#and i personally know like 5 sorta-jews (non-educated; patrilineals etc) & prospective converts with so much scrupulosity about this that

[lepertamar]

just flatly unfollowed someone for reblogging that fucking post claiming goyim shouldn’t learn about kabbalah becuz ‘learning is practicing in judaism’. no. like yes learning is a major part of practicing in judaism but that does not by reversal mean learning about judaism is itself inherently a practice that is off limits to non-jews. that’s the most intellectually dishonest sleight of hand i’ve maybe ever seen on fucking jumblr in my long and sordid history on it. by this logic non-jews should be banned from ever attending a synagogue becuz synagogue attendance is part of practicing judaism, and should be banned from reading torah becuz reading torah is part of practicing judaism, and jews should be banned from teaching goyim about judaism because being taught about judaism is part of practicing judaism. (and you can say goodbye to literally all converts! no one can learn enough to decide they want to convert now!!!)

repeat after me: judaism does not have secret knowledge you can’t show goyim. if our texts on mysticism and kabbalah are literally online, mostly translated, posted there by jews and are published in bookstores in the zohar, published and translated and put there by jews, we are inviting goyim to learn about us, because knowledge and understanding is the greatest weapon against violence and fear and hate. if you tell goyim that they can’t learn about us from the widely and freely accessible material we ourselves put out there that’s a most basic failure of the asshole law: ie all it means is the only goyim who will learn about us are the antisemites who don’t care what we want or say.

#ok realistically ppl who don’t care what terminally online 22yo controlfreaks on tumblr say #are also not antisemites but i don’t think setting a precedent of ‘lol sometimes you just gotta ignore what jews say’ is uh great #and i personally know like 5 sorta-jews (non-educated; patrilineals etc) & prospective converts with so much scrupulosity about this that #they can’t make themselves read anything i want to show them!!! who the fuck are you protecting or helping with this shit??? #have you learned nothing from the fucking queer community cannibalizing and lateral violence #j #coal sings