#Jewish Holidays

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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!

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jew #israel solidarity #proud israeli #antisemitism #pesach #passover #jewish holidays #pesach 2024 #passover 2024 #bring them home #let our people go

[vaspider]

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#passover #trans rights #pesach #jewish holidays

[casavanse]

Dear Jews on my phone,

Pesach Sameach!

#pesach #passover #jumbler #Judaism #jewish #jewish holidays #pesach Sameach #happy passover #jumblr #ישראבלר #טאמבלר ישראלי #פסח #פסח שמח #chag pesach sameach

[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

#ישראל #ישראלבלר #ישראלים #טמבלר ישראלי #טאמבלר ישראלי #ישראבלר #עם ישראל חי #israel #israeli #i stand with israel #jewish stuff #jewish holidays #jewish #jews #jewish joy #jewblr #jew #judaism #יהדות #יהודים #passover #פסח

[fluffelhighwind]

I decided to recreate my favorite part of the hagaddah using objection.lol.

#pesach #jewish holidays #jumblr #ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #maya fey #video #objection.lol

[fromgoy2joy]

How I want to fight my professors who don't respond to my numerous emails about needing an extension for papers because of my disability and Passover celebrations :

#jumblr #fromgoy2joy thoughts #jewish #jewish convert #jewblr #jewish tumblr #jewish conversion #jewish humor #judaism #judiasm #jewishness #passover #passover things #jewish holidays #pesach

[morganas-simp]

IT WAS ONE GIANT FROG

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#jumblr #jewish tumblr #actually jewish #passover #פסח #jewish holidays

[mintytrifecta]

[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all a very pleasant evening" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant passover". Next to bugs is a photo of a small stack of matzo and the cup of Elijah. ]

#LIKE I WOULD FORGET THIS ONE HA #Happy passover guys!!! #jewish #jewish holidays #jumblr #Passover #Pesach #I hope the image description is good I don't have a lot of practice doing em :"))

[nesyanast]

Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures

#jumblr #jewish #nesyapost #jews #jewish culture #judaism #purim #hassidic #costumes #purim costume #hassidic jews #Jewish holidays

[mental-mona]

“The Jewish response to trauma is counter-intuitive and extraordinary. You defeat fear by joy. You conquer terror by collective celebration. You prepare a festive meal, invite guests, give gifts to friends. While the story is being told, you make an unruly noise as if not only to blot out the memory of Amalek, but to make a joke out of the whole episode. You wear masks. You drink a little too much. You make a Purim spiel.” Precisely because the threat was so serious, you refuse to be serious – and in that refusal you are doing something very serious indeed. You are denying your enemies a victory. You are declaring that you will not be intimidated. As the date of the scheduled destruction approaches, you surround yourself with the single most effective antidote to fear: joy in life itself. As the three-sentence summary of Jewish history puts it: “They tried to destroy us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Humour is the Jewish way of defeating hate. What you can laugh at, you cannot be held captive by.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, "The Therapeutic Joy of Purim," article published 1 March 2015

#rabbi lord jonathan sacks #judaism #jumblr #purim #jewish holidays

[amaditalks]

I have found my new quest.

Someone in a Facebook group I’m in posted this picture of a hanukkiah they saw in a thrift shop and did not purchase. Everyone in the group was telling them to go back and get it. They didn’t recognize what they were seeing.

It’s Yehudit brandishing her sword and the head of Holofernes.

She is being anointed with oil to honor her for her triumph.

On a hannukiah.

I need this so badly I can taste it. 

#yehudit #Yehudit slaying holofernes #aka Judith #judith slaying holofernes #Yehudit ​the heroine #eat a cheese latke #and think of this brave woman #hanukkah #hanukkiah #menorah #it’s so beautiful #jewish history #Jewish #jewish holidays #jumblr

[mostpeculiarmademoiselleetmsieur]

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

#ooc #jewish calendar #lunar calendar #jewish holidays #purim #passover #jumblr

[avi-on-jumblr]

TU BISHVAT IS IN 5 DAYS EVERYONE LET'S GET HYPED. TREES TREES TREES

#i didn't start my new year's resolution so i told people i'd start it on tu bishvat because tree new year askdfh #i'm so excited it'll be my first time actually celebrating. bc we only did the major ones when i was growing up. #im gonna do so much gardening (<- has never gardened before in my life) #jumblr #jewblr #tu bishvat #jewish positivity #judaism #jewish #jewish holidays #avi posts

[incognitopolls]

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#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #jewish #judaism #hanukkah #chanukah #jewish holidays #winter holidays #seasonal polls

[420paki]

In honor of Tu BiShvat (the Jewish New Year of Trees), have some of my favorite Jewish art depicting trees.

#tu bishvat #Jew stuff #Jewish holidays #trees #tree of life #Jewish art #Judaism

[fdelopera]

i'm saying this now, and i will say it again: any goy who decides to wish me a "Happy Hanukkah" this December is required to tell me something that you know and appreciate about any other Jewish holiday.

bonus points if the other holiday you choose isn't Pesach (which you probably know about because of the Last Supper, or maybe a Jew has invited you to a Passover Seder before).

i swear, the only reason many of you know anything about Hanukkah at all is because it happens during the "Christmas season".

it's not enough to wish a Jew "Happy Hanukkah" once a year. it's not enough to tell your Jewish friends that you "punch Nazis lol".

now is the time to show us that you celebrate the Jews in your life.

now is the time to demonstrate that you respect us and our traditions.

this is my challenge to you:

do better.

#jumblr #judaism #jewblr #jewish holidays #goyim do better challenge