#canon jew

[jewishjesper]

HEY CHAT IT’S JEWISH MONTH FOLLOW ME FOR BANGERS

#gay #lgbtq #bisexual #asra the arcana #asra x julian #julian the arcana #julian devorak #matthew patel #wallace wells #ocs #asrian #scott pilgram takes off #scott pilgram vs the world #the arcana art #the arcana #asra alnazar #scott pilgrim #spto #Jewish #jewish varian is canon #varian vat7k #rapunzles tangled adventure #vat7k au #hugo vat7k #vat7k hugo #vat7k #varigo #cowboys #Jew #Julian Jewish canon

[intern-seraph]

[STARTS BLASTING KLEZMER MUSIC]

#twst shitpost #twst wonderland #twst edit #how do i even. tag this lmao. #malleus draconia #rook hunt #riddle rosehearts #seraph speaks #riddle is jewish i saw him at shul #rook is a french jew (canon he uses 'schlep' in book 6) #malleus is

[evilwickedme]

Tell me more about the significance of Good Guy™ Superman.

Ok I'm typing this all up a second time, a couple of days later, because the first time I typed it all I did it perfectly but it was on my laptop and the hellsite fuckin goofed and it's all gone now so that made me sad. I can't promise to hit all the points I wanted to hit but I'll do my best

We gotta start by clarifying that in the tags that triggered this ask I did specifically say that clark/kal-el/superman being a Good Boy is important to me. I note this because while I have very good justifications for why it's important to me that he's a Good Person™, I acknowledge that this is one of those cases where the facts may back me up, but it genuinely just comes down to matters of individual taste.

So, like, big picture here: superman is Moses. I've talked about this before, you've read about this before, this is more fact than opinion. The parallels are obvious, and loud, and obnoxiously repeated in online spaces just as much as in books such as up, up and oy vey (this is not a recommendation, just pointing out that it's universally acknowledged pretty much everywhere). I'm not going to waste my breath trying to convince you of this fact. Superman is Moses. Moses is, in Judaism, possibly the holiest man to ever live. The first in the prophets. As many of you may recall, in my lecture on Jewish superheros, I argued that Jewish ideas of prophecy found their way into the modern Jewish stories being told by the comic book authors creating the very first superheroes - the very first superhero, of course, being superman.

One noteworthy thing about prophecy as described by Maimonides? The most basic component of prophecy isn't actually talking to god or receiving holy visions, it's actually just... Doing good. Good™. Good as an action, good as an innate need, good for the people around you and the people of the whole world. Moses showed this tendency as a young man - privileged, raised in the house of the pharaoh, he couldn't stand seeing any man get beaten, even if he was a slave. He loses his home over this, the family who raised him. He sees a man getting unjustly punished, and he kills the oppressor over it. And when he goes out again the next day and sees two Hebrews fighting, he tries to stop this as well (Exodus 2). Moses is our holiest prophet; before he ever even acknowledges God's existence, he feels the need to do good and prevent evil; superman is Moses; superman must follow a similar path of goodness as an innate need followed by action.

That's all big picture stuff, though. There's the smaller stuff, too. Not my bigger analysis of comic book heroes and the ideas of prophecy in Maimonides' writing, because honestly that's just... A lot. When it comes down to it, it is so much more satisfying to me that Superman is a person.

He's the first superhero, right? And he's got this insane level of power not really often seen since. Any person who attempts to defeat him needs to use a mix of his one singular weakness and genuine cunning, because there's really no brute forcing your way passed fucking superman. So yeah, you could tell a story like that of the Boys (although I didn't make it past episode 3 of that, my apologies). You could tell a cynical story where terrible people do terrible things and it all gets waved away. But the boys isn't really a story about people who happen to get powers - it's a story about people who have power, positions of authority, government officials and the like, not just superpowers.

That's not Clark Kent's story. Clark Kent is an illegal immigrant who was raised by good people in secrecy. He's handed superpowers, yes, but very rarely power - he's a journalist with farmboy training, and his greatest nemesis is a billionaire who becomes the fucking president of the united states. He fought Hitler in WWII, did you know that? He represents good because it makes for a compelling story. The underdog who's secretly not an underdog at all, choosing every day to fight evil and represent truth (being a reporter is vital to both of these, in case you're wondering). Yeah, he's a bit of a shit dad to Connor, but him not being a perfect person doesn't make him not a good one, especially since - again - in my definition of good, goodness is an action, and one you constantly have to perform and perfect and adapt to changing times.

Going back to Judaism - in Jewish tradition, we all have the force of evil and the force of good inside of us (yetzer hara and yetzer hatov). The word yetzer comes from the same root as the word for creation - we are capable of creating evil and creating good. Superman represents hope and justice because he chooses every day to create good.

And that, in a nutshell, is why it is so important to me that Kal El-Clark Kent-Superman is a Good Guy. Because he can be.

#superman #dc #kal el #clark kent #smallville #I'm tagging that cause it's my only superman related fandom I'm not basing this on smallville canon #dc comics #comics #superheroes #mine #ask #perfectlynormalhumanbeing #in my original typed answer I managed to connect this to the fact that Superman shouldn't ever be a jesus metaphor #but I failed to do that this time #so just imagine I said it anyway and I'll elaborate on that another time #jew tag #jewish #jumblr

[foolsocracy]

As the one who can't stop sending you long-winded overly poetic asks, I personally love your long responses back. STORIES WITH THEMES, SYMBOLISMS EVEN!! WHEN THE ANALYSIS?? Y'KNOW?

I'll read over the post again a bit later and try to come up with a more thoughtful response, but, ough. So ready to die honorably, just like everyone else, you've already dug your grave beside your family's. And then, by your joints and limbs, you're unearthed again. Some poor, bedraggled marrionette. Fuck.

HAHA thank you! THE THEMES.. THE MOTIFS.. its all right there and free for the picking! And ive got all your other asks in my inbox and i want to answer them as timely as possible, i do, but alas---i'm slow. thanks for ur patience <3

and im jumping on this too. we're like a tag team, you and i.

being put to rest (however violently) and being pulled back into being alive has to be horrific for anyone. But because im the #1 jewish peter parker fan, i kinda want to comment on this with a bit of a jewish lens as well.

In Judaism, there isn't really a heaven/hell/etc. It's described as a type of oblivion that is as far from heaven as possible. The dead exist there without knowledge or feeling. There is a total disconnect and inability to communicate with god. I wanted to mention this because imagine the surprise of not being disconnected from god at death, but instead being forcibly man-handled into resurrection. Peter very well could have thought he'd be free of his curse once he died. Sorry pete but life has more in store for you.

In jewish tradition, it is customary for someone to be buried within 24 hours of dying. Today, this concept is translated to 'as soon as possible' and is a bit more lenient. It is the family's job to bury their dead, but if they are unable to do so it is up for the community to take up the task. There are no exceptions to the burial rule; "even criminals who have been put to death, the unclaimed slain, suicides, and strangers to the community" would be buried. It is a tradition created from compassion. "To be denied burial was the most humiliating indignity that could be inflicted on the deceased, for it meant 'to become food for beasts of prey.'" Prior to burial, it is also customary to have someone, typically family, accompany the body of the deceased out of respect, as they are seen as defenseless, and as a comfort to the soul that rests within it.

I wonder if he would have ever thought about that aspect of dying alone. Was there any kind of debate, whether it'd be worth it to die as Peter Parker, a boy with a name to his face and an aunt at home, or to die as The Spider-Man, fighting for whats right, but a stranger to everyone, alone? And what of when he wakes up again, after death, knowing he was unburied, left to rot. If that isn't a signifier of just how alone he is, I don't know what is.

There are two ways he could have been honored, i suppose. The traditional sense, through his family's and community's customs. Being laid to rest beneath the ground with others at his side. Or on the streets of the city, alone but dying for everything his family believed in. Finding solace in following in their footsteps. He gets neither, of course.

#death #sorry anon i took ur perfectly good ask and jewed all over it #LMAO #heres to me and maybe the one other person who's interested in this kinda stuff #if we're gonna say peters jewish IM GONNA COMMIT TO IT #didn't reread before posting lmk if nothing makes sense #anon #asks #peter benjamin parker #the way i did all this and hes not even canon confirmed jewish #but that doesn't matter i know him better than that #religion

[imagigine]

im interpreting this as textually bi!house

on 8x13 we have this life coach dude as a patient and the team suspects at first a low level of testosterone, so house makes chase and adams bend down to pick stuff to see how the patient would react and when he didn't, this bi autistic gaslighting man said this

#house md #hate crimes md #gregory house #robert chase #meta #house md meta #bi!house is canon but im not surprised ive always known bc of the huddy and hilson parallels #from the first ep house has been insane about jew boy and jew girl

[grandorderconfessions]

#hey anon did you forget that ozy literally committed genocide against jews in egypt #he's canonically the pharaoh of exodus in fate #its made very clear in prototype #sfw #fate grand order criticism

[babblingeccentric]

One Piece Characters I think are Jewish and Why

Zoro: wants to fight g.d

Robin: from an island whose inhabitants are called "people of the book" a survivor of the states genocide of her people, Russian, story is about constantly having to worry about being hunted and ultimately healing from the horrific death of her family in fire she witnessed as a child, I could go on

Sabo: jewfro

#zoro is mostly a joke #but im dead serious about robin and sabo #im obsessed with jewish sabo #jewish sabo raised by rich conservative jews and HATING it #and reconnecting w his jewish heritage as an adult #by becoming obsessed with the jewish workers movement #and trying to revive the general jewish labor bund #and robin is just obviously jewish #like if anyone was to be canonically confirmed as jewish in op (wildly unlikely) it would be robin #not smut #nico robin #roronoa zoro #sabo one piece #revolutionary sabo #jewposting #mine #my writing

[canonjewstournament]

hello hello!! so i have 37 characters who got 4 or more nominations. unfortunately that's a few too many for a 32-person bracket, so below i've listed everyone with 4 nominations so you can vote on who gets to make it in. there's 9 total, and the 3 who get the least votes will be eliminated.

and at some point i'll make a list of everyone who got 2-3 nominations. unfortunately one of them is alma winograd-diaz but i will NOT be changing my pfp because i love her and fuck you

#canon jews tournament #prelims #cyrus goodman #andi mack #fran fine #the nanny #miriam maisel #midge maisel #the marvelous mrs maisel #tk strand #911 lone star #harley quinn #dc #marvel #ben grimm #the thing #thing #south park #kyle broflovski #nadia vulvokov #russian doll #mean girls #gretchen wieners

[broflovski-brah]

imagine the stick crown high jew elf kyle wears was made by him and his parents at a young age, and his parents die in war and he refuses to wear the actual crown because the stick one is one of the only things he has that he or his parents made

#i feel like being angsty #ik it’s not canon but like #idk #south park #kyle broflovski #high jew elf king #high jew elf kyle

[chthonicrose]

My point is. My point is dolphins the book of life.

Neil is Jewish. He absolutely knows what the book of life is and that it doesn’t work how Beelzebub said. So either a Jewish man has made up a new thing called the book of life that is not the same as the Jewish thing called the book of life… or Crowley was right that extreme sanctions aren’t a real thing and Michael was just making shit up and Beelz was gullible. (Was ze a cherub before the fall?)

Anyway it’s the high holy days and I was in two hours of services about what the book of life actually means this morning. L’shanah tovah and may we all be inscribed in the book of life. A sweet year. 🍯

#good omens #good omens s2 spoilers #and honestly I do not love the idea of 'in good omens canon the jews are explicitly wrong about the book of life' #like. if he wanted a new thing that wasn't the book of life he could have just called it something else

[starfleetshrimps]

i love headcanoning characters in conflict with canon. to me chekov is ukrainian. oh he's russian? oh really you think that? how cute. how silly. no no you must be mistaken he's from the soviet union; ukrainian was part of the soviet union, he's ukrainian. to ME. also he's jewish. oh it's *canon* he's russian orthodox? how silly of you to believe that. how funny. comical, even. goof.

#i can't actually remember if he's canonically orthodox i just had someone tell me he was #i didn't stick around to hear their evidence bc i didn't want to bc i didn't care they were a dick #chekov is a ukrainian jew bc IM a ukrainian jew so of course he is too obviously #star trek tos #star trek #tos chekov #pavel chekov #headcanon

[theiloveyousong]

what a beautiful place the world would be if any hatchetfield character was confirmed jewish

#400 characters and not a single canon jew... SAD!

[fruitlicense]

I had a few friends over to make matzo brei (which I’ve never had before!) and watch Prince of Egypt, and I think it was the best possible Pesach activity besides the Seder itself!

#there’s nothing like watching Prince of Egypt in a group of Jews #singing along. pointing out attractive women because it was me (an asexual) and three sapphics. #asking each other what was added and what was in the book/canon (the book being. the fucking Torah lmao) #going straight from the movie to playing the West End cast album while we made the matzo brei (two salty two sweet. very delicious) #absolutely unparalleled experience. would do again #prince of egypt #matzo brei #food #passover #pesach #jumblr

[t13shoots]

#photography #canon photography #street photography #black and white photography #photographer on tumblr #washington dc #photographers on tumblr #isreal #palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #jews #war #protest #original photography on tumblr #photography on tumblr

[like-sands-of-time]

Wilson's initials are genuinely j.e.w what the hell were his parents thinking

#i just can't believe that's actually canon and we never see House make a joke about it???? #jew boy with the initials jew house would definitely have teased him about this at some point #james wilson #house md

[nicejewishcharactershowdown]

A MARGIN OF TWO???

#i can't believe cecil is going to be the only textually canon jew in the finals. that's incredible.