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I bet YOU don't have debates at your job about whether you can afford a camel.

It's $60. It's not technically necessary but it would make our Yom HaAtzmaut for the kids soooooo much better...

#shul staffer problems #i love my job #jumblr #yom haatzma'ut

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At shul last night, and this little old bubbe is telling me about how she used all this LSD in the 60's. She told me how she was told her kids would be deformed but her son is just fine, and how her first trip was the best.

Boomers, man. They are something else.

#mine #LSD #jewish #sort of? #boomers

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April 5, 2063

#happy first contact day!

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do you ever just

*reads 'pikuach nefesh' as 'pikachu nefesh'*

#all the damn time #jumblr #he's the pikachu of my soul

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If someone were to walk up to you right now and ask you which way is north, and you couldn't look anything up, would you know immediately, would you have to take a minute to figure it out, or would you not be able to answer?

#i'd know immediately #but i live in colorado #so that's like a cheat code #mountains = west

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Reblog if you are okay with people giving you lots of boops!

#this will amuse me all morning

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Feel free to put what they are in the tags if you want!

#English #Spanish #French is decent but I hesitant to say fluent #I'm aces at READING Hebrew but a dumbass when it comes to speaking #so 2-4 #depending on how you judge

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Special shoutout to those who are sober on Purim, for whatever reason. I know it can be awkward not drinking when moat other people are, but you don't need alcohol to have a good time!

Chag Sameach!

#jumblr #jewish #purim #sobriety

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being born and raised jewish i've never really experienced other mourning practices first hand, but i truly feel lucky to have the jewish traditions because i think judaism does mourning right. how quickly we bury because we believe mourning can't start until then but also that we never leave the body alone and treat the person who passed with such respect. there is so much structure in jewish mourning practices (the periods of time i broke down in my previous reply) that i find so much comfort in because it gives guidance from immediate mourning to long term healing and mourning and missing. and mourning in judaism is so so communal, such as the reading of the names but also shiva needs to have a minyan which means for the first 7 days after someone passes the family is guaranteed to not be alone... i just think judaism does it right.

I feel the exact same way... There's something comforting in knowing that, should something happen to you or a loved one, they/you will have people surrounding them. The respect, concern, and, ultimately, faith is something I admire and find deeply important.

I know for many, the idea of including the dead seems unnecessary (especially if you believe in an eternal afterlife), but to include them, to include people affected by death? There's something meaningful and kind about it, something deeply human and raw and powerful. Life is preferable, of course, but we can't ignore the dead, ignore the people who have been affected, and I appreciate that judaism prefers life but also gives space for death.

#i wholeheartedly agree #jumblr #jewish #jewish mourning #shiva

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I laughed aloud at this.

#hebrew #duolingo #i took an arrow in the knee #skyrim memes

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Jewish women stay winning I’m so glad I’m a Jewish woman reblog if you’re glad to be a Jewish woman

#jumblr #jewish #jewish women rock

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Use any definition of "speak" that you'd like. This poll is just for fun.

#hebrew and a little bit of ladino! #jumblr #polls #jewish languages

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Jewish Song of the Day #27: Modah Ani

Comments:

I really love this choir, because they are observant women who have still found a way to make beautiful music together and follow their beliefs.

This is probably the first time I actually ever came across music by women who wear a tichel and still sing, and I was so delighted because it's rare to see other people who dress like me who are also singers.

This is also the first time I ever heard Modah Ani (so, grammatically phrased in the feminine) and I was so moved emotionally.

Enjoy!

#reblogging so i can find it later #i am SO EXCITED this crossed my dash #I have been wanting a good feminine Modah Ani but have been struggling to find one I like #jewish music #jewish musicians #jewish women 🩷 #jumblr

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We're having it again tonight, and I still hate it.

Am I terrible for hating the Gospel Shabbat service that my shul does? It's cool that we're collaborating with a black church and building bridges and whatever, but... IDK, if I wanted to sing songs of worship like a Christian, I'd probably still be Christian.

#I don't want to subsume my being into God's #or whatever it was they were singing in that song #jumblr #jewish conversion #gospel shabbat #personal #mine #also the thees and thous are bugging me

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So the situation is like this.

less than a century ago, the Jewish people lost at least 1/3 of our overall population

We have not actually recovered from this, never mind made up the population we could have gained without that loss

Approximately half of the Jewish population of the world currently live in the state known as Israel, usually not by choice

Most Jewish people, because we are a small people, know Israelis as friends, family, or similar close relationships

Most antizionist Pro-Palestinian neither-Palestinian-nor-Jewish* "activists" on this site see anyone who refuses to be okay with indiscriminate Israeli death as a "zIonist", because "revolutions require blood"**

Most Jewish people aren't actually okay with their friends or family dying; and even if they were, losing half of our population when we just lost a third is not something anyone would ever be okay with unless they reaaaaaally hated their people. And sure, they could leave, but no one would take them, because everyone hates Jews. So, death.

As such, these activists have decided to label the vast majority of Jews as "Evil Zionists", because - regardless of whether or not we actually support the existence of the state of Israel or what's being/been done to Palestinians - we refuse to celebrate or even condone needless Israeli death

I don't really care if this changes your mind or makes you realize that you're doing something wrong. I mean, for fuck's sake, I've said things like this before and it hasn't.

I just want to make it explicitly clear what these "activists" are doing and how it is blatantly antisemitic and, if not that, completely unfair. The vast majority of people who are labeled as zionist, or who end up on "zionist blocklists", are Jewish people who support Palestinian Liberation, but not indiscriminate Israeli death. Hell, most of the accused are anarchists, which literally contradicts zionism.

So maybe, use two cents of critical thinking, and realize what these "activists" actually want (Jewish death). Thanks.

*please note I am explicitly calling out non-Palestinian gentiles. Palestinians are allowed to want or say whatever because of the pain that has been inflicted on them and the suffering they are currently going through. They also don't usually do this shit bc they understand the nuance. But, ya know. Nuance

**apparently restorative, non-punitive justice doesn't apply here. Apparently we're supposed to celebrate indiscriminate bloodshed in the pursuit of revolution, even though the loss of life should be sad regardless of whether or not its necessary.

#i/p #jewish #jumblr #antisemitism

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apparently Jewish people using the "kh" sound when speaking hebrew is cultural appropriation/a mockery of arabic...... my brother under hashem do you think that zionists invented the hebrew language

#people are so f'ing stupid #hebrew #jumblr

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“Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means “to obey”. When Hebrew was revived as a living language in the nineteenth century, and there was need for a verb meaning “to obey,” it had to be borrowed from the Aramaic: le-tsayet. Instead of a word meaning “to obey,” the Torah uses the verb shema, untranslatable into English because it means [1] to listen, [2] to hear, [3] to understand, [4] to internalise, and [5] to respond. Written into the very structure of Hebraic consciousness is the idea that our highest duty is to seek to understand the will of God, not just to obey blindly.”

— Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (via yidquotes)

#judaism #jumblr #hebrew #etymology