The 14th of Sivan 5270 saw a celebration among Ashkenazi Jews over the reversal of a decree nearly as horrible as the decree proposed to Ahaverosch by Haman in the Book of Esther, for though this was not a decree for the destruction of Jewish lives, it struck at something almost as dear to our hearts— the sacred books of Judaism.
Ashkenazi Jews had endured a precarious existence from the first settlements of Jews in the newly Christianized lands of Central Europe. By 5269, Ashkenazi communities had experienced centuries of violence inspired by the crusades and other forms of religious persecution. Maximilian I, who claimed the title of Holy Roman Emperor, had expanded his own treasuries for much of his reign by permitting cities to pay him for the right to expel their Jewish populations, then allowing those Jews to resettle in other territories under his control. Unlike his contemporaries in the Iberian Peninsula his aim was not to force Jews to convert but simply to capitalize on antisemitism for his own enrichment. In 5269, however, he was provoked to issue a decree calling for the seizure and destruction of Jewish religious texts including the Talmud and siddurim by a Jewish apostate and antisemitic agitator who claimed these books attacked Christianity and ought to be destroyed by the Christian ruler. Maximilian’s decree was immediately met with outrage not only by the Jews of the empire but by scholars, nobles, and priests who understood their importance, including the Catholic archbishop of Mainz. Eventually the pleas of these advocates and impassioned defenses of the Talmud by Christian Hebraists including Johannes Reuchlin persuaded the emperor to reverse his decree on the 14th of Sivan, and books which had been confiscated were returned to their Jewish owners. While Jewish life in Christian lands remained precarious, one disaster had been averted.
PAIRING ▸ private investigator!jay park x fem!reader
GENRES ▸ social media au (smau), smut, fluff, angst, mystery, drama, enemies to lovers au, college au, rich kid au
SUMMARY ▸ after being blackmailed into accepting an assignment, jay park, a young private detective, is thrown back into college. this time, though, he’s at an ivy league and tasked to follow you to uncover what dark secrets your old money family is hiding. in doing this, jay must fraternize with your inner circle by joining a secret society called the "order of kryptos.” what he doesn’t realize is that the deeper he gets into his mission, the more he starts to lose himself.
WARNINGS ▸ profanity, slowburn, alcohol/drug consumption, portrayals of addiction, sexual jokes, sexual content, betrayals!! backstabbing!!, toxic relationships, order of kryptos isn’t a real secret society but heavily inspired by the ivy league secret societies, emotional cheating (BOOOO! not from mc or jay tho), jay and mc have a small age gap (2 years), most of the characters are pretty toxic so please note that this is not attune to their real life personalities at ALL
UPDATE SCHEDULE ▸ every day
PLAYLIST ▸ fatal trouble by enhypen • still sane by lorde • this is what makes us girls by lana del rey • too good by troye sivan • paparazzi by lady gaga • old money by lana del rey • i was never there by the weeknd, gesaffelstein • prisoner by the weeknd, lana del rey
AUTHOR’S NOTE ▸ hello !! i’m back with another smau but this one’s less lighthearted and more heavy ? sort of an experiment let's see how it goes, but hope u enjoy and lmk what u think !! ♡
CHATROOMS !
TEASER
PROFILES ONE | TWO
ACT ONE: THE TRANSFER
01. skip tracer to millionaire pipeline
02. besties with testes
03. who the fuck is princessyuna
04. the world of the elite
05. please don't the tom nook
06. standing on business (vlog boycott)
07. friend (noun.) not heeseung
08. boo boo the fool
09. professional haters debut
10. 21 jump street for nepo babies
11. how to not bleed to death
12. jay/n train
13. leather jacket
14. no goodbye sucks or fucks
15. ugly truths
16. girlfriend but the girl is silent
17. justice for stress shitters
18. alcohol shortage when
ACT TWO: THE INVITATION
19. attention seeker
20. and there was one bed
21. every boy for himself
22. rhymes with loona
23. out-testosteroned
24. white lies
25. heart-to-heart
26. the athenaeum
27. sock sock shoe shoe
28. group ass fucking
29. post defamation dinner date
30. final verdict
31. do you have time to talk about our lord and savior
Judaism is a native religion and identity, so like all indigenous religions, it has ALWAYS sanctified the bond between the tribe and its ancestral land:
* Jews, no matter where around the world we are, pray in the direction of the Hebrew Temple in Jerusalem.
* Israel, Jerusalem, and Zion are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible hundreds of times, often in connection to the importance of the bond between the land and the Jewish people.
* The Hebrew calendar and Jewish holidays are based on the agricultural year as experienced in the Land of Israel. For example, we celebrate Shavu'ot, the Jewish festival of the harvest, during the Hebrew month of Sivan, which is roughly around the Gregorian month of June. In Australia, June is the rainiest month of the year, with severe temperature drops, absolutely not the right time for the harvest. But Australian Jews still celebrate Shavu'ot at the same time as all other Jews, around June. Because we ALL honor and preserve the agricultural cycle of our ancestors in Israel.
* Many Jewish prayers express a desire to return to Israel, for example with the phrase, "Next year in Jerusalem."
Here's a greeting card, drawn at Linz, a Nazi concentration camp in Austria, which was turned into a DP (displaced persons) camp at the end of the war. The card features the above three Hebrew words (you can see the freed prisoners of the camp on the left, heading towards a land with palm trees on the right, with one of the buildings having a Star of David on top):
* The holiest site for Jewish people in the entire world is the thousands of years old Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the Jewish temple stood, in Israel.
* Several Jewish holidays explicitly celebrate the Zionist notion, meaning the importance of the bond between the Jews and the Land of Israel. Hanukkah is a celebration of the native Jews fighting off the Greek occupying forces, and re-establishing Jewish sovereignty in Israel, and the freedom from religious persecution this allowed Jews, by re-dedicating the Hebrew Temple in Jerusalem to Jewish worship, after it was defiled by the Greeks (including by re-lighting the Temple Menorah). Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, and the start of their journey back home, to their ancestral land in Israel, with the Passover meal ceremony including thanking God for bringing Jews back to Israel, and for building the Temple in Jerusalem for them.
* The language of the Jewish people is Hebrew, which is the last Canaanite language, the last of the languages spoken by the native peoples of Israel. Hebrew is specifically tied to the geography of Israel. For example, in the Bible, the Hebrew word for "west" is also the Hebrew word for "sea," because Israel's western border is the Mediterranean Sea. Similarly, the Hebrew word for "south" is also the Hebrew name of the desert that makes up the southern part of Israel, the Negev. Every Jewish language, which developed in the diaspora (such as Yiddish and Ladino), features words borrowed from Hebrew.
Here's an Israeli poster made in 1949, honoring "Sea Day" and featuring a part of a biblical verse (Genesis 28, verse 14): "And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth, and you will spread to the sea and to the east, to the north and to the Negev, and blessed in you and in your seed will be all the families of the Earth."
* Among the 613 Jewish mitzvahs, religious decrees that Jews must observe, one explicitly states that whenever possible, Jews should strive to live on their ancestral land in Israel. This is called in Hebrew, "mitzvat yishuv Eretz Yisrael."
* Among the 613 mitzvahs, there are 26 mitzvahs that can only be observed while living in the Land of Israel. These are called in Hebrew, "mitzvot ha'tluiot ba'aretz."
* Jewish homes have included for centuries a decorative piece hung on the eastern wall, and called "mizrach" (the Hebrew word for "east"), because that was the direction of Israel to most Jews. It usually included a biblical verse in Hebrew, often one that either mentions the east, Israel or Jerusalem, and also illustrations of Jerusalem or Israel.
Here's an 18th or 19th century mizrach from Germany:
* In Jewish synagogues, especially in Europe, the eastern wall was the most important one, because it was the one facing Israel. This wall was called, "kotel ha'mizrach" which means in Hebrew "the wall of the east."
* Oh, but the word "kotel" refers specifically to the walls of the Temple Mount. For example, the Western Wall, the only one of the Temple Mount's four walls accessible to Jews for centuries (and therefore the plaza in front of it became the second holiest place to Jews, after the Temple Mount itself) is called in Hebrew, "ha'kotel" (the wall). So why would a synagogue wall be referred to as "kotel" as well? Because every Jewish synagogue is called "mikdash me'at," a lesser temple. Every Jewish synagogue is a reminder and placeholder for the destroyed Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
* Accordingly, many Jewish synagogues feature reminders of the Beit Ha'Mikdash (the Hebrew Temple). For example, this holy ark, from a synagogue in Romania, which survived the Holocaust, and is today presented at Yad Vashem (Israel's national Holocaust museum), includes two pillars on its sides, a reminder of the Temple in Jerusalem's pillars believed to have been build by King Solomon. The holy ark's pillars are named exactly like the Temple's two pillars, Boaz and Yachin. This holy ark also features two hands, they're meant to be the high priest's, while he's performing the priestly blessing, an ancient Jewish ceremony that was conducted on the steps of the Temple in Jerusalem.
* In fact, over the centuries, one of the most prominent Jewish symbols is the menorah, which is a reflection of the candelabra eternally lit in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
The Temple Menorah being stolen by the occupying Romans, as seen on the Titus Arch in Rome:
The menorah as incorporated into jewelery, as a Jewish symbol, goes back thousands of years:
* For centuries, Jews created Jewish art and culture, which expressed Zionist longing. For example, the Sephardi doctor, philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Levi writes what is maybe the most famous of the "Zion poems" while living in Islamic-occupied Spain: "My heart is in the East, and I am at the end of west / How shall I taste what I eat, and how should it be an enjoyable taste? / How shall I repay my vows and commitments, while / Zion is in the ropes of Edom, and I am in the bonds of Arabia? / It would be easy for me to leave all of the good of Spain, just like / It would be precious to me to witness the ashes of a ruined temple."
* In 1140, Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Levi finally fulfilled his wish, and boarded a ship for the Land of Israel. We don't know what happened to him, but the phrasing in a Hebrew letter, written by Jews who knew him, and found in Egypt, implies that he was murdered. For almost 2,000 years, it was dangerous for Jews to try and return to Israel, and it certainly wasn't possible on the scale of a national movement. Jews knew it was dangerous. And yet for centuries, despite that, individual Jews like Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Levi persisted in attempting this return. This is a part of Jewish history. It's not just that there was a small number of Jews, who managed to remain in Israel despite the repeated expulsions and massacres of Jews from our land, it's also that there was a small number of Jews who dared attempt the return to Israel continuously, over centuries, and neither of these things would have happened had Judaism not been Zionist. Always.
* For centuries, every Jewish wedding includes a part, where the groom recites an oath of loyalty and longing for Jerusalem. The text itself is taken from the Bible, from the second part of Psalms 137: "If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself, let my tongue be glued to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not raise Jerusalem at the height of my joy."
* For centuries, every Jewish wedding included a symbolic reminder of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and our ancestors' following expulsion from the Land of Israel, by breaking a cup made of glass.
* For centuries, many Jewish homes featured an unfinished patch, as a similar reminder. I'm a secular Jew, but my real life bestie is religious, and her house has a hole in the eastern wall, intentionally left there.
* In fact, the destruction of the Temple, and the following expulsion of the Jewish people from Israel, is SUCH a traumatic and significant event for the Jewish faith, that there is a religious national day of mourning every year, on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the date when Jews believe the first Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem by the Babylonian occupiers, and the second one, re-built after an expulsion and return of the Jews from Babylon to their native land, was destroyed by the Roman occupiers), when Jews fast.
* Ethiopian Jews, who were probably the most disconnected Jewish community along the centuries, have a special holiday, called Sigd. This name is derived from the Hebrew word for worship or prostration, "sgida." It features asking God to return them to Israel. Since the state of Israel has helped the Ethiopian Jewish community to return to this land, starting in 1982, it has become a part of Sigd to celebrate it specifically in Jerusalem.
The Ethiopian Jewish community celebrating Sigd in Jerusalem:
* In fact, the three major Jewish holidays, other than Yom Kippur, are also called "the three pilgrimages" ("shloshet ha'regalim"), because while the Temple stood in Jerusalem, they included all Jews coming there to celebrate the holiday together. These three holidays are Sukkot, Pesach (Passover) and Shavu'ot.
Here's a piece of art depicting Jews in antiquity, coming from all over Israel to the Temple in Jerusalem for sholoshet ha'regalim:
* The Hebrew Bible itself expresses the Jewish Zionist longing, the desire of the Jews to return to their ancestral land no matter what, after they were expelled by the Babylonians from Israel, the same desire that drove their return from their first exile, as recorded in the Bible, and supported by historical documents and archaeological finds. Here's the first part of Psalms 137:
Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and we wept, as we remembered Zion. On willows there we hung our harps, because there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors for joy. "Sing to us from the song of Zion!" How shall we sing God's song on foreign soil?
and here's the craziest thing about this list: there's a good chance I forgot some stuff.
This is posted in honor of the first candle of Hanukkah tonight, and the many Tumblr antisemites, who distort Jewish identity and history by claiming Zionism is incompatible with or has nothing to do with Judaism, people who in the name of anti-Zionism celebrated the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, who ignore Jews pointing out that anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic, who prove it by going out of their way to deny Jewish native rights, and who think posting "Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish followers!" (as if Hanukkah isn't a Zionist holiday) covers up their antisemitism.
Happy Jewish sovereignty in Israel holiday to all who celebrate Hanukkah! I hope you really enjoy its foods! xoxox
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Hello everyone🍇 This is my playlist of songs that remind me of the time I started working with Dionysus, or the songs that make me feel most connected to him. Maybe some songs don't have any Dionysian vibes, but they are important to me because they make me feel free, wild, and confident. They allow me to show my true colors and not be afraid to reveal who I really am, which is really important for my soul and for my Sag moon! >ᴗ< hope you like it♡
JK's White day live, JM's Angel pt. 1 and all that's in between...
I keep coming back to this clip today.
This is the third time I'm sharing it here today, lol.
But you see, the brain is working, wheels are turning, old and squeaky but still at work.
JK did this, we all know it.
White day live, while JM was in the US, doing who knows what (we will talk about that in a sec).
He got super excited when JM showed up and didn't want him to leave, but JM had work to do (and like I said, we will be getting there in no time).
JK set up the mood. Played songs from his playlist, one being, surprisingly or maybe not so much, There for you by Troye Sivan. The song that happened to be the soundtrack of GCFT. The singer that happens to sing Angel baby.
Then JK plays Golden Hour, by JVKE, who happens to have recorded a song together with JM, who happens to be in the US at the time. We are talking 14 March 2023, song to come out on 18 May 2023. A song that has long been recorded, which means JK KNEW very well at this point that these two are connected.
JK stages the table and camera to showcase the JM, and then sings "your the love of my life" with the song. He knows the song, he knows how to time it perfectly. You can see the wheels in his mind working to time it just right.
So let me put this all together for you:
JK came on White day playing a song that he used for his own soundtrack, GCFT, sung by a singer that has a song called Angel baby (which has been linked to Jikook by many Jikookers), GCFT being a showcase for JM, then played a song by JVKE, showed the JM tattoo and sang "your the love of my life".
All this while knowing that JM is collaborating with JVKE on a song called Angel pt.1 and is in the US, and this last part is an assumption on my part, shooting the MV to said Angel...
JK, the spoiler king was doing his thing here.
This is a hill I am willing to die on.
And you know what else?
JVKE was trolling us all, lmao.
TKKs and JKKs and solos alike. Everyone was dreaming of any option possible, except for one that was JM alone.
Joke was on us, and I have zero hard feelings, lol.
I'm loving every single minute of this.
18 May 2023, if you haven't already, put it in your calendars.
Who knows, maybe JK will come around to remind us... fingers crossed.
Oh, and one more thing...
Knowing everything we know today. Do we still think the J over the M still stands for Jungkook???
@jrooc @blue-disco-lights @gallawitchxx @mickeysgaymom to do the tag game thank you pals!! 💙
✨ pinterest procrastination tag game ✨
rules: first celebrity, outfit, quote, and aesthetic pic on pinterest is your vibe
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✨ weekly tag wednesday friday ✨
name: julissa
age: 33
your time zone: est or edt whatever the fuck
what do you do for work? stupid little formulas in excel
do you have any pets? no 😞
what first drew you to this fandom? i actually watched the show when it first started. lost track sometime during a hiatus. then picked it back up during season 10 and started lurking while it was still airing. but i only started interacting in 2021 when i realized how nice and friendly and welcoming everyone was!
are you a morning person or a night owl? 100% night owl! i tend to be a cranky pants in the mornings
what are your hobbies? drawing and taking silly little pictures mostly! but occassionally i also enjoy reading and baking and crafting and sending letters heehee 🥰
how tall are you? 5'1 🤏
if you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? uhhh idk, i just want to be happy lol
favorite color? blue and green 🌊🌲
favorite book? man idk man there's too many man
favorite movie? (see above) but also almost famous
favorite fic? (see two answers above) but also i would be silly not to mention ITQD or LRPD because those are my most reread. sometimes i'll just blindly choose a chapter when i need to feel better lmao
favorite musical artist: (see three answers above) but also this changes depending on when you ask me. right this second? kevin abstract, griff, and troye sivan - there's some variety for ya lol
what is your average screen time so far this week? 3hrs and 27min - but that's a lie because i'm in front of a computer literally all day so...
what's the first app you open in the morning? depends on the notifications. but 9 times out of 10 it's discord
how long have you been on tumblr? like 14/15 years... on and off but um yea lmaoalsdkfj about 3 years actively posting on this account though
finally (and i know this one is hard) tell me a fun fact about yourself: i can fall asleep anywhere. just give me a few minutes.
i'm really late, but i'll tag a few babies @whatthebodygraspsnot @whatwouldmickeydo @metalheadmickey @howlinchickhowl @rereadanon if ya want. if not, this is just me giving you a little smooch 💙
🟡 Friday - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime
Rosh Chodesh Sivan, have a good new month!
Erev Shabbat - Parshat Bamidbar - Numbers 1:1 - In the Sinai Desert, G‑d says to conduct a census of the twelve tribes of Israel.
🌡 HEAT WARNING.. high temperatures today and tomorrow, returning to normal summer temps Sunday. Hydrate, check your elderly. And there have already been several baby and toddler deaths from left-in-car overheating, be extra careful!
🔸DEAL.. Hamas leader Sinwar to mediators: "Hamas will not disarm”. (WSJ)
.. Qatar has threatened senior Hamas officials to be expelled from Doha if they oppose the deal.
.. Qatari Foreign Ministry: "Hamas has not yet responded to the proposal for a ceasefire; they are still studying the proposal and the efforts of the mediating countries continue.” (Yes this is opposite from previous reports.)
▪️INFILTRATION FROM JORDAN.. overnight near Tirat Zvi. Town alert squads activated, IDF searching area.
▪️HEZBOLLAH FIRED ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES.. at Israeli jets over south Lebanon. This is the first time they have fired at jets, but have previously shot down Israeli high flying observation drones.
▪️NETANYAHU TO SPEAK TO U.S. CONGRESS.. on July 24.
▪️US SEC STATE BLINKEN TO ISRAEL.. early in the coming week.
▪️ISRAEL ORDERS MORE F-35’s.. Israel signs a contract with the US to purchase 25 F-35 fighter jets for $3 billion.
▪️KIRYAT SHMONA SHOPPING MALL HIT.. by Hezbollah suicide drone. Significant damage, no injuries. (( As a precision weapon, someone want to comment about shooting at military vs civilian sites? Israel is literally dropping leaflets warning civilians, Hezbollah is targeting civilians. ))
▪️MEDIA FEEDING THE ENEMY ENERGY.. The Lebanese Al Mayadeen channel quotes from the editorial of the Haaretz newspaper this morning: “The countdown has begun and it is only a matter of time to the final collapse of Israel. A Lebanon war will push Israel into the abyss with a lack of international legitimacy and an exhausted army.” This is from an Israeli newspaper during a war!
▪️HOUSING.. High Court decision on a long running case on who pays differences in some indexed payments on fixed price new apartments, the contractor, the State, or the buyer which was agreed between the contractors and State to be divided among the 3 - the court rules buyers aren’t party to the agreement and therefore can’t be charged. Savings of NIS 8,000 per 1,000,000 of home price for buyers are expected. (Calcalist)
▪️MORE POLITICAL POLLING.. this time from right wing Ch. 14..
Likud - 25
National Unity - 17
Israel our Home - 14
Yesh Atid - 13
Shas - 10
Otzma Yehudit - 9
Labor - 9
United Torah Judaism - 8
Ra’am - 6
Religious Zionism - 5
Hadash-Ta’al - 4
Balad - below minimum at 3%
Meretz - below minimum at 2.2%
National Right - below minimum at 1.7%
Trends of note: Labor significantly up with new leader, Israel our Home trending up.
⭕ HAMAS ROCKETS at Magen and Ein HaBsor near Gaza.
⭕ HEZBOLLAH ROCKETS at Beit Hillel, Ma'ayan Baruch, HaGoshrim, Zarit in the north.
SPECIAL REPORTS
❗️ON INFILTRATION from Gaza attack:
.. The tunnel shaft through which the terrorists reached 200 meters from the border is a shaft that is connected to a tunnel that has been known to Israel for 10 years, since Operation Protective Edge, and has not been destroyed.
.. When the terrorists reached the first fence, the old fence, they passed through an opening in the fence that remained breached and unprepared. And while IDF forces are using it for entry to Gaza, not even a gate added.
❗️EMERGENCY PLANNING
Links to prepare for greater conflict. Note many of the links work on in Israel, to view from outside use a VPN (special app or program that lets you appear somewhere else on the internet).
.. Preparing your home for an emergency. https://www.oref.org.il/12490-15902-en/Pakar.aspx
.. Supplies and Equipment for Emergencies. https://www.oref.org.il/12490-15903-en/pakar.aspx
.. Help Prep your Neighborhood and Family Elderly. https://www.oref.org.il/12550-20999-en/pakar.aspx
Love and Deepspace: Rafayel
Spotify
15 tracks | 50 minutes
"Glub glub"
//tracklist// 1. Love and Deepspace Instrumental // 2. Swim [Explicit] - Chase Atlantic // 3. Han Solo - Nirob Islam // 4. Reflections - The Neighbourhood // 5. gold rush - Taylor Swift // 6. Ballroom Extravaganza - DPR IAN // 7. Play Me Like A Violin - Stephen // 8. Tip Toe - HYBS // 9. Shinunoga E-Wa - Fujii Kaze // 10. I.F.L.Y. [Explicit] - Bazzi // 11. My Time - BTS // 12. "Slut!" (From The Vault) - Taylor Swift // 13. Lonely Eyes - Lauv // 14. If I Can't Have You - Shawn Mendes // 15. BITE - Troye Sivan //