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maimonidesnutz · 4 months
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how come when JACOB wrestles with a man he gets a blessing, but when I wrestle with a man I’m “displaying inappropriately aggressive behavior” and I “have to leave this Build-a-Bear”???
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penguicorns-are-cool · 6 months
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I'm pretty sure Avraham failed the test
like if I was given a test and the person giving the test very obviously told me that I was wrong and not to actually do the thing, I would assume I failed the test
also, that's about where the torah switches focus from Avraham to Yitzchak. There were no more tests after that, his story just kind of ends. His next big task is to just marry off his son and that's it he's done.
Like, I really don't think he passed that test I think he failed for refusing to question God for giving him a very unreasonable task.
And it's not like others haven't been rewarded for questioning or even fighting authority
like Yaakov is very definitely rewarding for tricking his Dad cause like right after it says he has a dream where God basically told him good job you will have many descendents. Then later on he literally fights an angel and it's a good thing cause he got renamed Israel as part of a blessing and now we're B'nei Israel
And Moshe definitely questioned authority that was like his whole thing. And even beyond Pharoah, he also had to reason with God to get them to not kill everyone.
Even Avraham that time he convinces God to not kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah if there are ten good people. There aren't but Avraham's questioning and reasoning with God is portrayed as a good thing.
Also, Judaism is generally very supportive of questioning authority and child sacrifices are very specifically banned in the torah, so It makes no sense that Avraham passed the test because he would've obeyed God even to kill his child. Like that moral is pretty inconsistent with the rest of the Torah.
so I definitely think Avraham failed that test.
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texas-junk-drawer · 14 days
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Torah is such a round word. Like you think of Torah and you think “yeah thats definitely on a scroll” and guess what!! It is!!! Torah is literally the perfect word for what it is.
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unbidden-yidden · 14 days
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Shout-out to Sefaria for this beautiful drash. This was a really sweet thing to receive in my inbox, and I thought some of you all might appreciate it, too.
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rainbow-femme · 6 months
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Losing my mind. The author just being listed as Moses. The fact that it has 3 stars
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yeoldegodzilla · 2 months
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Medieval Torah ark curtain featuring Godzilla
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judaicsheyd · 9 months
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PSA: The Torah is NOT the equivalent of the Old Testament. That is the Tanakh. The Torah only covers the first five books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy).
I've seen too many people be highly confident in this idea and it's driving me a bit mad. Oh and also the Jewish understanding of these texts is worlds away from the Christian understanding, so just keep that in mind. Anyway, that's all.
Ignore the tags, B"H.
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bobemajses · 2 months
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The hands of a Torah scribe, by Lenni Sonnenfeld, 1950s
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girlactionfigure · 7 days
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jewishpositivity18 · 2 months
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The rabbis teach us that all Jewish people were present at Mount Sinai when the Torah was given to us.
From the poorest handmaid to the most learned scholar, everyone participated in the making of the Jewish people.
Even future generations, souls who had not yet been born and converts who would find their way, were present when the Torah was given.
When we all received the Torah, how can we deny the responsibility to make the world a better place?
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i-am-aprl · 5 months
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mental-mona · 6 months
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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
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wrestlingwithtorah · 9 months
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Radical Inclusion has lived within Jewish texts from the most ancient of our beloved stories, and has been a value that we've been learning from for centuries. Come join the conversation of the ages, inspired by our texts to make our Jewish Family a safer, more inclusive, kinder, and more loving for every last member of our community.
This text study will explore wisdom from the Torah, Medieval Commentators, and Contemporary Jewish leaders and clergy. This text study is partially inspired by Rabbi Gischner's senior sermon on the topic of inclusion vis-a-vis the priestly garments, as well as other stories from the Torah and from Jewish leaders who inspire him to co-create a more inclusive Jewish community.
Rabbi Josh Gischner (he/him) is passionate about inclusion, accessible Jewish learning, justice, and artistic expressions of Jewish life and was ordained from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in May of 2021. Rabbi Gischner is one of the founders of Wrestling with Torah, and proudly serves as the rabbi educator at Temple Shalom in the DC area. Rabbi Gischner is excited to help you to discover your Torah.
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n1m3h · 8 months
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eretzyisrael · 1 month
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kingoftheu · 1 year
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I like how in discussions of "Best Dreamworks Movies" no one ever really talks about Prince of Egypt because it is so self evidently the best one there is nothing to talk about.
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