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#and I've gotten even weirder reactions to the idea of hamentaschen
muggle-the-hat · 5 years
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been trying to explain purim to a lot of random coworkers recently, for obvious reasons (it's in a few days) and uh
people react with confusion and horror to the usual "they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat" summary
I'm so used to feeling like a convert by learning Jewish norms and thought patterns as an adult bc my mom chose not to raise us Jewish but for once I feel like I fit in 100% by being slightly baffled at that reaction? like I've heard that joke from family (tbf, talking about chanukah when we got to visit over winter breaks) since I was little and it's just? what the holidays celebrate? we survived! that's the celebration! and celebrations involve food! this is a reasonable logical progression: "we survived; let's eat"
anyway I've been realizing goyim don't realize how common this is for us to say,
and then Six13's song Shana Tova came on my Spotify this afternoon (Spotify can vaguely group jewish songs together and doesn't filter by time of year/holiday at all) and here's a perfect example
well first of the song practically opens with the line "looking for a better way to get my Judaism than by getting on the internet and checking out the Maccabeats" and. rude. there's no need to call me out like that
second of all the song later has the line "on this holiday no one tried to kill us but hey who cares; let's eat"
like
it's really that much of a thing. I'm not trying to be morbid I just forgot that not everyone has the context that a bunch of our holidays are Like That
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