#Simchat Torah

[writtenfoxscreams]

So, I know that quite a few people know the Jewish joke: “they tried to killed us, we survived, let’s eat”, and a friend found this chart years ago explaining all the Jewish holidays and fast days through that joke, with one very important addition: TREES.

And since today was Tu B’Shvat, I found myself thinking that this would be a great day to share it.

Enjoy :)) and hag sameach!! <333

#judaism #jewish #jumblr #jewposting #tu bishvat #shabbat #purim #pesach #shavuot #lag b’omer #shmeni atzeret #hoshana raba #sukkot #simchat torah #yom yerushalayim #yom ha’atzmaut #tzom gedaliah #asara b’tevet #yom hashoah #yom hazikaron #rosh chodesh #yom kippur #rosh hashanah #hannukah #tu b’av #shiva asar b’tammuz #tisha b’av #ta’anit esther #jewish holidays #new years

[garlic-and-cloves]

There's a specific version of Shalom Aleichem that I've only heard sung on Simchat Torah.

So, while I was listening to music, this started playing. And I just started crying, and haven't stopped since.

Simchat Torah has always been my favorite holiday. I love singing and dancing, I love Jewish joy, and I love that we have a whole holiday for that.

But this year, I was reminded why we need that holiday. And every time I think of Simchat Torah, I am reminded of that day, and all the days that have followed.

But today, hearing that song, I felt that joy again for the first time. I was reminded that being Jewish isn't all suffering, there are many many wonderful and joyous and beautiful parts too. I love being Jewish, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

#Jewish #Jewish Joy #Jewish culture #Simchat Torah #Jumblr #my posts #Simchat Torah war #Jewish songs #am yisrael chai

[scartale-an-undertale-au]

Am posting it during our sacred holiday of shemini atzeret/simchat Torah, where we dance with the torah scroll and sing and are happy because it's the commandment to be happy on this holiday.

Why am I posting it? Because Hamas declared war on Israel, sent hundreds (probably thousands, clearly I wasn't keeping count) of rockets all over (Jerusalem got around ten alarms and around three times more rockets), invaded the south and took hostages and murdered more than 20 people and injured over 500 ppl, and are trying to get the hostages into Gaza. They burnt houses with people inside them. They're still shooting at and inside the villages.

They knew it's simchat Torah. Hamas loves using our own holidays as times to attack us to ruin our most precious days.

I'm alright, I was able to run a shelter and even when we were dancing with the Torah and the alarm started, we moved to the shelter and sang from the bottom of our hearts so loudly we couldn't hear the alarms or the bombs being destroyed by iron dome. We kept dancing, we kept singing, we read the Torah proudly, worried but determined. Those of us serving in reserves or regular duty were called from synagogues and celebrations to rise to protect their country.

All of that, and I still find horrific people on tumblr celebrate the death of Israelies and call the actions of Hamas as righteous against their 'oppressors'.

They are more antisemites than jews in the world, even when they are a minority of their communities. More people wish for our death around the world than Israelies. I'm truly frustrated and angry. Innocent civilians were murdered in their houses and people cheer the terrorists on. They're not sjw, they're murderers that simply never got the chance to do it themselves.

Please pray for the innocent lives and for Israel to wrap up this whole bullshit soon so those that are injured can be rescued and treated and those murdered can be laid to rest and everyone else can be left alone and allowed to live peacefully.

Hamas, please just leave us alone, I'm asking for the umpteenth time.

#israel #טאמבלר ישראלי #sukkot #simchat torah #shemini atzeret

[lawbreaker13]

Annual reminder that if your neighbor is suddenly building a shed or a big tent in their backyard for no apparent reason, that is not a sudden disregard for zoning laws and they are not attempting to piss off your homeowners association. They are Jews.

Leave them alone, it’ll come down in two weeks.

This has been a PSA.

#Just doing my duty #Or should I say my #JEW-ty #I’m so funny #Anyway #Sukkot #Sukkah #Succos #Jewish #Jewish holidays #Rosh Hashanah #Yom Kippur #Simchat Torah #Jumblr #Jewish jokes #Jew jokes #Jew #Jews #Judaism #High holidays #Minor holidays #Mine

[mental-mona]

The Torah ends with the last command: to keep writing and studying Torah. And this is epitomised in the beautiful custom, on Simchat Torah, to move immediately from reading the end of the Torah to reading the beginning. The last word in the Torah is Yisrael; the last letter is a lamed. The first word of the Torah is Bereishit; the first letter is beit. Lamed followed by beit spells lev, “heart.” So long as the Jewish people never stop learning, the Jewish heart will never stop beating. Never has a people loved a book more. Never has a book sustained a people longer or lifted it higher.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, Covenant & Conversation: Deuteronomy p.304

#jumblr #simchat torah #judaism #rabbi lord jonathan sacks #torah

[girlactionfigure]

It’s always impressed me that Judaism mandates that goodbyes be said with a certain amount of hope. We end Shabbat with havdalah, a beautiful ceremony concluded by extinguishing a twisted candle in sweet wine and singing a song asking for a week of peace and a time of redemption for humankind. Seders end with the promise ‘Next year in Jerusalem’. On Simchat Torah, we conclude the reading of the Torah by rolling back to its beginning. Funerals end with Kaddish, a prayer not about death but about the generous gift of life and God’s goodness. At the completion of shiva, the rabbi often takes the mourners out of their homes for a brief stroll that enacts literally what is meant symbolically – walking them back into life. 

Somehow Jews trust that every ending is also a beginning, that the broken hearted will again feel loved, and the sun will rise no matter how long or dark the night.

— Rabbi Steven Z Leder

#Simchat Torah #Judaism #Jewish

[mioritic]

Simchat Torah banner, Poland, 19th century

The illustration depicts Simchat Beit Ha'Shoevah (שמחת בית השואבה, "happiness of the house of water-drawing"), a celebration that takes place during Sukkot

The National Museum in Kraków / Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, via shvlman on Twitter

#sukkot #judaism #jumblr #jewish #jewish art #poland #yidishkeyt #simchat torah

[therubberchickenflies]

Me: phew, Rosh Hashanah is over. Now it’s time to relax :)

Me: *looks at my calendar*

#rosh hashanah #jewblr #jumblr #jewish #yom kippur #sukkot #sukkos #simchat torah #shemini atzeret #no I’m not being lazy and using the same cat meme again #this is simply the high holidays cat meme #I’ve decided that just now

[galaxy-manticore]

Genesis 4:8-12

And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.

And the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

And He said, "What have you done? Hark! Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the earth.

And now, you are cursed even more than the ground, which opened its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand.

When you till the soil, it will not continue to give its strength to you; you shall be a wanderer and an exile in the land.”

———

As a Palestinian Jew, the ongoing genocide makes my heart ache with a pain unimaginable.

October 7th was Simchat Torah, which starts the Torah over with Bereshit. The story of Adam and Eve, and of Cain and Abel. I personally found a parallel between the Cain and Abel story and the Palestinian Genocide.

Along the top and side are traditional Palestinian embroidery patterns. In both Arabic and Hebrew the middle says “From the River to the Sea.”

#palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #jewish #jewish art #israel #art #artists on tumblr #bible quote #simchat torah #torah portion #from the river to the sea #cain and abel #bereshit

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Today, the despicable Hamas terror organisation launched a multi-pronged attack on Israel.

As of tonight, over 200 Israelis have been murdered, and an unconfirmed number have been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken into Gaza. Over 1000 Israelis have been injured. Hamas fired over 3000 rockets into Israel, aimed at multiple cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

[EDIT 15/10/2023 Over 1300 Israelis were murdered by Hamas Nazi savages, and over 3000 were injured. Over 150 have been kidnapped and may also have been murdered too.]

Israel is now retaliating against Hamas terrorists in Gaza by destroying their terror bases that they locate in civilian areas. All decent people worldwide will stand with Israel as it takes revenge on an evil antisemitic cult that has promoted genocide from its inception and refuses to abide by any peace agreement. All decent people will see why making concessions to Palestinian leaders without getting anything in return is utter madness.

Unless Palestinian terrorism is stopped by force, there will be no peace.

Hamas will pay a heavy price for what it has done.

My condolences to all Israeli victims.

Stand with Israel

#stand with israel #hamas #terrorism #stop terrorism #punish hamas #down with hamas #gaza strip #israeli #pro israel #god bless israel #condolences #palestinian terrorism #jumblr #shabbat #simchat torah

[waitingonavision]

Encantober Day 21: Age

As a child under b. mitzvah age, Antonio receives a special aliyah on the holiday Simchat Torah, which celebrates the "joy of Torah"—and the completion and new beginning of the annual Torah-reading cycle. Antonio not only gets called up to the teva (reading dais) to the recite the blessings over the Torah, but receives an extra blessing for children.

I've drawn him holding a plush Torah, because Simchat Torah also involves dancing with the scrolls. The shape of Antonio's plush resembles a tiq: a metal or wooden case in which a Torah scroll is kept according to Separdic (Spanish Jewish) custom. Mirabel made it with help from Moisés, my original Encanto character.

#encanto #encanto fan art #encantober #jewish madrigals #antonio madrigal #simchat torah #my art #stuff i've posted #bb toño 🥺

[narcolepticgnome]

We celebrated Simchat Torah tonight! 8 years of working at a synagogue and it was my first time, can you believe it? I got to dance with the Torah and carry it around the sanctuary. When we unrolled it, the rabbi went around and told everyone what part they were holding. (I was toward the beginning, so I was Lech Lecha.) Such a special experience!

#jumblr #jewish #simchat torah #jewish joy #mine

[iibislintu]

simchas torah is such a millennial experience, like, yay we finished our comfort media let's start from the beginning

#jumblr #simchat torah #judaism

[eretzyisrael]

The Arab American News reports that a crowd of 1,200 Arab Americans filled an auditorium at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn last Tuesday evening, well after the Hamas atrocities were well know and documented.

That didn't stop Osama Siblani,  publisher of the Arab American News, to tell the crowd that Hamas was “not a terrorist organization.”

Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit, a Palestinian-majority mosque, said  that Israel will burn.

This is only what is being reported. The full video shows more outrageous statements.

That same Imam Salha referred to the perpetrators of the massacre, saying "the Palestinians that 

stand up for their rights, that protest peacefully, that they cross the border. They do not love to die.

They love life. And because they love life, they wanted to stand up for their rights." His use of past tense makes it clear he was referring to this event.

Salha also mocked the Israelis at the rave who tried desperately to escape from being murdered by Hamas terrorists: "If you really had a claim to the land, oh Israeli,  why did you run away like a chicken?" the imam said to applause.

Another speaker, Nasir Beydoun, invoked antisemitic tropes by saying "Before we end the occupation of Palestine, we have to end the occupation of Congress!"  

He is a candidate for the Senate.

(UPDATE) Siblani's full statement was reprehensible:

We are not going to be intimidated or silent when they say Hamas is a terrorist organization. The fact is it is not a terrorist community. And we have to say to them that terrorist is Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. But not only Benjamin Netanyahu and his government but everyone that stands behind them and supports him, killing people in Palestine. We are not afraid to say it. You know why? Because it is the truth. And we have to say it because we are responsible before God. ... Let me tell you, let me tell you what happened on Sunday. So what happened on Sunday was shameful. Here in Michigan.  Our representative went to a synagogue and that is not the issue. But what they did there is shameful. While people are being dead. Under the rubbles of their homes. From the bombs that made in the United States. And give it to Israel to kill people. They were standing and dancing and laughing on our bodies, on our homes.

Sunday was Simchat Torah. The representative visited a synagogue where Jews were dancing around the Torah as is done on this holiday. The idea that they were dancing because Israel was bombing Palestinians is sickening - because in synagogues around the world, this was the saddest Simchat Torah ever, as we were only starting to learn about the horrific and genocidal attack by Siblani's Hamas friends on thousands of innocent Jewish civilians. 

Where I prayed, where we do not use electronics during the festival, the first time we learned about the attack was right before the dancing. We stopped, said Psalms, prayed for the safety of the people, and then danced a subdued set of hakafot with songs centered around asking God for salvation.

For Siblani to twist that into saying that Jews were celebrating Palestinian deaths is grotesque and revolting..  

#osama siblani #arab american news #simchat torah #hamas supporters #dearborn michigan #imam imran salha

[lawbreaker13]

Judaism is definitely not a cult, but I gotta say, it’s pretty hard to explain “we celebrate the new moon by blowing a ram’s horn on week one, swing a live chicken around our head while chanting in a biblical language the next week, and then we live in a hut for 7 days” without sounding a tad unhinged

#Jumblr #Judaism #Rosh Hashanah #Yom Kippur #Sukkot #Simchat Torah #High holidays #Jewish holidays #Orthodox Judaism #Jewish #Jews #Jew #Mine

[curiousconvert]

Feeling woefully unprepared for Elul and the High Holy Days. This will be my first Elul since starting my conversion, my nerves are wrecked. Does anyone have recommendations for a good overview of this time in the calendar? I've seen a few BimBam videos and read a bit but still feel totally lost.

#jumblr #jewish conversion #judaism #elul #high holy days #yom kippur #rosh hashanah #simchat torah