#יידישקייט

[zooptseyt]

More Jewish sculpey projects.

Can't make a golem without a rabbi. Additionally, some pickles and gefilte fish for shabbos and a dreidel out of clay (unfortunately not good for spinning, favors gimel quite a bit)

#jewish art #sculpey #sculpey art #clay #rabbi #golem #גולם #יידישקייט #יידיש #jewish #jumblr #jewish artist #jewish artists #yiddishkeit #gefilte fish #pickles #food #art #food art #miniature

[rabbiaharon]

בעיות המקווה חלק ב'

בחור בחור! אין דרך ארץ לשהות במקווה זמן רב אלא אם כן אתה עוסק במצווה של תפילת עזרא כל שעה שאתה במקווה. ובפרט שעל ידי זה אין מקום פנוי במקווה לאחרים העוסקים באמת בטבילה של תפילת עזרא. והעמים הוא מפורש במשנה מסכת תמיד פרק א' "יורד וטובל, עולה ומתספג" היינו שאין מעשה או פעולה אחר במקווה לבד מטבילה לשם טהרת הגוף. אין הרשות נתונה שיח בשיחת חולין ומכל שכן לדבר בדברים בטלים. המקווה היא מקום של קדושה ולא מקום של קבוצה ושיחה.

#מקווה #יידישקייט #יהדות #דרך ארץ

[shainachantake2]

I converted to יידישקייט about 8 years ago and I've still never read almost any of the books jumblr says are "must reads"...

[altoconcerto]

איך האָב קיין סיבה פאַר לעבען, נאָך איך פאָרזעץ

עלי, עלי, איך פראַג דיר פאַר געולע

#save #yiddish #יידיש #יידישקייט #יידישע פאעזיע #נון א ביסל

[symphytum]

הלל אומר: אל תפרוש מן הצבור, ואל תאמן בעצמך עד יום מותך, ואל תדין את חברך עד שתגיע למקומו, ואל תאמר דבר שאי אפשר לשמוע שסופו להשמע. ואל תאמר לכשאפנה אשנה, שמא לא תפנה. Hillel would say: Do not separate yourself from the community. Do not believe in yourself until the day you die. Do not judge your fellow until you have stood in his place. Do not say something that is not readily understood in the belief that it will be understood in the end . And do not say 'When I free myself of my concerns, I will study,' for perhaps you will never free yourself.

Pirkei Avot 2:4

#jewish #judaism #יידישקייט #pirkei avot

[zooptseyt]

איך האב געמאכט א לאקשן קוגל און עס איז געווען נישט דרעק!

I am an undisputed king at potato kugels but I have made two lokshn kugels and the first one was messed up but acceptable but the second one was straight trash. This bad boy was a hit. Third time did it. Kugel King.

#jewish food #cooking #food #kugel #yiddishkeit #jumblr #jewish #jewish cooking #jewish stuff #יידישקייט #קוגל

[zooptseyt]

I already told you all I am the Kugel King. This potato kugel is a personal best, I think.

#jumblr #yiddishkeit #jewish food #kugel #קוגל #יידישקייט #jewish #ashkenazi #kasha varnishkes #קאשע ווארניטשקעס

[rabbiaharon]

בחורים! (בעיות המקווה חלק א')

בחורים! בזמן שאתם במקווה אתם עוסקים בדבר קדוש - היינו הטהרה יתירה של תפילת עזרא - ואין לכם רשות לדבר בדברי חל ומכל שכן וקל וחומר לדבר בדברם בטלין ממש. וגם, להלכה, אסור לדבר בדברי תורה במקוה. לפיכך נראה לענית דעתי שאינו ראוי לדבר כלל, וכן המנהג פשוט בכמה מקומות. מה אתם חושבים שמקום המקווה היא מקום של ,,פאָלאָטיִקס" או של ,,דאָנאַלד טראָמף"?

#פאָלאָטיִקס #מקווה #יהדות #אידישקייט #יידישקייט

[symphytum]

שמעיה אומר: אהוב את המלאכה, ושנא את הרבנות, ואל תתודע לרשות

Shmayah would say: Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. Pirkei Avot 1:10

R. Shmayah and Avtalyon are one of the זוגות zugot “pairs” during the Second Temple period, which refers to 5 successive pairs of scholars who lead the Beth Din during that period--Shmayah and Avtalyon were the leaders of the Sanhedrin during the rule of Hyrcanus II and the predecessors of Hillel the Elder and Shammai. 

He is well known for his adage above, as well as for being the only member of the Sanhedrin brave enough to accost King Herod when Herod came to the court for a trial, accused of killing a leader of the Galilean nationalist movement (documented by Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews).

Shmayah and Avtalyon are variously known as converts themselves or Alexandrians who were the descendants of converts and often present opinions based on that experience. Shmayah looks from the bottom up. He asks, how do we relate to outsiders, to the marginalized in our communities? How do we relate to institutional power? How does this impact the lowest in society?

R. Shmayah teaches us to speak truth to power and be brave in the face of injustice, lessons we need now more than ever.

#judaism #jewish #pirkei avot #talmud #יידישקייט

[symphytum]

I am Lilith, the unmarried, Whom three strong angels could not haul Back to Eden. Let Adam howl like a whipped child, The loss was my loss I kneel upon the bank, and take my hair down Weeping like a woman, Let exiles and altarless men worship me As night without stars. I spread my hair over them.

Allen Grossman, Lilith

#poetry #judaism #lilith #יידישקייט #לילית #jewish

[symphytum]

pesach is always so transformative. i’ve learned a lot about myself this week and i have a lot to reflect on.

#יידישקייט #פסח

[symphytum]

The modern Jew cannot, therefore, look to the Torah as a source of authority, in  the sense that whatever it permits is right and whatever it forbids is wrong. He reverses the process and says: Whatever is right should be incorporated in our Torah, and whatever is wrong should be eliminated from our Torah. Inasmuch as no man can know, merely on the basis of personal experience, what is right and wrong in every situation, the traditional standers of right and wrong cherished by our people, and the institutions sanctioned by the Torah as aids to spiritual discipline, can and should be regarded with reverence[...]But we must not cling to the standards of the past, if they work mischief in the present.

Mordecai Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew

#judaism #jewish #יידישקייט

[symphytum]

When we say that God is Process, we select, out of the infinite processes in the universe, that complex of forces and relationships which makes for the highest fulfullment of man as a human being and identify it by the term 'God.'

Mordecai Kaplan, Questions Jews Ask

#judaism #jewish #יידישקייט

[symphytum]

does anyone know why modern hebrew chose the word ירח yareakh for moon over the word לבנה levanah?? from what i understand חמה khamah and לבנה levanah began being used in the babylonian period over שמש shemesh and ירח yareakh because along with being the names of the actual celestial bodies, they were also used as the names of the pagan deities who represented them, so jews started using חמה khamah and לבנה levanah which were derived from other words to describe the qualities of these celestial bodies.

why did modern hebrew keep the talmudic ירח yareakh but then go back to the biblical שמש shemesh?? 

then why the hell did yiddish, which developed much much later, borrow לבנה levanah and not ירח yareakh?????

google is not very helpful tho it has taught me a lot of folk etymologies (i mean what i said in the first paragraph might even be a folk etymology)

#yiddish #hebrew #linguistics #etymology #יידישקייט #עברית

[symphytum]

משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמיחה

When we enter Adar, we increase in joy

The Sages tell us that merely entering the month of Adar can make us more joyous. Yet it is hard to imagine that we can be commanded to feel joy. What if we are sad in Adar? Are we violating the tradition?

The message of Adar is not to cover up our true feelings with forced merriment but to recognize the double edge that lies under all reality. Our lives flow through both good and bad times. The key to Adar is to know this and still to believe happiness is possible. In Adar, joy is a mask we put on to conceal pain, yet we also know the joy is real.

--The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, Jill Hammer

#jewish #judaism #adar #אדר #יידישקייט

[symphytum]

Today I was struck by the first word in that phrase, which means "in [God's] goodness." God renews creation each day not out of habit, but in goodness. (Or "with goodness" -- the Hebrew could be translated either way.) Goodness is the tool with which God renews creation, or maybe the renewal of creation is itself goodness. It is goodness which brings about renewal, and renewal is perennial. Creation is constantly being renewed, and because we are part of creation, so are we.

I know that sometimes in my life I feel stuck, or I know that someone I love is stuck: in illness, in grief, in a difficult situation that (no matter how I might try) I can't balm or fix. I know that every human life comes with heartache. I know that sometimes the things that hurt feel perennial and never-ending. The hurt can feel as though it will swell until it eclipses everything else.

At those times I need a reminder of precisely what this prayer teaches. I need to be reminded that renewal is foundational and is built in to the fabric of the universe. I need to be reminded that creation didn't just happen once-upon-a-time: it's still happening even now, in every moment. I need to be reminded that (at least, in the view of my tradition) goodness is central to existence as we know it, and that goodness is always unfolding. That God is always unfolding. That creation is always unfolding.

i have been struggling a lot lately and reading this made me feel better in a lot of ways--it suggests the strength of agency which is really empowering, especially at a time where i feel like my agency is being taken away from me and disrespected

#יידישקייט #jewish #judaism