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[son-of-avraham]

I feel like my shul tried giving me a heart attack on purpose with this week's email (the notification cut off after the first sentence, leaving me—for a brief second—to believe that I somehow lost all time and it's Already The New Year) 😭

[son-of-avraham]

Behold, the pinnacle of jewish friendship!

[son-of-avraham]

A memory of mine resurfaced from my times going to a lutheran sleep away camp that really changed the way I saw g-d

Naturally, we sang a ton of songs, but one of them was just a very simple song that went, "on a day like this... on a day like this... Oh, I need the l-rd to help me"

I always thought it was such a funny song because we'd sing it outside soaked in sunshine and cicadas singing and there wasn't a single cloud concealing an endless blue sky and yet... on a day like this, yeah. I need the l-rd to help me

[son-of-avraham]

I might be jewish, but I'm not above admitting that I need a resident catholic on speed dial to pray on my behalf to saint anthony because I have lost yet another Thing

[son-of-avraham]

*sewing on a sewing machine* "I'm getting real Motel vibes from this"

[son-of-avraham]

Parts of the services at shul are in english, and for the longest time, I'm ashamed to admit that when we read, "The King Who was exalted in solitude from before Creation...", this is what I was picturing

[son-of-avraham]

https://www.tumblr.com/son-of-avraham/790896507869184000/your-body-is-a-temple-truly-doesnt-work-as-a?source=share

actually it does really, im an orthodox jew and ive been encouraged to treat my body like the temple, bet hamikdash, so to speak. because your body is a vessel for your holy soul, so the house for your soul needs to be treated as such. idk ive just seen that phrase used. So Much in jewish contexts. jsyk. :)

I'm well-acquainted with that, I just deliberately worded it like that because I posted that when it was still tisha b'av for me and I was mostly focused on how funny it is to hear that from people whose temples have survived for thousands of years while our one (two, yes, but they were The temples) weren't allowed that

[son-of-avraham]

"Your body is a temple!!" truly doesn't work as a phrase when you're jewish

[son-of-avraham]

Actually it's so funny how similar I am to harlan ellison (z"l) by freak coincidences because:

-Jewish

-Bipolar

-Born one day apart

[son-of-avraham]

A moment that rewired my brain:

Watching the women of the shul gather together to light the shabbos candles on one of the only times I've been able to go to friday night services

[son-of-avraham]

I think one funny thing is as I was learning more about judaism, I wanted to know about how body piercings are viewed in terms of halacha and whatnot, so I'd look it up, and they'd *always* focus on earlobes and nostril piercings... Like

I am someone who has that and more. I have piercings that nobody would have even thought of in moses' time, I imagine (slight exaggeration) 😭

[son-of-avraham]

Jewish culture is having dreams about arguing with people

[son-of-avraham]

Just stumbled upon your blog after quitting tumblr for a bit and let's just say I felt FeelingsTM at the sight of your new username. Congrats! You finally went home! So happy for you. Wishing you the best jewish life possible

[son-of-avraham]

I've finally figured it out.

We wear the tallit because we needed an excuse to wear blankets while we're worshipping. It was so obvious...

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I realized now that I still want to figure out what I want to do for a tallit bag (I have a couple ideas right now, don't worry) but until my plan comes to fruition, I'm going to have to use my Gir bag to make sure it's safe 😭

[son-of-avraham]

You don't ever have to worry about having to not cut your hair for the three weeks if you never cut it to begin with

[son-of-avraham]

Something about the way g-d's name changes once we start worship and something about the way that, in turn, our names are changed. Something about it...