#Jewish exodus

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Pharaoh on the morning of the 8th plague

[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 🤍💙

[sova-dozhd]

And God said to Moses, “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh,” continuing, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, ‘Ehyeh sent me to you.’

Apparently I lied LMFAO the one with Ruth and Naomi wasn't my first art for Judaism, I forgot I had done this one like two years ago during Rosh Hashanah

Once again, I hope my Hebrew is right LMFAO this one was digitally done but

[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:

[whitesunlars]

👏don’t👏add👏Jesus stuff👏to👏prince of egypt👏posts👏it’s👏a👏jewish👏movie👏

[jewish-culture-is]

Jewish culture is being salty because your parasha piece for your bnei mitzvah was from Leviticus, while your sister got it from like one of the coolest books, Exodus

(as a side note, at least my bit wasn’t just reading a bunch of rules. I got 10:1-11— Nadav and Avihu just getting smited and Aharon not being allowed to mourn, it was… a little intense)

real, coming up with a speech about my parasha was so hard 😭 but apparently I delivered it well!

[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.

[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, וּבִזְר��עַ 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]

[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.

[look-books]

"We read in the Midrash that: Rabbi Juda bar Nehemyia explained that since Moses was a beginner when it came to hearing God’s word, the Holy One reasoned: If I reveal myself to him in My awesome full voice, I run the risk of destroying him. On the other hand, if I speak with a soft voice, he will regard my word as trivial. … אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא אִם נִגְלֶה אֲנִי עָלָיו בְּקוֹל גָּבֹהַּ אֲנִי מְבַעֲתוֹ וְאִם בְּקוֹל נָמוֹךְ בּוֹסֵר הוּא עַל הַנְּבוּאָה … (Exodus Rabba 45:5)

The resolution of the paradox is the same as its source. God becomes parent. What did the Holy One do? He revealed himself in the voice of Moses’ father. Cried Moses, “Father! You have come out of Egypt!?” “No,” he answered. “I am not your father. Only the God of your father.” … נִגְלֶה עָלָיו בְּקוֹלוֹ שֶׁל אָבִיו … (Ibid. 45:6)

And man becomes child. Afraid to confront the paradox, man forsakes ultimate wisdom. Whereupon Moses hid his face. Rabbi Yehoshua bar Karcha lamented, it is too bad that Moses hid his face. If he hadn’t hidden his face the Holy One would have revealed to him what was above and what was below. What was. And what would in the future come to be. … שֶׁאִלּוּלֵי שֶׁהִסְתּיר פָּנָיו הָיָה מְגַלֶּה לוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַה לְּמַעְלָן וּמַה לְּמַטָּן … (Ibid. 45:5)

And now that we would return to the resolution once offered everything has reverted to its opposite once again. But now, later on, when Moses wanted to see God, he said, “Show me all your glory.” The Holy One said, “When I wanted to see you, you hid your face. And now that you want to see Me, I don’t want to see you. Man shall not see Me and live.” … כְּשֶׁבִּקַּ���ְתִּי לֹא בִקָּשְׁתָּ עַכְשָׁו שֶׁבִּקַּשְׁתָּ אֵינִי מְבַקֵּשׁ. (Exodus Rabba 45:5)"

-Lawrence Kushner, Honey from the Rock, chapter 2, part 19 (יט)

[bijoumikhawal]

The Tannin foretelling the Pharaoh's doom