#OLAM HOLIDAYS

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Addressing the Oppression of Palestinians at Your Seder: a guide from IfNotNow

#FreePalestine #ChagPesachSameach

[fdelopera]

Never Again is NOW

This evening marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah. This Jewish holiday and Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Yom HaShoah is different than International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the 6 million Jews, as well as the Romani and all the others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II.

Yom HaShoah is the day for Jews mourn our dead and to remember the Jews who heroically fought back against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We mourn the 6 million Jews who were murdered the LAST time the entire world was infected by the mind-virus of Jew-hate.

In the midst of this current global tidal wave of Jew-hate, we Jews say NEVER AGAIN. Never again is NOW.

And a reminder to non-Jews who might try to steal this phrase:

Never Again is a Jewish phrase. Period. It doesn’t belong to non-Jews.

Never Again refers to the Shoah, and to the THOUSANDS of years of violent Jew-hatred we have endured before then.

Never Again states that we Jews will NEVER AGAIN be slaughtered by the millions.

If you are a goy, and you use this phrase for any other purpose, you are engaging in cultural appropriation.

You are appropriating Jewish trauma and pain that IS NOT YOURS.

Unless you are willing to shoulder the burden of 3500+ years of Jewish history, you do NOT get to use this phrase.

If you steal Never Again for any other context, all you are doing is broadcasting that you are a Jew-hating bigot who engages in Holocaust Inversion.

And you can take your antisemitic bigotry and go fuck off into the sun.

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Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, borei p’ri hagafen.

Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’ratza vanu, v’shabbat kod’sho b’ahava uv’ratzon hinchilanu, zikaron l’ma’aseh b’reishit. Ki hu yom t’chila l’mikra-ay kodesh, zaycher l’tziat mitzrayim. Ki vanu vacharta v’otanu kidashta mikol ha’amim. V’shabbat kod-shi-cha b’ahava uv’ratzon hinchal tanu. Baruch ata Adonai, mi’kadesh ha Shabbat.

(Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.

Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, how has sanctified us with his commandments and favored us, and given us in love and favor his holy Shabbat as an inheritance, as a remembrance of the act of creation. For this day is the beginning of all holy days, a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt. For you have chosen us and you have blessed us from among all the nations. And you have bequeathed us your holy Shabbat in love and favor. Blessed are you, Lord, who sanctifies Shabbat.)

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Feel this, to all those races, colors, and creeds, every man bleeds

For the countless victims and all the families of the murdered, tortured, enslaved

Raped, robbed and persecuted — Never Again

To the men, women, and children who died in their struggle to live

Never to be forgotten, Reuven Ben Menachem, yo…

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My own blood dragged through the mud

Perished in my heart, still cherished and loved

Stripped of our pride, everything we lived for

Families cried, there's nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Tossed to the side, access denied

6 million died, for what?

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Yo, a man shot dead in his back

Helpless women and children under constant attack

For no reason 'til the next season and we still bleeding

Yo it's freezing and men burn in Hell, some for squeezing

No hope for a remedy, nothing to believe

Moving targets who walk with the star on their sleeve

Forever marked with a number tattooed to your body

Late night, eyes closed, clutched to my shotty

Having visions, flashes of death camps and prisons

No provisions, deceived by the Devil's decisions

Forced into a slave, death before dishonor

For those men who were brave, shot and sent to their grave

Can't awaken, it's too late, everything's been taken

I'm shaken, family, history in the making

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Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again shall we sit and take orders

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d then burned of our bones

Never again, never again, shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again leave our sons and daughters

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

(Never again) Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d and everything we own (Never again)

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Some fled through the rumors of wars

But most left for dead, few escaped to the shores

With just one loaf of bread, banished

Called in for questioning and vanished, never to be seen again

I can't express the pain, that was felt in the train

To Auschwitz, tears poured down like rain

Naked, face to face with the master race

Hatred, blood, and David, my heart belongs to God and stays sacred

Rabbis and priests, disabled individuals

The poor, the scholars — all labeled common criminals

Mass extermination, total annihilation

Shipped into the ghetto and prepared for liquidation

Tortured and starved, innocent experiments

Stripped down and carved up or gassed to death

The last hour, I smelled the flowers

Flashbacks of family then sent to the showers

Powerless, undressed, women with babies clumped tight to their chest — crying

Who would've guessed — dying

Another life lost, count the cost

Another body gas-burned and tossed in the Holocaust

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Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again leave our sons and daughters

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d and everything we own

Never again, never again, shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again shall we sit and take orders

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

(Never again) Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d then burned of our bones (Never again)

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Never Again. Never Again.

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From the USA to Afghanistan

From Israel to Pakistan

From Iraq to Iran

To Russia, Poland, and France

From China over to Japan

Worldwide

Never Again

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Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad

(“Hear O Yisrael, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is One.” The Shema is the most important prayer in Judaism. It is the declaration of our faith in one G-d. Jews say the Shema prayer every day, in the morning and evening. And we also say the Shema before we die.)

FIRE!

*GUNSHOT*

[ask-maxie-boy]

Goonion's Ghoul is coming to AO3

Doing a bit of a rewrite, only 1 chapter in so far, but. yea! here it is. If you dont know, silly little fic where Danny finds himself as rep for the Goon Union of Gotham (aka the Goonion)

Tag list under cut

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[vaspider]

What got you to "discover" judaism is for you ? What memory do you hold of the first jewish holiday you celebrate as a child of Abraham ?

Im not sure if that is how I should say it, but happy Chanukah :)

I remember the first time that someone explained the concept of tikkun olam to me, and the idea that the Moshiach won't come to save us but will arrive once we have prepared the world and made paradise ourselves. It was like my brain... rang like a bell. I don't know how else to explain it -- it's like suddenly every problem I had with my Evangelical upbringing and how Evangelicals handle responsibility and forgiveness and all of it just... worked, suddenly. And the more I've studied since then, the more in love I have fallen with being Jewish, with our people, with our sense of humor, our perseverance. It was like coming home.

And it helped very much that Owl, who used to be on here but left several years ago, was coming home to Judaism at the same time, so he was rediscovering a love for Judaism while I was falling in love with it.

The first holiday I celebrated after my beit din was Shabbat. I was called up to the bimah, given my Hebrew name, and got to hold a 400-year-old Torah which was smuggled out of what is now the Czech Republic during the run-up to the Shoah. The community it came from was completely obliterated in the Shoah.

That Torah is in such fragile shape that when I was adopted, it was never read. It was only used for conversions and for the confirmation class every year, and carried around the sanctuary on holidays in a procession called hakafot, or circuits. Since then, they've placed it in a specialized conservation case in the memorial alcove because it's too fragile to even be carried.

I was asked later if it was heavy, and I said, "not at all, and immeasurably."

Chag Sameach. :)

[dinosaurwithablog]

Happy Hanukkah 🕎.... Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid'shanu b-mitzvotav, v- tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Hanukkah....

I always light the candles on my menorah with my favorite shalom gnome, Schlomo!! I love how this beautiful holiday has not been ruined by commercialism. It has remained a holy celebration of a miracle that happened a long, long time ago!! As it should be!!

Good yontif to all!!

[thejewishjoy]

I think a photography section would be lovely. A section for people's taglit photos, holiday displays, etc. A section for mazel tovs might go with the "Joy" section but I'd so so love to see a list of "Mazel tov to Ruth for passing rabbinical exams!" "Yasher koach to my kiddo Zvi, who did great at his bar mitzvah."

yes! I’ll add this to the categories for sure! Someone else also suggested a Tikkun Olam section of good things that have succeeded.

[lvebug]

andie grew up in an entirely ashkenazi jewish household. both her parents were reform jewish (her dad only on his dad's side) who raised andie to be the same. reform judaism is the more "lax" of the denominations and focuses a lot of the ethics and teachings of judaism over religious belief and practices. how closely andie participates in jewish cultural/religious activities will vary during her life. as a kid her parents celebrate most of the significant holidays—shabbat, passover, yom kippur & rosh hashanah, channukah, purim, sukkot & simchat torah, shavu'ot. some are celebrated every year, some only some years, and some more acknowledged than fully celebrated, but regardless judaism plays a very large part in andie's childhood. the community and teachings are especially foundational and are vital aspects to who andie and lovebug are. the teachings in her family that are most pushed and that resonate the most with her are concepts of tzedakah (charity), tikkun olam (the idea of healing the world through acts of kindness; the idea that jews bear responsibility not just for themselves but also for the welfare of others/society (this also ties into jewish guilt)), kindness or loving-kindness (chesed) & i feel like im forgetting something but you get the gist.

when her parents die and she goes to live with her uncle tommy, the values stay but a lot of the practices fall to the wayside. tommy is also jewish but doesn't celebrate as many of the rituals as andie's family did. they do the biggest holidays together and find their own chiller balance for shabbat (that does not involve taking a day of rest—partly because tommy never did once he moved out and partly because as a firefighter pikuach nefesh supersedes). jewish ideas and teachings are still all around her and andie never loses faith in those ideas even as her faith in god is rocky and always will be.

when she is older and living on her own/more independently she will pick up some of the rituals again with more purpose and care. shabbat becomes a bigger and more reliable thing for her and she invites friends (both jewish and not) to come celebrate it with her every week. FEAST is obviously something she's passionate about but is also always ties into tzedakah (i am also of the belief that the parkers are jewish, making it just as significat for may and for peter) (they are also always invited to shabbat). everything about lovebug and being lovebug and who lovebug represents also ties directly into andie's judaism (and peter's being spiderman) but that's a separate post

[sorrymyrabbisaidno]

Why, Might you ask, are secular jews considered Jewish but Jews who convert to Christianity are not? Because secular Jews do not abandon their community.

When you leave the culture/religion/tribe of Judaism to become Christian you are leaving. You have said (Assuming you're not leaving under duress) that you no longer want to be a part of Am Yisrael.

Now, like i've said before by strictest definitions you are still a Jew. That can never change. However, your relationship to the community is drastically altered.

And when people say "they're not a Jew anymore" they are not saying that their ancestry has changed. Or that their DNA is altered. Or that they aren't ethnically Jewish anymore (I don't think). What they are saying is "this person has chosen to leave us for an idolatrous faith/culture. What they are doing is not a form of Judaism, is not Jewish in any way and is not sanctioned by our community".

Secular Jews are different. Because they still claim Judaism as a culture. They may go to shul on the high holidays (or not), or celebrate pesach (or not), or celebrate their hebrew birthday (or not), or use their hebrew name (or not). They may still carry values of Judaism with them like caring for the poor, the orphan, the stranger and the widow, or tikkun olam. They may have a Jewish understanding of concepts like morality and sin and how to make amends with people you've wronged. They may want a Jewish wedding ceremony or elements of one. They may have a deep connection to Israel. They may call their grandparents bubbe and zayde.

Like secular Jews are often still firmly rooted in Judaism, even if they don't believe in Hashem.

Messianic Christians are *not* rooted in Judaism.

Hope that explains the difference. At least in my opinion.

[jewish-vents]

My friend is not affiliated with any religion but is unfortunately also very disrespectful to anyone religious.

I would consider myself a secular Jew. I recite some Jewish prayers and celebrate some of the holidays, but I haven’t stepped foot in a synagogue in years and my relationship with Judaism the religion is much more complicated than the relationship I have with Jewish culture.

It still hurts me to see my friend bash people for believing in any sort of divine power, even if I do not believe in G-d myself anymore. I have nothing but respect for my more observant siblings in the Jewish community and for people who follow other religions and believe in other higher powers. I also respect those who are not religious and do not believe in any sort of higher power, and may tentatively consider myself one of them, although I will never let go of my ties to Jewish culture and my Jewish family.

I wish my friend could hold respect for religious people, while still choosing not to be religious. Diversity of belief is an important part of society as a whole, and we must hold space for those who come from different backgrounds or have beliefs in regard to religion that differ from our own.

The phrase “olam chesed yibaneh” comes to mind. I think we must build this world with love, for all people, regardless of their relationship to religion. I wish my friend could hold more love in their heart than contempt.

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[eretzyisrael]

by Dexter Van Zile

Anyone who has any doubts about the success enjoyed by the Islamist-led campaign to squeeze Jews out of the public square in the US needs to watch the video of the Boston City Council meeting that took place on February 14, 2024. The success of this campaign was on full display when District Six City Councilor Ben Weber, the only Jew on the council, withdrew a “negotiated ceasefire” resolution from the agenda. It was yet another moment when the Tikkun Olam agenda of “repairing the world” was handed its head by Islamist activism in the United States.

Weber’s resolution was pretty straightforward and “balanced.” In addition to highlighting the suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians and calling for a negotiated ceasefire between Hamas and the Netanyahu government, Weber’s resolution asked councilors to call on Hamas to return the hostages it took on October 7, and work for the safe return of Massachusetts residents stuck in Gaza.

Before announcing that he was withdrawing the resolution from consideration, Weber declared that while writing the resolution, he sought input from fellow councilors, officials from Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council, and a prominent Boston-area Palestinian-American lawyer working to get Massachusetts families safely out of Gaza. Weber didn’t say which councilors he spoke to, but The Boston Globe subsequently reported that Weber had spoken with former council president (and Israel supporter) Ed Flynn and anti-Israel zealot Tania Fernandes Anderson.

The dialogue was to no avail. “It has come to my attention that the language of the resolution I drafted may cause more division, which is the opposite of what I hope to do,” Weber said. “So out of my respect to my council colleagues and members of the Boston community, I withdraw this resolution to have further conversations.” In short, Weber, a first-term city councilor, didn’t want to force his colleagues to declare their response to the October 7 massacre openly, because to do so would make him a one-term city councilor.

After the meeting, Weber told me that he felt obligated to withdraw the resolution after unnamed people expressed concerns that it was promoting the involuntary departure of Palestinians from Gaza and that it appeared to promote “one side over the other.” The notion that Weber’s resolution promoted the involuntary evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza is an intentional misreading of the text. Weber’s resolution says nothing about the expulsion of Palestinians. And as far as “taking sides,” the resolution was clearly written as an attempt to mollify “pro-Palestinian” (anti-Israel) activists, including Fernandes Anderson, by highlighting the suffering in Gaza without acknowledging it was Hamas who was responsible for this suffering. The logic is simple. If there would have been no October 7 massacre (and no terrorism from Gaza before that), there would never have been any conflict in Gaza.

If Weber had been paying attention, he would likely have spared himself the humiliation of having to withdraw the resolution by not submitting it in the first place. It’s not as if Boston isn’t in bad need of some Tikkun Olam.

But beyond these problems, speaking openly about Hamas’ October 7 massacre and its aftermath is becoming increasingly out of bounds for Israel and its supporters, Jews especially, in American civil society. Jews on college campuses have been bullied and harassed for years and this bullying has only become more intense in the aftermath of October 7. Jewish students have been forced to seek shelter in libraries and classrooms, as Hamas supporters, campus Islamists, and their progressive allies recreate the modern-day equivalent of the “ghetto bench,” which drove Jews into hiding in Polish colleges and universities in the 1930s.

[hypogryffin]

genuinely curious by what you mean by "jewish (factual)" in your tier list. i can assume for a couple what you mean (sophia as an example) but i dont see how the others could be like jewish-coded! interested in hearing your thoughts

link to the first post for claritys sake, but this is the tier in question:

ok so for clarification: i made the tier list a little while ago and then scheduled it for later to keep uploads consistent, something i usually do all the time but am not for this discussion for now. this means that by the day the tier list posted, i was already a few weeks or so divorced from the actual creation of it, so some of my opinions have changed (as i said in the og post, i was unsure on a good portion of the characters even when i first queued the list), and some of my reasonings behind placements have been lost to time and my silly little goldfish memory.

bc of this, as of now as im trying to find a distinct line between "jewish (factual)" and "jewish (based on vibes)", the criteria for "factual" is sort of murky. some placements in the category were serious, but a lot of them were also entirely for joking reasons, and i had moved on as soon as i was done laughing to myself without coming back to it.

all this is to say, i have no idea how to summarise it, so im going to explain everything i can remember about my thought process at the time so you can see where i was coming from.

SOPHIA:

yup 👍.

ok so for the uninformed, sophia is the name of a gnostic figure and the specifics change depending on the context of which ur referring to her in, but in judaism specifically sophia was given as a translated name for chokmah which is like a being thats like really important in kabbalah and considered like. this sort of i guess personification of divine wisdom?

anyways this is a concept that i doubt im anywhere near the first person to bring up, so im not gonna spend a lot of time on it like i will the things i havent heard other people talk about. like the whole "good friend of humanity" thing! judaism puts a lot of emphasis on kindness and care for other people and i think its important that thats so big for her character and for how jewish she can be read as. she is also jewish because i like her :^).

TATSUYA:

suffers endlessly because g-d hates *him*, specifically, and he hates g-d right back. jewish.

that was a joke. ok so right out the gate i think the whole "fighting hitler" aspect of IS should count for something during the discussion of which characters are jewish. like just putting that out there. anyways tatsuya is jewish because of eternal punishment. specifically, you know how hes like super into "atonement" and repentance? bro would really have benefited from going to a high holidays service lemme tell you. and he does it in a specific way thats like. his atonement is actively trying to repair what hes fixed right like hes not doing what hes doing to be redeemed, hes doing it because its his responsibility to fix whats been broken. i just idk how to explain it properly but thats a thought process your rabbi talks you through in jew school yknow?

also theres this thing called tikkun olam, which literally translates as "repairing the world". so it means more like. doing ur best as a citizen to improve community and country, or general social work. but just considering it as taking the literal translation, then its just like... yep. that sure is what hes doing isnt it

also, killed hitler. hashtag work

KATSUYA:

placed here mostly because being tatsuyas brother, theyd probably be at a similar "level" of religiosity. however there are some unique things i want to point out here;

katsuya like embodies the idea of "tzedek tzedek tirdof" like. its unfortunate hes a cop but for a cop hes a pretty good person? hes pretty uncompromising on right and wrong, and in a way that totally lines up w tzedek tzedek tirdof as its described in the torah.

extra emphasis on his compassion, as in theres like that core facet of judaism, the tikkun olam, where people have a moral obligation to help others; not just do good as oneself, but also stop other people from doing bad. that last bit doesnt really matter, cuz im bringing it up so i can talk about katsuya as a police officer to clear his dads name and try and ensure a better future for his brother. he gave up his dreams for them.

i mean, when i say "giving up his dreams", im kinda laughing to myself bc theres no way he ran it past his parents bc if he looked his jewish mother in the eye and said "i want to be a pastry chef" he would not make it out of the room alive. hed go "my dream is to become a pâtissier" and his mom would immediately be like "no its not its to be an accountant" and that would be the end of the discussion

also, i think he would make some of the best fucking challah in the world. hed make matzo ball soup that could make you jizz your pants just looking at it. look me in the eyes and tell me that he doesnt actually go nuts at rosh hashana when he gets to make the round challah with the raisins in it and stuff or whatever else. there is such a crystal clear vision in my mind of him rocking this apron my dad used to have that says "real men make latkes". it was pink and ugly as sin and i think it would be katsuyas most prized possession.

LABRYS:

her name is fucking labrys obviously shes a jewish lesbian. next.

/j i will actually talk about this. like not mentioning the only survivor of her upbringing, which isnt a one to one considering the death match portion of her backstory but still close enough to feel um. relavant to jewish culture. she acts very...stereotypically jewish?

its not entirely the accent, but it is...part of it. so like i know its like a new jersey accent and that the stereotype is new york, i guess? but im not american and i dont rlly know the difference. they look close enough to each other on a map tho so i think it counts

but also shes like kinda confrontational in a way i specifically associate with jewish people or jewish characters? like not really bitchy but argumentative right, shes got this really sarcastic or mocking sense of humour. and girl kvetches with the best of them.

(also, side note: since i made the original list, i found out that the voice actress for aegis in p3 reload, dawn m bennett, is actually jewish! if i were to remake the tier list, aegis would be moved up from "vibes" to "factual" because of this. mentioning that here because of the sister thing :).)

JOKER:

kills g-d which is the jewish dream. this is a another joke.

someone in the replies of the tier list said something abt a possible reason being that he has an "abrahamic figure" as his ult. persona, which could be a good point if satanael was actually an abrahamic figure! but it is not. like ok im not a history guy but satanael is a name used in the 2nd book of enoch, which arguably could be part of jewish "canon" (i know this is actually the term for it but fandom has rotted my brain and it sounds terminally online to use it in terms of real life religiosity) but most rabbis agree it like is not, and theyre kind of who im listening to on this, and quick google search says even in christianity, enoch is debatable? idk

so like satanael isnt in the torah. and if anyone says "oh its just like another name for satan so technically--" shut up i know. satan isnt real in the torah either. ok like "satan" is used as a term, but not as like the specific dude that like rules hell. hes just like at most a specific dude who is not a devil/cast from heaven or whatever, but instead is a lawyer. more often its a concept, something representative of like the urge to go against g-ds will or a kosher life, this "evil inclination" which everyone is born possessing and grapples with when trying to be a good person. NOT THE SAME AS THE CHRISTIAN SATAN. WHICH IS WHAT P5 WAS GOING FOR. SATAN IN JUDAISM IS NOT A "super demon lord" or whatever they call it in the text of the game

satanael isnt an abrahamic figure and i dont think satan is either cuz its so different between religions and honestly i think calling things abrahamic religions, at least w the context i hear of it, is like kind of a misnomer or just kind of generally misleading cuz judaism christianity and islam are all so different and if were talking about this i think whoever invented the term judeochristian should eat a sheet of glass for it because whenever i hear those terms its very clear the person saying it means just christianity but theyre trying to be inclusive without actually putting the work in and thats not the point of this.

ok if im honest, as i think abt it joker isnt like. really... super jewish, in a way that you can point out? its just like... this overall vibe im having trouble explaining which is probably also like super influenced by how much i like him. i want to say that this strict sense of right and wrong that remains uninfluenced by the rest of society is something that clearly creates or maybe just intensifies this like. empathy for other people that reminds me of this concept in judaism which i cant remember the hebrew name of rn but i think its most commonly translated to english as "lovingkindness", one word? or that the whole idea of the phantom thieves can be contributed to tikkun olam. but, on the other hand, even if lovingkindness is what i personally consider one of jokers core character traits, the other one is pure, blinding rage.

im not going to go super into it, because im a few years rusty of torah study bc its only really consistently done in my community for kids preparing for bnai mitzvah cuz of how few people we have in our congregation. but from what i remember, my interpretation of the exact limit between righteous and sinful anger is a bit more... lax than the average jew's, or at least the average rabbi's, meaning mine, lol. either way anger is almost always seen as sinful because its an emotion that can like. turn you from g-d, its the same thing that invokes that "evil inclination" we just talked abt. so, joker textually feels this rage that arsene, his other self, literally refers to as "sacrilegious", something that very clearly states that he is willing to *knowingly* commit sins for this rage and is perfectly capable of causing undue harm to others for it, which is exactly the reason why judaism warns of anger. this means jokers anger is distinctly against jewish teachings.

again, im really lax, my familys reform (/lh) and i think there are some parts of this characterisation that make me feel this rage is overall constructive, especially considering that is what feeds his constant practice of lovingkindness and tikkun olam, but it being such a huge facet of his personality (made worse bc as a silent protagonist, you really have to search to get away from this trait) brings him down on the Jew Scale(tm).

in short, now that im really discussing this id probably move him to incredibly jewish based on vibes or even to just "jewish" no further classification. but even w the undying sinful anger thing i cant not think of him as jewish and i dont think its just bc hes one of my favourite characters of all time.

also that hair texture looking really familiar is all🤔🤔. all im saying that is in the tutorial, instead of "frizzy hair", morgana deffo should have been calling them blondie and jewfro /j /j /j

EDIT AND JOKERS KITCHEN!! JOKERS KITCHEN!! FOOD AS A LOVE LANGUAGE!! IN P5 YOU MAKE FOOD FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU PUT LOVE INTO IT

MORGANA:

i know i put morgana before joker in the tier but i think in order to rlly discuss morgana we needed joker first bc part of my reason for putting them in the same tier is because they really are a pair, do not separate.

anyways, morgana does have a lot of the same problems as joker when it comes to being difficult to pin down. his inclination to tikkun olam is similar, sort of even greater than jokers depending on personal characterisation of joker, but instead of this discrepancy of his jewishness being anger, the ethical conundrum with morgana is sort of. arrogance? like, i have trouble figuring out how to really put into words how i feel abt morganas "lovingkindness", because it is so hard to understand where hes at in terms of empathy?? like. fucking. idk hes definitely a very caring person but its not exactly like

ok i cant figure out how to say it moving on. i used the word arrogance even though i dont really think thats right, because morgana has never seemed haughty. his "arrogance" is really just him making up for an inferiority complex caused by the amnesia thing, its not as if he genuinely totally believes himself to be above the others. but like no matter what it stems from, the way he behaves and his personal pride hurts people. ie the okumura arc, or his entire relationship w ryuuji. he speaks ill of others, belittles them to bring himself up, etc. arrogance and excess pride is as condemned as anger in judaism if not moreso, since its even less useful/constructive to be "arrogant" than it is to be angry. OH ok so what i meant with the hard to figure out his empathy thing is this actually!! hes very caring and has a really notable respect for human life but its always at war with his need to prove himself, so even if when you think about it its like Oh Morgana Is A Really Caring Person, which makes sense because he was created from human desire and as such is really in touch with what people need, the desperation he has to be seen as "worthy" comes off as wanting to be seen as "above", even if it means trying to get the people around him as being considered "below" him.

tldr so if it was just those two traits i think id have to move morgana lower on the list, alongside joker.

HOWEVER. speaking directly to the other jews in the crowd, but morgana is totally textually a golem, right? like not exactly, obviously, but think about it. morganas a being of the velvet room because he was created from "the dregs of human hope" (canonical line from yaldaboath that i think about more than what can be considered healthy tbh), whose job is was and always will be to protect and guide the trickster and his community, the phantom thieves. hes a golem right? am i insane? am i seeing things? i dont care, im not giving up on this interpretation, so morgana is factually and canonically jewish cuz of it.

ZEN:

i do not remember.

as of today id probably move him to either jewish no other classification or not jewish. my b guys. anyways

JUN:

life is indescribable torment, and then hes also got additional, mostly unrelated, mommy issues. judaism 101.

also his suspenders when he was a kid are the most young jewish lad shit in the history of ever like i have seen that exact outfit on a young boy every time i go to temple, and each time it is a different kid

ok more seriously, i really do think juns story-- specifically his relationship with memory-- can easily be extracted into a jewish narrative. like nyarlathotep messed with his memories and convinced him that the other members of the masked circle killed maya right. and so the way he fanatically reminded himself of the past was a mix of trauma and active manipulation. but if i think abt it a certain way i also can see it as like. ok so in judaism memory is really important and like a lot of the time during for example passover, youre meant to refer to yourself as being a jew in egypt, saying "we" instead of "them" and such. but im specifically meaning how important memory/remembrance is in grieving. jun in his grief for mayas perceived death "kept her alive" in a way. she was never forgotten, and so she never died. even though the entire masked circle forgot, from trauma or fear or guilt or whatever, jun held on, remembering her, and so she survived. joker took peoples dreams but his actions also caused them to be completely be forgotten. they were alive, but they were robbed of their ability to be remembered at all, and so they were as good as dead even still breathing and talking.

retroactively, this idea enforces tatsuyas jewishness, considering the entire story of eternal punishment. he refused to forget the masked circle, even though it hurts.

anyways back to jun, i also think the whole repentance thing is important too. he hurt people in his anger and sorrow and spends the rest of his life (until the world is reset at least lol) atoning for his wrongdoings.

also, i know i said kid him is super jewish looking, but he has not gotten better as hes grown up. 17y.o him is exactly the guy your bubbe will pull up on facebook and be like "this is the grandson of my friend or whoever! you should go on a date with him, hes your age! he looks a bit gay but hes a very successful doctor! ...and hes JEWISH YAKNOW...." and ur like "ok bubbe"

ERIKO:

i actually do not recall exactly why she is in this tier specifically. the only thing i for sure remember was that i at least partially placed her here bc of her fascination with the occult.

HIKARI:

ok this one was kinda me goofing. its the whole extended family thing like whats more jewish than being actively discouraged from a creative career for something "safe" and "normal?" bro the aunt might as well have dropped the "being a doctor is very respectable" line in the song.

but like even without that, wanting to be a director or associated with film? hitting her with the jew beam. mazel tov babygirl.

[streetkid-named-desire]

genuinely wanna be less of a bitch and less of a uh public hater. wanna work on my inside thoughts and impulse control. usually i'm pretty good at the latter, especially with re-reading posts and heavily editing them for tone and intent but like the only one i'm hurting is myself honestly and that's always the way it is!

nothing i can do about interpersonal issues if the other person won't tell me what i did and talk to me about it but i can at least be more mindful and intentional about how i'm participating in my fave hobby. i think a big part of my on and off rut has just been how distrustful i've become of others and i hate being like that, i hate second guessing

i noticed it today in another server talking with someone that has simply commissioned/worked with people that dont like me and i just felt those feelings inside me that feel bad like...i dont like feeling like this. giving people the benefit of the doubt (hate that phrase cause it feels so grammatically incorrect) feels good, even if it sometimes ends up in heartbreak for me and its also a constant skill you have to practice

a friend recently said forgiveness is never for the people you hurt, its for yourself, its forgiving yourself for negative thoughts and feelings that only hurt you. to forgive and forget isn't for the other person to forgive you, it's for you to forgive yourself and that really resonated with me. especially since some of the people i hurt, even if i dislike them, will never accept an apology because thats just the way they are, theyre shitty people

for teshuvah, forgiving myself and vowing to do better because its what will make me happier in the short and long run

its important to me that i live true to my values and while i often do contradict myself, its important to eventually find that contradiction and work on it. i dont need to be perfect, i know that i never will be and i love that. its less pressure on myself lmao

the extent of my faith in hashem and the 316 and tikkun olam is that you just need to try your best to be a good person, to put more good into the world than you might take out. i think god is accepting of limitations in holiday traditions or practices, but at the core of the religion is unconditional kindness and charity

i'll still talk shit and be a hater in private, i dont think there's anything bad about that it's how you survive. sometimes you have to get the inside thoughts out to be nice and genuinely nice. i can usually find the good in everyone, and believe everyone has good in them, some people are genuinely just awful. its not that theyre irredeemable but it would take their own self actualization and self awareness to become better and until that happens i want nothing to do with them

[voidingintotheshout]

Mini Movie Review

Holiday Date (Hallmark, 2019).

Grade: B minus.

Please note that this review contains spoilers.

OK, so I don’t know if I like this movie. I have to ding it quite a few points for the completely bananas premise, which involved both main characters lying and gaslighting this woman’s family for the entire movie and them in true Hallmark fashion, none of the family members are remotely mad about this, and everyone gets along in the end.

So the actual plot is that this lady gets dumped by her fiancé a week before Christmas. Why he couldn’t have just waited until after Christmas IDK. The first question that it made me think about is did he know that she was planning on introducing him to her family? Because it seems like breaking up with her when he knew she was about to mention him to her family would’ve been the best time. If alternatively, she was planning on bringing him to her family for Christmas, and hadn’t even mentioned this to him when Christmas was less than a week away is another thing entirely. That seems kind of crazy. Maybe it’s my fault for trying to inject logic into a hallmark movie.

In any event, she is left by this guy that she was engaged to but she now is alone and has already told her family that Ethan is coming and is “Mr. Christmas”. That’s when she goes to a holiday party and meet this dude that is an actor and who wants to “connect” with small-town life, so he agrees to be her fake fiancé in exchange for being able to understand what small town living is like. The only thing is that he is Jewish.

As a gentile, I’m unsure, but from what I’ve gathered, he seems like one of the more assimilationist Jews that I’ve heard of. In the clip below, he goes on about how he’s so excited to get into Christmas and to put up lights and decorate a tree and sing Christmas carols and open presents and stuff like that. I could be wrong, but a lot of Jews don’t wish they were Christians. They’re really proud of their culture. Also, he does a recitation, if that’s the right word, of the prayer “Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hadlik neir shel Shabbat.” However, he does it in what feels like the most gentile pronunciation I could’ve imagined. I mean the actor playing this person is Jewish from what I’ve gathered, and it’s all about him sharing his Jewish faith with these Gentiles, which is great, but him as a character, as a representative of all Judaism was really… confusing.

Like, it’s what I expected because Hallmark has gotten a lot of knocks from people in the Jewish community about their depiction in Hallmark movies as this group that wishes they could be Christians and not actually celebrating why they’re happy to be Jews. I knew that’s kind of what this movie was going to be depicting. It’s telling that most of the scenes about his Jewish culture involved the Christians being presented as good allies, and being excited to learn about this culture, which is also great, and not about why this culture matters to him. Like obviously latkes are delicious. Sufganiyot (jelly donuts eaten during Hanukkah) are obviously delicious. I don’t know. I liked it but I feel like the movie worked because it wasn’t just another two attractive white people and their one person of color friend in a absurd small town that doesn’t make any sense except during Christmas, making extreme life choices based on their love of the holiday season. It was about people connecting—but wow.

The fact that her family was totally fine with her lying and bringing a fake boyfriend, lying and implying that the boyfriend was Christian, and then revealing that they’re Jewish, revealing that the person isn’t even named Ethan. They aren’t an architect. Those two weren’t dating, but you expect your parents to believe that the dude who you bought as a prop to trick them is a guy you have fallen in love with and are now dating. Then, both of you decide to quit your jobs on Christmas Eve to do jobs that objectively will not pay enough to live in New York. And everyone is cool with it? That is a typical Hallmark movie ending.

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[rose-in-a-fisted-glove]

This is pretty good advice if you're in a shorter term job or if you're a reasonably healthy person but is too restrictive for either building a career or creating a rapport if you're noticeably chronically ill.

Here's two examples of when it can be beneficial to disclose chronic illnesses (that don't have societal taboos associated with them)

I told management about my IBS (and provided a doctors note), because I was often late to work because my IBS acts up in the morning. The risks from being considered a careless employee was higher than the risks from being a chronically ill employee who works hard and produces good results.

The same thing with my doctor appointments. Instead of being seen as taking a lot of leave without reason, I email my bosslady all the times I need off for doctor type visits at the beginning of each month. I don't specify which doctor visits are for what doctor, but do specify which ones I can work before/after and which ones are all day affairs. This, again, reinforces that I am a conscientious employee with health issues.

As for careers/positions with potential for promotions, those require politicking. Whether they should is a whole other story, but they do. You need to be someone who other people think positively about. And, yes, that should be because of your work but it isn't entirely. A few minutes here or there chatting with your management about innocuous things is a great way to do that. Never forget they're the management but do chat.

For example, my bosslady and I both like musicals so sometimes we chat about that. I don't tell her about how I feel the Newsies stage musical took all the teeth and grit out of the story by downplaying the class struggles and making it about generational change. I do tell her how much I loved how Hadestown used stage lighting as an active element of storytelling.

For another example, one of the other supervisors has a Jewish wife and kids. We talk about how we're going to celebrate the holidays and about food and recipes. I don't talk about Tikkun Olam with him, about activism, and certainly not about my admiration of Sugihara

These sorts of small interactions help you be someone that they think of when it comes time for a project that will help build your resume or if it comes down to you and another person for a promotion. They "just feel that you're the better fit for the position".

Again, not debating that it's a shitty thing to have to do, but needs must.

And for coworkers. Unless you work in a truly toxic environment, they're not your enemies. Don't mention anything that could be used against you if they become management but do feel free to chat during lunch, before meetings, and on your 15 (if you get one). Talk about the TVs you're watching, the books you're reading (within reason), about your hobby bird watching or cosplay making, or what have you. You don't have to but don't feel like you can't. Who knows, maybe you'll make a friend-friend from a work friend.

[dfroza]

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 30th of december 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Acts, Chapter 10 • The Book of 1st Kings, Chapter 12]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 30 and Psalm 30 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 10 for the 10th day of Astronomical Winter, and Psalm 65 for day 365 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 3rd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

Yeshua is the true Light (ישוע הוא האור האמיתי)

The Hebrew word Chanukah (חֲנֻכָּה) means "dedication" and marks an eight day winter celebration that commemorates the victory of faith over the ways of speculative reason, and demonstrates the power of miracle in the face of mere humanism. Although it is customarily observed as a "Festival of Lights," Chanukah is better understood as a "fighting holiday," since its central message is to resist assimilation to this world and to exercise faith in the LORD (1 John 2:15; Rom. 12:2). For us, Chanukah further remembers the light of Yeshua, the One who overcame the world for us (John 16:33).

Notice that the word chinukh (חִנּוּךְ), “education,” shares the same root as the word chanukah (i.e., chanakh: חָנַךְ). Unlike the Greek view that regards education as a pragmatic process of improving one's personal power or happiness, the Jewish idea implies dedication/direction to God and His concrete purposes on the earth: "Train (חֲנךְ) a child in the way he should go..." (Prov. 22:6). Disciples of Yeshua are likewise called talmidim (תַּלְמִידִים) -- a word that comes from lamad (לָמַד) meaning “to learn” (the Hebrew word for teacher is melamad (מְלַמֵּד) from the same root). In the Greek New Testament, the word “disciple” is μαθητής, a learner or a pupil of a διδάσκαλος, or a teacher. True education is therefore foundational to being a disciple of the Messiah.

An essential part of our education in the Holy Spirit is to learn our identity as God’s beloved children (1 John 3:1; James 4:4). We are to know ourselves in terms of what God has done for us, and not as the world defines us (2 Cor. 5:16). "If then you have been raised with Messiah, seek the things that are above (τὰ ἄνω ζητεῖτε), where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God; focus your thoughts on the things above - not on things here on earth - for you have died, and your life has been hidden with Messiah in God" (Col. 3:1-4).

If we are spiritually identified with Yeshua, we are "dead" to this age (olam hazeh) and awakened to a realm that transcends the appeals of the flesh (olam habah). We no longer live chayei sha'ah (חַיֵּי שָׁעָה, "fleeting life") but chayei olam (חַיֵּי עוֹלָם, "eternal life"). The aorist verb "you have died" indicates "you have died once for all," that is, that this is a condition granted by the power and agency of God on your behalf. You don't "try to die" to the flesh; you accept what God has done by killing its power over you through Yeshua...

You are dead to this world; you are dead to sin's power; you are set free and no longer enslaved to the deception of the worldly matrix, etc. Now you are made alive to an entirely greater and more powerful order and dimension of reality, namely, the spiritual reality that is not disclosed to the vanity of this age. Therefore we are to consciously focus our thoughts (φρονέω) on the hidden reality of God rather than on the temporal world that is passing away: "For we are looking not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient (i.e., "just for a season," καιρός), but the things that are unseen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18).

[ Hebrew for Christians ]

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Isaiah 60:1 Hebrew audio:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/isa60-1-jjp.mp3

Hebrew page:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/isa60-1-lesson.pdf

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from Israel365

Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research