2020.06.20
Every year Rosh Hashana reminds me that I don't hate red and green together, I just can't stand the relentless omnipresence of it during the four months of Xmas.
Anyway you heard it here first: green and red are Rosh Hashana colors now 🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
One thing I’ve realized I love about Judaism is how there is less of a stress on the gender of G-d vs the feeling of G-d. When I think of the divine, I can’t picture a man or a woman but I do know the feeling of wind before a tornado, or seeing a shooting star for the first time, or feeling the first breeze of summer kiss your cheeks or-
I wasn’t going to post anything else today with all that has happened in Israel but evil will not win.
While my heart and prayers are with all the victims and my people, here is a simple lesson on Jewish traditions during Rosh Hashanah.
Traditional Rosh Hashanah foods are symbolic, reflecting hope, renewal, and blessings for the new year. Key examples:
Apples in honey – Wishing for a sweet new year.
Round challah – Symbolizes life’s cycle and continuity, often sweetened with raisins.
Pomegranates – Represent abundance and the 613 commandments
Fish head – Symbolizes the hope to lead and make progress.
These foods are part of the Rosh Hashanah seder, accompanied by prayers and blessings for a fruitful and positive year.
📢📢Tu B'Av ✡️ is today❣️ and you know what that means❓time ⏰ to get hitched 💒💒💒 and 🕰time to ❤️ LOVE❤️ here 👉are some things to love and appreciate: you’re SIGNIFICANT OTHER 👫👭👬, KISSING!! 💏 👩❤️💋👩 👨❤️💋👨, your pets also need some lovin 💕🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰💕, also ☝️friends and family 👨👩👧👦👩👩👧👦👨👨👧👦there are SO MANY things to love and appreciate 💞🌈show your love for lady Israel 🇮🇱 show your love to all 🤘🏻🤘🏽🤘🏿 ethnicities and 🙏✡️✝️☪️☸️💕 religions because everyone deserves 💋kisses and hugs 🤗❣️❣️
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
Well you should’ve named yourself something else then
im not an orthodox jew (im conservative/masorti) nor am I a woman, but it is wild to me how often ill see an orthodox woman explain why she chooses to do something and why it brings her joy/comfort/empowerment, and literally every goy is like "ummm that sounds sooo horrible i could never do that you must be suffering so much". no she literally just said she liked it why are you convinced that every woman who is willingly part of a religion must be trapped.
like yall claim to be feminists but dont actually support women making their own choices, especially when those choices can impact men. so what if that orthodox woman isn't gonna have sex with her husband for a bit? so what if she likes to cover her hair a wig instead of a tichel? is it your place to judge her at all? the answer is no!! leave her the fuck alone. if you truly care about autonomy then learn to support it even when it's not a choice you'd personally made. do it without snarky comments about how you can't imagine how she does it, and actually try to respect the real person that she is
also please listen to actual orthodox women on this more than you listen to me. they are the ones with front row seats to this antisemitic misogyny, and they should be taken seriously when they talk about their issues