There's This Specific Dread That Happens When You Keep Shabbat And Yom Tov In A Way That Means You Don't

Being awake during the middle of the night is a great excuse to practice my Hebrew, right?

Anyways, guess what I’m doing at 4am

Pre-chopped fruits and veggies make it possible for so many people with various disabilities to prepare healthy meals and maintain their energy.

i’m actually pretty cool just give me like 5 tries to get it right

saw this in tel-aviv yesterday

I love that despite the saying "two Jews three opinions" the audacity of a teacup mikvah still brings us together

I found this gif and had to add audio to it

living is a jewish value. partake in it. <3

Goyim you do realize that going "all zionists ahould be killed" allows people who move the goalpost on what is considered a zionist, kill jews for being jewish, right?

Like Yuval is a perfect example of moving the goalpost. He has described himself as an antizionist, helped raise money for people in Gaza - more than the average person too.

Yet he is being called a zionist online for speaking out about holocaust denial, which is antisemitism, as well as the jews control the world trope, which is also antisemitism.

To a fuck ton of people online, he is considered a zionist, despite literally not being one. Therefore, to a fuck ton of people, he deserve to die.

Whether or not you yourself, want all jews dead, if you think all zionist jews should die, you are at the very least enabling those who move the goalpost to include all jews, in who they want dead, to A) think it's okay to want all jews dead and B) to act on their thoughts.

And like, this is ignoring how zionists should not even be subject to being killed as it is low-key facist to kill someone for their political opinion + 80% - 90% of the Jewish population are self identified zionists so even wanting the majority of jews dead for virtue of political opinion is also fucked.

People need to realize how dangerous this thinking is.

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In the Jewish calendar, the anniversary of the Simchat Torah pogrom hasn't happened yet. Simchat Torah is in a few weeks. But if the rest of the world is going to desecrate the memories of those we lost on this day, we must commemorate the pogrom on the Gregorian calendar as well.

I will never be the same person I was before October 7th. We as a people will never be the same. But that's what has allowed us to survive all these millennia - we don't try to go back to how we were: we rebuild, we move forward. When the first Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, we began to set our calendar. When the second Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, we began to record oral Torah. Through thousands of years of successive colonization, genocide, and exile, we have recontextualized and reiterated to ourselves and to the world what it means to be a Jew.

We are Ivrim- people from the "other side", never fully part of the dominant society, but proud of who we are.

עברי אנכי ואת ה' אלוקי השמים אני ירא

"I am an Ivri and I revere YHVH the Lord of the Heavens"

[Yonah 1:9]

We are Yehudim- descendents of the majesty of the united sovereignty of Malchut Yehudah, yearning to return to the time of peace and unity under David and Shlomo.

ליהודים היתה אורה ושמחה וששן ויקר

"The Yehudim had light and joy and happiness and esteem"

[Esther 8:16]

We are Bnei Yisrael- all descendants of the man who wrestled an angel and conversed with G-d

ושמרו בני ישראל את השבת לעשות את השבת לדרתם ברית עולם

"And Bnei Yisrael shall observe the Shabbat to establish the Shabbat for their generations as a forever covenant"

[Shemot- Ki Tisa 31:16]

We are a small nation scattered across the globe, united time and time again by immense loss. But there will come a day when we are united with one heart and one soul not by tragedy, but by joy.

We will rebuild. We will survive. We will dance again.

✡️עם ישראל לעולם חי🎗️