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re: your comment about the misinterpretation and misuse of "tikkun olam" by non-Jews, could you please explain what it *does* mean? I've heard that it roughly translates to repairing the world (like with Rabbi Tarfon's "it is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it"), but idk if that's what it actually is or not (sorry if any phrasing is weird, i've been awake for way too long today)
Your understanding is correct.
It does mean repairing the world. This means doing charity and choosing kindness whenever possible and generally doing small and large things without recognition in order to leave the world better than you found it. Plant a tree. Read at a nursing home. Save all your loose change for ten years then donate that amount to a cause you care about. Make kindness that helps others heal a part of your daily practice. This is tikkun olam.
I have seen bigots who consider themselves progressive try to goysplain tikkun olam as Jews attempting to impose their idea of perfection on the world around them and that we use it to justify violence. I have seen people say that Jews consider the bombing of Gaza and Rafah to be the ideal practice of tikkun olam. And it is a blatantly and horrifically false and disingenuous to say this. Tikkun olam is my absolute favorite aspect of my faith. I wake up and choose kindness and peace every single day and have since I learned about this concept. It is not always easy, but it is always worth it.
And to see others pervert it into something violent and to associate that violence as synonymous with Jewish religious ideology is truly one of the most painful things I’ve experienced in this conflict and one of the most bigoted things I’ve experienced in my life.
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Today at work I rang up an older Jewish lady. I noticed her magen david, and complimented it. She froze for a second and then relaxed, and asked me where mine was. I showed her my necklace and we had a short conversation. She said that she could tell all the way from the queue line that I was Jewish. At one point she said, "these days we just want to-" and she closed her shirt a bit to hide her magen. I wish I weren't so socially awkward because instead of nodding along, I would have told her, "no, we can't hide, not anymore, not again." I wish I could have hugged her and told her how much she- a total stranger- means to me. Every time I run into another Jew when I'm not expecting it, it takes my breath away. I'm reminded of why I converted- because I fell in love with Judaism, the Jewish people, Jewish culture, Jewish everything. Jews, I love you so much. We are amazing. We have each other. עם ישראל חי
#there arent many jews in the town that i work in#she is the third jewish customer ive had#well. there was one whos husband is jewish and shes pretty embedded in the culture. shes not jewish but part of the community yknow?#i literally spent the drive home trying not to cry because i was so overwhelmed with love and gratitude for the jewish people#jumblr
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I love that Judaism focusses so much on the here and now of our actions rather than what happens after death. I think it's so important that so many beliefs and rules are about how we live and not how we die because at the end of the day, how we live impacts other while how we die, in theory, does not (obviously grief etc but physically the way I die shouldn't really have a material affect on others, unlike living my life to help and raise other up).
I honestly think it's something a lot of people struggle to understand as the dominant global religions of Christianity and Islam put so much importance on heaven and hell and like... Should those exist, then that's a problem for me once I get there. I cannot believe a good and loving G-d would send someone to hell when they have led a life to better the world however that same person didn't believe in the right deity? I cannot understand the idea that faith will protect you from all sins and negative actions - that you could harm and hurt but because you believe in G-d then all of that is forgiven and completely fine.
It's why I find the notion of atonement and forgiveness in Judaism so healing and important. If you have harmed your fellow man, they are the one who must grant forgiveness if you are truly apologetic, not G-d and not a priest. It is only after you have shown true contrition for what you have done, and tried to make amends, that you can go to G-d for forgiveness. The only person who can grant forgiveness is the one harmed and you have to face up to that. The idea that a priest can just relieve you of the harm you've caused someone else is so insulting to me. That they could still be hurting and confused and dinstead of trying to find out why and growing as a person, you leave them in that state to satiate your own need for release from the guilt.
I feel lucky to be from a people who value our time on earth as important and not just a temporary sojourn before heaven and a people that understands that to apologise and atone, you must face up to what you have done in the realest possible way.
As a note, I am not trying to bash religions. I'm sure there are some with similar views, it's more that I can probably count on one hand the number of times he'll and heaven have been discussed in shul because they are just not the most important thing?
#jumblr#yom kippur#musings#jewish musings#to be clear im not trying to bash islam and Christianity#judaism is not just a religion so it makes sense that our customs are not exlusively about g-d#also the idea of eternal torment for a life of 70 years is insane to me#i appreciate the human brain doesnt like to think of infinities but eternity is a long fucking time
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When I was a kid my grandma was my only close Jewish relative so I just assumed everything she did was universally Jewish (including the French language) and I'm still trying to figure out which are real- I know it could be a minhag and you wouldn't know, but have y'all ever heard that you have to eat something parve between eating meat and dairy? or was my grandma just trying to make me eat my vegetables before desert?
Rating: Who are we to argue with the wisdom of your mothers?
We surveyed a range of family, friends, and acquaintances with different minhagim (customs related to religious observance, as distinct from halakha, the requirements of religious law). Some folks wait one, three, or six hours between meat and dairy. Some people say that it’s making the distinction between meals that matters, so if you sit at the Shabbes table all afternoon after a nice cholent lunch and you only clear away the dishes when it’s time for seuda shlisheet, you should not have a dairy meal, but if you have a pastrami with friends and then come home and want ice cream before bed, those are clearly separate things regardless of how many hours it has been. Some people say that you should just brush your teeth between meat and dairy so you don’t accidentally mix meat and milk in your mouth if you’ve got some meat residue between your teeth. However, none of the people we surveyed were familiar with the minhag you have described.
That said! It is still entirely possible that this minhag does exist somewhere— there is, as we said, a range of customs and traditions around this matter, and it’s hard to prove a negative. Furthermore, there is also a Jewish principle of following the practices of your elders when it comes to matters of minhag. It is for this reason that many Ashkenazi Jews today continue to avoid kitniyot on Passover, even though we no longer have the same concerns about mixing up our grains—we are simply following the traditions of our ancestors.
Additionally, there is a rule for eating something parve between dairy and meat, as in dairy first. Unless the dairy is a hard cheese, which takes longer to digest (at least according to the rabbis) you don’t have to wait at all, depending on your custom, but should eat something parve as a “palate cleanser.” See the second paragraph here.
If you assume that the foundational principle of all the various minhagim around eating dairy after meat are about maintaining the clear distinction between the two categories, eating something parve between them is a perfectly cogent position to hold.
And hey, it got you to eat your vegetables.
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When I was a kid, I used to pitch a tent in my bedroom to sleep in, so you can imagine why sukkot is one of my favorite holidays
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#I DON'T CARE THAT SUKKOT IS IN... OCTOBER#i just remembered how often i would pitch my Actual Two-Person Teny in my Actual Bedroom#my bedroom was spacious because i didn't have much furniture and i was a clean freak#i would get on my hands and knees to clean the floor because i didn't have a mop 💀#so i'd pretend i was like... boy cinderella#like sukkot isn't my all-time favorite but it's a holiday i love because of the meaning and customs
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Various religious symbols
Cross | Star of David | Grimoire or Spellbook
can be used for symbols "Christian" , "Jewish" and "Pagan" or simialr
#aac image#aac emoji#aac symbol#custom emoji#discord emoji#emoji#discord emotes#art#christianity#cross#star of david#jewish#jewdaism#pagan#paganism#artist
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1. Instructions in Mourning Customs
2. Funeral Procession
3. Burial
Manuscript made ca. 1450 - 1500, currently in Princeton University Library.
#manuscript#illustration#funeral services#burial#jewish#customs#history#15th century#gothic#tempera painting#judaism
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[ID: a drawing of a hollow blue folder with a blue AAC device inside. end ID]
[ID: a drawing of a hollow blue folder with a light blue Magen David inside. end ID]
[ID: a drawing of a hollow blue folder with a red nametag inside, which has some scribbles on it. end ID]
some quick folders for ourselfves!! one for AAC, one for Judaism, one for names
#emojis#custom emojis#petrichoremojis#AAC folder#Judaism folder#names folder#Jewish emojis#disability emojis#folders#Cecil's tag
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If you looked in TK’s camera roll, you’d be sure to see-
12 pictures of stranger’s dogs
11 “keep going” mantras from Cooper
10 pictures of Buttercup
9 of Carlos cooking
8 of Carlos doing yoga
7 sensational selfies
6 game night victories
5 unhinged memes
4 saved recipes
3 Mateo close ups
2 FaceTime screenshots
And an article about leaving the bag in your teaaaa 🎶
#911 lone star#tk strand#inspired by the post of TK’s sad camera roll from the carlos is kidnapped episode#like could they have put in any effort at all#as to this do not ask what it is i do not know lol#in theory it would be to the tune of the 12 days of christmas but tk is jewish and is that weird#but i came up with this in my head last night when i hadn’t eaten for five hours because i was told to take my lunch break#an hour and a half into my shift because of how short staffed we are#so this helped me not cry in front of customers lol#sorry for complaining i need to shut up lol
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How to explain to this goy that just because we dated for 3 months doesn't mean i need your weird thoughts in my inbox like;
"I thought this guy was gonna assume my pentacle was actually a star of David, and he was gonna be antisemitic to me! But then he didn't and wasn't, and he was normal!"
Like okay. You made up someone to get mad at as a non-Jew who I'm sure means well but always needs corrected ANY TIME the topic was Judaism. Because you're always a little wrong but speaking with some semblance of authority on the topic. Cause you dated me, and one other Jew once.
She means well and I know that but also I'm cringing out of my body because there's more than enough real antisemitism happening that actual Jews experience so I actually don't want to hear about your made up story that only makes my anxiety get bad for NOTHING
Is my generational trauma a joke to you
#like i have no clue how to not sound rude because she genuinely thinks this is an average nice chat#where we talk shit about shitty customers because working with the public does often suck#but shes draining me with bad people who don't exist#personal#not witchy sorry#jumblr#jewish#jewitch#goyim gonna goy#goyim don't touch#goyim shut up challenge#goyim dni#humanist jew#secular jew
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Do your little Jewish sim boys need itchy cardigans to be shoved into for holiday events? Then these are for you!
I thought it sad that the Seasons cardigan had Christmas Tree cardigans but nothing for Hanukkah or Rosh Hashanah, so I decided to try my hand at a few extra swatches. Although the Star of David and Menorah cardigans repeat the pattern all the way around, the Apples and Honey cardigan reads "שנה טובה."
Shanah tovah to you and yours these High Holidays.
Requires Seasons. Made for Child sims.
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Made with S4S.
#sims 4#simblr#sims#the sims 4#ts4#my cc#sims 4 cc#ccsaturday#ts4cc#ts4 seasons recolor#ts4 recolor#ts4 custom content#ts4 seasons#jewish sims#jewish sims cc#jewish cc#sims hanukkah#sims rosh hashanah
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you guys gotta learn to be a lot cooler about religions that aren't your own
and yes. that does include christianity.
#eli talks#And I Mean It.#the priority obviously is to get cooler about islam and judaism and all. like the religions that get oppressed?#but that firsthand and secondhand religious trauma is making a lot of people very not cool anymore#it makes a lot of people kind of. assholes. even.#white ppl who grew up baptist or catholic or mormon or whatever else that are now athiests will like#talk about how evil religion is. how toxic. how controlling. only really meaning christianity.#bc that's the only religion that really exists to them. as ex-christians.#they ignore the way various black and indigenous ppl have fused their traditions and customs with christianity to survive#they ignore the positive teachings of christianity like charity and reserving judgement and kindness and patience#they ignore the positive elements of religious organization like community-building. fund-raising. finding meaning.#and it's ok to have religious trauma. sucks that it happened. but there's nothing wrong with you being traumatized.#can you for the love of god stop making that everyone else's problem though?#like . can you be normal about how other people choose to interact with the world?#can you be normal about the culture other people practice? the foods they eat? clothes they wear? rituals they perform?#can you like. not try to trick a jewish person into eating pork? can you not ban hijab?#can you just clench your teeth and not say anything mean to someone praying before a meal?#can you keep your comments to yourself when someone says they are going to pray for your hardships to lessen?#when an indigenous person mentions a ceremony they did or a practice they do. can you not call it mumbo jumbo? maybe?#can you abstain from calling a catholic creepy for the ash on their forehead?#idk. i feel a certain way about this.
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Sfira begins and with it my acapella playlist. Naturally my tendency to relisten to the same song on repeat has gone into full force too.
#jumblr#jewish joy#my custom is to not listen to recorded music as well as live#acapella is fine#and is my life saver
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Anna Binkuńska (1908–1997) "Żydowskie wesele”
Autorka przykleiła kartkę z opisem jego treści:
"Żydowskie wesele. Państwo młodzi siedzą z rodziną ze starszymi. Młodzież bawi się w innym mieszkaniu. Wódka nie stoi na stole ani wino. Nalewa się gościom trochę do szklanek lub kieliszków. Żydzi tańczą oddzielnie starsi. Pochylają się, przysiadają, nie udało mi się tego odtworzyć. Żydówki tańczą starsze taniec z chałkami, podrzuca jedna z nich te chałki w górę, inna łapie i później ona podrzuca. Wreszcie kroi się na kromki i zjada z faszerowaną rybą lub z galaretką z nóg wołowych. Czasem bywa też rosół na weselu."
Źródło: Muzeum Etnograficzne we Wrocławiu/Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław
✍️ Joanna Kurbiel, Dział Sztuki ME @folkmania
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I'm back. It only took three messages to Tumblr customer support over the past week. They apologized for terminating my account. I was told it was a mistake. But I'm back and I'm as Jewish, Zionist, and jazz-loving as ever.
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Becoming jewish because being a lawyer is too much work
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#meme#this is a joke if it wasn't clear#(also i'm doing a branch of medicine instead of law which is probably worse. lol.)#i'm thinking about that story where g-d Himself told those rabbis They Were Wrong Actually and they still said#'three votes are still more than two. lol.' like even if that's a joke it's iconic#actually in terms of becoming jewish... i guess in a way you almost do become like a lawyer in terms of jewish law#like you study how different customs and different ways the law applies and then you can (if need be) argue it#like how in shul the rabbi and a member were discussing/arguing about the order of havdalah and the purim party#like they were arguing until they went 'okay so let's do the thing that ovserves the most mitzvot'#i just realized i used 'like' thrice. that is way too much#see being jewish appeals to me for the same reason medicine and academia appeals to me: the learning factor#and the way that learning is prioritized over for instance... like looking good or Looking like you are doing good deeds#though if law wasn't often stuffy and the justice system did Not Suck i would maybe want to be an Actual Lawyer#i love arguing with people. i love that everything in the world we ever talk about is an argument. i love defending Topics#i would be a Menace in court. like phoenix wright if he were a little rabid
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