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i’m selling some of my stuff, if anyone is interested

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One must love the lowliest of men as much as the greatest Torah scholar.

Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (via yidquotes)

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a chassidic tale- a young boy woke up every morning hours before he needed to be awake just to go into the woods before school. when he got home, his mother would ask him what he was doing awake so early again. he told her “i go into the woods to talk to Gd”, to which she replied “you don’t need to go to the woods for that. you know Gd is the same everywhere, right?” and the little boy said “i know. but i’m not.”

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Beating willow branches for the Jewish holiday of Hoshana Rabba

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I really love listening to niggunim but I can't seem to find any online. Help? :(

Hi there!

Niggunim (wordless chants) are one of the most beautiful parts of our tradition.  Here are some wonderful niggunim to begin your Shabbat with!   Followers, please feel free to reblog this post with your own favorite niggunim!

A semi-common niggun for Shabbat used in the Reform Movement

A popular niggun from Navah Tehilla, Jerusalem

Another beautiful niggun from Navah Tehilla, Jerusalem

A niggun for a wedding based off of “Od Yoshma” (with a little Hebrew)

A common Reform niggun with a cool Shabbat band!

A famous Niggun by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, in a Jewish Renewal Congregation

A niggun for Shabbat from the Satmar Hasidim

Shabbat niggun- Raggae style

A Niggun by Dan Nichols

Jerusalem Niggun

And of course, the Star Wars Niggun

Shabbat Shalom, friend!

PJ

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*unsuspecting baby in utero, about to be born, knowing all of Torah*:

Some angel: VIBE CHECK

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i’m so hype for chanukah this is what my last brain cell looks like

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Kotel - Yom Kippur 1904

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“Tshuvah and Yom Kippur only atone for sins between people and God; for example, a person who ate a forbidden food or engaged in forbidden sexual relations, and the like. However, sins between people; for example, someone who injures a colleague, curses a colleague, steals from him, or the like, will never be forgiven until he gives his colleague what he owes him and appeases him.”

— ​Rambam, Laws of Repentance 2:9

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you know that scene in Madagascar when the lion sees the zebra as like a t-bone of whatever? nobody wants to admit it but that’s all anybody sees come the yitzkor service

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Y’ALL WE GOTTA HYDRATE

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Who By Fire // Leonard Cohen

“And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,  Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,  And who by avalanche, who by powder,  Who for his greed, who for his hunger,  And who shall I say is calling?”

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y’all gotta start drinking water asap if ur gonna fast for yom kippur

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When Leonard Cohen sang,

“Hineni, Hineni,

I’m ready, my Lord.”

Every Jew in the world felt that.

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“Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means “to obey”. When Hebrew was revived as a living language in the nineteenth century, and there was need for a verb meaning “to obey,” it had to be borrowed from the Aramaic: le-tsayet. Instead of a word meaning “to obey,” the Torah uses the verb shema, untranslatable into English because it means [1] to listen, [2] to hear, [3] to understand, [4] to internalise, and [5] to respond. Written into the very structure of Hebraic consciousness is the idea that our highest duty is to seek to understand the will of God, not just to obey blindly.”

— Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (via yidquotes)