#Jewish exodus

[haleviyah]

You know who you are and I love you. Have a very blessed week full of family, fun and healing!

[ruraljew]

i helped hold up the torah scroll with my own hands today. i ate beneath the bamboo s'chach of the sukkah. there was prayer and laughter in the wind as acorns rained down on us from the synagogue's oak trees. a child named esther absconded with the yad and helped find the first word. my cheeks ache from smiling and my heart is so full.

[hebrewbyinbal]

חג שמח! Happy holiday 🤍💙

[the-one-who-lambs]

Y'all in the comments of chapter 11: AUGH Lambert's unleavened bread sounds so good! I want to try it with the soup Narinder made!!

Me, who based it on matzah:

[alagaisia]

I’m going to say it. I think Moses is going to win the tanakh sexyman bracket.

It’s all fun and games voting for trees and rocks and background characters, but even aside from the picture chosen, I can’t imagine *not* voting for Moses. I don’t care if he’s a sexyman or not. Like. That’s my guy. It’s him! It’s a silly little tumblr poll and I am not very religious at all but he is the main guy. To me. I’m sure all these other stories are just as important rabbinically speaking and in terms of like creating and protecting the Jewish people. But my dad did not read them to me every year at Passover while we all participated in Rituals™️!

And I have to imagine others feel the same way since he’s cleaning up right now with 75% while everyone else’s polls are closer together.

[humusboii2thereturnoftheking]

Talking to Palestinian Refugees as a Diaspora Jew

These are quotes from a discussion I encountered and I believe will bring insight to many, on both sides of the conflict.

It starts as follows:

"There is this one woman who sings for a local band and is from a Palestinian family. She often tells the story of how her family owned a house and a shop in Ashkelon but during the war of independence they had to leave their house and ended up in a refugee tent city in Gaza. Eventually they made there way to Cairo and then to America. She has the key to the family's old Ashkelon house that her grandfather passed down to her father, passed down to her and will show people it to tell about how she lost her homeland. Something she often says is "how come they get to be on the land because their ancestors were there 2000 years ago but I can't even go to the land my grandfather was at 75 years ago?"

how am I supposed respond to that? Am I really supposed to say no you don't have a right to your family's land???"

The answers I found most insightful:

• You can empathize with her families story while still realizing that the Palestinian leadership is failing her people.

• Half of my family were forced out of their home in North Africa and ethnically cleansed from there alongside nearly 1M other Jews. My grandparents did not get to keep the keys to their house or business because that’s not usually what happens when you get kicked out. they came to Israel with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. We didn’t even know grandmother’s birthdate because their citizenships were revoked. They lived in tents for months and a new disease was spreading every week. How come I’m still not legally allowed where my grandparents were born? How come Palestinians are eternal refugees and my grandparents weren’t? The irony here is just insane.

• Not to mention Arab countries encouraged Palestinians to leave and return once the genocide (war) is over: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." - 1st secretary of the Arab league, 1948.

• “The Arab states encouraged Palestinian Arabs to leave” - Jordan’s newspaper, Feb 19, 1949

• “it must not be forgotten that the Arab higher committee encouraged refugees’ flight from Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem” - near East Arabic broadcasting station, April 3, 1949

• “since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees while it is we who made them leave. We brought disaster upon Arab refugees…”- Khaled Al Azm, Syria’s prime minister.

• Refugees all over the world (including Jews!) are forced to leave their homes. They make new lives in new lands. I don't hold onto the key of my great-grandparents' house in Belarus and demand the government give me our house and try to kill random Belorussians because of it.

• A quarter of Baghdad in the 30' was Jewish. My friend's grandparents came from there, they were so rich her grandmother didn't even know how to brush her own hair or dress herself because they had servants. They had to leave everything behind and live in a tin hut in Israel. Wars cause population to move. It's a tragedy but it's been happening everywhere. You think Germans were happy about leaving their homes in what is Poland today? I don't see them trying to go home to Poland.

[nickysfacts]

All hail the Jewish Heartthrob of Darkness!

🖤🗡🖤

[artcinemas]

it’s sad how india who once recognised palestine as it’s own nation is now assisting israel in it’s genocide it’s awful it’s sick. as a country who was colonized and invaded for centuries, are ignoring the value and parallel of the palestinian resistance. especially those specialists in history. rot.

[sefaradweb]

📜 La Haggadah Dorada, una joya medieval del arte judío

🇪🇸 La Haggadah Dorada es un manuscrito iluminado de lujo, creado entre 1320 y 1330 en Cataluña, España, y actualmente conservado en la Biblioteca Británica de Londres. Sus ilustraciones, adornadas con fondos de pan de oro, narran episodios bíblicos desde el Génesis hasta el Éxodo, con un enfoque en el relato de la Pascua Judía. Este manuscrito, compuesto por 56 escenas en 8 páginas dobles, fusiona arte y narrativa, reinterpretando motivos cristianos en clave judía, según el análisis innovador del historiador del arte Marc Michael Epstein. El manuscrito incluye elementos únicos: mujeres prominentes en 46 escenas, como Miriam liderando el canto tras cruzar el Mar Rojo, un tema inusual y destacado. Además, utiliza patrones visuales diagonales y secuencias narrativas que evocan la exégesis judía medieval, combinando el pshat (interpretación literal) y el drash (interpretación homilética). Las imágenes trascienden lo literal, tejiendo comentarios sobre temas como la misión divina y la fecundidad judía. Incluso se especula que este tesoro podría haber sido creado para una mujer, posiblemente en duelo por un hijo perdido. La Haggadah Dorada no solo es un ejemplo de arte medieval, sino también un puente entre pasado y presente, mostrando la complejidad y riqueza del pensamiento judío.

🇺🇸 The Golden Haggadah is a luxurious illuminated manuscript, created around 1320–1330 in Catalonia, Spain, now housed in the British Library in London. Its illustrations, adorned with gold leaf backgrounds, narrate biblical episodes from Genesis to Exodus, with a focus on the Passover story. Consisting of 56 scenes across 8 double pages, this manuscript blends art and narrative, reinterpreting Christian motifs with a distinctly Jewish lens, as analyzed by art historian Marc Michael Epstein. A unique feature is the prominent role of women, appearing in 46 scenes, such as Miriam leading the song after crossing the Red Sea, an unusual and highlighted theme. Additionally, it employs diagonal visual patterns and narrative sequences reflecting medieval Jewish exegesis, combining pshat (literal interpretation) and drash (homiletic interpretation). The images go beyond illustration, weaving commentary on themes like divine mission and Jewish fertility. It is speculated that this treasure may have been created for a woman, possibly mourning a lost child. The Golden Haggadah stands not only as an example of medieval art but also as a bridge between past and present, revealing the depth and complexity of Jewish thought.

[magnetothemagnificent]

.וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה לַאֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְלָנוּ

"And She is the One who stood for our forefathers and for us."

[Pesach Haggadah]

וַיּוֹצִאֵנוּ ה' מִמִצְרַיִם בְּיָד חֲזָקָה, וּבִזְרֹעַ נְטוּיָה, וּבְמֹרָא גָּדֹל, וּבְאֹתוֹת וּבְמֹפְתִים.

"And G-d took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstreched arm, and with great awe, and with signs and with wonders."

[Deuteronomy, Ki Tavo, 26:8]

Thinking about how the One who Stood (Hashem) in V'Hi Sh'Amda in the Haggadah is referred to as "She".......

[id in alt text]

[dragoneyes618]

"The commandment to love God may occasionally be difficult to fulfill, but it is among the Bible's least controversial laws. The admonition to fear God, on the other hand, antagonizes many people, bringing to mind primitive images of religion, accompanied by threats of punishment and damnation.

In fact, fear of God in the Torah is intended to achieve two effects:

- to prevent people from fearing human beings more than God;

- to promote ethical and compassionate treatment of society's weakest members.

The Bible understands fear of God to be liberating. Exodus 1:15 records the Egyptian pharaoh's decree to murder all male Hebrew infants at birth by ordering attending midwives to kill them. The two leading midwives, Shifra and Puah, thwart Pharaoh's plan by allowing the babies to live.

What motivates these women to risk their lives by disobeying a royal decree? The Bible writes: 'The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them, they let the boys live' (Exodus 1:17).

The frustrated pharaoh then commands all the Egyptian people to participate in his murderous plan. Unlike the midwives, who are more in awe of God than of Pharaoh, the rest of the Egyptians fear Pharaoh more than God and follow his orders.

The liberating effect of fear of God has often been manifested in twentieth-century totalitarian societies (both Nazi and Communist), in which a disproportionate percentage of political dissenters have been God-fearers. People who don't believe in or fear God are far less likely to risk their lives - the most valuable possession they have - to defy the regime and help others. In contrast, true fearers of God, such as the midwives, recognize that obedience to God's will is more important than anything, including life."

-Biblical Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 415-416

[bijoumikhawal]

The Tannin foretelling the Pharaoh's doom

[hebrewbyinbal]

If this Passover feels ironically painful to you, you are not alone.

Passover is a time when we reflect on moving from slavery to freedom מֵעַבְדוּת לְחֵרוּת. With so many having their freedom forcibly taken away in unimaginable ways, it feels like since Oct 7 part of our own freedom is missing too.

I hope this Passover, despite the heavy hearts, brings you moments of peace and reflection.

Let's keep those who can't be with us in our thoughts and prayers, and use this time to appreciate and fight for the precious freedom we often take for granted.

Wishing you the best Passover possible under the circumstances. Let’s hold onto hope and push for a future where freedom is truly universal.

[inkfireflies]

Just biblic entertainment since 1998

[jeandejard3n]

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