#בטא ישראל

[psychologeek]

Official Memorial Day for Sudan Casualties

(Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel, via Sudan).

Tonight+tomorrow day (כ"ח אייר, Iyar 28th) is Jerusalem Day.

It is also the official memorial day to those who died during the journey from Ethiopia to Israel.

The date wasn't choose randomly. It came to represent the ancient connection, and the place they were yearning for.

This date is a memory of 4,000 People.

4,000 men, women and children that tried to reach Eret Yisrael and Yerushalayim (Yerusalem).

4,000 who didn't make it - but their families and friends did.

The official ceremony/service is in Har (mt.) Hertzel, in the official memorial, in Jerusalem.

Their bodies didn't make it, but their memories did.

I'm in my home, and I hear the ceremony in the local school.

And I'm sad.

But I'm also happy -

(We remember you)

There's something really powerful in hearing 600 kids (all kids in school) and their families singing.

"Oh, our brothers, all the people of Yisrael/

Who are in trouble, or in captivity, either in the sea or on land/

May G-d have mercy on them and deliver them from troubles to wealth.

And from darkness to light, and from enslavement to salvation,

Hashta Ba'agala Uvizman Kariv (Aramic: now, soon, in our time.)

Songs about the journey

NagashBeatz - Masa Shalem (full journey)

Gili Yalo - Salem

Shva Choir and Shlomo Gronich:

The Journey (to Eretz Yisrael) - video

Better quality

Hasida (stork)

Ba'Karavan

(I lived in one until I was 11, and everytime I talk about it, I automatically say it in a sing-song.)

Other songs

U-da - Ante Abate (you're my father)

Cafe Shachor Chazak - Yihiye Beseder (We'll be ok)

Climbing Up

Hanny Masele - Lambadina (light)

And obviously - The Project (of Idan Raichel)

Cabra Casay - Milim Yafot Me'ele (prettier words)

Im Telech (If you'll go) - despite not being sang by an Ethiopian singer, I do add it due to the background Amharic and the video.

Links for reading more:

Ethiopian Jewry heritage center:

Association of Ethiopian Jews:

(on guidestar)

They've been working for over 30 years, doing SUPER IMPORTANT JOB in multiple aspects, including (but not limited to): fighting racism, fighting over-crimilising of Black people, encouraging and increasing the number of Ethiopian jews in governmental and ministry positions. Help with immigration, housing, more.

[psychologeek]

Niche:

I want a story about an Ashkenazi man that was named Shimon, who marries an Ethiopian woman called Yerus, and they have 2 kids (alem).

Just for the end scene he come to to be her mom shouting at him:

"SHIMALE! Hagar'chi Yerus Alem dhana?" (Shima'le! Are Yerus and Alem safe?)

~

Yeh this is so niche only like 4 ppl would ever get it. But I find it funny.

Explanations:

1. The jewish name Shim'on שמעון often gets nicknamed to Shima'le שימעל'ה in Ashkenazi more-religuos subcultures. (Mizrahi are more likely to short this to Shimi).

2. Ethiopian jews: So like, in Ethiopia, when storks flew over the village people would come out to see and ask/sing

"shimela, shimela, āgerachin yerusalēm dehina?" - "Stork, stork, is our land Jerusalem well?"

Written something like this, iirc: ሽመላ ሽመላ, አገራችን የሩሳሌም ደህና?

From what I heard, there was a common belief that all storks come from Jerusalem.

Partly true as storks are a migratory species, which means they do fly over (and land to rest in) Israel, which includes Jerusalem and many of the area.

Anyway I just. Always think about it. And think it's funny.

[psychologeek]

A video, 4 women talking about their Journey - and the people they lost: mother, children, brother, and childhood friends. (Hebrew, I can translate if anyone wants)

"We left the village when I was one year old. Started the journey through Cursed Sudan."

"The close families - from 12 people, maybe 6-7 survived the journey."

"I came with my two kids - one on the shoulder, the other on my back. That how we went - hiding during the day, and keep walking through the night."

Official Memorial Day for Sudan Casualties

(Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel, via Sudan).

Tonight+tomorrow day (כ"ח אייר, Iyar 28th) is Jerusalem Day.

It is also the official memorial day to those who died during the journey from Ethiopia to Israel.

The date wasn't choose randomly. It came to represent the ancient connection, and the place they were yearning for.

This date is a memory of 4,000 People.

4,000 men, women and children that tried to reach Eret Yisrael and Yerushalayim (Yerusalem).

4,000 who didn't make it - but their families and friends did.

The official ceremony/service is in Har (mt.) Hertzel, in the official memorial, in Jerusalem.

Their bodies didn't make it, but their memories did.

I'm in my home, and I hear the ceremony in the local school.

And I'm sad.

But I'm also happy -

(We remember you)

There's something really powerful in hearing 600 kids (all kids in school) and their families singing.

"Oh, our brothers, all the people of Yisrael/

Who are in trouble, or in captivity, either in the sea or on land/

May G-d have mercy on them and deliver them from troubles to wealth.

And from darkness to light, and from enslavement to salvation,

Hashta Ba'agala Uvizman Kariv (Aramic: now, soon, in our time.)

Songs about the journey

NagashBeatz - Masa Shalem (full journey)

Gili Yalo - Salem

Shva Choir and Shlomo Gronich:

The Journey (to Eretz Yisrael) - video

Better quality

Hasida (stork)

Ba'Karavan

(I lived in one until I was 11, and everytime I talk about it, I automatically say it in a sing-song.)

Other songs

U-da - Ante Abate (you're my father)

Cafe Shachor Chazak - Yihiye Beseder (We'll be ok)

Climbing Up

Hanny Masele - Lambadina (light)

And obviously - The Project (of Idan Raichel)

Cabra Casay - Milim Yafot Me'ele (prettier words)

Im Telech (If you'll go) - despite not being sang by an Ethiopian singer, I do add it due to the background Amharic and the video.

Links for reading more:

Ethiopian Jewry heritage center:

Association of Ethiopian Jews:

(on guidestar)

They've been working for over 30 years, doing SUPER IMPORTANT JOB in multiple aspects, including (but not limited to): fighting racism, fighting over-crimilising of Black people, encouraging and increasing the number of Ethiopian jews in governmental and ministry positions. Help with immigration, housing, more.