#hashkivenu

[pomegranateandhoney]

I bought this lovely little morning/evening set over a year ago. One card has a pretty graphic and a version of the modeh ani on the back, for use in small morning meditation and prayer. the other has hashkivenu on it, for use in small evening meditation and prayer.

I used them pretty regularly for a while and I really loved them! I fell out of the habit, and I am hoping to cultivate a more consistent practice and engagement with prayer in my life. I remembered I had these in my little 'spiritual area' in the house, and got them back out this morning. They're so pretty and helpful, thought I might share.

#judaism #jewish #modeh ani #hashkivenu #jewish prayer #jewish ritual #jumblr #prayer #resources #meditation #jewish meditation

[wcrkerbee]

magic-ask! you are now a small fox, with two tails!

"Well, this is uncomfortable."

....

Slaps his gloved hands against his forehead and fluffs up like a little yellow puffball.

"I CAN TALK. I CAN TALK!! RATCHET -- "

#☀ ╯answer ;; #hashkivenu #M!A ;; sidekicks are always yellow #if i were home. i have tails icons i could use. jesus fucki n g

[ask-smokescreen]

Oh, man, I am grateful that I can talk in a way outside of meows again! What a time to be able to talk and-

HEY WAIT A MINUTE

does this mean I can move at the speed of sound now? Frag yeah!

#hashkivenu #anonymous #sonicscreen

[polyhexianchicken]

magic-ask. you are now red, and an echidna and can PUNCH THINGS!! you are also made of meat

Oh what the fu-

#hashkivenu #(m!a gottagopunch) #(🐦why did the chicken cross the road?)

[the-tipsy-tailor]

photo and a more legible scan

Haskivenu Yah Eloheynu l'shalom, ufros aleynu sukkat shalomecha

May we lie down in peace, Yah spread over us a sukkah of your peace

#hashkivenu #jumblr #hebrew calligraphy

[umabloomer]

Cutwork lace from the Magnes Collection at UC Berkeley:

"A textile most likely used as a wall hanging, including Hebrew verses recited in conjunction with the reading of the prayer, "shema' yisrael" before sleep. The verse on the right of the textile includes a textual variant of the incipit of "hashkivenu," ("hashkiveni") the second blessing before the recitation of the "shema'" during the Evening Service. The verse on the left is a biblical quotation: "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." (Proverbs 3:24)."

#jewish #textiles #jewish textiles #magnes collection #judaica #lace

[utilitycaster]

I am begging you to share your thoughts on how to make D&D more Jewish. I'm starting a new campaign with a new group and new DM, and I keep trying to come up with ways for my character to be more Jewish in a setting where Judaism doesn't exist. Like, am I gonna have them light shabbat candles when the week is 10 days? Say Kaddish if a PC dies? Sing Hashkivenu as the Song of Rest? RP arguments about semantics and etymology with Cleric NPCs? Please help.

Great question!

Honestly I think it helps to like...abandon the idea that a character in a D&D world will be Actually Jewish, because yeah, Judaism doesn't exist in that world, and focus instead on specific traditions and worldviews that do not require ethical monotheism or the weight of 6000-ish years of real-world history. Sounds easy, right.

My sister once wrote a short story in which a character in mourning covered the mirrors, and posted it on some writing forum (this was the early 2000s) and I shit you not, someone immediately clocked her as Jewish even though her handle did not contain our last name and was probably horsegirl7 or something. Like, that was actually what I was thinking of with being like "woe, shmira be upon you" with Treshi; funeral and mourning traditions across the world are both near-universal in their intent, and yet highly distinct, and you can choose to pick the Jewish ones even if they are not, in-world, known to be Jewish.

I think having a day of rest in a D&D campaign that is strictly observed is hard to swing, but yes, talk with the DM about your character's religion - is there a day of the week designated for something special? I mean, I am not shomer shabbat and would go questing on a Saturday but I do in fact light candles most Friday nights, and there's no reason why one could not make this a tradition of followers of Pelor or whomever. Maybe I wouldn't say the kaddish verbatim in-game, but there are litanies upon the passing of a loved one as a general concept and you could model that upon kaddish. You could absolutely develop the idea of a religious tradition in which debate and ongoing commentary is central. Honestly, I low-key already imagine the texts of church of Ioun to be somewhat talmudic in nature. You can have specific dietary restrictions (again, not even unique to Judaism among world religions) or highly specific myths about rainbows. You could have a central book that is read in order throughout the year every year. Things like that which get at the customs and practices but don't have the monotheistic or historically accurate aspects.

#answered #Anonymous #yes. my sister is the horse girl

[queen-susans-revenge]

Hi there, if you have time, could you please point me to the folktales where the elves are revolted by the English language?

So @hashkivenu , good question. In truth I was told that, by an Irish storyteller, and I also have a vague memory of reading something that backed it up...but I've been looking through my reference books and I can't seem to find the story I remember. (It was like a variant of "The Legend of Knockgrafton," except instead of being offended that the second singer sang the wrong days of the week, the fairies were offended that the second singer sang in English.)

I'm still going through my written sources trying to find this...I swear I remember it! But the more I comb through my reference material, the more I have to admit that my original claim was overstated, and incorrect in a few particulars.

Firstly, they aren't really elves, or fairies either. They're the people of the mounds, the Aes Sídhe, and to believers it's not actually considered safe to talk much about them at all: naming them may draw their attention, which is dangerous. So they are generally referred to with euphemisms, like the "good neighbors," the "other crowd," or simply them.

Belief in the other crowd continues in some parts of Ireland to this day, although it is dying out, but as recently as 2003 Eddie Lenihan—a folklorist and a believer who has launched successful campaigns to preserve places sacred to Them from highways and other urban expansion—was able to collect (with Carolyn Eve Green) a book's worth of material titled Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland. Some of these are stories handed down through the oral tradition, and some are first-hand accounts. It's the most modern work I know on what's sometimes called "the fairy faith".

And in Lenihan's work, the Good People are not automatically hostile to English speakers. He still notes in multiple places that their native language is Irish, for instance on pages 64 and 299 ("In the second story above, note that the changeling speaks Irish. This was commonly believed of the fairies, that Irish was—and is—their native language.") For an older attestation to the idea that fairies only speak Irish, see Lady Augusta Gregory (1920) in the second series of her Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland:

As to the book she told me of that had come from the unseen and was written in Irish, I think of Mrs. Sheridan's answer when I asked in what language the strange unearthly people she had been among had talked: "Irish of course—what else would they talk?"

But it would seem that there has been a softening in the fairy tradition, and they are no longer believed to react to English speech with hostility or outright violence.

But you have to understand that language was a real battleground in Ireland. The Irish language was brutally repressed by the English. During the Penal Laws it was completely outlawed. Irish manuscripts were burned. Children in school had to wear a stick on a piece of string around their necks: each time they used Irish during the day, a notch would be cut into the stick. And at the end of the day they would be beaten as many times as there were notches on the stick.

So the language itself was a locus of resistance, and the legends of the Fair Folk, being deeply tied to the language and the land, were part of that resistance.

Because like I said in the earlier post, Irish is a magic language. The satirists of legend were known to place terrible curses on their enemies. There were seven grades of poets (the bards, so familiar to us now from D&D, were actually a lower order of entertainer) and the filí at the top outranked even druids in social hierarchy and magical power according to some sources (e.g. the Uraichech Becc). These elite poet-storyteller-magicians were believed to be able to prophesy the future or even speak a new reality into being.

There is a sense in which mythic Irish history begins with an act of magical speech: The Song of Amergin. There are figures that come before Amergin in various histories (and about them more in just a second), but he is the one who named Ériu/Ireland and invoked its spirit with a powerful incantation that quelled storms and established his right to sovereignty over the land:

Am gaeth i m-muir, Am tond trethan, Am fuaim mara, Am dam secht ndirend Am séig i n-aill Am dér gréne, Am cain lubai, Am torc ar gail, Am he i l-lind, Am loch i m-maig, Am brí a ndai, Am bri danae, Am bri i fodb fras feochtu, Am dé delbas do chind codnu, Coiche nod gleith clochur slébe Cia on co tagair aesa éscai Cia du i l-laig fuiniud gréne

I am the wind on the sea; I am the wave of the sea; I am the bull of seven battles; I am the eagle on the rock I am a flash from the sun; I am the most beautiful of plants; I am a strong wild boar; I am a salmon in the water; I am a lake in the plain; I am the word of knowledge; I am the head of the spear in battle; I am the god that puts fire in the head; Who spreads light in the gathering on the hills Who can tell the ages of the moon Who can tell the place where the sun rests

So. With "the word of knowledge," with the blessing of "the god that puts fire in the head"—with speech, with poetry, with language—Amergin and his people took possession of Ireland. (When exactly this was supposed to have happened is hard to say. There's different versions of the Song of Amergin in different medieval texts, but it's obviously from an older, possibly much older, oral tradition.)

And who, according to the stories, did Amergin and his people claim the land from? From the Tuatha Dé Danann, the folk of the goddess Danu. And partly with their consent: three kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann had to be defeated in single combat, but three queens gave Amergin their permission.

And it is possible to draw a direct line from the Tuatha Dé Danann to the Aes Sídhe. Because after they lost the right to rule Ireland, they were said to retreat under the hills and to the Otherworld. So from the beginning the Fair Folk represented a kind of dispossessed grandeur, a lost heritage...an undying legacy. And a dual nature, some of them hostile and some benevolent.

I think it makes sense that They have softened toward English speakers as the English have stepped back from their oppression of the Irish. Children obviously no longer need to wear the bata scoir, the tally stick, in school. (In fact now they tend to complain about being forced to study Irish, rather than being disallowed from speaking it!)

I personally am not a believer in the fairy faith, but I try to be respectful. To the best of my understanding, should you ever meet one of the Aes Sidhe, it is not really respectful to speak to them in English. And to be perfectly clear, it is not safe to speak to Them, or even of them, under any circumstances, whatever language you choose. We are testing our luck right now, dear Reader, you and I together.

#it helps that it's winter and nighttime #it was always more acceptable to tell stories of Them in the dark #happy holidays everyone #beannacht ar na daoine mhaithe #multiple stories say that should you suspect the presence of the others nearby #perhaps because of a sudden chill wind #you should throw yourself face-first to the ground to avoid any possibility of interacting and giving offense #just wait for it to be over #if you think maybe they're messing with you on purpose perhaps because you're lost and every path goes in circles #turn your clothes inside out #and say: a blessing to all the good neighbors and may all my ill luck go with the wind #if you're religious try invoking God or Jesus or whoever sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but do it politely #like say God bless all travelers here or something like that #don't say God save me from the fairies say God save all of us on this road they like that better #but yeah if you think you see one LOOK AWAY IMMEDIATELY and pretend you didn't #it's the only sane thing to do honestly don't talk to them at all #but if you must it would better be in Irish #gaeilge

[s1ck-b1tch-2]

Such a good song!

#so punk #so Jewish #Spotify

[highglossfinish]

Congratulations, you are an Official Tumblr Sexyman!

All my dreams and days of anonymous humans asking to put their arms inside me are coming to blooming fruition.

#hashkivenu

[copycatsymphony]

did you know Whirl calls Skywarp "daddy." Does that make Skywarp your grandpa now?

Soundwave stares at the screen, horrified. It's rather obvious, even with the visor and mask in place. Behind him, Skywarp is howling in laughter, doubling over and wheezing.

"I...no. Whirl is...that would make..." Oh dear, is that smoke coming out of his vents?

"If this thing goes right, I'd be Wavey's stepdad."

"Oh dear Primus please, no."

"And I'd be the cassettes really young grandpa. Whirl's a good lookin' cougar, honestly - so is TC, though. Older mechs just have style, y'know?"

"PLEASE SHUT UP."

@polyhexianchicken // please I'm dying

#hashkivenu #dead on my feet here #but this made me accidently snort ice water (ow btw) so of course I had to answer it

[tf-earthling]

Starscream, can you run DOOM

“Starscream.”

Starscream does not look up from his datapad. “What, Soundwave?”

“You have been staring at this question for a long time.”

“I have been trying to decipher what they mean by ‘run DOOM’.”

Soundwave pauses, sighs, and after a lengthy explanation of what it means and the history behind the joke, Starscream just looks more perplexed.

“No,” Soundwave answers for him, “Most of our kind cannot run DOOM, including Starscream.”

#asks #hashkivenu #starscream #soundwave #funny enough soundwave may be able to run doom #but he would rather offline than try #bc he would find it demeaning

[robot-reference]

runner ups :) if you would like me to post any of these sketches by themselves let me know! (i will on my art side blog and tag you, don’t want to flood this one with not reference)

apologies if i didn’t get to your request u.u

1)

@ark081

tfp soundwave in the snow

(laserbeak is making snow angels... snow moths? she is trying her best)

@hashkivenu wanted

TFP Soundwave and Laserbeak, cuddling

2)

@crisis-aversion

IDW Megatron IDW Ultra Magnus If together reading a data pad?

(you probably wanted something cute but ..... they are trying to make heads or tails of rodimus report)

3)

@megatronismegagone @the-named-anon @wheeled-jack

all wanted wheeljack g1, tfp and unspecified :) (after drawing him i think i understand....)

4)

@star-damage

wanted

G1 Jazz and Prowl softly smiling at each other  

and @princewarmachine wanted

id love a g1 jazz :)

(hope you don’t mind prowl tagging along... you can always crop it ....)

#transformers #maccadam #tfp soundwave #mtmte megatron #mtmte ultra magnus #tfp wheeljack #g1 wheljack #g1 jazz #g1 prowl #my own art #not reference #for some reason tumblr just didn't want to tag some of you :( #ark081 #hashkivenu #crisis-aversion #wheeled-jack #the-named-anon #megatronismegagone #star-damage #princewarmachine

[polyhexianchicken]

Did you know ur boyfriend is an Official Tumblr Sexyman now

"Why only now? He's a pretty damn sexy mech and should be appreciated as such."

"...Ah, wait, so Void is there too-"

#hashkivenu #((The pain of having ones sibling being described as sexy))

[ask-smokescreen]

magic-ask! smokescreen's cockpit is filled with matzah (crackers) until passover is over

/Being in alt mode when this magic happens is interesting, because he soon has to pause, his interiors alerting to some kind of presence inside him, but he's not quite sure what./

/It isn't until he transforms, and some of the matzah come pouring out, that he realizes, as they continue to form and try to fill his interior./

Hey, do any humans want these? I don't think these are energon, so I don't think I can eat 'em, which sucks, they look awesome.

#hashkivenu #passover

[charged-to-be-free]

👋 FRUMBLES

Send 👋 for my muse’s reaction to yours reaching for their face

Megatron stared down at the two, quite unsure of what he should do. On one hand his survival instincts were kicking in and telling him he shouldn't let them get closer to him, but then there was his limitless curiosity. He kind of wanted to see what they'd do if he allowed them to touch him.

Eventually Megatron gave in to the latter and kneeled so Frumbles would get better access to his face.

"Did you need something?" He asked.

#reply #hashkivenu #ask meme #asks and answers