#yitzchak

[penguicorns-are-cool]

I'm pretty sure Avraham failed the test

like if I was given a test and the person giving the test very obviously told me that I was wrong and not to actually do the thing, I would assume I failed the test

also, that's about where the torah switches focus from Avraham to Yitzchak. There were no more tests after that, his story just kind of ends. His next big task is to just marry off his son and that's it he's done.

Like, I really don't think he passed that test I think he failed for refusing to question God for giving him a very unreasonable task.

And it's not like others haven't been rewarded for questioning or even fighting authority

like Yaakov is very definitely rewarding for tricking his Dad cause like right after it says he has a dream where God basically told him good job you will have many descendents. Then later on he literally fights an angel and it's a good thing cause he got renamed Israel as part of a blessing and now we're B'nei Israel

And Moshe definitely questioned authority that was like his whole thing. And even beyond Pharoah, he also had to reason with God to get them to not kill everyone.

Even Avraham that time he convinces God to not kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah if there are ten good people. There aren't but Avraham's questioning and reasoning with God is portrayed as a good thing.

Also, Judaism is generally very supportive of questioning authority and child sacrifices are very specifically banned in the torah, so It makes no sense that Avraham passed the test because he would've obeyed God even to kill his child. Like that moral is pretty inconsistent with the rest of the Torah.

so I definitely think Avraham failed that test.

#avraham #avraham and yitzchak #abraham #abraham and isaac #jumblr #jewish #torah #torah study #torah commentary

[divdevdump]

"this is the story of how I got out of zionism

there is obviously much more to say, but I want to be clear here:

every single thing I learned from Palestinians. please do not listen to my voice over Palestinian voices. if you are moved by what I said literally every single Palestinian has 100000 more stories and can teach you WAY more than I can. start listening to PALESTINIANS. it should not have to take a white male jew to tell you to listen to Palestinians. none of us are free until all of us are free. please, let's get over our fragility and just start to listen. Being open to Palestinians freed from my internalized white supremacy, patriarchy, self hatred, chronic pain and fear paradigm that was destroying my life. We need to compost our fear and fragility and start to listen and unlearn colonial white supremacy- we have to in order to get free"

--Shlomo Yitzchak

#video #tiktok #palestine #gaza #shlomo #shlomoyitz #shlomoyitzchak #shlomo yitzchak #jews for palestine #Jews against zionism

[magnetothemagnificent]

Yitzchak and the Ram: Fates Exchanged

During the month of Elul and on Rosh HaShanah, we blow the shofar, which is commonly in the form of a ram's horn. One of the reasons we do this is to remind Hashem of how Yitzchak was almost sacrificed, but an angel intervened and Yitzchak was exchanged with a ram, and to convince Hashem to intervene on our behalf and cancel any harmful decree against us for the upcoming year.

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#jumblr #my art #jewish art #digital art #yitzchak avinu #akedat yitzchak #rosh hashanah #judaism #elul #shofar #the binding of isaac

[saharathorn]

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#my mom’s health has been declining recently #her Hebrew name is Rachel Bat Yitzchak V’Ruth if any of you can say Mi Shebeirach #I’d appreciate it

[little-orphan-ant]

From the (English translation of) the diary of Yitzchak Rudashevski, a Jewish teenager who lived in Vilnius, Lithuania and was murdered in the Holocaust

#les miserables #les misérables #les mis #gavroche #yitzchak rudashevski #gavroche thenardier

[bdkinz]

True Greatness Is Knowing Where We Are

This is a short inspiration to help start are day in a brighter way.

We all have those days where we feel we will never amount to what we wish we would become. We feel small, distant, lost. We don’t know how to find our way forward along the path to find our “greatness.” Instead, we spend so much energy and time seeing all the ways we haven’t reached our life goals.  One area I want to focus on is spiritual growth. In working on our spiritual goals, our spiritual…

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#change #finding meaning #goals #growth #growth and change #journey #journeying forward #new beginnings #new beginnings spiritual coaching and consulting llc #R. Itche Meir Morgenstern #R. Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern #Sea of Wisdom #self-compassion #self-reflection #spiritual growth #spiritual journey #spiritual wellness #Spirituality

[joemerl]

"Don’t worry about the state of someone else’s soul and the needs of your body. Worry about the needs of someone else’s body and the state of your own soul."

— Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev

#Quote #Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev #Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev #Religion #Judaism #Charity

[thejewishlink]

Herzog Travels to UAE After Visit to Bahrain

Herzog Travels to UAE After Visit to Bahrain

President Yitzchak Herzog left Bahrain on Monday morning and landed in the United Arab Emirates for the second leg of his trip to meet with Israel’s allies in the Gulf. Herzog was greeted at the airport in Abu Dhabi by UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed. Herzog attended the Abu Dhabi Space Debate, a forum on space exploration policy that will also feature Indian Prime Minister Narendra…

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#Bahrain #israel #President Yitzchak Herzog #UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed #United Arab Emirates

[slyandthefamilybook]

this one goes out to all the Jews who change their names so goyim can pronounce them. All my Eliezers and Batshevas and Tzipporahs and Avishais and Rochels and Shimons and Benyamins and Me'iras and Elimelechs and Gershons and Yehudas and Devorahs and Zalmans and Yedidyas and Aharons and Noachs and Yitzchaks and Ya'akovs and Yissochars and Tzvis and all. Your names are beautiful how they are 💕🕎

#atlas entry #Jewish #Judaism #jumblr

[matan4il]

Today is Family Day in Israel.

This post is dedicated to every Jewish family destroyed, in part and especially in whole, by anti-Jewish violence in the Israeli-Arab conflict. It's dedicated to the Kutz family, who were murdered to the last one by Palestinian terrorists on Oct 7. When their bodies were found, they were still embracing.

It's dedicated to Rachel Hiller and her fiance Yossef Weissman, who were each the last surviving member of their families, and were murdered in the Kfar Etzion massacre, which took place before the State of Israel was even established, before they had a chance to marry, and start a family following the loss they experienced in the Holocaust, and to a total of 144 Holocaust survivors who were the last ones, and when the Arabs killed them during the Independence War, these families were wiped out as well, finishing what the Nazis started.

It's dedicated to Livia Dikman, an only daughter, who was pregnant with her first kid, and was murdered in Jerusalem by Hamas terrorists on a day when Israel and Hamas were supposed to have a truce as part of the hostage deal. Livia's sister in law is a colleague of mine at our museum.

It's dedicated to my own relative, Yitzchak Roller, who was an only son to a family that survived the Holocaust in Romania, a baby survivor. He and his mom came to Israel when he was 8, and even though they barely had anything, while giving private lessons for a living, Yitzchak insisted on not taking any money from those in need. Everyone who knew him remarked what an exceptionally good person he was. He also wrote a research paper on the pogrom that was carried out against the Jews of Iasi, which my grandmother had survived (but in which she lost family, something she never fully recovered from). The paper was published by our museum, though Yitzchak didn't get to see that. Being an only child meant he didn't have to serve in the army, but he felt that he had to do his part in defending our country. He was killed in the Six Day War, before he got the chance to marry and have kids. That branch of our family is gone forever.

May all of their memories be a blessing. We will never forget that we are not whole without you.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #israelunderattack

[shlufim]

Hanna Sitton z"l (73 years old), her husband Yitzchak Sitton z"l (76), their son Tal Sitton z"l (49), and Pessi (Pessia) Cohen z"l (68), sister of Hanna, were murdered by hamas terrorists in the brutal attack on Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7th, 2023.

Pessi had invited her sister and her family to celebrate the holiday (שמחת תורה) at her house in Kibbutz Be'eri. Terrorists entered the house on October 7th and killed all Cohen-Sitton family members who were there.

May they rest in peace.

#ישראבלר #israel #jumblr #ישראל #חללי פעולות איבה

[penguicorns-are-cool]

I posted this in a reblog earlier but I think I should make it it's own post

Believe it or not, there are actually many different types of zionism as it is a complex political movement that existed for over 1000 years as a loosely connected set of ideas and saying it proposes that Jewish people are more entitled to Palestine than Palestinians is a huge oversimplification and for most types of zionism is just completely false.

Here's a little crash course on different types of zionism

Political Zionism: this is how zionism started and it is basically everything Theodore Herzl said in Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). basically the idea that the establishment of a Jewish state (preferably in Palestine but anywhere will do) is necessary to prevent the genocide of Jews and for Jews to have somewhere to go when their lives are in danger. The belief here is that for Jews to truly have any sort of security Jews need to have sovereignty over their own state. It is a response to antisemitism.

Revisionist Zionism: this is the one that y'all are all familiar with. This one also formed as a response to antisemitism but with a bit less patience. It was most popular in central and east europe with Jews who were waiting to immigrate because of the astounding amounts of antisemitism in europe at the time. This one calls for mass Jewish settlement in Israel with the goal of making a Jewish majority in Palestine. They became very popular because they would facilitate mass migrations from europe to palestine during Holocaust times. This is the zionism of the Likud party which Netanyahu is a part of.

Religous Zionism: religous zionism advocated for the establishment of a Jewish state for religous reasons. Basically all the, it's a Jewish holy land stuff and how there are some mitzvot that can only be fulfilled in Israel. There was also a prophecy and stuff about Jews returning to Israel it's a whole thing.

Socialist/Labor zionism: This was the most prominent form of zionism for Jews living in Palestine just before Israel was established and many of Israel's founders were socialist zionists. They believed that the rise of capitalism would spark class struggles in other countries that would exacerbate existing antisemitism and working class Jews would be forced to move. The idea was that there had to be a Jewish state where those Jews could escape to to avoid antisemitism. These guys actually did a lot of really cool things under very bad conditions. They spread modern Hebrew, made uninhabitable parts of Israel into fertile land, and set up a lot of schools. Many of them had just recently escaped genocide or had families being genocided in Europe. At this point in time they were also being constantly massacred by Palestinian Arabs (there's a whole thing with Nazis spreading their propoganda in the Middle East at this time in an effort to kill more Jews then later the soviets did something similar it's a whole thing. There were also general tensions and the British did not help at all). Depending on the person or group, whether the socialism or zionism is more emphasized can vary.

Spiritual Zionism: these are the people who don't believe Palestine can hold all the Jews and rather than being a designated safe space for all Jews to go in case of emergency it should be a religous hub that would help the diaspora regain their spirituality

Messianic Zionism: this is an extremist group. This one developed around the six-day-war and is honestly kind of culty from what I'm seeing. They believe Israel belongs to the Jews by divine decree. They would like ban people from even interacting with Arabs and were only tolerated until Israel started trading back land in peace treaties. Then one of them assassinated Yitzchak Rabin (generally loved prime minister cause he signed a bunch of peace treaties). They're controversial at best terrorists at worst. we don't like these ones at all.

Christain Zionism: there's some sort of christain belief that all the Jews returning to Israel is part of the end of times prophecy so they will organize trips for Jews to move to Israel. They're actually pretty antisemitic. Christain zionists generally support the oppression of Palestinians and also a whole lot of other horrible things.

Please just understand that zionism ≠ supports Israel's actions against Palestine. For a lot of people it means Jews should have a safe space to go in case of antisemitism or Israel is a holy land for Jews too and we'd like to also live there and have a bit of sovereignty. There are in fact zionists who would like there to be one Jewish and Palestinian state where Palestinians and Jews have somewhat equal political power, that actually was one of the suggestions back before 1948 and it ended up falling through.

Also, please please please go research some history of Palestine from like early 1900s on. 1948 isn't the start of the conflict there's so much context that you lose if you start there. Just like, if an article or source starts telling the history at 1948, it's probably biased in some way. The wikipedia page is actually pretty good for this just read the British Mandate period and maybe check the sources if you want to.

#zionism #israel #palestine #types of zionism #antisemitism #jewish #jumblr

[magnetothemagnificent]

Why do you spell Abraham with v? Is it a hebrew way to spell it? I'm not a native english (nor hebrew) speaker so I'm used to seeing names spelled either in my mother tongue or in the 'standard' english way

Yes, in Hebrew it is pronounced "Avraham." It was anglicized to Abraham by Christians.

Other common names Jewish names that were anglicized and how they're actually pronounced:

['ch' is pronounced like the 'ch' in Challah]

Eve- Chava (Cha-vah)

Noah- Noach (No-ach)

Isaac - Yitzchak (Yitz-chak)

Rebecca- Rivka (Riv-kah)

Jacob- Yaakov (Yah-ah-kove)

Rachel (Rah-chel)

Judah- Yehudah (Yeh-hoo-dah)

Josef- Yosef (Yo-sef)

Moses- Moshe (Mo-sheh)

Aaron- Aharon (Ah-hah-rone)

Jethro- Yitro (Yit-roe)

Joshua- Yehoshua (Yeh-hoe-shoo-ah)

Samson- Shimshon (Sheem-shone)

Elijah- Eliyahu (Eh-lee-yah-hoo)

Samuel- Shmuel (Shmoo-el)

Saul- Shaul (Shah-ool)

David (Dah-veed)

Abigail- Avigayil (Ah-vee-gah-eel)

Solomon- Shlomo (Shloe-moe)

Gabriel- Gavriel (Gav-ree-el)

Michael (Mee-chah-el)

Usually when Hebrew names are anglicized, the "v" sound is changed to a "b" sound, the "y" sound is changed to a "j" sound (there's actually no "j" sound in Hebrew), the "t" sound is changed to a "th" sound, and the "ch" sound is chanced to either "h" or "ch" as in "chocolate". And sometimes there's even more weird shit done to the word or name like in "Solomon".

I don't like to write Hebrew names in their anglicized way because I don't want Jewish words and language to be suppressed. The only time I'll write things in their anglicized way is if I'm explaining myself to people who don't know.

#jumblr #hebrew #if jew know jew know

[amtskind]

kafka at the yiddish theatre

a scene from the kafka (2024) series, where kafka, along with the rest of the "circle of prague" (max brod, oskar baum, felix weltsch), visit a play by the yiddish theatre.

since i enjoy expressionistic theatre and the yiddish language - this was my favourite scene. also - kafka's joy and laughter was very wholesome. i added english subtitles. 🎻🤎

background / analysis:

franz kafka enjoyed the yiddish theatre and in 1911/12 he encountered the polish actor yizchak löwy in one of those very plays. a long-lasting friendship began and kafka got more invested in his jewish ancestry - which he and his family had neglected up until that point. later in 1917, kafka published an essay "on the jewish theatre" ("vom jüdischen theater"), which recalls yizchak löwy's memories.

kafka's father hermann kafka viewed people like yizchak as dirty and backward and made fun of his manner of speaking. the hate of bohemian jews towards jews from east-europe wasn't that uncommon - as stupid as it sounds. but hermann also hated yitzchak for being a person of arts, since in his opinion - arts was not valuable, especially in the economical sense.

in the scene, one of the actors portrays an authorial figure, that tries to solve the fight at the dinner-table. the situation, combined with the strange insult of the "fat tomato", reminds kafka of his own father, who often caused arguments when the family ate together. seeing this figure having soup poured over him - makes him laugh, schadenfreude the germans would call it.

#franz kafka #kafka #1920s #movies #history #kafka movie #kafka series #kafka serie #kafka 2024 #ard #yiddish #yiddish theatre #yizchak löwy #jizchak löwy

[fenrir-wolf]

"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

[bdkinz]

The Path Reveals Itself Over Time

Wouldn’t it be great if we had the roadmap of life in front of us, knowing where we were supposed to go, when to make a turn and when to recognize we had fulfilled what it is we are here to fulfill? Life would be much simpler, though I would guess it would also become too boring. When everything is predictable, we tend to stop trying because we pretty much know the results.  I am always thinking…

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#faith #growth #journey #journeying forward #new beginnings #new beginnings spiritual coaching and consulting llc #R. Itche Meir Morgenstern #R. Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern #roadmap #roadmap of life #Sea of Wisdom #spiritual growth #Spirituality