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Pesach is, to me, the most difficult holiday to celebrate right now. Since Oct 7th we've had a few holidays, but Pesach is the one that pains me most so far.

Hanukkah made sense. We are fighting to keep our homeland, as the Maccabees did. We have Israel now, and we will still have Israel. The holiday celebrating our resistance against those who wished to destroy us in our home made sense.

Purim made sense. Yes, it was painful to celebrate the holiday of joy, but we have resisted a force that wishes to eliminate each and every one of us. Just as we did in Persia against Haman, we are defending ourselves because never again will we be put in the position of being at our oppressor's mercy.

Pesach does not make sense. How are we to celebrate being taken out of captivity when over a hundred of our brothers and sisters are still being held captive? How are we to cheer about our freedom when our own people are not free? How can we celebrate G-d's hand coming down to free us when members of our Jewish family have not been free for over half a year?

It is painful. It physically hurts my chest to think about all of this. I wish for G-d to carry our people again, this time from the tunnels under Gaza. From the violent antisemitism we have been seeing happening all around. May we yet again experience freedom from those who wish us harm.

I in no way am saying that we should not celebrate Pesach. If anything, it is more important now than ever to celebrate and pray for freedom. I am just sharing my own feelings on the matter.

As was said then, we say now: LET OUR PEOPLE GO!

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[matan4il]

Passover is the Jewish festival of freedom.

Israel has 133 hostages, alive and dead, still held in captivity. I'm grateful for each one released, but as long as some of our people, Jews and non-Jews alike, are hostages, we all are. Also, yesterday alone, Israel saw no less than 6 terrorist attacks (attempted or thwarted) with zero casualties, and I'm grateful no one got hurt, but what kind of freedom do we have, when this is our daily reality, and it's not even recognized?

At the end of every Passover Seder, for 2,000 years now, Jews have concluded the holiday feast with, "Le'shana ha'baa bi'Yerushalayim (לשנה הבאה בירושלים)," next year in Jerusalem.

(here's a Passover Hagaddah from Casablanca, in Morroco, with this phrase and a drawing of the Hebrew Temple in Jerusalem -)

Passover is the festival of freedom, the story of a nation breaking its bonds of enslavement, it's a story of emancipation, and as such, it is a beacon of hope and a reminder that freedom is possible for all those who yearn for it. That's why slaves in the US south adopted this language, and expressed their hopes for freedom through the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

But the story doesn't end as soon as the Israelites have left Egypt, it doesn't end in the desert. Achieving freedom is a process. That ancient story demonstrates that, but we have other, more recent examples. Jews liberated from the Nazi camps were still re-living the horrors of the Holocaust every night, if not more often than that. The hostages who have been released from their captivity at the hands of murderous, rapist Hamas terrorists are still working to recover. Freedom is a process. And in the story of the exodus from Egypt, which Jews have been re-telling annually for thousands of years, guiding our thoughts and understanding of what our freedom is, the story doesn't end when our ancestors left Egypt. The final note of the story defines our freedom as only being fully achieved after going through the journey in the desert, the process, when we are once more living freely in our ancestral, promised land, when we return to our holy city. And no matter where we live, we express this idea in Hebrew, our native, ancestral language.

(here's another Passover Hagaddah, this one from 1940's Cairo, in Egypt of all places, with this same phrase -)

Poet Amnon Ribak (whose career was originally in hi-tech before he started delving into what his Judaism means to him) once wrote, "Every man needs some sort of an Egypt, to deliver himself from its house of slaves, to leave in the middle of the night into a desert of fears, to walk straight into the waters and see it parting in front of him." He takes the Jewish exodus and turns it into a metaphor for personal challenge and growth. And how does he finish this poem? (my emphasis) "Everyone needs an Egypt, and a Jerusalem, and one long journey to remember forever through the feet."

Here's the poem composed as a song (composing poems is an Israeli tradition. And while we're at it, this is a reminder that the biggest center of original Jewish culture and art in the world today is Israel):

This Passover, we will be remembering and re-telling the story of our ancestors' exit from Egypt, we will collectively yearn for Jerusalem again, we will do our best to learn from this ancient story as if each of us has been personally delivered from Egypt, we will cherish the freedoms that we have, and keep in mind the ones we still have to fight for, first and foremost the literal freedom of our hostages. Please, if you celebrate Passover, consider leaving an empty chair at your Seder table for all the people who are not yet free.

And may we all have a happy and meaningful Pesach! <3

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[nonsenseofyesteryear]

alright kings let's get rid of this bread!

#passover #pesach #jew #jewish #judaism #did i leave my passover cleaning to the last minute? #yes i did

[david-goldrock]

והיא שעמדה לאבותינו ולנו

שלא אחד בלבד עמד עלינו לכלותינו

אלא שבכל דור דור עומדים עלינו לכלותינו

והקב"ה מצילנו מידם

פסח שמח לכולם

And she (the torah) that stood for our forefathers And for us

That not a single one, stood upon us to destroy us

But rather, that in each generation, they stand upon us to destroy us

And God saves us from them

Happy Passover everybody

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[kodiescove]

Peace be upon you, Jewish Tumblr

It's me, the annoying Muslim with all the annoying questions.

I was just wondering

Besides, like, the Torah, does anyone have any, like, Jewish stories they'd recommend?

I'll take anything 🤷 whether it's a nonfiction story about Jewish people, or even just a short story fic about some Jewish characters with Jewish themes and such. Just like.... yknow, some Jewish stories!

I'm reading a lot of nonfiction lately, my current fiction read I'm kind of burnt out from (the third in a trilogy) and idk I'd just like to read about something new!

Definitely trying to branch out of the "white European background perisex cishet alloro/allosex" lead!

I don't think I've ever read a Jewish themed story, which when I think of it makes me sad.

So I'll take all the recommendations!

#jumblr #jewish tumblr #jews #jew #jewblr

[kayechanted]

Please help the Al-Ashqar family

Hello, I request anybody who sees this to donate or to share this g_f_undme. They are in dire need to escape GAZA and require monetary help. So many of them have dreams of going far, please help them to not cut it short!!

Read their stories!

#signal boost #palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #gaza genocide #free gaza #israel #islam #muslim #jew #judaism #please donate

[merlucide]

NONONO YOU LISTEN TO ME.

…

SAE IS A GOLD GIRLIE.

RIN IS A SILVER GIRLIE.

PROOF (ft my amazing editing):

YOU KNOW IM RIGHT.

(Other bllk boys colorssss)

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[i-am-aprl]

Dozens of Jewish activists drop a huge banner from San Francisco's Colt Tower sending a message to mayor London Breed not to veto the ceasefire resolution that was passed by the SF Board of Supervisors 10 days ago.

#san francisco #free gaza #palestine #free palestine #jew #israel #gaza #ceasefire now #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #israel is a terrorist state #فلسطين #anti zionisim #zionistterror #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #israeli apartheid

[starlightshadowsworld]

Katie, a Jewish American who grew up in a pro zionism family. And is very much anti zionism and pro Palestine talks about "birthright trips."

I've heard some crazy shit in my life but oh man I was not prepared for this.

#free palestine #birthright #pro palestine #anti israel #Israel #palestine #free gaza #Jewish #Jew

[batboyblog]

I hope people reblog to give us a wide sample size, also I hope people put in the tags explaining in greater detail, or mention any category I might not have thought of

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This is disgusting. It's 2024 and people are marching through the streets with Nazi flags.

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jew #proud israeli #israel solidarity #antisemitism

[matan4il]

I sincerely don't know how these all still shock me, but they do. The first one is from an anti-Israel protest in the UK, where apparently everyone was allowed to cross the road, other than Jews. "But the police are just trying to protect these random Jewish passerby!" If everyone can pass peacefully by anti-Israel demonstrations, other than Jews, what does that say about these protesters?

The next vid is from Colombia University, in the US. There's an interview from October 2023, where a Hamas senior explicitly says that they will be carrying out Oct 7, the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, again and again and again. I'm gonna be honest, I can't understand how that interview alone hasn't shocked the world, and wasn't talked about by everyone. I guess this footage is the answer. Because some people are actually on board with that.

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[emotboyswag]

Closet antisemites/racists love bringing up that the swastika is a Buddhist peace symbol (as if they give a shit about buddhism) like yeah it is but the skinhead white guy with a swastika tattoo isn't a Buddhist and the edgy teenagers who painted a swastika on a wall aren't Buddhists and you need to use the tiniest dash of critical thinking and common sense.

In a Buddhist temple its a peace symbol, scratched on some guys house its a hate symbol . And stop telling Jews they are being dramatic or chronically online for being upset/disturbed/scared or annoyed by swastikas!!

#jewish #jew #jews #orthodox judaism #reform judaism #jews and judaism #judaism #jumblr #judaica #antisemitism #antisemitic

[tboyemo]

Tapping the "your support and solidarity and care for Jews and Romani people and BIPOC should be more powerful than your hatred of nazis" sign so fucking hard rn.

Bcs u should support Jews and Romani people and BIPOC more than u hate nazis and some of u it is very clear that u couldn't give a shite about Jews and romani or BIPOC. You hate nazis but you've forgotten nazis aren't just generalised bigots or bad people and they have an ideology which targets "undesirables" and people who ate racially seen as inferior or less than. Only part of combating white supremacy and fascism is hating nazis and a lot of it is helping communities effected by white supremacy and fascism and listening to and understanding us.

#jew #jewish #judaism #jewish memes #jewish history #jews #jumblr #frumblr #jew stuff #romani #bipoc #blm #black lives matter

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[starlight-bread-blog]

Leftists: Everyone is a little bigoted. Bigotry is deeply integrated into our society. Everyone picks up on it. You have to actively unlearn it. Check your bias. Your intentions might be good, but you're not immune to bigotry learnt since childhood. Even if you're an activist already. Even if you have friends from the minority. Listen to marginalized voices. Take the critisism. This is the only way to overcome our internalized prejudices.

Jews: Hey so–

Leftists: ZIONIST!!

#saying this as a leftist #ya'll get a hold on yourselves #“globalize the intifada” do you know what this means? #antisemitism #antisemitic #jumblr #jewish #jewblr #jew #judaism #leftist antisemitism #antisemites #tw antisemitism #ישראל #ישראבלר #טאמבלר ישראלי #עם ישראל חי #am yisrael chai #<- doesn't talk about the land of israel did you know? #ישראלים