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Mormons: I gotta give my kid the most unique name ever, nobody can steal my baby's name!!!

Catholics: A baby girl's name isn't complete without 'Mary' tacked onto it somewhere

Chabadnikim: There are seven boys in this class called Mendel, five called Menachem, three called Mendy, and one called Menachem Mendel

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1 is for one G-d in the heavens and the earth.

2 is for the Tablets of Covenant. Also portions of the Torah in a Mezuzah. Also Torahs - one Written, one Oral. Also for the Cheruvim on the Arc of Covenant. Also for the minimal amount of witnesses needed for most legal things.

3 is for the Patriarchs. Also for the subtribes of Levi. Also for the children of Noaḥ. Also for the named children of Adam HaRishon. Also for Pilgrimage holidays. Also, the amount of people required for a Zimun. Also for the minimal requirement for a Beit Din.

4 is for the Matriarchs. Also cardinal directions. Also beasts Daniel saw, which represent four empires. Also glasses to drink in Pesaḥ, and glasses G-d will make all the people's of the Earth drink, and verbs of salvation used by G-d when talking to Moshe. Also portions of the Torah put in the Teffilin. Also types of plants shaken in Sukkot. Also corners a cloth needs to have to require a Tzitzit.

5 is for the books in the Torah. Also actual amount of verbs of salvation. Also fingers in a hand, which is relevant for the ratio of plagues between Egypt and Yam Suf, the Red Sea. Also for kinds of grain for Matzah and Chametz, HaMotzi and Mezonot and Challah (not the type of bread).

6 is for the orders of the Mishna. Also for the cardinal directions plus up and down. Also for the day the Torah was given.

7 is for the days G-d took to create the world. Also for Shabbat every seven days. Also for Shavu`ot after seven Shabatot. Also for years until the Shəmita. Also for Shəmitot until the Yovel. Also for the length of Pesaḥ. Also for the branches in the Menorah of Beit HaMikdash. Also for types of fruit and grain that Eretz Israel is known for. Also for the month that has 4 different holidays in it. Also for Tractates in the Orders of Nashim and Nezikin (anyone who tells you otherwise thinks that Nezikin is three Masechtot, and that Sanhedrin is two. You should still listen to them, though). Also for the candles in the Temple's Menorah. Also for Shiv‘a and for the days of celebration after a wedding. Also for the number of blessings in a wedding.

8 is for the days until a baby should be circumcised. Also for the days until a lamb can be sacrificed. Also for the days of dedicating the Mishcan. Also for the days of Sukkot and Ḥannukah. Also strings in the Tzitzit. Also books in the Prophets. Also for amounts of repeating Aleph-Beits in Tehillim 118. Also for the day of Shemini `Atzeret.

9 for the maximum amount of days Leḥem HaPanim had to stay fresh. Also months of pregnancy. Also for the day before Yom Kippur, during which Chazal say we are required to eat.

10 for G-d's commandments on Mount Sinai. Also for the Speeches of creation. Also for things created Bein HaShmashot. Also for generations between Adam and Noaḥ. Also for generations between Noaḥ and Avraham. Also for the Lost Tribes. Also for the day in the month Yom Kippur occurs at. Also for the amount of people required for a Minyan and to say "E-loheinu" in the Zimun.

11 for the stars Yosef saw in his dream. Also for books in the Cetuvim. Also for tractates in the Orders of Zera`im and Kodashim

12 for the children of Israel. Also for the tribes. Also for the small prophets. Also for the amount of judges in the Judges era (Avimelech crowned himself king, murdered his kin, is generally a jerk and shouldn't be counted. Yiftakh passes, barely, for actually saving the Israelites from the `Amonites). Also the age a girl is considered obligated to the Mitzvot. Also for tractates in the Orders of Mo`ed and Taharot. Also for the amount of Leḥem HaPanim loaves.

13 for the Qualities of Mercy. Also the age a boy is considered obligated to the Mitzvot. Also for Rambam's Principles of Faith.

14 for books in Rambam's Mishne Torah. Also for the day in the month Pesaḥ occurs at, as opposed to Ḥag HaMatzot.

15 for the first day of Ḥag HaMatzot and Sukkot, for Tu BiShvat and Tu B(e)'Av, for Purim D(e)Mukafin,

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I had a shockingly prolific month of reading! Here’s what I read in January 2025:

Jewish, Jewish History, and Antisemitism

A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide by Alon Confino

Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life by Shai Held

Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir by Dr. Sara Glass

My Search: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey by Josef Ben-Eliezer (I do NOT recommend this one. It wasn’t until the end that I realized it’s from a xtian publisher and ends with him converting to xtianity and talking about jesus)

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild (no relation)

Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Israel/Palestine

The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by Kenneth S. Stern

Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch

Other Non-Fiction

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

Eleven Books!!

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Rabbi, is there a blessing for Trump?

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Hey y'all. It's International Holocaust Awareness day Both of these books changed me. Consider reading them or please share for someone else who might. It's never a bad thing to learn more.

Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Slomo Venezia This is one of the only books I've found that touches on the living conditions and viewpoint of a Jew from Greece. Reading it, the author felt like a friend. It was horrifying.

Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide this book explained people were taught to completely separate Jews from being human in people's minds in the years leading up to the Holocaust- especially in the medical field. It has interviews with some of the doctors who did these things. The site for the books also has an archive of images, films, objects, publications, recorded sounds and documents. You can find information on many communities. Thank you

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Bah bah black sheep, have you any soul

@decrepitdeer

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I love talking to rabbis as a recent conversion student because the interaction goes something like, "you're converting? Now?! At this time, at this moment in history?!". And they always talk about this influx of jewish convert students they've seen recently, and it's like...

There's this level of respect I get from rabbis for converting at this point in time, but... Has there ever been a good time to be a jew in the last thousand years or so plus? I'm imagining that rabbis and jews in general back in 1492, back in 1290, back in 1349 would have said the exact same thing. So, really, there is only a time to be a jew. Maybe it's not a "good" time, yes, but it is a time. And to me, that's good enough

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rammstein is not a scary band. everyone who's a fan knows that they are a band full of nerds.

you have:

🩷 fish nerd (till)

🩷 movie nerd (richard)

🩷 opinion nerd (paul)

🩷 banana nerd (schneider)

🩷 long nerd (olli)

🩷 nerd nerd (flake, also known as the nerdiest of the nerds. the nerd² if you will)

this is absolutely 100% true because i made it up therefore it's automatically correct

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What do you think about young, pre-Aerys Jaime, personality-wise? I used to think that he was alright, not exactly angel, but intrinsically good. But recently I've been seeing more insistence to paint him as inherently moraly dubious and like... I personaly see it as 'Well look how he turned out in current timeline that means he probably always was fucked up!' and idk i find it kinda dismissive of his experience in KL and how it affected him. What were in your opinion young!Jaime's major flaws?

pre-Aerys Jaime has done basically nothing wrong lol. he has just been a child, and based on all we know, a pretty nice kid all things considered. I think the only thing you could possibly hold against young Jaime is that business w his sister, but honestly why would you - it's certainly severely misguided behaviour, but it doesn't come from a place of malice.

in fact until his post-Kingslayer days we have no evidence of Jaime ever being unpleasant at all. we know he dotes on his younger brother (despite his father and sister's example), that he looks out for his sister, that he likes dogs and horses, that he has childhood friends he still gets along with in adulthood, that he loves his aunt and has a favourite uncle. we know he stood up to a bully (Merrett Frey) as a squire, yet is disparaging of the cruel revenge other squires tried to take on Frey later. and we know that his hero was this supposedly super-honourable knight who could do no wrong.

like I don't think GRRM is trying to tell us anywhere that Jaime was a perfect kid, just that he was essentially very normal, and even quite pleasant; he was not pushing other kids down wells or tormenting babies, or indeed anything close to that. I think it's essentially just the fact that he grew up with Cersei (who was obviously a very different sort of kid) that has people insisting something must've been off about Jaime. but nowhere does the text tell us this. his journey to who he is in AGOT does not resemble Cersei's.

and I mean honestly, excluding his relationship with Cersei, what has Jaime even done wrong, not just pre-Aerys but pre-AGOT? I would say the relationship is the only thing, really. it's playing with fire, putting not just their lives at risk but their children's, with plenty potential for spanning even more widely than that. but you can imagine the headspace Jaime has been in for all these years that has him ignoring these circumstances. sure doesn't make it right, but sympathetic perhaps.

now, what else has he done pre-AGOT? the business with Tyrion and Tysha I think, but given the Tywin's coercion and Jaime's lifelong guilt over this, I wouldn't say this is GRRM trying to show us that Jaime's a bad guy, just a flawed and fallible one.

so I think we basically watch Jaime become a villain onscreen in AGOT when he pushes Bran, and we think he must always have been like that because he is pretty damn dark for the rest of that book. but in reality, he scarcely has a villain arc preceding this: he's just been a mess.

anyway in answer to your last question... I don't think teenage Jaime has any unusual flaws, he's just like... a young dude

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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hey y’all i haven’t really been on here bc i’ve been in the process of moving but not a day goes by where bubba does not make me autistic af

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horror + letterboxd reviews

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I just be doing anything

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Calling a canon bisexual woman a lesbian becuase she has a female love interest or is in a wlw relationship is bisexual erasure and biphobic!!!!