#mishna

[treewolf7]

Today, we are talking about a Mishnah, specifically Eduyot 4:8 (which is the same as Yebamot 1:4). We have a disagreement here between the houses of Hillel and Shammai on a variety of issues related to marriage, but I find the conclusion rather heartwarming.

Despite the disagreement on these and other halakhic issues, the houses still intermarry and interact with each other, and simply accommodated the halakhic preference of members of the other house. There can be a lot of extreme rhetoric in the Mishnah regarding those who do not follow certain halakhic rulings, so this statement of accommodation and acceptance between the two houses was unexpected for me, but still brightened my day a bit.

[jdsquared]

Menachot 97b

[dafyomilimerick]

Sanhedrin 37

"Tell us just what you've seen with your eyes, Not assumptions, " the judges chastise, "Nor some 'stuff' someone told you; If not, God will hold you As cause of a whole world's demise."

[evilwickedme]

I made this meme bc of the real life reactions I got to the Job/Peter Parker post, but then @starlightomatic asked me if I could make it rebloggable, so have fun

[torais-life]

"It is a mitzvah both to say what will be heard and not to say what will not be heard"

-Morá Carolina Dabah (Machon Ora Midrashet)

[learningftw]

i was learning a mishna with a kid i tutor and the mishna mentions a blessing over (kosher) locusts

her: what about cicadas?

me: well, cicadas aren’t kosher, so there’s no blessing-

her: my friend ate a cicada shell at recess once!

her: this mishna would be better if it was about cicadas.

[judaic-myth-n-mysticism]

In my mind the hardest, and very well the most important thing that a Jewish practitioner must learn to do is letting go of the goyische, largely Christian, framework that surrounds the idea of magic in today’s world.

Once you stop trying to view Jewish traditions through a lense of comparison to goyische witchcraft so much more of it will become clear, and dare I say it; more fulfilling.

This is something I have struggled with as well. For me, the hardest thing was letting go of my preconceived notion of what the end goal of my practice was. Deassimilating the way we look at our own mystic tradition is truly crucial to being able to a having an authentic Jewish practice.

[strawbebbynya]

LOOK AT THE ADOPTABLE I GOT FROM @midnigtartist (lemme know if I should take it down btw)

Her name is Mishna, no surname yet, n she's gonna be part of a group of OCs I made (whom she's in a poly relationship with). She doesn't have much of a backstory besides noble girl who was given to monks when she was born, but I'll flesh her out when my brain n back aren't mush.

I'm gonna ask that if you want to use the design, please talk to the artist about adopting her if they're still adopting her out! I don't mind sharing but I don't want people stealing from an artist who deserves so much love n money