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slyandthefamilybook · 4 months

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aren't israelis colonizers? is israel any different from india with respect to kashmir?

I don't know enough about India and Kashmir to answer that part, so I won't

But in short, no, Israelis are not colonizers.

As a longer answer, I think first it's important to draw a distinction between colonization and colonialism. Colonization has a pretty broad application. In its simplest sense it means "people moving from one place to another place and establishing some sort of autonomy there". It usually involves the suppression of indigenous peoples, but not always. We talk about, for example, "colonizing Mars", even though there's no one up there as far as we can tell

In that sense, sure, you can call Israelis colonizers. You'd be ignoring the millions of Jews who are descended from the Old Yishuv (the Jews who lived in British Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel), unless you think that pre-Israel Jews were also colonizers, in which case I don't think there's a discussion to be had. You'd also have to ignore the millions of non-Jewish Israeli citizens, such as Bedouin Arabs, Druze, Samaritans, Chinese, Arameans, etc.

You'd also have to ignore the roughly 850,000 Jews who were expelled from Arab-dominant countries and fled to Israel as refugees, not as settlers. "Israeli" is a pretty broad term, it turns out

In terms of colonialism it's pretty much impossible to fit any definition to Israel. Colonialism is the process of exporting a dominant culture from a centralized point at the expense of indigenous cultures. For example, when the British established colonies on Turtle Island, the colonizers brought their British culture with them. They spoke English, worshiped God and The King in that order, used British pounds, established settlements with names like "James' Town" and "George Town", followed English law, and generally made a mess of the place. In contrast, when the First Aliyah came to British Palestine, they shed their European names in favor of their Jewish ones. They abandoned English, German, Yiddish and Ladino in favor of Hebrew, the last surviving Canaanite language. They built cities named things like Tel Aviv, and Shmuel HaNavi. For the first time in centuries, they visited the tombs of our ancestors–Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya'akov. They made pilgrimages to the very cities spoken about in the Torah, our founding document and the source of our ethnogenesis. They found Jewish artifacts thousands of years old. Some people call this "artificial self-indigenization", but they're wrong. It's not even re-indigenization, because indigenous identity has no expiration date. Jews may have assimilated into various cultures around the world to some extent or another, but our identity as Jews has always been tied to the Levant. No colonial project in history has viewed itself as a return to a place from which they originated.

This isn't to say that Israelis haven't committed atrocities against Palestinians, or that they don't continue to do so. Theft of Palestinian homes, the Nakba, the suppression of the rights and culture of Palestinians, all of that history is reprehensible and needs to be answered for. But violence does not a colony make.

here's a piece from the left-wing Israeli news outlet Ha'aretz talking more about it

#ask #anonymous #I was gonna go into more detail about the Balfour Declaration the White Paper the Peel Commission etc but honestly I'm a little to hungover

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fenrir-wolf · 5 months

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"The greater you are, the more you need to search for your self. Your deep soul hides itself from consciousness. So you need to increase aloneness, elevation of thinking, penetration of thought, liberation of mind — until finally your soul reveals itself to you, spangling a few sparkles of her lights."

Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook

#consciousness

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laineystein · 4 months

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GIG SOTD 💜🦊🪖

Currently fueled by an almost empty packet of cigarettes, my second XL of the day, and an appetite for revenge.

A bit of an update from the past *checks calendar* two days:

I thought 3 or 4 days had passed but it’s only been two since I’ve been on here. The past forty eight ish hours were horrible. By far the worst time here so far. I’d say it’s right up there with my worst days in the ED during the peak of COVID. But thanks to that trauma I’m more aware of how horrible it is. I don’t really feel it which is a relief but also terrifying and not at all healthy 🙃

As per usual, there’s so much I want to say but we’ll save it all for when this mess is over and we’re all back home with our families IYH amennnn 🙏🏽

Please add these names to your list for a refuah shlema:

Eitan Yaakov ben Chani

Guy Moshe ben Rivka

Avichai Levi ben Zahava

Shlomo Yaakov ben Chaya

Eliyahu Mendel ben Tamar

Uri Binyamin ben Esther

Noam Daniel ben Avigail

Ilan Moshe ben Liel

Boaz Yitzchak ben Golda

Tal Avraham ben Sarah

Eitan Levi ben Chava

Yaniv Akiva ben Devorah

#⚔️🇮🇱#💜🦊#GIG SOTD #Spotify

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eretzyisrael · 5 months

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Parashat Toldot

by Meir Anolick

Written for Shabbat, Parashat Toldot, כ”ט בחשון תשע”ד:

In this week’s Parasha, we have the story of Yitzchak Avinu’s sojourn in G’rar, when he went to escape the famine in the land. When he first arrived, he was very successful, and the P’lishtim became jealous of him. They started to fill up the wells that Avraham Avinu had dug, Avimelech, the king of the P’lishtim, drove him away “for you have become much mightier than we” (26:16), and then the P’lishtim shephards started to argue with Yitzchak’s shepherds and continued to fill in the wells that Avraham dug, and fight over the new wells that Yitzchak was digging.

After all this, Yitzchak finally digs a well that no one fights over, so he builds an altar and thanks Hashem. After this, Avimelech suddenly comes back to Yitzchak and asks to make a covenant with him, just like he made a covenant with Avraham. Avimelech says, “Just as we have not molested you, and just as we have done with you only good, and sent you away in peace – Now you (swear to us to do good unto us), Oh blessed of Hashem!” (26:29)

How could Avimelech come with so brazen a claim as to say, “we have done with you only good”? They quarreled with Yitzhchak and drove him away! That certainly doesn’t sound like good. Yitzchak even said himself when they first approached, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and drove me away from you!” (26:27) The way the Torah portrays the series of events, and based on Yitzchak’s reaction, it would seem that they did not do “only good” with him, but quite the opposite.

This attitude, I feel, is really a template for the way the nations always have treated the Jews. They start to hate us, they treat us poorly, and even drive us away from them. However, when they think it is their best interest, they come back to us and ask us to treat them as well as they’ve treated us. Yes, they know what they have done to us, but they rationalize it somehow, coming up with reasons why their actions were not only justified, but the right thing to do.

In truth, however, many of us act in this way. We cause harm to our friends and family, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or monetary, and then we act as though we’ve done nothing wrong. We tell ourselves, “Well they deserved it” or, “They probably don’t even mind”, and we talk to this person as though we’ve done only good by them, and we’ve done nothing to slight them.

Even worse, when that person reacts to us with anger, we feel like we have been wronged, and they are unjustified. Though at times someone’s attitude to us is unjustified, many times it is a reaction to something we’ve done to them. Before declaring that someone’s actions are unjustified, may we try to think of what we’ve actually done to them, and take it as a lesson to be more careful in the future.

Shabbat Shalom.

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amchachamvnavon.wordpress.com

#Parashat Toldot #Judaism #Shabbat #Jewish

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jeanchrisosme · 5 months

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Tout mes jours, j'ai pris soin de ne jamais arracher inutilement un brin d'herbe ou une fleur, quand elle avait la capacité de pousser ou de s'épanouir. Vous connaissez l'enseignement de nos sages qu'il n'y a pas un seul brin d'herbe sur Terre qui n'a pas un ange au-dessus, lui ordonnant de grandir. Chaque pousse et feuille dit quelque chose de significatif, chaque pierre murmure un message caché dans le silence

Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

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susieporta · 6 months

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"Più sei grande, più hai bisogno di cercare te stesso. La tua anima profonda si nasconde dalla coscienza. Quindi devi aumentare la solitudine, l'elevazione del pensiero, la penetrazione del pensiero, la liberazione della mente - finché alla fine la tua anima si rivela a te stesso. tu, scintillando alcune scintille delle sue luci. Allora trovi la beatitudine, trascendendo tutte le umiliazioni o qualsiasi cosa accada, raggiungendo l'equanimità, diventando uno con tutto ciò che accade, riducendoti così estremamente da annullare la tua forma individuale, immaginaria, da annullare l'esistenza nel profondo di te stesso. "Cosa siamo noi?" Allora conoscerai ogni scintilla di verità, ogni fulmine di integrità che lampeggia ovunque. Allora raccogli tutto, senza odio, gelosia o rivalità. La luce della pace e una feroce audacia si manifestano in te. Il desiderio di agire e di lavorare, la passione di creare e di restaurare te stesso, l'anelito al silenzio e al grido interiore di gioia: tutto questo si unisce nel tuo spirito e tu diventi santo."

Rav Avraham Yitzchak

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girlactionfigure · 11 months

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Prisoner of Zion: Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch

Returned to his roots

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch was a Jew in Soviet Russia who accomplished the seemingly impossible: he practiced his religion despite intense persecution, and inspired those around him – even in prison – with Jewish teachings and practice.

Born in Riga in 1947, Yosef was raised with only scraps of knowledge about the Jewish tradition because the Soviets destroyed all organized religion, holy books, and ritual objects. His family had a Passover seder, but didn’t have Haggadahs, so his father told the story from memory. The harsh conditions and persecution of Jews led Yosef to apply for an exit visa to go to Israel. He didn’t know much about Judaism or Israel. He later said, “I was not being honest with myself. I thought, ‘Yosef, you are struggling to go to Israel, but for what reason? You claim that you would like to go back to your roots, to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, but they were religious. If you know that is the truth, why aren’t you keeping mitzvot (Jewish law)?”

Yosef started becoming religious, and he joined the Jewish underground movement in the 1960’s. He was able to get some prayer books and a Chumash (Five Books of Moses) in a Russian translation. He started a Bible study group and became editor of an underground newsletter on Jewish issues. For his religious activities, Yosef was sent to prison for eleven years. He was brutally beaten for refusing to remove his kippa (yarmulke). Yosef served with famous Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky. The men were kept in solitary confinement and communicated through toilet bowls and radiators.

Separated from his family, Yosef created familial relationships with his fellow prisoners. He became the unofficial rabbi of the group. Every week, he would save bread for Friday night, when he would lay out a white tablecloth to celebrate Shabbat, and share words of Torah. Yosef was punished by receiving less food rations. He later said, “I wouldn’t let it bother me; I wouldn’t let them limit my free will. When they gave me my allotted portion, I would deliberately leave some over – making it my decision how much to eat, not theirs.”

As Yosef languished in a Siberian prison, he became a cause celebre for Jews around the world who were passionately advocating for “refuseniks”. These activist Jews held protests and raised money to smuggle Jewish books into the Soviet Union. Yosef was known as the “Prisoner of Zion.” Finally, in 1981, Yosef was allowed to immigrate to Israel. He became a rabbi and popular public speaker, and wrote a best-selling memoir called Unbroken Spirit. He said, “I wrote my book to show how, with the help of Hashem (God), it is possible for even an assimilated Jewish boy living in Soviet Russia to find his Jewish neshamah (soul). It is my hope that the next generation of Jews will read the book and think, ‘If a simple Jew like Yosef Mendelevitch could do it, I can too.'”

For maintaining his faith in God despite religious persecution, and for inspiring Jews around the world, we honor Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch as this week’s Thursday Hero.

#Thursday Hero

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 8 months

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The Command to Leave Sinai

The LORD spoke to Moshe, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Mitzrayim, to the land of which I swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' — Exodus 33:1 | Hebrew Names Version (HNV) The Hebrew Names Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 12:7; Genesis 26:1; Genesis 28:10; Exodus 32:13; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 11:12; Acts 7:36

#Lord #God #Moses #command #depart #Sinai #Exodus 33:1 #Book of Exodus #Old Testament #HNV #Hebrew Names Version Bible

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theburnbarreljester · 2 years

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Mi Shebeirach avoteinuv’imoteinu,Avraham, Yitzchak v’Yaakov, Sarah, Rivkah,Rachel v’Lei-ah, hu y’vareich et hacholim. HaKadosh Baruch Hu yimaleirachamimaleihem, l’hachalimamul’rapotamul’hachazikam, v’yishlachlahemm’heirahr’fuah, r’fuahshleimah min hashamayim,r’fuathanefeshur’fuathaguf, hashtabaagalauviz’mankariv. V’nomar: Amen.

May the one who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, bless and heal those who are ill. May the Blessed Holy One be filled with compassion for their health to be restored and their strength to be revived. May God swiftly send them a complete renewal of body and spirit, and let us say, Amen.

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magnetothemagnificent · 2 years

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Jumblr ask game: Sarah (my namesake, in honor of my non-hebrew birthday today)

Ooohhhhhhh this'll be fun.....

I think she'd be a Cleric, because she's wise and can also be clever and charismatic, and has a special connection to G-d. Sarah is special because she was brave enough to argue with G-d (or at least G-d's angels), and I think that's incredible of her. She's also been shown to be able to get G-d to cause miracles, such as the king and his household getting struck with disease when they kidnapped her. Sarah also isn't afraid to fight, she was on her way to stop Avraham from sacrificing Yitzchak when she saw them come back (thus causing her to die from shock).

As for her alignment, I think she's Chaotic Good. Sarah is definately good, but she's got a rebellious streak in her and she is not afraid to call even G-d out on His bullshit. She can be hotheaded and even mean at times, like when she lashed out at Hagar and Avraham, but ultimately she acts out of what she thinks is just or right for her family, even if her methods can come off as cruel or rash. And ultimately when she is proven wrong, she makes up for it. She's such a complex character and I love her for it.

#sarah #sarah imanu #jumblr #jumblr ask meme #judaism #if jew know jew know #tanakh

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2q5b · 4 months

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VAYERA

By Ezra

November 1st, 2023

I speak with my heart in my mouth, with my heart fallen into the pit of my stomach. Understand that, while you listen to my voice. Understand that the IDF is mercilessly destroying the city of Gaza and the beautiful human beings, all those irreplaceable human shields, who live there. And around the world, so many people blame, not Israel, but the Jews.

Things happen. You fuck around, and sometimes you find out. God doesn’t make exceptions. A city full of people is full of sin, and it is utterly destroyed. No one is spared. But wait! What if there should be fifty righteous people there? Abraham asks God, with far worse than mere tears in his voice. God relents. Okay. Fifty. But what about 45? 30? Okay, thirty.

What about 20 people? 10? Okay, says God. Ten. And an agreement is made.

There aren’t ten righteous people. There’s only your nephew and his family, who - wait! - you didn’t realize were there. Tough luck. And so they’re doomed to die with the rest of the sinners.

Oh, what’s that, Abraham? You wanted to go lower than ten? You want Me to make an exception?

Time stops. Good miracles happen, too, everywhere, at the exact same time as the bad ones. Abraham and Sarah have a child, Yitzchak, Isaac, named for the laughter of bewildered joy of two people in their nineties, suddenly, miraculously, expectant parents.

And things happen to the children. They find out. The slave-girl, Hagar, and her teenage son Ishmael get sent away from the family home, Abraham tearfully handing them inadequate supplies for their journey. They go, they get lost in the wilderness, they run out of water, they know they’re going to die in the wilderness. Then they meet God. Maybe this reminds you of a story that happens to the Jews, later.

Let me stop time again, before Ishmael can die of thirst. Flash forward. Abraham has been commanded by God: Lech lecha. Bring Isaac up as a burnt offering on one of the mountains. Which one? I’ll tell you later. No exceptions.

A burnt offering. A burned child.

Is this what it means to obey God? To kill a child? To watch Ishmael die, to cut Isaac’s throat?

No. No.

There is a well of water we have not yet seen. There is a ram just over there, caught in the thicket. A messenger of God is there to redirect us, if only we can pay attention.

The war - within, without - is so terrifying. The terms seem so stark. Some part of us wants justice to necessitate brutality. We want to give up listening, grab the knife and just act. We want to just sit down and cry, while our child dies of thirst.

So many of us come to ask: If it is in the name of safety, how can we not bomb Gaza? If it is in the name of freedom, how can we not terrorize Israel? How can we not destroy these sinful cities full of evil, dangerous people?

We are so traumatized, we stop looking for another solution.

וַיִּפְקַ֤ח אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־עֵינֶ֔יהָ וַתֵּ֖רֶא בְּאֵ֣ר מָ֑יִם

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water.

וַיִּשָּׂ֨א אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶת־עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּה־אַ֔יִל אַחַ֕ר נֶאֱחַ֥ז בַּסְּבַ֖ךְ בְּקַרְנָ֑יו

Abraham lifted his eyes and saw, a ram, off in the distance, caught in the underbrush by his horns.

Some people, at some terrible times, come to believe there is no choice but to allow the deaths of children, to justify them, even to cause them. Our Torah wants us to listen differently. These trials teach a different way of looking. An openness in every moment to the possibility that there will be, in fact, some way to protect the helpless from harm.

I don’t know what the path away from death, and toward life, is. Neither did Hagar or Avraham, not at first. But they were not hardened against seeing that path when it did open. And it always opens.

Like them, I am ready for my eyes to be opened.

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onmymasa22 · 4 months

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We believe that gd created the torah, our guidebook, and from that he created the world. From the beginning he had a close relationship with humans he created. Some were more interested in thinking that gds creations were individual gds and weren't so interested in gd himself. Then came avraham. He was the first person to shun the idea of other gds being a thing and really acted as if gd was so important to him and found the torah guidebook to be what it is- the most civilized way to live a life. From him we learn alot and he started the idea that libing a full life devoted to gd was the best thing for a human. He was who gd wanted as the personality to advise people from his understanding of the torah how to live the best life possible, full, and joyus, and fulfilled. Gd told him that he would have descendents who would recieve the land of israel to live. If you look at our torah, you will see that from thousands of years ago we have a good idea of the location of this israel. From him came yitzchak and yishmael the muslim line. Then from Yitzhak comes yaakov- the jewish nation and esav the ancient romans. Avraham was in iraq and came to israel.

Avraham was going from bavel where hes from to israel but stopped in haran cuz it wS nice snd stayed

The story of the girl whos grandfather was gay

I light a candle. Every shabbat i can, i light a candle. And this is the story of my little candle. In the process of becoming a soldier i remember the ex commanders telling us that during war time, they recommend not telling your parents how bad it all is, it will put them in hell because theres nothing they can do, and they wont really know how to react. And i remember wondering how many soldiers go on missions without their mother lighting a candle for their safety because she's out of the loop. So i vowed that every candle i light, be that friday night or any time i really want something, i light it for the safety and comfort of the soldiers who dont reveal the hardships because they dont want to scare their family too much, that hashem should give them a little feeling that someone is lighting a candle and davening for them, specifically them- be that chayalim bodedim or anyone without a good relationship with their mother.

אז אני מדברת עם מישו בשליש, כלום יקרה כנראה אבל סתם שיחה מעניינת ובא לי לשתף איתך. אז מדברים והוא הגדיר את עצמו כדתי לייט שאני יודעת מזה אומר, אבל בכל מקרה הוא פתח שיחה ואני מדברת איתו לראות מי הוא באמת כי לא ברור. אז מדברים על דת ואיפה אנחנו והוא שואל אותי האם אני שומרת נגיעה. אז אני אומרת שהייתה לי תקופה שלא, ועכשיו אני מחבקת את כולם וחוץ מזה, לא לפני חתונה. אז הוא שואל אותי "מה עם צעד ראשון" שאני לא 100 ברור מזה אומר תאמת, אולי הוא התכוון לנשיקות? לא משנה כי בכל מקרה עניתי לו ותביני אני ממש גאה בי שעניתי לו ככה כי חשבתי על זה כמה דקות טובות: " אני חושבת שאני מחפשת מישו לבנות איתו חיים, ומגיעה לי מישו שיוכיח לי שהוא רוצה לבנות איתי את החיים האלה כדי להכניס את החלק הפיזי. אני חושבת שמגיע לגבר אותו דבר. אני חושבת שכולם כמו מתנה. אז אני חושבת שזה יהיה מעבר גבול.

תקשיבי עוד משו מגניב שלמדתי השבת מהזרע שמשון, את יודעת שאני אוהבת דברים שלוקחים סיפורים והופך את זה

I think that if you have a kid who isnt interested, you should love them and encourage them to fulfil their dreams. The same way if you have a kid who wants to be religious, i want my kid to like me. I want my kid to do what i say. I want to be their number one person.

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Summer

Open a window and take a few deep breathes smelling outide fresh air

Play an instrument. Guitar, piano, close your eyes if that helps you zone out into the music. Sing or hum if you want.

Wash your sheets. Wash your pajamas, wash your bras and underwear and socks. Dump it all in, put every good smelling soap stuff thing you own- detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets, those little ball things with essential oil that end up in your sleeves. Super important- when laundry is done, fold it. Play soft music whike you do it and get into that vibe

Shower. Shave everything, even though its winter. hair mask, face mask. When youre dont comb out your wet hair. Get into those clean fresh pjs

Write down whatever is worrying you. Number each thing amd come up with answers to them. Use inspirational quotes, things your therapist told you, what youd answer a friend, whatever works. It doesnt need to be the final answer, just good enough. Come up with things to tell youself that you can loop with whenever needed.

Drink more water than you think u need. If all you accomplished in the next hour is to drink water, you are conquering mountains. If you want your water in the form of warming tea, go for it, but essentially water is the most important thing, more important than eating sometimes.

Spend time with people you love. Have a cup of coffee with your mom, go on a costco trip with your dad. Watch junior masterchef Australia, or judge judy, whatever helps take your mind off of the news. Talk about things other than the news, how was work, what recipes to try out. Home improvement ideas, look up flowery parks in the area. Talk about things that dont stress you out.

I want to decorate a cake

I want to organize a room

I want to love my friends and life

Take a coat with me

Buy a blanket and towel

I was so close to killing myself. I was so miserable because

My parents made a lot of big bad decisions.

I wont make the same mistakes.

Call roni, shira

When u see pple u went to highschool with. Usually i need to prepare myself saying you are amazing and loved, dont go back to shrinking up. Now, it caught me offguard so i had to tell myself mid convo- dont shrink up, you're ok. In the end, im not friends with people from highschool. I didbt like enough then. I don't like em now. I was pretty invisible and very different. Post highschool, i made friends. I had an amazing time in California, and made best friends that summer for that summer. I had amazing friends from taglit, from schi, from bais yaakov, from keren or, from shaare zedek, and now from school. My best friends are the girls i went to school with. My first best friend is elianna. She has a special place in my heart. I just want for everything to be ok

I deserve for a guy to prove to me that he wants to build a life with me before bringing in that physical piece to a relationship. Im not here just to fulfill your needs. I will do that because im such a gift. But i dont sleep around. So i would do that after he commits to me. It will be such an explosion youre not gonna know what to do with yourself or how you could be loved so much. But you need to deserve it. And thats how you deserve it. Commitment. Marriage. I can't help it. It's too easy to skip out otherwise.

I really thought everyone in israel rode camels till I was like 18, I worked at a bnei akiva camp the summer after highschool and learned a lot about israel cuz I knew nothing before and it just felt like Israel was an option I hadn't even thought of before, but I got along with lots of israelis, and kept talking to them and learning more. Then when I just turned 19 I went with taglit and I just kept coming back cuz I like being around jews, it just feels like all the systems in israel are made for u

Watch northern lights

Palace of versailles

Pink sand beach

Niagra falls

Netherland

If you are like me and havent taken ur adhd meds since the war started because your life went on pause, take your meds. It gives you at least a fair shot at having a good day and just for being alive, you deserve to have a good day even in a confusing, dont know what will happen and when itll end situation.

You deserve a chunk of time in tbe day, where you allow yourself to think about total crap. I forgot what thinking about winter outfits and inspo boards and dreamy photos feel like. This helps bring a little of the old reality into the now, brings you back to yourself, its so important. You deserve to be an actual human being for however long and think about stupid things. You are allowed to take a break from being the hero, the news researcher, the

אני מדליקה נר. מה הסיפור של הנר הקטן של דליה? כשרציתי להתגייס, דיברו איתנו מפקדים לשעבר על זה שבתקופה של מלחמה, זה לא כלכך מומלץ לגלות להורים על כל הזוועות או מה באמת המצב, כי זה יכניס אותם להיסטריה ולא יהיה להם מה לעשות במרחק של 15 שעות טיסה. אני זוכרת שבשיחה הזו, עלה לי מחשבה של "אם אמהות של חיילים ישראלים מדליקות נרות לביטחון של בן או בת שלהן, אז כמה חיילים/ חיילות נלחמים ואין להם נר בזכותם לצלחתם כי האמהות שלהם לא יודעות באמת קורה באותו רגע?". הפרצוף שלי נפל. אז הבטחתי לעצמי שכל פעם שאני מדליקה נר- אם זה ליל שבת, או סתם כשאני ממש רוצה שמשו יקרה, אני מקדישה מחשבה לכל החיילים בודדים או חיילים שאין להם קשר טוב עם אמא שלהם- שהם ירגישו קצת את זה שמישי כן מדליקה להם נר.

שמישי כן חושבת עליהם,

כן מתפללת עליהם שיעברו את כל הזוועות שאולי אמא שלהם לא מודעת עליהם (כי אם אני הייתי חיילת, ההורים שלי לפחות לא היו מבינים מה באמת קורה ביומיומי שלי או שאסור לגלות) שירגישו את הסיפוק בלהקיא את כל המידע והחוויות שלהם על האמא המקשיבה, כשבמציאות זה לא ככה.

בשבילכם, אלו שלא חושבים להדליק במיוחד בשבילכם נר לביטחון, להצלחה, לפוסט טראומה במידה הכי קטנה שאפשר. שלא תרגישו בדידות, עייפות דיכאון וחרדות. ותרגישו שאפילו בלי לדבר או להכיר, הנחמה הזאת של מישהי מקשיבה לכם. ועוד יותר שמישהו למעלה מקשיב לכם. זה לא משהו שכולם צריכים לעשות, זה סתם משהו שאני עושה שנים וכולם מוזמנים גם.

I am lighting a candle. What's the story of dalyas little candle? When i wanted to enlist, some ex commanders spoke with us that during a war time, its not recommended to tell your parents about all the atrocities or what the situation is really like becsuse it just brings them into a hysterical state and they wont have anything to do about it being a 15 hour plane flight away. I remember with this conversation thinking "if the mothers soldiers light candles for their children

of light candles for their children soldiers

My granfather came to pick me up from school. He always wore a white teeshirt and jeans. He would get his jeans drycleaned. He started his day at five in the morning and would paint until hed get angry at something. Theyd hed eat lunch. He basically lived off of earl grey tea and grilled cheese sandwiches with coke and ice in a glass. The glass cup was always important. I never knew why. Today i guess he didnt have lunch at his miami condo, because i saw the paper towel bundled up in the glove compartment next to his leg. Men in cars always facinated me and how they sit with their knees almost touching their chest. Maybe that only people with long legs. Grandpa jack is about 6 3, 6 4 in his timberlands. I wish i was that tall. Im only 5 4 and my red hair makes people stare at me no matter how tall i am. My mom tells me that im short because i was a preme and that being in the hospital so long for that, im lucky to be alive. Why do parents do that? They take whatever youre going through and make it abojt them or blow off your emotions by saying something like just be grateful clara. I always thought that that sentiment was better suited for

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Parashat Vayishlach

by Meir Anolick

Written for Shabbat, Parashat Vayishlach, י”ג בכסלו תשע”ד:

Thank you to Rabbi Geller for teaching me many of the concepts presented here. Unfortunately, I could not quote exact sources.

In the memory of Yeshayahu ben Yitchak and Rivka z”l, who passed away last Shabbat. May his N’shama have an Aliyah.

In this week’s Parsha, Yitzchak Avinu passes away and is buried by his two sons, as it says, 35:29, “his sons, Eisav and Yaakov, buried him”. Chazal teach from this verse that even at the end, Eisav never did T’shuva, as he placed himself before Yaakov. Contrast this to Yishma’el when he and Yitzchak buried their father, Avraham Avinu. There it says (25:9), “His sons Yitzchak and Yishmael buried him”. From here we see that Yishmaeldid do T’shuvah by the end of his life. Furthermore, at the end of the Parshah this week, we are given Eisav’s family tree and taught, through interepretations of the verses, that their was a lot of immoral behavior in his family.

The question is, why the difference between them? When a carpenter sets out to construct an item, the quality of the item is largely dependent on the quality of the materials used; if poor materials are used, then the quality is poor, but if excellent materials are used, then the quality is excellent. So, too, is it with children. When a very spiritual person has a child, then that child is very spiritually as well, and vice-versa. Therefore, why is it that when Yitzchak Avinu and Rivkah Imeinu, two righteous individuals, had their children, one of them became so much worse than a child born to just one righteous parent (Yishmael, who’s father was Avraham Avinu and mother was a Mitzri handmaid)?

Something Chazal teaches us is that everyone has a certain amount of spiritual strength, but this strength does not lean in the direction of good or bad. Rather a person can take their spiritual strength and put their efforts in either direction, thus giving them equal potential for good and for evil. However, how their spend their strength is entirely up to them, and can be subject to various external influences, such as nature and upbringing.

It seems to me that righteous people don’t necessarily have righteous children, but they have children with a lot of spiritual strength. Therefore, a child of two righteous people, as opposed to a child of just one righteous person, has much greater capacity for evil, and the further one steeps himself in evil, the harder it is to come back out of it.

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