks, today more than ever, about the Arabs. But, more uncanny than the Arab people, another threat confronts us that is a necessary consequence of the Zionist project: what of the "actualization" of Hebrew? Mustn't this abyss of our holy language, handed down to our children, once more break out? Of course, man knows not what he does. He believes that language can be secularized. But it's not so — the secularization of language is just a phrase. It's really impossible [...]" - Gershom Scholem, Bekenntnis über unsere Sprache. An Franz Rosenzweig

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