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intertexts-moving · 10 months
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Hi you are the first person to notice the insanity happening in the tags of my Brandon Sanderson post and I appreciate u and ur tags so much 💜 sorry that the ask is from my main blog
HI oh my god.. shaking yr hand. you are so strong i would have deleted that post months ago out of irritation if it was me i also appreciate u so much!!!! anyway. yeah sanderson is... an extremely good case of someone who is religious + normal & even commendable about it... if the man was a reactionary conservative mormon he would not be writing books about mentally ill bisexuals deconstructing/killing/eating/becoming god like that!!!!!!
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die-tenebris · 3 months
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Tell me what tumblr site wide fixation you don't understand or find annoying, mine is the whole biblically correct angel thing
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waknatious · 3 years
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bisexualamy · 3 years
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(pls d/nt r/b)
fell down a yt rabbit hole talking about the different eruvs in american cities and made the mistake of checking the comments section and ppl are being rly vile and i just. can’t rn.
a bulk of them are really condescending or outwardly antisemitic, a lot with a holier than thou tone. stuff like ‘oh yes you can just outsmart your god with a little fishing lines what’s the point in your religion then’ tho obviously like, i’m not gonna replicate the vile language here bc i don’t want to subject folks to it.
i have no interest in answering bad faith questions and it’s a shame these ppl are awful bc these questions are actually super!! interesting!! and if you fucking bothered to listen to the jewish ppl speaking in the videos or asked a single religious jew in good faith we’d probably explain to you why an eruv is an expression of faith and the project of building eruvs around entire american cities is an expression of faith.
but culturally xtian athiests can’t see religious practice outside the context of xianity and either can’t or choose not to understand that investigating and reinterpreting religious practices is a core aspect of judaism regardless of where you fall on the traditional spectrum. how can you break the rules without knowing them? why take all this time to find halakhic loopholes in shomer shabbat rules if you don’t love practicing shabbat? why argue over what a kosher eruv can be if you don’t care about shabbat? how can you even come up with something like an eruv without studying your torah?
a rabbi maintaining an eruv around the island of manhattan on a weekly basis, checking for any breaks and fixing them before sundown, is an act of love for their jewish community and their faith. why bother with that if you don’t care? but people just want to see jews as duplicitous and conniving and it makes me so angry and sad.
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femmesupportgroup · 4 years
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is there any like vital information you think you should know before you consider converting to judaism?
absolutely! I feel like a lot of people aren't rly sure what to expect when they start their conversion journey, so it's important to know how things rly go!
it's not gonna be easy. u have a lot of learning ahead of u! u'll be learning about the torah, about many different ways of interpreting it, about our prayers n songs n blessings. but u'll also be learning about (n experiencing!) our culture. u will learn n even experience the struggles n hardships, but also the many joys, of what it is to be jewish. it'll be a lot of work, but it's extremely worth it.
conversion isn't an overnight thing. the conversion process normally takes at least a year, n there's a lot u'll be doing in that time! of course, ur conversion will be (in a sense) tailored to u. u talk things out with ur rabbi. even after all the required learning n experiencing, u don't go to the beit din until u feel ur ready. some people will take longer to get there than others, n that's ok.
antisemitism comes with the territory. there's gonna be a point (I've seen it in every convert I know) where antisemitism becomes personal, where it stops being a "this is awful because no one should go through this" n is instead a "these r my people n it hurts to see my community hurting this way." it's ok to get upset in that way, even if u aren't jewish yet.
sometimes u'll meet someone who doesn't like converts. it sounds crazy, given how important converts have been in jewish history, but it happens. that's their problem, tho, n it's nothing on u. u won't be any less jewish than them when u've converted.
asking questions is ok! I see this a lot in ex-xtians, so I'm tellin u now that questioning the torah, questioning its interpretations, questioning g-d themself is a normal part of judaism! there r no stupid questions!
don't be afraid to reach out for help if u need it! if ur struggling in any facet of ur conversion journey, there will always be people willing to help. ur rabbi will 100% be there to help u make sense of things n talk out ur worries with converting, n so r many people in the jumblr community (myself included)! ur never alone in this, n the community will be here to support u!
that's all I can think of right now, but if u have any more specific questions, feel free to send them in!
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waknatious · 3 years
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