Yes, it’s possible to convert to Judaism! It’s a long process, involving quite a lot of study, so it’s not something to be undertaken lightly. But it is possible, and lots of people have done it. The end result isn’t just “oh, I’ve taken up a different belief system,” though that may be part of your process. It’s much more like being adopted into a family. At the end of the process, you haven’t just changed your philosophy -- you’ve become part of am yisrael, the Jewish family.
The classic model of the convert is Ruth, a Moabite widow of a Jewish man, who was close enough to her widowed mother-in-law Naomi that she declared her intent to become part of the Jewish people so that she could stay with Naomi forever.* Ruth is, of course, not the first convert, and there are preliminary instructions about welcoming prospective converts in the Torah (of which the Book of Ruth is not a part), but Ruth has the best speech about it.
And so, we use Ruth as a model for how to welcome Jews By Choice to our family. Our larger metaphorical ethnic family, of course, but also, increasingly, into our own personal families. It used to be that if one half of a couple was Jewish and the partner wasn’t, the Jewish partner was expected to convert. But slowly, over the years, it’s become more common for the non-Jewish partner to join the people of their beloved. This was the case for composer Alan Lazar, whose husband Gustavo Ruiz converted to Judaism. Lazar composed this piece to celebrate Ruiz’s conversion and welcome him to the mishpocha.
*There is a history of using the story of Ruth as a metaphor for lesbian relationships, which . . . sure. It’s much kinder than a lot of cultural narratives about how a woman might get along with her mother-in-law.
O2Vie 59-2023/07: Le Seigneur a un plan derrière chaque situation (2)
"Machlon et Kiljon moururent aussi tous les deux, et Naomi resta privée de ses deux fils et de son mari."
Ruth 1:5
Elle s'appelle Naomi, son mari était Élimélec. Elle n'a que deux fils Machlon et Kiljon. Ils étaient Éphratiens, de Bethléhem de Juda. Noami craignait l'Eternel et était une femme sans problème auprès de son mari. Ses deux fils se sont mariés à deux jeunes filles Moabites Orpa et Ruth. Naomi et son mari jouissaient d'une vie de couple heureuse tout comme leurs deux fils avec leurs épouses jusqu'à ce qu'un malheur va frapper à leur porte. Naomi a perdu son mari et ses deux fils presque au même moment et il ne restait que la vieille veuve Naomi et les deux jeunes veuves Orpa et Ruth. Pire, aucune de ces veuves n'a d'enfant qui pourra être une consolation. Huuummm!! Quel drame ! quelle situation terrible ! Quel malheur ! Quel châtiment !... Ce sont les mots ou les phrases qui peuvent travarser la pensée de Naomi comme toute autre personne naturellement mais derrière tout ce drame Dieu a un plan. La suite de l'histoire nous a montré que le Seigneur a un plan. Naomi est devenue la femme très heureuse auprès de sa belle fille Ruth qui est devenue une femme que le Seigneur va choisir dans la lignée du Messie Jésus. Ruth s'est mariée à Boaz un homme stable, riche qui avait le droit de rachat sur elle selon leur tradition juive. L'Éternel permit à Ruth de concevoir, et elle enfanta un fils (Ruth 4:13). Cet enfant est appelé Obed et ce fut le père d'Isaï père de David (Ruth 4:17). Naomi est devenue arrière grand mère de Jésus, Ruth est devenue aussi arrière grand mère de Jésus car le fils de Ruth avec Boaz qui s'appelle Obed est devenu arrière grand père de Jésus. Dieu a un plan derrière chaque situation.
Jésus nous a dit dans Jean 16:33 que nous aurons des tribulations dans ce monde mais il a en même temps ajouté de prendre courage car il a vaincu le monde. En d'autres termes il voudra nous dire que toute situation travaillera pour notre bien comme le souligne l'apôtre Paul dans Romains 8:28. Anne était une femme qui craignait Dieu mais il a permis qu'elle soit stérile pour un temps (1 Samuel 1 et 2). Toutefois, Dieu a un plan derrière ce problème. Dieu voulait faire d'Anne la mère du grand prophète Samuel afin d'apporter la parole de Dieu a son peuple. Tous les hommes ont des problèmes et connaissent la souffrance. Dès que nous réglons un problème, un autre se présente et les problèmes ont différents visages. Mais gardons que derrière chacune de nos souffrances ou difficultés, Dieu est au contrôle et a un plan. Il nous revient de bien nous positionner afin de découvrir le plan de Dieu derrière qui est un plan de gloire.
"Car je connais les projets que j'ai formés sur vous, dit l'Éternel, projets de paix et non de malheur, afin de vous donner un avenir et de l'espérance".
Runners Up: Comet in Moominland, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Best Rewatch: Fantasia
Close Second: Mulholland Drive
Runners Up: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Blues Brothers, Cruising, The Parallax View, The Sound of Music
Most Enjoyable Fluff: Haul Out the Holly
Runners Up: The Iron Lady, Malice, The Nine Kittens of Christmas, The Nine Lives of Christmas, One for the Money, Three Wise Men and a Baby
Oddity of the Month: Five Corners
Best Male Performance: Al Pacino in Cruising
Runners Up: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in The Blues Brothers, Ian Holm in The Sweet Hereafter, Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music
Best Female Performance: Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive
Runners Up: Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive, Debra Winger in A Dangerous Woman
Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Angelo Badalamenti in Mulholland Drive
Runners Up: James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Charles Napier in The Blues Brothers, Patrick Fischler, Monty Montgomery and Justin Theroux in Mulholland Drive, John Lazar and Duncan McLeod in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Most Enjoyable Ham: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
Runners Up: Ambrose the Dapper Cat in The Nine Lives of Christmas, Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, Wes Brown and Lacey Chabert in Haul Out the Holly, Katherine Heigl in One for the Money, Tyler Hynes in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Dolly Read and Edy Williams in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Best Mise-en-scène: Fantasia
Runners Up: Comet in Moominland, Cruising, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Mulholland Drive, The Parallax View, The Sound of Music
Best Locations: Mulholland Drive (Hollywood Hills, 'Winkie's Diner', 'Sierra Bonita' cottage complex)
Runners Up: The Blues Brothers (various cozy Chicago locations), The Parallax View (Gorge Dam, futuristic mirrored-glass tower, cold, dark interiors)
Best Score: Mulholland Drive (Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch)
Best Leading Hunk: Ross Jirgl in Love at the Christmas Contest
Runners Up: Alec Baldwin in Malice, Jon Hamm in Confess, Fletch, David Harbour in Violent Night, Tyler Hynes in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Niall Matter in When I Think of Christmas
Best Supporting Hunk: David Flick in One for the Money
Runners Up: Bouncer in Cruising, Matt Hamilton in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Duncan McLeod in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mark Pellegrino in Mulholland Drive, Jarrod Phillips in Christmas Land, Daniel Truhitte in The Sound of Music
Assorted Pleasures:
- Desolate, painterly hellscapes in Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- Tantalizingly brief Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies in Three Wise Men and a Baby
- Seedy gay underworld bathed in blue light in Cruising
- Diaphanous textures, subtly shifting color palettes, dramatic use of light and shadow, dazzling background art and effects animation in Fantasia
I like literary fiction, so maybe this isn’t to everyone’s liking. This list is a bit old— books I would like to read. I have lots of old recommendations too.
Hello lovelies. So listen, about Like a Lonely House: I am working on it! In fact, I am working on it right now! However, since it’s been a goddamn age since I updated it, I thought I’d share a deleted scene from the current chapter. This is how I intended the chapter to start, but in the end it just didn’t fit and I had to scrap it and start over (now you see why you’re been waiting for 50 years for an update—I’m a mad woman)
I really am dedicated to getting new content for LALH out in the next 7 days, but I hope you enjoy this snippet in the meantime! As for all you eagle-eyed biblical scholars out there, yes, Azriel’s vow is based on Ruth’s vow to Naomi in the Book of Ruth 1:16-17.
Also if you’d like a refresher on the series, click HERE
LIKE A LONELY HOUSE—CHAPTER V CUT SCENE
Azriel watched as Elain as she continued to place in front of the window in their suite, just as she had been doing for the last hour.
Part of him wanted to stop her, if only to calm her fretting, but he knew better than to interrupt an Archeron mind at work.
Finally, she spoke.
“Perhaps it’s a good sign. Perhaps she doesn’t wish to talk about it because she’s actually fond of him and simply isn’t prepared to admit it.”
Azriel considered but didn’t speak. It hadn’t seemed particularly surprising to him that Nesta had left the party without a word the previous evening. She’d always been private and aloof; this sort of behavior was nothing new.
Besides, if she had despised Adan (as she was want to do with most fae males) she wouldn’t have made any secret about it.
The way Azriel saw it, the fact she hadn’t stormed out of the castle yet suggested things had actually gone well. The thought made him ache a bit for Cassian, even if this mess was of his brother’s own making.
“What do you think?” Elain asked, drawing him from his reverie.
He gave a shrug, not foolish enough to voice his concern for Cassian out loud.
“She’s your sister, cакана. You know her whims better than I would.”
Elain bit her lip and paused before resuming her path, hands clasped behind her back.
“He seems honorable,” she mused to herself. “And he is tremendously handsome. I can’t imagine that’s escaped her notice.”
“Is he?” Azriel said, picking up the dark tunic lying on the bed and shrugging it on. “I hadn’t noticed.”
Elain turned to give him beatific smile. It was so lovely it made his knees weak, even after all this time.
“Jealous, husband?” she purred, and he laughed.
“Should I be?”
“No,” she said, stringing an arm over his shoulders. “The only Macaran I have eyes for is you.”
He gave a low sound of contentment, his hand coming up to brush her belly. She seemed to be growing every day.
After a minute of contemplation he frowned, letting his hand drop as he glanced back up at her.
“Forgive me.” He swallowed. “For how I behaved with Lazar.”
“Why are you apologizing?” she said, touching his brow with this tips of her fingers. “He’s the one of behaved badly, not you.”
“I know,” he said. “But I don’t want you to think I see you as my prize to covet and brawl over.”
“I don’t think that,” she said. “Of course I don’t think that. And much as it vexes me to say it, the rebuke had to come from you. Lazar is Illyrian; he would have ignored my censure, and likely continued his pursuit every time your attention was elsewhere.”
Azriel growled his frustration.
“It shouldn’t be like that.”
“I agree,” she said. “But we aren’t going to change all of Illyria’s problems in a day, my love. Besides, the high fae have their problems as well.”
“One good thing if Nesta becomes Şehzana: she will likely banish that swine to patrol on the borderlands.”
“Or make him court jester,” Elain offered, smiling. “Never underestimate my sister’s capacity for cruel and unusual punishment.”
He laughed, smoothing his hand over her belly again.
“What would I do without you, Elain Archeron?”
She smiled, placing her hand atop his.
“I have no intention of ever letting you find out.”
“Te sakam,” he said, unable to avoid thinking of Cassian again, of how it would feel if Elain ever chose to leave him.
“I love you, too. Sekogaš.”
Always.
He took a breath. Hearing her speak Illyrian always soothed something restless and fretful inside him.
“I hope that if Adan does marry Nesta, he is able to make her as happy as you make me.”
“Thank you,” she said, pressing her brow to his. “For caring for her as you do. I know she doesn’t always make it easy—“
"Don't urge me to leave you, or to turn back from you,” he said, quoting the vows he’d made on their wedding day. “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, your Gods my Gods.”
She tipped her head back to kiss him, and he groaned softly when she sank her teeth in his lower lip in silent request he open for her.
He did, and her tongue swept in to claim him. He was suddenly aware of her thin nightgown and what he could see of her body beneath, and he felt his own reacting in kind.
He was hard with a single stroke of her fingers to his left wing, and she moaned, rubbing up against him.
“How long before we’re expected?”
He growled.
“Not long enough for any of the things I want to do to you.”
Perhaps he was a glutton for punishment, but he pulled her hand between his legs even as he said it.
“Then at least let me satisfy you,” she breathed. “You’ve hardly let me since we found out about the baby.”
“That’s because you deserve to be spoil—“
He broke off with a groan when she slipped a hand into his leathers to stoke him, then swore when there was a knock on the door.
“Az, it’s nearly time. Are you ready?”
Elain snatched her hand back as Rhys banged on the door again.
“In a minute,” Azriel said, pressing his forehead to Elain’s before whispering, “we’ll finish this later.”
🎬 El amor entre estas chicas. En este caso entre dos talentosas
Rachel Weisz y Rachel McAdams que estan preciosas y muy enamoradas en la buena película Desobediencia. Como controlar el deseo con el deber es algo que se plantea en este buen film que nos muestra parte de las tradiciones judías vista desde el relato de dos mujeres.
Los personajes están muy bien interpretados y nos dejan reflexionando sobre la naturaleza humana y sus complejidades . Una explotación cautivadora del amor que el director nos muestra con sumo respeto y calidez.
⭐ Buena
Sinopsis
Mc Adams una chica que creció en la comunidad judia ortodoxa es obligada a casarse con un muchacho que estudia para rabino.
Weisz quien se alejó de su casa para vivir otros aires vive en Nueva York ahora regresa a su hogar con motivo de la muerte de su padre, un rabino.
Pero los encuentros son inevitables y los recuerdos de la infancia y su primer amor afloran en una pasión incontrolable.
Reparto
Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, David Olawale Ayinde, Mark Stobbart, Cara Horgan, Sophia Brown, Lasco Atkins, Bernardo Santos, Dominic Applewhite, Omri Rose, Liza Sadovy, Dave Simon, Trevor Allan Davies, Cristian Lazar.
● Análisis, crítica, sinopsis y post realizadas por Jorge Domingo Risso.(D.R.)
May, 6 Famous Birthdays List with celebrities Age, Networth and more
This Article features the List of all popular celebrities born on May, 6. This list contains 43 number of famous people who have their birthdays on May, 6.
Please Click on Each famous person card to know more about their lives, family and bio. All Data has been verified and checked by Flickthinkers Team.These Celebrities belong to the sun-sign Taurus.
Famous Birthdays on May, 6
Adrianne Palicki
TV Actress
37 years old
Net-worth:
$4 Million
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
Football Player
41 years old
Net-worth:
$7 Million
Alan Dale
TV Actor
73 years old
Net-worth:
$8 Million
Alma Wahlberg
Reality Star
78 years old
Net-worth:
$1 Million
Angel Porrino
Reality Star
31 years old
Net-worth:
$600 Thousand
Bob Seger
Rock Singer
75 years old
Net-worth:
$45 Million
Chris Paul
Basketball Player
35 years old
Net-worth:
$120 Million
Chris Shiflett
Guitarist
49 years old
Net-worth:
$40 Million
Colt Cabana
Wrestler
40 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Davey Johnstone
Guitarist
69 years old
Net-worth:
$20 Million
Dominika Cibulkova
Tennis Player
31 years old
Net-worth:
$8 Million
Gabourey Sidibe
Movie Actress
37 years old
Net-worth:
$6 Million
George Clooney
Movie Actor
59 years old
Net-worth:
$500 Million
Gregg Henry
TV Actor
68 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Jason Witten
Football Player
38 years old
Net-worth:
$12 Million
John Flansburgh
Rock Singer
60 years old
Net-worth:
$4 Million
Julianne Phillips
TV Actress
60 years old
Net-worth:
$30 Million
Kavan Smith
TV Actor
50 years old
Net-worth:
$800 Thousand
Martin Brodeur
Hockey Player
48 years old
Net-worth:
$55 Million
Meek Mill
Rapper
33 years old
Net-worth:
$20 Million
Naomi Scott
Movie Actress
27 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Nick Littlemore
Music Producer
42 years old
Net-worth:
$12 Million
Orson Welles
Director
NA
Net-worth:
$20 Million
Richard Shelby
Politician
86 years old
Net-worth:
$20 Million
Roma Downey
TV Actress
60 years old
Net-worth:
$100 Million
Rubin Carter
Boxer
NA
Net-worth:
$500 Thousand
Ryan Anderson
Basketball Player
32 years old
Net-worth:
$6 Million
Shira Lazar
YouTube Star
37 years old
Net-worth:
$400 Thousand
Stephen Gaghan
Director
55 years old
Net-worth:
$14 Million
Susan Brown
TV Actress
74 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Tom Bergeron
Game Show Host
65 years old
Net-worth:
$16 Million
Tony Blair
World Leader
67 years old
Net-worth:
$60 Million
Willie Mays
Baseball Player
89 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Danielle Schneider
TV Actress
60 years old
Net-worth:
$2 Million
Janelle Brown
Reality Star
51 years old
Net-worth:
$400 Thousand
Jonas Valanciunas
Basketball Player
28 years old
Net-worth:
$5 Million
José Altuve
Baseball Player
30 years old
Net-worth:
$20 Million
Maître Gims
Rapper
34 years old
Net-worth:
$16 Million
Mark Eaton
Hockey Player
43 years old
Net-worth:
$3 Million
Nessa Diab
TV Show Host
39 years old
Net-worth:
$2 Million
Sasheer Zamata
Comedian
34 years old
Net-worth:
$1.5 Million
Tim Wonnacott
TV Show Host
67 years old
Net-worth:
$2 Million
Warren
Music Producer
40 years old
Net-worth:
$10 Million
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