#Mezuza

[yoramkelmer]

#mezuza #מזוזה #atværejøde #detjødiskesamfund #bispebjerg #kopenhagen (hier: Bispebjerg, København, Denmark) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-rqZ1MVJc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mezuza #מזוזה #atværejøde #detjødiskesamfund #bispebjerg #kopenhagen

[edenfenixblogs]

I have what’s probably a very silly question about Jumblr etiquette. (For context I’m not Jewish if that would affect your answer.) Y’know how some Jumblr blogs have a “kiss the mezuzah on your way in” post as their pinned? Should I kiss the mezuzah or not? I know that for actual mezuzahs it’s usually either a touch-fingertips-to-mezuzah-and-then-kiss-fingertips or the reverse (kiss fingertips and then touch the mezuzah), but idk how that would apply to a photo on your screen, OR if it’s a metaphorical thing (basically a visibly Jewish “hello welcome to my blog feel free to relax and stay a while :)”) OR if it’s NOT a metaphorical thing but it’d be inappropriate for non-Jews to participate. I may be overthinking this but I figured I might as well ask you

OH MY GOSH THIS ASK IS SO CUTE!!!! THANK YOU!

Ok, so I don’t speak for all Jews, but personally, I always read it as a “be respectful while coming and going from this internet exchange/welcome/farewell (sincere)”

I don’t think there’s any physical imperative here.

I also don’t even know whether or not non-Jews should or shouldn’t touch/kiss/make some kind of show of respect to a mezuzah. It’s never occurred to me, because I’m Jewish and so I just do the Jewish thing. But also no non-Jewish person has ever asked me ever. This is so sweet! Thank you for caring.

As far as my blog goes, this ask is a way of metaphorically kissing the mezuzah. Thank you friend.

Also, now I’m snort laughing because autocorrect almost corrected mezuza to Mexican in the last sentence and I’m really glad I re-read it before hitting post. Lollllll

#kiss the mezuza #Jewish goyim solidarity #what a kind and respectful ask! #lifeandtimesoftrying #ask me stuff #too cute!

[fromgoy2joy]

I sat next to the protest today.

I wrote fan-fiction about two gay jewish dads raising children to the play list of the chant- "No peace on stolen land!" on an American college campus. It isn't a name brand one either, nor does it have any legitimate ties to Israel. The anger is just there- it has rotten these future doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of society.

I don't even know what to call their demonstration- it was a tizzy of a Jew hatred affair. At points, there were empathetic statements about Gazans and their suffering. Then outright support of Hamas and violent resistance against all colonizers. Then this bizarre fixation on antisemitism while explaining the globalists are behind everything.

"Antisemitism doesn't exist. Not in the modern day," A professor gloated over a microphone in front of the library. "It's a weaponized concept, that's prevents us from getting actual places- ignore anyone who tells you otherwise."

"How can we be antisemitic?" A pasty white girl wearing a red Jordanian keffiyeh gloats five minutes later. "Palestinians are the actual semites."

"there is only one solution!" The crowd of over 50 students and faculty cried, over and over.

"Been there, done that," I thought, then added a reference to a mezuza in the fourth paragraph.

Two other Jewish students passed where I was parked out, hunching and trying to be as innocuous as possible. We laughed together at my predicament, where I am willingly hearing this bullshit and feeling so amused by this.

"Am I crazy? For sitting here?" I asked them. My friends shook their heads.

"We did the same last week- it's an amazing experience, isn't it?”

We all cackled hysterically again. They left to study for finals. Two minutes later, I learned from the current speaker that “Zionism” is behind everything bad in this world.

Forty-five minutes in, a boy I recognized joined me on my lonely bench. He came from a very secular Jewish family and had joined Hillel recently to learn more about his culture. His first Seder was two nights ago.

He sat next to me, heavy like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. There was just this despondent look on his face. I couldn’t describe it anyone else, but just sheer hopelessness personified.

“They hate us. I can’t believe how much they hate us.” He said in greeting.

And for the first time all day, I had no snarky response or glib. All I could do was stare out into the crowd, and sigh.

#fromgoy2joy thoughts #jumblr #jewish #jewish convert #jewish tumblr #jewish conversion #jewblr #tw antisemtism #antisemitism #am israel chai #am yisroel chai #am yisrael chai #Jewish on campus #jewishness #judaism #antisemitism mention #leftist antisemitism #goyim don't touch

[homochadensistm]

completely unrelated to anything but. what are some lesbian-related words in hebrew

oh god....theyre horrible but I will share our secrets with you:

First of all - The Swamp (הביצה, HaBitsa): a nickname for the lesbian community, cause everyone ends up sleeping with everyone else, creating A Mess.

Gidi Gov (גידי גוב, a famous Israeli singer. 'Gidim' in Hebrew means 'tendons'): when u get bad hand cramps from too much fingerbanging (like tendonitis).

Gender studies department (or just 'gender studies') (החוג למגדר, HaHug LeMigdar): a nickname for a group of lesbians.

The 1%/The Lesbian Upper Echelon (הלסביון העליון, HaLesbion HaElyon): the lesbian upper class, the popular lesbians, the baddies with all the tea, usually the small group of lesbians who run all the lesbian nightlife stuff.

Conversion Therapy (טיפול המרה, Tipul Hamara): when a lesbian sleeps with a str8 girl, which relates to:

Dropping [someone] (להפיל, Lehapil): when a lesbian sleeps with a str8 girl, aka 'drops' her in her trap/"fools/confuses" her.

Cunt Pause (כוס פוס, Kus Pus): cockblock.

Lesbro (לסברו, Lesbro): a str8 guy friend who is genuine and not creepy/weird.

This ones difficult to explain, its a play on words for the Hebrew term Lashon HaRa (libel, defamation, slander). Lashon means 'tongue' and Ra means 'bad' so...bad tongue - when a girl cant give head for shit.

Mezuza - a religious lesbian

Pillow flattener (משטיחת כריות, Mashtikhat Kariyot): a girl who likes oral but wont return the favor, so a DJ khaled if u will.

Lesbiyon (לסביון): an undercut, specifically the one on the side of the head.

Egg Pain (כאב ביציות, Ke'ev Beitsiot): blueballs.

Theres more but these are the ones Im most familiar with lmao

#israel #lgbt #lesbian content

[fishfingersandscarves]

everyone shut up and look

car mezuza

#talkies #YEAHHH BABEYYYY #my brother has my car rn...but tomorrow.....

[frances-baby-houseman]

We are all temporary dwellers wherever we live. The Torah teaches that land doesn’t belong to people; it belongs to God or to the earth or both, depending on your perspective. The land needs to be shared. That has not changed. Both peoples have a legitimate claim and a real history in the land. Both peoples deserve safety, freedom, self-determination and peace. That has not changed. Any agenda that promotes a future or present where one people rules over the other is inhumane and immoral. Any agenda that promotes a future for just one people on the land, either Palestinian or Israeli, is inhumane and immoral.

Right now the left is using an outdated, ill-fitting model of colonialism to explain what’s happening in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. It borrows from antisemitic tropes, leading to a cruel and dehumanizing view of Israelis and Jews. Colonizers do not have thousands of years of history in the land they colonize, as Jews do in Israel, and colonizers do have a home country they can be decolonized to. For those who callously called Oct. 7 a step toward decolonization, I ask that they consider: Where are the Jews who fled from Iraq supposed to go? And those who fled from Iran? And those from Yemen? And those from Russia? And those from Ethiopia? And how about the Jews who came from Europe after surviving the Holocaust? They were dispossessed of their land, their homes, their belongings, just as their ancestors were dispossessed by the Romans in the first two centuries of the common era and by the Babylonians before them.

This does not in any way justify the dispossession of Palestinians from their land and homes and belongings, but it is a fact. Here we are, two peoples, stuck together. There is no way forward without recognition of that reality.

[why5x5]

So, in my (orthodox) shul's wekly newsletter, they had a list of Chanukah highlights I thought I'd share (no. 8 is great):

Chanuka Highlights: Eight Points for Eight Days

1) The basic requirement of Chanuka lights is “ner ish u-beto”, one light per night per household. Thus a family of four would have only one light per night, whether on the first or eighth night. Nonetheless, the Talmud outlines more optimal observances, respectively called “Mehadrin” and “Mehadrin Min Hamehadrin”, whereby the number of lights corresponds to the night of Chanuka, the number of people in the household, or both. According to the hybrid option, that hypothetical household of four would then collectively kindle four lights on the first night and thirty-two on the eighth night.

2) Many use a “Shamash” – helper candle – in addition to the aforementioned mandatory lights. This Shamash serves two purposes, both related to the prohibition to derive benefit from the Chanuka lights proper. During the lighting itself, it avoids the issue of kindling one mandatory light from another. After the lighting, if anyone does get benefit from the Chanuka lights, it can be attributed to the Shamash rather than to the mandatory lights. Given the latter function, one should take care that the Shamash burns at least as long as the other lights.

3} Women, as well as men, are obligated in Chanuka lights because they were beneficiaries (and perhaps also benefactors) of the Chanuka miracles. Some women opt to discharge their obligation via their husband, based on the principle “ishto ke- gufo”. Children old enough to appreciate the ideas of Chanuka are also required to light for educational (“chinukh”) purposes, obviously with proper adult supervision and guidance.

4} Many choose olive-oil as the fuel for the Chanuka lights, to commemorate the substance used for the Menora in the Beit Hamikdash. Others prefer candles because of the quality of their flame. It is generally assumed that electric menorahs do not technically qualify for this mitzva, though they may still serve some function by bringing awareness of the holiday to others.

5} The ideal placement of the Menora is near the street entrance to the house, on the side opposite the Mezuza. When that is not feasible (such as one who lives on an elevated floor), he should place the Menora near the window. In times of religious persecution and other extenuating circumstances, the Menora may simply be placed on a table in one’s room. In any case, the lights should be attended while burning, both for safety reasons as well as because the function of the lights is to be seen, thereby publicizing the miracle.

6} Throughout Chanuka, Al Hanisim (a prayer expressing gratitude to G-d for the miracles) is inserted during both Shemona Esreh (the silent standing prayer) in the blessing of Modim, and Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals) in the blessing of Nodeh Lekha. If forgotten in its native blessing, it can still be recited during the concluding paragraph of Shemona Esreh or in the Harachaman section of Birkat Hamazon. If one also missed those compensatory opportunities, Shemona Esreh and Birkat Hamazon are not repeated.

7) Full Hallel is recited on all eight days of Chanuka (despite the fact that Chanuka lacks both requirements for Hallel – a festival status and prohibition on work) because these are “days of praise and thanksgiving”. Appropriately, Maimonides opts to discuss the laws of Hallel among those of Chanuka, rather than in the more intuitive contexts such as the laws of the festivals.

8) While normative practice is not to require mandatory Seudot (meals) on Chanuka in the way we are obligated on Shabbat and festivals, nonetheless such meals have significance both to commemorate the rededication of the Mizbeach (Altar) and as an opportunity to offer praise to G-d. Many have the custom to eat oily foods such as Latkes (potato pancakes) and Sufganiyot (fried doughnuts) to reflect that the miracle involved oil. Others eat dairy foods since it is said that Judith fed cheese to an enemy officer, causing him to get sleepy, at which point she “neutralized” him. It has been suggested that eating pizza simultaneously fulfills both customs – i.e. eating oil and dairy.

#chanukah #hanukah #jumblr

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I saw your reblog+tags and I'm curious: how does one play Minecraft with a Jewish twist? :0

Basically, I'm trying to play in a way that corresponds to Halakha (Jewish law), which for now mainly involves trying to simulate Shekhita (Kosher slaughter). I did a lot of research on the requirements for the type of blade (called Khalaf or Sakin Hashekhita depending on who you ask) as well as how it must be used and concluded that only a diamond or netherite sword with sharpness V was suitable for slaughtering a cow (as they deal 10 and 11 damage respectively and a cow has 10 health and it Must be a one hit kill to be kosher, additionally it cannot be a critical hit as that might count as excessive force which is forbidden).

There is so much fun to be had around Kashrut (the dietary laws) in Minecraft. Did you know you're not allowed to eat fruit from a tree until it is three years old? Thus, I can only eat apples from oaks that have existed for 36 lunar cycles (3*12 months).

I've tried playing with "must keep Shabbat" but honestly it's very annoying to once every 7th ingame day just not be able to do basically anything. Pretty much everything that can be done in Minecraft is prohibited on Shabbat, including Mining and Crafting. You can maybe go explore, but you can't take anything with you or pick up anything, or make plans for what to do after Shabbat with what you find, and you can only go by foot, which I think means you're not breaking the prohibition travel, but I'm not sure, I need to look into it. It's possible that enchanting would be allowed if you reaaally stretch the concept and try to define it as studying, which is encouraged on Shabbat. Anyway I'm currently ignoring the Shabbat part because it's annoying to keep track and there's nothing you can really do. (Not to mention if you want to properly observe Shabbat you do so with meals which in Minecraft means you need to fast all week to be hungry enough to eat several meals.)

Once I get a bit more set up I really hope to create some redstone thing at spawn that will count the days for me so I can incorporate holidays. Maybe. It would be fun to build a Sukka (hut) for Sukkot (holiday when you build and live in a hut for a week) in Minecraft, but I might end up just going by the real world calendar to make sure I have time to really celebrate ingame (especially since lunar cycles are 8 days in Minecraft which means I'll have barely any time between holidays, Sukkot alone would take up a whole month).

It's basically a fun roleplay twist and as a bonus I get to research and learn about different Mitzvot (commandments) and Minhagim (traditions) before I'm able to meet a rabbi and incorporate them into my own real life. I love learning about Halakha and Judaism and I love any excuse to ask all the silly questions about it. Like earlier today a friend and I were arguing about whether a gun that shoots blades could be used for kosher slaughter! Judaism is so great and appealing to my autism like it has probably the world's largest collection of commentary upon commentary about how to interpret the rules and what does it all mean and I could spend the rest of my life learning about it and while there are disagreements there's bound to be some answer to any question I have about an ambiguity of a rule and oh my autistic little heart.

But there's some stuff I don't feel comfortable doing yet, even in game, because they feel too important and exclusive to real Jews, such as Tzitzit (knotted strings that are attached to certain articles of clothing) on my Minecraft skin, though I drew on a kipa (traditionally a round flat little hat worn by men) because it is only a Minhag (tradition) and not a Mitzva (commandment) and I wear one in real life. I've been considering making a Mezuza (little container put on doorposts containing an important prayer and marked with the letter ש, it is a Minhag to kiss it when you pass it) by writing the Shema (the aforementioned prayer) in a book and putting the book in a barrel next to the door and then putting a button on the barrel and pressing it to kiss it and open the door, but it might also fall into this category and might have to wait until I'm further in my conversion.

Anyway thanks for listening to me infodump about Judaism, it will happen again. Also there are 613 Mitzvot in the Torah and countless more in rabbinical texts, just so you don't think I'm even scratching the surface here. This is a brief summary of scratching the surface. In Minecraft.

#ask the tooth folk #hoodieimp #Minecraft #Judaism #If you're Jewish and I forgot I'm sorry for explaining Judaism to you I wanted to make it accessible and also infodump #I love Judaism so much hhhhhhhhhhhhh #tw religion #sfw

[quantumshade]

Hey, no pressure to respond to this, but from one Jewish doctor who fan to another I just wanted to say I’m sorry that there are nazi shitheads in your inbox. Also I like your mezuza.

this is really sweet, thank you so much <33

[yoramkelmer]

#mezuza #מזוזה #bispebjerg #kopenhagen #atværejøde #detjødiskesamfund (hier: Bispebjerg, København, Denmark) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-rdATMtQG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mezuza #מזוזה #bispebjerg #kopenhagen #atværejøde #detjødiskesamfund

[hasdrubal-gisco]

me when i am blanking on the word mezuza

#very embarrassing the way everyone in the gop debate is prostrating themselves before der ewige jude

[fromgoy2joy]

Some people think that the hardest part about becoming Jewish is the rampant antisemitism in the world at large or giving up bacon grilled cheeses.

No. The hardest part about it is that I always miss the mezuzas when I come to Jewish households because they’re so far out of my eyesight as a short person.

Like why do you have to put it so high!? There’s no reason. I’d have to climb on a chair to touch it. Think about the tiny gremlins here.

#fromgoy2joy thoughts #jumblr #jewish convert #jewish #jewish humor #jewish conversion #jewblr #jewish tumblr #for reference I’m five foot #152.4 centimeters #antisemitism mention

[michaelgabrill]

#NewYorkTimes #NYT

[the-hem]

2 Samuel 11 Conclusion: "The Sword that Cuts Both Ways."

What is the morning after in Judaism?

"And this is what Judiasm is all about: It's about the next morning. It's not what happened in the synagogue, it's what happens right afterwards and how we can apply what we have learned to our daily lives, to make them better, more worthwhile, and while we're at it, to improve ourselves."

Is being Jewish really about "self-improvement" or is it "self-realization?" The Torah says the former: There is no such thing as improvement upon the Self. The Self is the same whether there is improvement or not. Once this is understood, one enters a state of superior intellection called Shabbat and then the need for improvements ceases.

In the case of King David, Shabbat took place when he realized the Court was corrupt. A clique formed, and it was leading the people away from the Noachide Laws. David reinstituted the Laws and now he is going to deal with the reasons the clique was gaining popularity in his territory- abuse of power and slavery.

And what do we do with people that do this? And try to end civil rights and protections? We kill them.

David Plans Uriah’s Death

14 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab "on God's Authority" and made Uriah carry the letter. 

15 In the letter David wrote: “Put Uriah on the front lines where the fighting is the hardest. Then leave him there alone, and let him be killed in battle.”

The Gematria says the letter is related to 11786, אאזחו‎ ‎ ‎ "I will rest." The Seventh Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is zayin which means "a weapon":

"The form of the zayin represents a hand weapon, and explains that zyn means arm, ornament, to arm, to adorn (no references to Scriptures). Fuerst goes after the assumed root זוז (zwz) of the verb זיז (ziz), moving things (like animals) and מזוזה (mezuza), Mezuzah or doorpost. The identical root זוז (zwz) yields זיז (ziz), meaning abundance, fullness."

In order for David's strategy for law and order to work he uses Shabbat as a weapon. By observing Shabbat, he establishes God's authority over the Kingdom, forcing men, women, and children of all ages and stages of evolution that God's Commandments are preeminent. Such would be the beginning the door to enforcement of the expectations for other Decrees.

16 Joab watched the city and saw where the bravest Ammonites were. He chose Uriah to go to that place. 

17 The men of the city came out to fight against Joab. Some of David’s men were killed. Uriah the Hittite was one of them.

18 Then Joab sent a report to David about what happened in the battle.

 19 Joab told the messenger to tell King David what had happened in the battle. 20 “The king might get upset and ask, ‘Why did Joab’s army go that close to the city to fight? Surely he knows that there are men on the city walls who can shoot arrows down at his men? 

21 Surely he remembers that at Thebez a woman killed Abimelech son of Jerub Besheth when she threw the top part of a grinding stone down from the wall. So why did he go that close to the wall?’ If King David says something like that, tell him, ‘Your officer, Uriah the Hittite, also died.’”

22 The messenger went in and told David everything Joab told him to say. 

23 The messenger told David, “The men of Ammon attacked us in the field. We fought them and chased them all the way to the city gate. 24 Then the men on the city wall shot arrows at your officers. Some of your officers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”

25 David said to the messenger, “Give this message to Joab: ‘Don’t be too upset about this. A sword can kill one person as well as the next. Make a stronger attack against Rabbah and you will win.’ Encourage Joab with these words.”

Arrows are knowledge of the scriptures. Like arrows which only work if they are aimed with great precision, so must one's understanding of religion be completely aligned with that of the masters. If one cannot hit the target with one's knowledge of the Torah, one shall be filled with the arrows of one's enemy and perish.

Such a thing happened to Uriah who did not survive a debate with others whose aim was more true than his own. Messengers tell David what happened.

Messengers, like angels, kings and princes are called Melachim. They are the evidence righteous efforts have come to fruition. This means David's attacks on the clique cost him popularity with some of the people, but it cost his enemy far more.

Uriah's campaign against the Ammonites is likened to another where a woman at Thebez threw rocks at her attackers:

Women= Eve, the accumulation of habits that make men more human instead of less.

Throwing rocks/grinding stones= object lessons learned from the Torah.

Thebez=to be bright, to be able to handle responsibility.

Abimelech son of Jerub Besheth="decide to be a good king. Contend with your private desires and be dignified in public. "

The very common verb ריב (rib) means to strive or contend and ranges from a mere bickering to full scale combat. Noun ריב (rib) means strife, dispute or plea. Noun יריב (yarib) denotes an opponent or adversary. Noun מריבה (meriba) refers to a place or agent of strife or contention.

The verb יבש (yabesh) means to wither (of plants or body parts). Adjective יבש (yabesh) means dry or dried. Nouns יבשה (yabbasha) and יבשת (yabbashet) refer to dry land.

The verb בוש (bosh) means to be ashamed and nouns בושה (busha), בושה (bosha) and בשת (boshet) mean shame. But although these words are usually translated with shame, humility might be a better word:

Noun מבוש (mabosh) is a rare word that appears to describe a man's private parts, but sexual modesty wasn't imposed upon society until modern times. Instead, our noun relates to the ebbing of bodily fluids from parts celebrated for their periodic retention of it.

A man's private and intuitive will was considered seated in his penis, and a flaccid and docile member demonstrated a considerate and cooperative man.

This is also why Greco-Roman statues have such small willies: it reflects the understanding that men of modest private drives form the dry land upon which a society may build her glorious cities.

Walls create secure places where good ideas and thoughts find safe harbor in the mind. Rocks thrown from the top of a wall show discretion, especially where one's kinky baby binky is involved and just might get one trapped in a scandal. Cliques just love it when good men get themselves bogged down by scandals, they can be game changers for them which is why strong walls are a very good idea.

David knew this. He and Bathsheba committed adultery albeit for a good reason and discrediting her husband, Uriah, was very important. So he set Uriah up in a contest he could not win, uses the fact Uriah was sexually abusing his slaves, wins the hearts of the people, and Bathsheba, the Seven Oaths become law.

This is where the saying about the "sword that cuts both ways" comes from, but it works only if you're the one holding the sword.

[thegenealogy]

1 Chronicles 23: 10-11. "The Gate to Fundamental Truth."

10 And the sons of Shimei:

Jahath, Ziza,[a] Jeush and Beriah.

Jahath=Incense

חתת

The verb חתת (hatat) means to deplete of strength, courage, willpower or any essential support, which results in a collapse of sorts. Nouns חת (hat), חתת (hatat), חתה (hitta), חתחת (hathat) and חתית (hittit) describe the various nuances of debilitating or paralyzing terror or fear. The identical adjective חת (hat) means shattered or dismayed. Noun מחתה (mehitta) means destruction, ruin or terror.

The verb חתה (hata) means to seize or snatch up, usually of fire or coals. Noun מחתה (mahta), meaning fire pan or censer.

Ziza=The Gate to Fundamental Truth

זוז

Judging from its extant derivatives, unused verb זוז (zwz) appears to have described a cyclic or tidal "ebb and flow" motion. Noun זיז (ziz) denotes roving things such as certain animals, which obviously move about their territory in circles, depending on the season. Noun מזוזה (mezuza) denotes a "place or agent" of the parental verb's cyclic motion, and refers to a door- or gate-post (and of course humans' frequent return to some fundamental truth).

Jeush="As in the Days of Noah."

עוש

Verb עוש ('ush) means to help. It may also be spelled עות ('ut).

Beriah=

רעע

Most broadly, the root רעע (ra'a') describes compartmentalization: to break some continuum apart into separated elements. Human minds are designed to be nodes of a much greater network of exchange, and must continuously interact to maintain a liquidity of wisdom — hence the noun רע (rea'), meaning friend or companion (and hence too the story of the Tower of Babel).

All wealth requires liquidity and that requires units of economy to go around. This explains why "evil" — רע, ra', evil — is not the opposite of "good" but instrumental to it: hence the perfect Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the heart of perfect Paradise. Despite popular misconceptions, in the Bible, all רע (rea') comes from God (Isaiah 45:7) and has a specific and wonderful function in any naturally evolving system.

Verb רעה (ra'a I) means o pasture or feed and the participle רעה (ra'a) means shepherd. Nouns רעי (re'i) and מרעה (mir'eh) mean pasture. Noun מרעית (mar'it) means pasturage.

Verb רעה (ra'a II) means to associate with. Nouns רע (rea'), רעה (re'eh) and מרע (merea') mean friend, associate or "neighbor". Nouns רעיה (ra'ya), רעה (re'a) and רעות (re'ut) describe a female attendant, mate or friend.

There may or not be an unused verb רעה (ra'a III) or else the following belong to the previous: noun רע (rea'), aim or purpose; nouns רעות (re'ut) and רעיון (ra'yon), longing or striving.

These were the sons of Shimei = Fame="How one speaks and is also heard."—four in all.

11 Jahath was the first and Ziza the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; so they were counted as one family with one assignment.

First is Ladan, "The Crown in Parliament" or an absolutists commitment to fairness, justice, progress, the future itself which depends on clemency and prosperity at the same time.

Now comes this idea of Shimei, which is the combined intelligentsia of a civilized culture. It begins and ends with the [successful and profitable] ways one practice apprehension of God.

The method closely follows the journey to Haran, and is associated with the Four Directions.

Jahath, NORTH, what is hidden by God. God Himself is hidden, but He is there. We see this in the way the incense hides the perfume in the smoke. Even still, the fire and the atmosphere inherent in the incense are not known. This is why scripture is often called incense. Scripture hints at the existence of the Sacrosanct, but only that which abides with God within the Unseen is able to provide Sacrosanctuary. It is the duty of the Crown-In-Parliament to provide constant allusion to the Sacrosanct.

2. Ziza, EAST, what is revealed by God. The Gate to Fundmantal Truth is the intellect which merges the experiences of the senses and the organ systems and organizes them. Intellect is unborn in man, we need others to develop and feed it.

3. Jeush, SOUTH, what is realized by man. The Tanakh says all intelligent persons abide by the Laws of Noah, AKA Universal Morality.

The 7 Noahide Laws are rules that all of us must keep, regardless of who we are or from where we come. Without these seven things, it would be impossible for humanity to live together in harmony.

Do not profane G‑d’s Oneness in any way. Acknowledge that there is a single G‑d who cares about what we are doing and desires that we take care of His world.

Do not curse your Creator. No matter how angry you may be, do not take it out verbally against your Creator.

Do not murder. The value of human life cannot be measured. To destroy a single human life is to destroy the entire world—because, for that person, the world has ceased to exist. It follows that by sustaining a single human life, you are sustaining an entire universe.

Do not eat a limb of a still-living animal. Respect the life of all G‑d’s creatures. As intelligent beings, we have a duty not to cause undue pain to other creatures.

Do not steal. Whatever benefits you receive in this world, make sure that none of them are at the unfair expense of someone else.

Harness and channel the human libido. Incest, adultery, rape and homosexual relations are forbidden. The family unit is the foundation of human society. Sexuality is the fountain of life and so nothing is more holy than the sexual act. So, too, when abused, nothing can be more debasing and destructive to the human being.

Establish courts of law and ensure justice in our world. With every small act of justice, we are restoring harmony to our world, synchronizing it with a supernal order. That is why we must keep the laws established by our government for the country’s stability and harmony.

These laws were communicated by G‑d to Adam and Noah, ancestors of all human beings. That is what makes these rules universal, for all times, places and people:

Laws made by humans may change according to circumstance. But laws made by the Creator of all souls over all of time remain the same for all people at all times.

4. Beriah, WEST, what enlightens man= pasturage of one's neighbor. Which brings us back to what is Sacrosanct about man, if there is anything, it is the offer of refuge, the same we share in every inch of blacktop, copper wire in the ground and overhead, every brick, drop of clean water, every isntance a first responder who has spent 12 years of his life training saves a life.

All of these non-violent things give us good lives, lots of food, boys, booze, every kind of work and entertainment we have conceived of.

These are the things we want, they embody the existence of a fundamental truth humanity always returns to after it forgets.

To yearn for the experience of this truth in every quarter as God instructed us to do and then obey its tenets is called Shimei.

Human beings don't want religious people telling them what to do, politicians to help them do it, to be penalized because they long to be happy, or held back by bombs, crappy, lazy, vapid policy making, famines, droughts, plagues or bombs falling on them.

Universal recognition of this is the revolution God has always sought to incite through the writing in the Tanakh.

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I have a question for the Jewish community. I mean no disrespect by any of this.

My family was gifted this Mezuza about 40-60 years ago:

It was originally given to my grandfather as a gift when he and my grandmother were teaching in Israel. He loved it very much. He died a long time ago. I have no way to contact the person/people who gave it to him.

My question is this: Is it okay if I display it? Should I just store it someplace private and safe? Or should I just give it to someone who is Jewish? I'd gladly gift it if someone wants it.

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