[ofshivelight]

"But remember that an "angel" is anything that carries out a mission for God. This includes forces of nature. An angel doesn't have to be an intimidating, fiery being... Photosynthesis? That's an angel. Gravity? An angel. Magnetism? Angel. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah (chapter 1) says than an angel only performs one job. That job doesn't have to be destroying Sodom; it could be peristalsis, centripetal force or condensation."

- Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, The God Papers

[bowserwife]

I'm a smiler. I admit it. A giggler. I'm a laughy guy. I laugh at my own jokes before I can finish them, I laugh at my friends' jokes, and I laugh at them too much and too loud. Can't help it! Sorry for being full of love and joy!

[son-of-avraham]

"Everything we do can be transformed into a Sinai experience, an encounter with the sacred. The goal of Judaism is not to teach us how to escape from the profane world to cleansing presence of God, but to teach us how to bring God into the world, how to take the ordinary and make it holy."

-Harold Kushner, To Life!

[your-local-conversion-student]

currently feeling very guilty because i'll have to take a break from the conversion process, now that I have to work to pay for my studies I no longer have the time to properly study Hebrew nor attend to services... i'm feeling so lonely and discouraged but hopefully when the time is right I can come back to it. guess I just have to trust the process and timing

[gliklofhameln]

A Yemenite Jew — Ephraim Moshe Lilien (1874-1925)

etching on paper

[magnetothemagnificent]

This Rosh HaShana, remember that you do not owe anyone your forgiveness.

While it's a virtue to seek forgiveness and grant forgiveness, you do not owe anyone forgiveness, especially if they haven't truly done the full steps of Teshuvah to you.

If you have it in your heart to forgive and you're ready to do so, that's wonderful, but if you're not ready yet to forgive, that's okay. You don't owe forgiveness.

Just like Teshuvah is a long journey, so too is forgiveness.

[your-local-conversion-student]

ngl I've been pretty terrible at keeping up with conversion classes, shabbat etc for the past few months bc life has been hectic and while ik I can take all my time to go through conversion process I still feel endlessly bad for putting it aside lately:/ i've been pretty disconnected from the process and now idk how to get my footing back bc im just feeling so guilty about it ugh

[bobemajses]

Details from the painting Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur (1878) by Maurycy Gottlieb

[gliklofhameln]

Rico Lebrun, (American, b. Italy, 1900-1964), Floor of Buchenwald, 1956 or 1958

From the first photographs of the concentration camps made available after the liberation, the inhumane devastation of the “final solution” seemed to render any rational expression impotent. The painter, Rico Lebrun decided to confront the horrors of this history:

“I wanted to remember that our image, even when disfigured by adversity, is grand in meaning; that no brutality will ever cancel that meaning: painting may increase it by changing what is disfigured into what is transfigured.”

[winterslune]

pretty sure this is the most gorgeous book I have ever fucking seen

[gliklofhameln]

Hungarian porcelain Passover cup, Vilmos Fischer, Koloszár, 1881

[socialistsephardi]

[lhavdil]

judaism is about laughter and debate and kvetching and memory and study and questions and joy and humility and resistance and neurodivergence and responsibility and community and expression and grief and children and grandparents and love. in no particular order

[girlactionfigure]

[momosweetpeach]

Happy Passover to all who celebrate!

While I do not celebrate it myself, one of my best friends, Scrumpy, does and I made this for her when she said there were no good Passover gifs slfkdjfhlk

[jinxysmidcentury]

Marc Chagall

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Jews On Passover Be Like