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Arvind Patel, a Hindu convenience store owner, stands in front of his store with the sign “Shabbos Goy Available Shabbat Shalom” above him in Queens, New York, New York; 2016. x
A Shabbos goy, or Shabbat goy, is a non-Jew who performs certain types of work which Jewish religious law prevents a Jewish from doing on the Sabbath.  A Shabbos goy cannot perform just any work for a Jewish person on Shabbat; they are only allowed to do certain things within specific parameters.  A Shabbos Goy, for example, cannot work for a Jewish person on Shabbat, as the Jewish person will be directly receiving a benefit from the labor and thus it would be like if the Jewish person did the work themselves.  A Shabbos Goy can, for example, do work which would prevent a great many Jewish people from breaking the Sabbath such as repairing a broken eruv.  For more specifics on what a Shabbos Goy can or can’t do, click here.
Shabbat Shalom from all of us at the Jewish Virtual Library!
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almostoutoflimbo · 7 years
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tfw you’ve spent four hours on youtube trying to find a specific melody to a jewish song or prayer
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Cozy vocab in Hebrew
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נְשׁיקַה - kiss (mas, pl. נשיקוֹת) סֵרֵט - movie (mas, pl. סרַטים) סוודֵר - sweater (mas, pl. סוודרים) כַּר - pillow (mas, pl. כרים) קַפַה - coffee גַרבַּיים - socks סֵפֵר - book (mas, pl. ספַרים) נַחָת - comfort שְֹמיכָה - blanket (fem, pl. שמיכוֹת) אַח-fireplace (mas, pl. אחים)
חַתוּלַה - cat (fem, pl. חתולות) חַמימוּת - warmth כּוֹכַבים - stars תֵה - tea
תִיוֹן-tea bag (mas, pl. תיונים) חיבּוּק - hug (mas, pl. חיבוקים) נֵר - candle (mas, pl. נֵרוֹת)
רַך - soft שָׁברירי - delicate מַתוֹק - sweet נוֹחַ - comfortable נַעים - warm
לְנַשֵׁק - to kiss לְחַבֵּק - to hug לִשׁמוֹר עַל מישֵׁהוּ\מישהי - to take care of sb לִשׁכַּב - to lie down לִהִתכַרבֵּל עִם מישהו\מישהי - to cuddle לִקרוֹא - to read ֹלִשׁון - to sleep לַנוּחַ - to rest
Other lists I know of: Maltese, Italian, Finnish, German, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Swedish, Spanish
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The Old Synagogue in Dubrovnik, Croatia is the oldest Sefardic synagogue still in use today in the world and the second oldest synagogue in Europe. It is said to have been established in 1352, but gained legal status in the city in 1408.Owned by the local Jewish community, the main floor still functions as a place of worship for Holy days and special occasions, but is now mainly a city museum which hosts numerous Jewish ritual items and centuries-old artifacts.
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“Don’t get into pointless arguments with jerks on the Internet” –the rabbis
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March 12th, 2017 - 14th of Adar, 5777
Yes, today is Purim! The joyous festival celebrating the survival of the Jewish people in Persia.
The entire story is recorded in the Book of Esther (Megillat Esther), wherein the Jews Esther and Mordechai defeated the evil Haman’s plot to kill all of the Jews in Persia. You can find a complete recounting of the story here, and summaries here and here. In planning his plot, Haman threw Purim (”Lots”) to choose the date, it came up as 13 Adar. However, Esther and Mordechai managed to convince the King not to allow Haman’s plan, and allowed the Jews to fight against their enemies. On the 13th of Adar that year the Jews defeated their enemies, and we celebrate on the next day.
In the walled city of Shushan, the fighting continues on the 14th, and they celebrated on 15 Adar. Because of this, cities which were walled at the time celebrate Purim a day later (this is called Shushan Purim). Observances of Purim include listening to a reading of the Megillah, baking triangle cookies called Hamentaschens (shaped after the hat Haman wore), partying, giving gifts to friends, giving tzedakah (charity), wearing costumes, and joyful partying.
Shushan Purim, Purim in walled cities, begins at sunset tonight.
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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)
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There are n*zis on campus rn and a student brought out like a 1997 boombox and started blasting Taking The Hobbits to Isengard every time they tried to say something.
“Those who do not share our genes -THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS - THE MASTER RACE - TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD - AND I BELIEVE - THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE-”
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From the article:
Dubbed the “Iranian Schindler”, Islamic diplomat, Abdol Hossein Sardari, saved thousands of Jews from the Nazi regime by confusing the fascist group with their own propaganda. When the Nazis began implementing anti-Jewish laws in occupied France, Mr Sardari, head of the Iranian Consulate in Paris, used the Nazis’ own racial purity laws to convince the group Iranian Jews were actually Aryan and not subject to the Reich’s racial laws. Issuing Iranian passports to occupied Jews, without the consent of his superiors, Mr Sardari helped 2,000 Jews escape the Nazi regime.
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For everyone learning Hebrew
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Jewish Holocaust survivors lighting the Shabbat candles at a ceremony with Jewish teens in Atlanta, Georgia; 2016. x
At an event on September 9th, 2016, Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Atlanta, Georgia got together with Jewish teens for a joint Shabbat event put together by the the Weber School, Jewish Family & Career Services, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Holocaust Survivor Support Fund.  The group also sang Yiddish songs following the meal and both the survivors and the teenagers appreciated the unique experience showing Jewish survival that this Shabbat brought them.
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day which coincides with the Liberation of Auschwitz and was chosen to commemorate the Holocaust in 2005 by the United Nations.  Shabbat Shalom from all of us at the Jewish Virtual Library!
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Today, January 27, 2017, marks 72 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Today we remember the worst of humanity: genocide. Today we remember all the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. We remember the roughly 11 million people (1.1 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp) who were slaughtered simply for who they were and those who were imprisoned, and sometimes killed, for what they believed.
The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled non-Jewish/non-Romani people, and 9,000 non-Jewish/non-Romani gay men all in the furtherance of white supremacy and “racial purity.”
Today we remember them all and continue to fight against fascism, totalitarianism, and white supremacy so that this never again happens.
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If we held one minute’s silence for every victim of Shoah, we would be silent for eleven and a half years.
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Gentiles May Reblog, but Please Do Not Hijack the Conversation
Friedman is absolutely unacceptable. His nomination MUST be opposed. Opposing the occupation is not a betrayal of Jewish values. The truth is quite the opposite. Comparing fellow Jews, many like me and the author of this piece who have lost family in places like Belzec, to Nazi collaborators is an absurd, grotesque mockery.  Israel’s extremists need to be disempowered, not enabled. Friedman is a Shanda.
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Grand Synagogue of Edirne, aka Edirne Synagogue is a historic Sephardi synagogue located in Maarif Street of Edirne, Turkey. It was designed in the Moorish Revival style and restored in 2015.
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As pleasing as it is to see Richard Spencer get hit in the face over and over and over on my dash tonight, he actually suffered a far more humiliating and important defeat earlier this week. 
Remember how he called for an armed march against the tiny Jewish community in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana for last Monday? Yeah. About that:
The rabbi’s voice began to break. For several seconds, the park was silent, save for the sound of Roston sniffling. “You let us know that we are not alone,” she finally said. “You let us know that our community, that our amazing magnificent town of Whitefish, is not only protected by great, divinely formed mountains of earth — this town is protected by a wall of humanity that refuses to be quiet or sit still in the face of bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia or anti-Semitism.”
TL;DR – the entire town rallied around their neighbors. They got unequivocal, strong, bipartisan support from state officials. Reinforcements arrived from around the country. And the nazis fucking bailed. They never even showed up.
That article needs editing, but it’s worth a scan for the lessons in it. The one I’m holding onto is that we can never give these clowns power they don’t actually have, especially the nameless online assbags. We can’t cede an inch. If we care about each other, and just show up, they will lose every. fucking. time. 
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