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how do people who wear tzitzit not constantly fidget with them. in Saturday morning services I'm literally fidgeting with my tallis fringe and tzitzit the whole time. if I wore a tallit katan you'd see me playing with the tzitzit all the time how do I NEVER see anyone doing that???????
being a young person at shul is so fun. its like ur a celebrity
working in a kosher kitchen has made me realize how much of kashrut is a modern invention relying on wealth. we can't use the asparagus tips because there might be bugs in them. we are literally wasting the best part of the vegetable.
before the Jewish community in the US gained model minority status & generational wealth, we couldn't afford to waste food. my great grandma wouldn't have thrown out asparagus tips because they might have a bug in them—she had kids to feed!!! Did people in history really have an ENTIRE set of dishes used ONLY for passover? did my ancestors in the Pale of Settlement have that??? would they have wasted part of their vegetables???
I have huge respect for kashrut and I think its important but some parts of it just seem like they encourage us to buy things and waste things. The kitchen I work in accommodates the strictest rules of kashrut, so I know not everyone observes kashrut like this, but it frustrates me that for some people, this is what our tradition has become
religion is so weird because fundamentally it is Extra Things To Do. or at least that's how I was raised to view it. and I think thats certainly a non-innacurate way of looking at it. like you have to go to Job or you'll end up with no food and nowhere to live. you have to go to Grocery Store so you can eat for the week.
there's nothing, materially, that makes, say, observing shabbat or going to shul Necessary. (let's set aside free shabbos dinner/kiddush lunch for now)
and thats my instinctive way of looking at things. (i can point to exactly where it came from). and so I'm like i wanna go to shul, I wanna keep shabbat but it's not like all those necessary things, right? if I've gotta do something that makes me not observe shabbat I do what I gotta do.
and then I don't do anything for shabbat and sort of just treat it like any other day and on Wednesday of that week I realize I've been slowly taking psychic damage and I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind and it only gets better when I Make An Effort To Do Something for the next shabbat.
what the fuck!!!! i have to Go To Doctor and Make Dinner etc to prevent physical damage and apparently I have to Do My Religion to not take psychic damage!!! i have added indelibly to my life's weight and I wouldn't change it but I didn't know I was signing up for this
when you can't really keep kosher for passover because you share a house
theres this strange thing about the way I pronounce Hebrew because I went to a Hebrew school where they pronounced things the idk. Israeli? way. like Shabbat and Yom Kee-Poor. and cha-MAETZ. but my grandparents have Ashkenazi accents and i have so many friends that ive learned about Judaism from that have Ashkenazi accents, including people who've taught me songs. so every time I say or sing Hebrew there is exactly a 50% chance I will say it I'm an Ashkenazi accent and a 50% chance it'll be in an Israeli accent and a secret third thing where I try to say both and absolute gibberish comes out
I read Kissing Girls on Shabbat recently!!! It was really good. I honestly didn't expect it to center so much around the struggle for custody but it was so interesting. I also found the story of like. levels of observance within the ultra Orthodox community—like moving to the edge of Lakewood, really interesting. Super emotionally well written too. I highly recommend it!!!
that meme of putting the thing on the high shelf away from the kid but the thing is the concept of the wicked child
