#i have hebrew

[harasharaved]

The fact that Judaism is trending because of both the wave of bomb threats on synagogues and Bradley Cooper's Antisemitism Adventure (his huge fake prosthetic nose, and him basically stealing the story from a Jewish man) is so infuriating and so exhaustingly typical.

The fact that I see Judaism trending on Tumblr and immediately think "oh no. Something Bad is happening to us." We're never trending cause it's fucking good. I never get to be excited, it's just cold dread.

The fact that Antisemitism is getting worse everyday and the only ones who ever talk about it are other Jews. The fact that no one else fucking cares. The only ones who support us are other Jews. Even when gentiles talk about Nazis or white supremacists they don't want to help us. We're just their prop, the canary in the coal mine and the perfect victim.

The fact that everyone's uncomfortable with Jews still being here. Reminding them of things they'd rather forget.

The fact that it'd be easier for them if we were all dead. Then they could tell stories about our people, dressed in offensive caricatures, without us making a fuss.

#im so fucking pissed right now #jew tag #judaism #jumblr #when will we be able to catch a fucking break man #i keep thinking about dara horn man #she said it best #a hundred times #Sarah's bullshit #I'll probably delete this later i just AUGH #g-d im angry i just wanted to rant #me and every jewish person ever who went to hebrew school or shul or anything #we have armed security guards as some flimsy protection so we dont get hate crimed #so no one comes in and shoots our kids #by the way. its not normal. its been all ive ever known though #g-d forbid one of those bomb threats is real will gentiles slap on a fake nose and make a movie about it twenty years later

[xclowniex]

I'm so fucking tired of people reading into everything that's Jewish or Israeli with bad faith.

I'm also tired of people who have large platforms spreading misinformation

#yes this is about hasan and his twitch stream listening to the “genocidal hip hop song” #like he watched a video with a translation that was incorrect #if you know hebrew or found the video which has the “correct translation” you would know that its not a genocidal song #i put correct in quotations as not every word in any language can have its true meaning be translated into english #also the meaning of the song boiled down is “you fucked around now its time to find out” #also it is a bop #and stilla is hot #new celebrity crush unlocked lol #jumblr #Israel

[unclewaynemunson]

Eddie loves calling Steve all kinds of Hebrew pet names. In the beginning, Steve doesn't understand what any of them mean, but the love in the way Eddie pronounces the words is so clear that it makes him melt every single time. As he starts learning more Hebrew, he starts using Hebrew pet names for Eddie too.

While Eddie loves using a wide variety of pet names, his favorite will always be neshama sheli (נשמה שלי), which literally translates to "my soul." He loves it because of how poetic it is, and it's a safe way to tell Steve how much he loves him when it's still too scary to say those things in English. Because it rolls off his tongue so beautifully, it soon evolves into something natural to call Steve.

Steve, on the other hand, starts out sticking to a simple ahuvi (אהובי - my love). Learning the language doesn't come easy to him, but as he grows more confident incorporating some Hebrew words and phrases in his vocabulary, he starts to love calling Eddie ugiya sheli (עוגייה שלי - my cookie). He learned that one from Wayne as a joke; Eddie pretends to hate it, but Steve and Wayne both know better.

#don't mind me rambling about stranger things #started having jewish!eddie thoughts again when i wrote that ficlet about sukkot #jewish eddie munson #steddie #eddie munson #steve harrington #wayne munson #stranger things #i don't actually speak hebrew that well so please correct me if i'm wrong on any of these #or share your own faves with me <3

[unbidden-yidden]

Okay I'm curious: I've seen a lot of Christians use/refer to the phrase "hosanna in the highest!" which is used in the New Testament and I've frequently heard it pronounced "hoh-ZAHN-ah". However, it's a much older liturgical phrase in Hebrew and definitely not pronounced like that. I want to know: (1) were you taught the actual meaning of this word by your community/do you know what it actually means without googling it, (2) what variety of Christian are you, and (3) if, after googling it, were you correct?

Sorry fellow yidden and other non-Christians; this poll is specific to people who identify as Christian and/or who were raised as such. (Edit: gerim who were raised Christian can vote, but you have to base it off of what you were taught as a Christian, not what you know now.)

Christians who answer: if you googled this after voting yes and were taught wrong about it, please let me know in the notes.

(If you're wondering if you "count" as Christian or having been raised as such, for these purposes I would say interpret it broadly to include anyone who views Jesus as the messiah and grew up reading the New Testament as part of your bible.)

#christian #non-Christians please boost but don't vote #I have... a theory about this but am curious to have at least informal data about this first #yes I realize linguistic drift from other languages is probably how ''hozanna'' happened #but the Hebrew is different #this post brought to you by: Sukkot #every hour is theology hour around here apparently

[frownyalfred]

Interesting note for DC comic readers: the name Kal-El, by nature of its origin, will never be pronounced with a nasal, flat “a” (like “pal”)

Kal-El means “Voice of God” in Hebrew. The “a” is pronounced almost like the “a” in “all” or “call”

When combined with the “el” (“Kahhl-el”) it sounds more like one word than two. Kalel.

#In ZSJL Diana (Israeli actress) demonstrates this pronunciation very well #clark kent #dc #superman #Kal-el #Kal el #zsjl #justice league #bvs #dceu #thoughts I have #because If I didn’t read Hebrew I could see how this would be confusing #also superman has hella Jewish origins #and this was intentional

[labelma]

I keep seeing a post going around saying that people should stop using the “colonized” names for cities in Israel/Palestine and should instead use the Arabic names.

I need you guys to be so for real right now, Hebrew is quite literally the indigenous language of the area. Like believe what you want about Israel, but Hebrew objectively and factually originated in that land. The earliest record of written Hebrew is the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription, found near Beit Shemesh which dates back to the 11th-10th century BCE.

The first record of the name Jerusalem is in the Egyptian Execration Texts which date back to the 20th century BCE.

Arabic was introduced to the land in the 7th century CE. The first recorded use of “Al-Quds” was in the 9th century CE.

I could do this for every single ancient city in the land. Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Jaffa, Beer Sheva, Acre, and Ashkelon all existed prior to the Arab conquests in the 7th century CE and the introduction of Arabic to the land.

The fact that we use the Hebrew names of these cities isn’t some conspiracy to make them sound “more Jewish”, the modern Hebrew names are direct descendants of the ancient Canaanite words for these places. Hebrew is the only surviving Canaanite language.

Believe what you want about Israel, but claiming that the Hebrew names for these cities are “colonial” names is a disgusting erasure of Jewish history in the land.

#israel #jews #jewish #hebrew #arabic #israel palestine conflict #palestine #I have a feeling I’m gonna get hate for this but honestly I had to say something #y’all are willingly spreading pan-Arabist propaganda

[sunshinesolaic]

gentiles should have never learned the word goyim they literally do not know how to use it

#‘im a goyim’ #are you a persons who happens to not be jews? #/lh but guys just use gentile it’s okay i promise #i’m not mad i just slowly lose a portion of myself every time i have to correct someone 😭 #jewish #judaism #jumblr #maybe we should just start spelling it in hebrew

[palmettoshitposts]

also hc that neil just fucking. makes up jewish holidays to get out of doing shit and it works for months because the foxes are trying to be respectful, after it took neil so long to just say out loud that he's jewish

neil: um sorry i can't come to the party :/ it's chag sameach that day :/ it's a jewish festival

nicky: oh of course! no worries at all! shalom!

#neil literally says random hebrew words and they just. buy it #neil: sorry guys i have kvetch tonight i can't make practice :/ #renee thinks it's funny and doesn't tell anyone #neil: sorry coach i'm celebrating tikkun olam that day. it's super important :/ #from our chat archives #kefu shenanigans #admin: 🤺 #neil josten #aftg #Jewish Neil Josten #all for the game #aftg hc #tfc #trk #tkm #psu foxes #palmetto shitposts #palmetto state university

[wiirocku]

Hebrews 13:5 (NLT) - Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said,

“I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”

#Hebrews 13:5 #don't love #money #satisfied #you have #God has said #I will #never #fail you #abandon you

[leroibobo]

ezekiel's tomb in al kifl, iraq is believed by jews and muslims to house the body of the biblical prophet ezekiel, with shi'ites specifically believing the site has its roots on a shrine built by the prophet abraham. the tomb itself was built in the 7th century. today, it's a part of the al-nukhailah mosque complex, built by ilkhanate ruler abu sa'id bahadur khan in the 14th century.

until the mid-20th century, thousands of iraqi jews used to make pilgrimage to the tomb on passover. the rule of saddam hussein saw many of the jewish inscriptions covered in white paint or removed, but they've since been restored.

#iraq #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #muslim #shared space #my posts #there was recently a scammer in iraq who ''found'' a fake jewish text of some sort (which was found to be fake later) #and the iraqi government called the very obvious hebrew letters ''aramaic inscriptions'' #aramaic can be written in hebrew letters (especially judeo-aramaic) but thats very much not what they were implying lmao #especially considering the jewish community in that area wasn't one of the ones using judeo-aramaic #i mean the alternative to this was the iraqi kurdish govt faking having a jewish guy in a fake ''department of jewish affairs''

[buckybarnesisjewish]

Bucky being really involved with the youth at his synagogue. The kids always seem drawn to him and he finds himself roped into helping out with youth activities, but soon finds it’s something he enjoys. Teaching them to make challah the way his mother taught him. Helping the kids with their Hebrew studies. He’s a valuable resource of Jewish history. Sometimes he’ll talk to the teens about the war because they’re older and understand, but none of them ever press him to talk about his experiences. What the kids seem to be mainly interested in is how Jewish life has changed for kids since Bucky was a kid. They want to know how their shul compares to his, what games he played, and hear the stories he can pass on about living in a Jewish immigrant community. He often finds the kids ask the questions but the grown ups in the room are listening just as intently. 

#headcanon #mod c #thank you for submitting this! #bucky barnes #jewish bucky barnes #jewish bucky #i completely agree! i also have always headcanoned bucky as being excellent with kids #hes a big brother!!! #also love the idea of him teaching hebrew and jewish history!! #him as an elder passing down knowledge!!

[tanadrin]

fun tidbits from this week's Data over Dogma:

arguably, marriage as such doesn't exist in the Hebrew bible. there is no Hebrew word for "husband," "wife," or "marry." not having special words for "husband" or "wife" isn't that unusual (modern German doesn't; Old English didn't; "wife" is just the OE word for "woman," plus some semantic drift--even "groom" has its roots in a generic OE word for "man"), but i think not having a particular word, or even description of a ceremony of marriage, is kinda odd by modern standards. yet there are plenty of historic cultures without elaborate institutions of marriage/weddings, where nonetheless the sex act creates the expectation of a sexually exclusive relationship. you might say they just have a much weaker formalization of marriage as we understand it. but of course the way marriage is discussed in the Hebrew bible makes it even clearer than late antique or medieval or early modern conceptions of marriage that insofar as it was institutionalized, it was institutionalized for the purpose of 1) making sure men got to get their dicks wet, and 2) paternity was ensured by converting women into property. which is why it is very, very funny whenever somebody tries to talk about the "biblical conception" of marriage, which you can be very sure looks very different from even traditionalist, fundamentalist conceptions of marriage.

it's even funnier if they cite the NT, because the NT is pretty clear that procreation is not a concern, bc Jesus is about to return and end the world. paul's idea of marriage is, "well, if you really are such a slut you can't be celibate, get married and have just enough sex to keep a lid on your sluttiness. you better not fucking enjoy it." moreover, the bit in the gospels about "some are eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" may well not be metaphor--it might literally be an injunction to chop your balls off if you really want to be a good person! it gets read as a metaphor bc, well, very few people were willing to do that. but evidently people castrating themselves to control their slutty urges was common enough that the council of nicaea a few centuries later had to be like "seriously, knock it off."

#they do not mention if there is a special biblical hebrew word for divorce #or what its etymology is #i would have been interested in a philological discussion of that point

[tomfoolerytime]

I'm a conversion student and I was told to pick a hebrew name. I'm asking for opinions on the name Yehuda Yocheved. I'm 97% certain I'll pick it but want strangers' opinions

#my israeli hebrew teacher said that yehuda is very very masculine which matches dave #and yocheved is an old lady name but i was born over pesach and love the old person vibes #jumblr #jewish conversion #and having yochi as a nickname sounds cute #ive toyed with the name yehudis but its not frumpy enough and i need something thats both oddly masculine and retirement home #i was a little girl named dave and i want to carry that energy forward

[rotzaprachim]

“Are you normal about Hebrew or not” is so quickly becoming such a litmus test of are your a serious yiddishist. But also every single line of this is so objectively questionable

#I don’t think it’s possible to become truly proficient in yiddish if you have an antagonistic attitude towards hebrew as a whole #They are too closely linked

[the-converse-high-top]

Would love to hear about potential parallel stories/lore in judaism 👁👁👁👁💞

i realized that i actually havent thought very in depth about parallels and themes in the bible in a LONG time but let me think...

one that jumped to the forefront of my mind is something that idk if its a theme/parallel or not, but it has to do with moses. in the torah (really in the talmud i think which is a bunch of rabbi's headcanons about the torah that were then accepted as canon later on), when moses was taken in by pharaoh a test was performed to see whether moses would overthrow him, and by extension whether he was safe to keep and raise. that test was to show baby moses two pots: one of gold and riches and one of hot coals, and whichever he grabbed would be indicative as to what kind of son he'd be. so obviously, being a baby, moses starts to go for the shiny stuff. but (so the story goes) since moses has plot armor an angel (of death [?]) reached out and moved his hand to the hot coals. this is important because not only did it secure his safety to grow up under pharaoh's watch, but it burned his hand, which he then put in his mouth which permanantly burned his tongue and gave him a lisp. now the lisp isnt really talked about much more until later on, and its kind of minor so i get why its often left out, but it changes the whole feeling of the story! because of the lisp, moses gets nervous to speak in front of pharaoh's mages, and so it's aaron who does the talking when they turn their staffs into snakes. it's aaron (iirc) who speaks to the hebrews and tells them the word of god. moses is the one who speaks directly to god and does his bidding in the stories, but aaron is the one who conveys the information. and AND i just remembered this continues!! it continues to be true that moses doesnt always tell his own story!! in the scientific world it is generally accepted that there are a few different authors/compilers of the torah, but in judaism there is one main accepted truth of how it was written with two endings: moses wrote the whole thing up until the last chapter when he was on mount sinai, writing down word for word what god told him to. the ending, though, changes because at the end of the bible moses dies there is a debate over whether moses wrote his own death before it happened (since god is omnipresent blah blah blah) or whether joshua took over for him after he died. if the latter is true, that would be the second time someone tells moses' story for him!! first aaron tells the mages and the hebrews who moses is and why he was sent to save them, and then joshua tells the story of his death and his exile from the holy land! there are THEMES and MOTIFS i can SEE THEM

i have no idea if this is what you were asking for but thank you for inviting me to infodump XD <3

#theres other stuff about moses too now that i think about it #i think this was just at the front of my mind since i just watched the prince of egypt last sunday lol #or whenever it was #i almost talked about something else and now i legitimately cant remember what it was #but if i flipped through im sure id remember more #oh i remember now it was how moses wasnt allowed to get into the holy land #even though he was the one chosen to deliver the hebrews #and even though the hebrews were forgiven time and time again #moses fucks up once when god was having a bad day or something #and boom exiled from the holy land #like my dude wanders the desert for 40 fucking years #cant you give him a break #themes and motifs my beloved <3 #im sorry this is so long this is kind of my word vomit #ty for asking <3 #id also love to talk on the server if thats easier just so you and me and jed can all talk at the same time lol (no pressure tho for real) #asks #alistair my beloved <3

[jewish-culture-is]

Jewish culture is... Looking back at your youth growing up religious and finding love for it all even if you don't feel like you can go back now. I'm trans so I probably wouldn't be welcome at the haredi/chabad-lubavitch shul i grew up with, but I value what I learned. I value the chassidus classes, the gematriah, the helachah class, chumash class, (torah) hebrew class, modern hebrew class....

Jewish culture is... The way my Israeli teachers would go out of their way to include us any way they could into their culture.

Its the use of Yiddish on the street ('gut-shabbos or gut-yom tov (pronounced yo'im to'iv cuz of the accent lol)) or hebrew along with a myriad of other languages.

Its looking back and missing mitzvot ha'shem, or the niggunim (a type of song in haredi communities lol dw) that played softly while we did class work... Haredi communities definitely have their ups and downs, but its still wonderful and gorgeous for its mysticism and legends and the amount of care they put into enriching their childrens lives.

Jewish culture is beautiful :) and so is every Jew seeing this post.

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#jewish culture is #judaism #jewish #jumblr #hebrew #trans jewish culture #yiddish #op I don't even have words your submission is so beautiful