#Priest Shimon

[steve0discusses]

Episode 47 S5: Mana Runs too Slow and it Kills 2 People

Tumblr decided to change the way it does image posts so this is going to be my hell. I can only have max 30 "blocks" of images (yikes) and uploading all your images at once and then just adding text in between is actually not possible! (least it's a nightmare on browser. I have not figured out how to drag my text in between images, so I'm just uploading every image one by one and hoping I don't forget one)

thanks, I hate it!

Peeking up at us over the horizon, our end of the world apocalypse has reached the next step of his rampage: which is to shoot glowing missiles out of it's Dragon crotch until Egypt is destroyed.

Seto is doing his best to look productive, but unfortunately this is Sad Seto, who is still buffering.

Just uh...give him a minute. He has to remember how to be Seto.

(read more under the cut)

I'm pretty sure Kissara told him straight up to call her whenever, and considering how few words they've ever said to each other, you'd think he'd remember the words she said like half an hour ago. Then again, he was kind of...sleeping when that happened. Or hallucinating, or dreaming, or all three.

Bakura and Yami are watching this pan out from the Shadow Game Zone, Bakura kind of nodding slowly while Yami becomes overwhelmed with embarrassment over how much everyone around him is screwing it. This is not meant to be funny, but it was very funny to me.

I have brought this up before, but Bakura does bring up a good point, that this entire arc was kind of against the grain of who Yami became over the course of the last 4 seasons.

+++++STAND BACK I'M GONNA RANT, FEEL FREE TO SKIP++++

Don't get me wrong, Yami LOVES to make bad choices that end the world. But why would he continue to go back here and destroy the world of the future he knows and loves so much? Especially since it already went SO south with Dartz the last time he opened pandora's box?

He has a new identity now, he has so many friends, last arc was just so many women throwing themselves at Yugi. His life is really good! I think they could have developed more of a line of logic between last arc and this arc, but like with a lot of things in this arc, it was rushed.

So him giving up his newfound modern identity that he made all himself through hard work and friendship first off feels kinda bad. Like I'm OK with him being a new guy, he worked hard for that! Lets not go backward now.

And then him coming here to regain his old identity is sort of like the show knew what it must do, but the characters were like "nah." and then went and did it anyway seemingly at gunpoint.

And I kind of wish there was any contrast between who Yami's new identity is in the future and who Yami was in the past. It would be fascinating to dive into the fact he's now two people yet again, even though Yugi is no longer in that bean. but eh save it for the fanfiction, because they needed to end Yugioh in a certain number of episodes.

And that happens sometimes. Stories are character driven, and when you try and drive the characters, they become less like people and more like iconic symbols. Here's our hero. He must do this because he's the hero. That's it, that's the reason. Welcome to Shonen Jump.

+++++++END RANT AKA THIS ARC HAS COOL IDEAS AND I WISH IT HAD ENOUGH TIME TO DO THEM BETTER++++++++

Problem is, Yami isn't that meta. He's dumb though, so in a way it does make a little sense why he had to open the box. He dummy thin.

Dummy thin and still can't read.

And like in case you've jumped in here after my accidental hiatus (hello!) and not realized this, I had to binge watch the rest of the season before we cancelled our Hulu subscription. There was the option of watching it for free on the Yugioh website, but I didn't want to change my Photoshop actions.

So get ready for me to talk about how the ending of this show bothered me, for like 8 episodes. I'll try to keep it in, so we can get there when we get there.

But you can't say lines like "We were meant to be together." in the context of this arc, you can't DO that, show.

Apparently the creator of Yugioh got hospitalized while he wrote this arc, hence the dick king demon. But also it got....messy. We have like 3 seasons of development in like 8 episodes, buckle up. They did the best that they could do with the resource's given, and we'll even get to meet my favorite character a few times before it's over (the Storyboarding God that occasionally guest stars on Yugioh, love that guy)

Back on the playing field, Yami is running out of options, when Isis informs us we can just go to McDonald's and get more McGuffins.

Out of basically no where, Mana zips onto the screen because she's ready to have at least one girl's night before the end of the world. The contrasting energy from both Mana and Isis is peak goth babysitter vs the parrot that hides behind the couch and bites your feet.

Back near Pharaoh's tomb, Yugi is still dueling over a deathpit with the child who these kids think is Ryou bakura.

This is not however, Ryou Bakura. It's sideways adjacent evil Bakura.

And it didn't really matter that this plot point ever happened because it's not like Yugi, Joey, or Tea ever catch on that this isn't Ryou anyway. But at least I, the audience can feel a little bit better about the weird twist by the dub there.

Ryou is still passed out on some stone steps. He's fine.

You might be wondering "Oh so what asinine thing is Isis going to have to do to get the items back?" and uh, you're wrong actually.

Turns out we could have just picked up the items in the desert at any time but I guess we forgot. I'll blame it on Shadi.

Joey Wheeler, who can punch out probably anything but a ghost, chooses to hide behind Tea because he knows she can punch a ghost and I believe it, too.

Back on the surface, is a scene that would have been emotional if it hadn't been 3 minutes. it was NOT enough time to give a proper send off to our girl Isis here, and they tried, but if you imagine the Yakety Sax song playing under this death here, that's about the speed at which this girl biffed it.

speaking of Yakety Sax theme, this is what was happening while Mana was crying her eyes out.,

And you may ask, was it really that goofy? and yes, yes it was.

and like I get it, animation and pacing are really, really hard. Parts of me wonder if maybe on paper this seemed OK. If maybe even as a storyboard this seemed OK. But something you learn quickly when doing any sort of narrative art, is that you need like 2x as much space as you think you do. Pause is an underrated godlike skill that takes a lifetime to master.

However, it still had good stills going on, it still had some lovely direction just...I mean they dropped Isis from top to bottom of that frame so freakin fast it was like she was a dropped banana hahaha.

They still have to carry these items physically to the Pharaoh, and so becuase Mana is a slow runner, 2 people freakin died this episode distracting Zorc. Which is also the title of this episode because I want to send home howfreakin funny that is to me.

Ah, back to Episode 1.

So how breathtaking and epic is the Kaiju fight you ask? Well good thing for you, I capped it.

The look on Seto and Yami's faces about sum it up.

And as quickly as he showed up to do a few silly punches, the great Exodia was cut exactly in half. Don't ask me how the card logic works for that, I have forgotten how this game works already.

Mana finally makes it to Yami, cursed puzzle in hand, and that ends this episode.

Can you imagine adding 7 characters to a story knowing you have to kill all of them individually before the anime arc is over? Breakneck deaths going on here.

Sorry for all you people that were so deeply attached to Shimon, the guy who isn't even Grandpa, by the way. A moment of silence for all 4 of you.

And we get back this thing. This horrible thing made out of thousands of dead people's souls. The thing that trapped him for 5000 years and launched him into the future. The only thing that can save mankind.

(If I have used this Mokuba joke like this before forgive me it was like a different lifetime before I caught covid, and I will not be able to regain those memories because I cannot curse myself with a rude ass puzzle.)

The abusive relationship with the Millennium Puzzle is a whole anime college essay I would write if I had half a brain, but alas I have the immune system and fatigue of a sickly gerbil or a goldfish that feels a little bit chilly. So I will not be writing that in depth episode but like...

Think about how far we've come with this jackass puzzle. And yet, I'm supposed to forgive it? Nah I don't think I have yet. Go to hell, puzzle.

This puzzle can go straight to hell.

Anyway, if you just got here you can read these recaps in chrono order at the link here:

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

PS I had to do so much assholery to get that to go to my chrono link and not my main link. They would just. Change my link. They would just change my link every time I pasted it. Tumblr you have GOT to give me my old post editor back omg.

[rebo-chan]

Sorry y'all this one's gonna be a long one lol fun analysis/theorizing/headcanoning whatever the fuck this is under the cut :)

So, lately I've been really thinking about Lambo and Tsuna's relationship, Lambo's connection to Vongola, and Lambo's spot as the Lightning Guardian. I know as a fandom, we tend to disregard Lambo because he has like.. two fights in the whole series or wish that someone else was made the Lightning Guardian because that boy is Literally Five. And I won't act like it wouldn't have been cool to see another character as Lightning Guardian (My Haru Guardian fans rise up where are you) but I think what Amanos done here is really fun too from an analysis perspective.

To start with, Tsuna's family is not really a..traditional Mafia family or even a traditional Vongola family either. Let's look at this here, he's got his Two Best Friends(TM), his crush's big brother, the leader of the Disciplinary Committee at his school, a criminal, a half dead girl, and the aforementioned five year old as his guardians. This is FAR from what's likely expected out of the Vongola family, even when you date it back to Primo AT LEAST PRIMO HAD PRINCES, PRIESTS, SAMURAIS as his guardians. (Though he gets away with having One Best Friend (TM) as his guardian.) Yet somehow, their family makes it work!! They survive the Mafia world, multiple times throughout the series and when it's not working they get stronger as a unit and they fight for each other and make it out together. And I think that's the beauty of their specific family.

So then you have Lambo, who Tsuna would do anything for just to avoid Lambo having to experience a fraction of the shit they go through. And Tsuna actually SUCCEEDS at this, he doesn't normally succeed when it comes to being avoidant of Mafia stuff but this was something throughout the series that he was so genuinely adamant against. He only let Lambo fight when he truly had to and even then he very minimally let the Mafia world wrap its greedy paws around Lambo. Kokuyo arc, Tsuna didn't even sort of kind of a little bit consider taking Lambo with them (which would later help keep Kyoko and Haru safe), Varia arc, knowing that this would disqualify him, Tsuna decided he could not allow Lambo to keep fighting.

Future Arc, Tsuna kept Lambo out of the fight as much as he could, allowing the non-fighters to take care of him and I-pin. Shimon Arc, Tsuna felt real regret at the prospect that he allowed Lambo to come.

(And Arco arc where Lambo was hardly present at either, which I'd like to imagine that if Lambo was involved in Arco arc then Tsuna may have just absolutely fucking died)

Tsuna to Lambo is not his guardian (Frankly, he doesn't view any of his guardians as such, they are his friends, his pride, his comrades, and those he has traded blows with and knows they can be trusted.) Lambo to Tsuna is his little brother. This five year old was sent on an assassination attempt that was absolutely in no circumstance meant to actually succeed and the Bovinos know that. To send Lambo to assassinate the strongest hitman was a death mission. So, Tsuna took this child in (or rather this child stuck around bc his Mom makes banger meals) and immediately Tsuna assumes the role of his brother. Lambo and Tsuna are the closest out of all the kids. (Ofc Tsuna loves I-pin and fuuta too, but I think it's safe to say Lambo is his dumb little brother)

Now, I don't think that Tsuna is ever going to see Lambo as anything but his little brother. I actually theorize that the way TYL Lambo is the way he is because Tsuna never really got out of the habit of babying him. He's calmed down since he was a kid and developed a more nonchalant personality with the occasional tantrum because you can't tell me Tsuna DOESNT STILL view TYL Lambo as a non-combatant. When Tsunas 15, he looks at 5 year old Lambo and goes no thanks that boy is never touching a weapon in his life. When Tsunas is 25, he sees 15 year Lambo and goes that is STILL a child he is never touching a weapon in his life. And yes he's completely unaware of the hypocrisy in my head.

This is a spoiled little brother no one can tell me otherwise.

So we know Tsuna just sees him as his kid brother and not a real guardian. But then you have Lambo's feelings about the whole matter. We know that Lambo doesn't really consider Tsuna a boss but as his big brother, but I don't think that changes a lot for Lambo. While fighting is scary for Lambo, he still desires to follow alongside Tsuna and his friends. He doesn't want to be left behind and makes Tsuna promise him he'll take him wherever he goes. He sees Tsuna freaking out about him being a child in a battlefield and he goes, "No you don't understand, I want to be there."

And that? That right there is what fucks me up after everything. Lambo as a concept for a Lightning Guardian feels really unique because of this. He's the youngest one. He's always going to chase after the others, trying to keep up with them, to walk alongside them. One day, he wants to catch up and be considered a rightful Guardian like the others. And that is so... Tsuna and him would be batting heads over this because I cannot see Tsuna relenting on Lambo staying out of the battle. I cannot see Tsuna ever feeling like Lambo's ready. Not because he thinks Lambo is weak, but because Lambo's his baby brother and Tsuna needs him more away from the battle or else he can't focus.

While Tsuna doesn't react outwardly in this frame, I do think it's not a coincidence that he could focus on fighting the battle and not be "impatient" as Reborn put it, the moment he saw Gokudera and Hibari on the battlefield. He could focus easier knowing his friends were running around saving Lambo and co.

Okay, so you have the Big brother who wants to protect his little brother from seeing the same stuff he does, from fighting the same battles he does, and wants him to grow up as a regular kid (a right which he had been robbed off the moment a certain hitman showed up at his door). Then you have the little brother who wants wholeheartedly to be there, desires to catch up to his big brother and know the world that his big brother knows.

How does this difference in value get addressed? well it doesn't because Lambo is still 5 and Shounen jump are cowards for ending Amanos series when they did <3 B U T we have this.

We all know this scene for when we rewatched Reborn for the first and went "..wait.." because that was some actually sweet foreshadowing from Amano. Okay, so. We have a Lambo who finally did it. Finally is someone worthy of being called the Vongola Lightning Guardian. And Tsuna and co are implied to have just been... Gone. All of Tsuna's efforts to raise this kid in a regular life are ripped away because something happens to HIM, not Lambo. And from Lambo's perspective, he's caught up finally but the person he was following isn't around anymore. He didn't think he'd see him again. I think it's safe to assume that this scene either implies that something happens to Tsuna in his 30s (since we know he wasn't actually dead TYL) OR 20yl Lambo is from a parallel world where Byakuran had actually won and actually took Tsunas life.

And I think that's some real meat to bite into for these characters. A little brother who will lose his big brother if he doesn't do something, get stronger in time. A big brother who won't let him join the battle because he's afraid of losing HIS little brother. A Vongola Lightning Guardian who wants to be a shield for his Boss, and a Boss won't let him be a shield.

And that? That's a good concept for a Vongola Lightning Guardian.

Thank you for reading this far if you did :] this is a bit of a ramble but I was thinking about it and I felt it nice to share. I hope maybe I shared some of my brain worms with you <3

[hyperpotamianarch]

I guess I'm writing erraticly lately anyway, and no one on tumblr ever really tried anything else (do tell if you know a Tumlr user who blogs in an organised manner), so it's about time I talked about Piyutim.

Of everyone around, I'm... not really the most qualified person to talk about it deeply. I am keenly aware that my interest in Piyutim never got all that deep. However, compared to the average tumblr user I probably do know a little bit more, so here goes.

The definition of a piyut is very simple: a Jewish religious poem (it may well be that poem and Piyut come from the same original Greek word). Some of them are said during prayers, some sung around the Shabbat table, or during holidays.

I would start talking about the history of Piyutim, but as I mentioned - I'm not really qualified for it. If we were talking merely about the history of religious songs, I could start with the Song of the Sea, the Song of the Well, Deborah's Song and such things, ultimately arriving to Psalms and moving onwards. But those aren't Piyutim. Some are ancient epic songs, others are songs of prayer or praise, but... I don't know. Maybe they can't be considered Piyutim because the word didn't enter the Jewish lexicon yet. Or maybe we should actually call Tehilim the first book of Piyutim, IDK.

The oldest Piyutim we still have today can maybe possibly date back to the Mishnaic period, a little less than 2000 years ago - between the destruction of the Temple around 68 CE and the codifying of the Mishnah around 220 CE. There's an old Midrash saying about Rabbi El'azar B'Rabbi Shimon that he was a Paytan (read pie-tan, more or less), a writer of Piyutim. We don't really know much about that, however. The earliest Paytan we know the name of and still have Piyutim of, however, if Yose Ben Yose. It was believed by some that he was a Cohen Gadol, Great Priest, during the time of the 2nd Temple, as he wrote a Piyut about the order of work in Yom Kippur and this idea had added to it. However, modern researchers place him far later, around the 5th or 6th century CE. He lived in the Land of Israel, where the tradition of Piyutim started.

The most famous of the Paytanim, though, came a little later: Rabbi El'azar Birabbi Qallir.

All right, so, I'm making here a huge claim and many of the more Mizrahi-leaning Piyut enthusiasts are very likely to be baffled and annoyed by that claim. Mostly because it's very likely they didn't see many Piyutim by the Qallir. At least, so I assume. It would take long to explain that point, but basically: there is scarce Ashkenazi Makhzor which doesn't have at least one Piyut by the Qallir. Ibn Ezra, when criticizing early Paytanim in his exogesis on Kohelet (ecclesiastes), focuses on the flaws of the Qallir. The Tosafot said, at some point, that the Qallir sets precedent to adding Piyutim in the middle of prayers because they believe he was a Tana, from the period the Mishnah was written, and thus could disagree with things written there. Long story. Modern Hebrew scholars sometimes laughed at his weird Hebrew - but the point here is, he was their prime example.

And with all that, many modern Jews don't actually know many of his Piyutim, including Ashkenazi ones. Because his Piyutim were written to say in the middle of the prayer, and this type of Piyutim was cut out of most prayers lately. So outside of a few samples from the High Holy Days, many people are less familiar with his work.

He still set some standards for future Piyutim, though, along with his fellow Paytan of the same period, Yanai: they were likely the first to sign their Piyutim via the acrostics. Also, they possibly were the first to make them rhyme - so if you like to write non-rhyming poetry, do remember it can still be considered a Piyut same as old school Piyutim. On a side note, if you've heard the Piyutim VaYehi Bachatzi HaLaylah or Ve'Amartem Zevach Pesach on the Seder night - both of those were written by Yannai. The acrostic is only the Hebrew alphabet and not his name, but it's still known to be his.

From then on, many Piyutim were written: by Ashkenazi Jews, Sepharadi Jews, Italki Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Yemenite Jews... basically everywhere Jews went. I mean, the Ethiopeans were cut off from the rest of Judaism for the most part, so their religious songs traditions are likely vastly different than the others, but they probably can be cosidered Piyutim as well. Among the most well know Paytanim are Kalonymus, Moshe ben Kalonymus, Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbi Moshe Ibn Ezra (I think they're unrelated? But am not completely sure), Dunash Ben Labrat (who's older than most of the ones in this paragraph, sorry for putting him this late) and Rabbi Shelomo Ibn Gabirol. Most of whom are Sephardi, with Kalonymus and Moshe Ben Kalonymus (related, though I think not father and son) being Italkim who moved to Ashkenaz.

At this point, I might want to make an important distinction within Piyutim: they include, as I mentioned, both liturgical poems - said during prayers - and songs sung during feasts. The latter sort gets a lot of attention in general, and many people only mean those when talking about Piyutim. Things are still more complex than those divisions: there are many subtypes to liturgical Piyutim, depending on where they are to be said. Some of which have sneaked into the ones said in feasts. Two examples I always keep in mind are Agadelchah and Libby U'Vesari. Both of those were written by Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, as their acrostic points. Both were written as preparatory poems to other prayers - as seen by their very last words being the first word of well known Jewish prayers: Agadelchah ends with "Ve'Yitgadal B'Goy Kadosh Ve'Eliyon, VeYitkadash Shemei Rabah B'Alma", which is more or less the beginning of the Kaddish, while Libby U'Vesari ends with "...Et Ki Eftaḥ Pi B'Nishmat Kol Chai". The last three words being the beginning of the prayer... Nishmat Kol Chai. It's a bit on the nose, really.

My point is, there is a division, but it's not very clearly cut. And if I wanted to make a sweeping statement, like say "Mizrahi Jews still write Piyutim today but are focused on ones for feasts"... I would be wrong. In some ways there is something to it: due to a certain Halachic development, Sepharadi and Mizrahi Jews no longer say Piyutim in the middle of their prayers. However, they have many Piyutim said as prayers unto themselves, plus the Bakashot singing exists, and... Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that much of the Ashkenazi Piyut tradition was more prayer-focused. Due to that, many Ashkenazi Piyutim weren't set to music and thus are less remembered. For example, many early Ashkenazi rabbis wrote Piyutim. If you really look it up, you can find Piyutim by Rashi, Rabbenu Tam and other Tosafot writers. There are Piyutim by Rabbenu Gershom still said in prayer to this day. But if, say, I were to talk to a fellow Jew who happens to be Mizrahi about Piyutim, he could easily deny the existence of Ashkenazi Piyutim. Especially if I, for example, admit that Moshe Ben Kalonymus was Italki and not technically Ashkenazi. Just an example, it's not like such a thing totally happened about a year ago to me.

On that cheery note, I might add that in modern day Ashkenazim really do scarcely write Piyutim. I do personally know a group that still do, specifically liturgical Piyutim, but it's rare. And after that wall of text, I can also feel safe to say a thing or two about the war.

Whoever you might be who made it this far: congradulations. No, I didn't write this wall of text to dissuade people, I really am interested in Piyutim to that level. I even wrote a couple at the beginning of this accursed war. They're... fine, I think, not exceptional.

But here's the thing: not long after I labored to write them, Yagel Harush came along with his lament on Be'eri. And, well, I should never have considered this a competition, because this guy is a proffesional singer and songwriter. He also put his Piyut to music which I did not. Basically, there is no equivalent to be made.

I'm still sad that my Piyut didn't get very far, but I'm happy to see how wide a distribution the Be'eri Lament got. It is an ancient tradition that existed among Ashkenazi Jews as well to write a lament over a Pogrom, so that we'll never forget it. The Piyutim I know by Rahsi and Rabbenu Tam are both of this sort - about the Crusades and the Blood Libel in Blois, respectively.

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

[dark-pharaoh-atem]

“I don’t understand, Priest Seto.” Shimon sighed, “why won’t the Pharaoh listen to reason? Why does he refuse to leave that tomb keeper?”

@marikslittleangel

[magnetothemagnificent]

sorry f its obvious, goy here, could you go into what all the colors represent? :D

The twelve stripes on the queer Jewish pride flag represent the 12 stones of the 12 Tribes of Israel on the High Priest's Choshen (breastplate):

Onyx: Levi

Garnet: Yehudah (Judah)

Ruby: Reuven (Reuben)

Peridot: Asher

Malachite: Yosef (Joseph)

Emerald: Dan

Prase: Shimon (Simeon)

Torquise: Naftali

Sapphire: Yissachar (Issachar)

Jasper: Binyamin (Benjamin)

Pearl: Zevulun (Zebulun)

Crystal: Gad

There's no consensus as to which stones exactly were on the breastplate, so I synthesized different interpretations.

Sources used were:

The High Priest’s Breastplate (Choshen)

The Stones, Symbols, and Flags of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Exodus Tetzaveh 28:17-20 JPS translation

Onkelos Tetzaveh 28-17-20 Metsudah translation

Translating Gemstones

I colour-picked from each stone and ordered them to resemble a rainbow, representing the unity and diversity of the Jewish people and the inclusion of LGBTQ Jews in our history.

[misc-obeyme]

🐆 I will write the name as we know it- how its written in Hebrew- how it pronounced (only if it is any different)- the meaning. Hope you like it and it makes it more fun to understand for you! Lucifer- לוציפר- technically came from the Christian interpretation of a quote from the bible that said something about the falling morning star. It was probably said as a proverb at the time, but got translated to an actual person lol and here we are. The falling morning star was written הילל בן שחר- Hilel Ben Shahar, I can go for hours on the different meanings it can be.

Mammon- ממון- pretty old word, not being as used, means some kind of wealth. If it's an actual used word, usually only in very official documents to describe monetary value or extreme wealth.

Leviathan- לוויתן- it is written the same in terms of pronunciation, but sounds different. You can copy how I wrote it in Hebrew and listen in google translate. Everyday word, literally means whale.

Satan- שטן- written the same, pronounced slightly differently. Means the devil. Demons by the way are called שדים- shedim, but if you say only demon- שד in a slightly different emphasis on a letter and its a boob. Just a fun fact

Asmodeus- אשמדאי- Ashmedai He doesn't really come from the Jewish bible but as far as I remember was described in different writings and then later added to the inscription. Supposed to be at some point the kind of demons, and was controlled for a period by king Solomon. There's no specific meaning in the name in Hebrew.

Beelzebub- בעל זבוב- Baal Zvuv Literally means owner of flies, or controller of flies in some cases, he was described in some parts in the bible, usually to mock the god of Pegan religion nearby, or to describe priests who came to shoo away the flies from an upcoming sacrifice? Baal is also often refers to a husband, btw.

Belphegor- בעל פעור- Baal Paur Now this is an interesting one, since if pronounced as it is written in English, Phegor can mean carcass which is a bit more related to Beel's name. But in the bible Baal Paur was described to be one of the Pagan gods who had a disgusting job I refuse to describe. Simeon- שמעון- Shimon a commonly used name, less nowadays though. In my opinion, in Hebrew it's one of the least sexiest name since it's very throaty. But that's my taste. The meaning is from the word "Shama שמע" which means heard, heard by god in the way they referred it to. Shimon was one of the kids of a famous figure in the bible.

Solomon- שלמה- Shlomo Everyone probably know the name of king Solom the wise. Very common name for what now is the middle-aged generation, the rural you go in Israel the more common the name is lol. My opinion of it is the same as Shimon.

Raphael and Michael are both known too, and pronounced pretty much the same, though Michael is more like Mikhael, מיכאל, his name means high praise to the god. Raphael sounds the same, written רפאל, Rafael, Rafa usually means healing. For all the angels that have "EL" in the end- El means god. So it's healing from god, protection from god and so on. Luke is from the Christian version, so I leave it be. Barbatos, Mephisto, Diavolo, don't really have relation from what I can remember to the Jewish bible or Hebrew nor do they have a translation into any specific words. The more I think about the more it makes me appreciate how well they have written the story, only the angels and the fallen ones have names that has a meaning in Hebrew while the demons retain their original form... Or maybe I am reading too much to it... Anyway I had fun thinking about all of this and writing this, and hope you enjoy it too. I presume the water has already been consumed. yes? :)

Woahhhh so much I didn't know about this stuff!

Lucifer our fallen morning star... there's something so poetic about that, even if it is a mistranslation and it was never meant to be an actual being.

Also Belphegor I mean Belphie can be like a carcass when he's dead asleep, right?? LOL.

I wonder why they chose the name Simeon? Heard by god, but is he? I'm always hesitant to think they've got any deeper meanings to these things just because this game is not exactly known for that kind of thing. But I can't help but wonder about it.

Huh that's super interesting that the demons that have always been demons don't have the same origin as the angels or fallen angels. I mean, maybe they didn't do that on purpose, but it's cool either way! I've always loved that Diavolo is just devil in Italian! I can't remember about Mephisto aside from Faust, like I don't know if he's in something else Bible adjacent or not. Barbatos is in the Ars Goetia but that's all I know about that lol. I know very little about these things in general.

Thank you so much for writing this and sharing it with me! I'm always interested in this kind of stuff!

And um yes water, right. I am gonna go do that... right... nooooow lol.

[nevertem]

Mahad is actually the only priest who comes from common heritage.

Priest Seto has Akhenaden keeping him from being derided of course.

Isis and Shada are relatives of the old priests, Seth is Iry-Pat at the suggestion of Akhenaden (but his mom was noble anyway) and Karim is an overseer official's son.

Mahad comes from tombkeeper lineage himself at Dier El Medina. That's why he's usually stuck with gravekeeper duties.

Except Shimon who designs them of course

He's the second youngest to become priest. Seth is a year younger than him. Hence why Seth bullies him as he's got a lot to prove.

Mana is a nobles daughter

A lot of bullying also comes from the fact that Mahad wasn't TECHNICALLY ready to become High Magician or a master. He was promoted by necessity when his master died. He didn't go through the inheritance ritual. The Ring was just put on him and he was told to get to work.

He also didn't go through the selection process with the Items. The Ring had to have someone holding it though so here you go, kid, have the demon Item.

Compound that with the new Pharaoh's obvious favoritism to his friend over the technically more qualified Priests to be the fan-bearer of the King's Right Hand, and you get a lot of accusations of incompetence and nepotism.

Priest Seto more or less sees Mahad as a slap to the face for his hard work, utterly oblivious to the favors and personal tutoring he gets because of his father.

Karim, Shada, and Isis are all like 19-25 by the time of the events of Memory World. They were all only teenagers at most during Kul-Elna. It's ridiculously tragic that literally nobody in the court was there except Akhenaden. Something about bad people dying without facing consequences.

Shada genuinely considers Seto his friend. Nobody knows how he can stand him. Shada is just genuinely a patient and kind person.

The one who gets into the Royal Beer Storage and asks for the pretty girl entertainers? Isis. When you see everything all the time sometimes you need some cute girls and booze.

Isis has more than three girlfriends at all times. Yes they smoke blue lotus.

Karim is down with the people most often as the construction overseer, and is thus kind of the face people think of the most. He also just kind of doesn't bother him with pomp and circumstance. He's busy. Go away. He doesn't want the palanquin. He can walk.

He's just kind of a straightforward guy.

Seto can't fucking stand him because he just doesn't rise to provoking.

He just kind of says "k"

Besides Mahad, Karim is Atem's favorite because he's got such a dry sense of humor.

"I believe they call that back on his bullshit, sire."

"Rest assured Seto, it will be recorded how mad you are that you lost this Diaha."

All with the most flat expression possible.

Shada is constantly trying to get people to be nice to Seto.

Shada just thinks we should all be friends.

[apenitentialprayer]

Honi the Circle Maker, by Chana Rivka Burke

An incident occurred in which the people said to Ḥoni HaMe'aggel: "Pray that rain should fall." He said to them: "Go and bring in the clay ovens used to roast the Paschal lambs, so hat they will not dissolve in the water, as torrential rains are certain to fall." He prayed, and no rain fell at all. What did he do? He drew a circle on the ground and stood inside it and said before God: "Master of the Universe, Your children have turned their faces toward me, as I am like a member of Your household. Therefore, I take an oath by Your great Name that I will not move from here until You have mercy upon Your children and answer their prayers for rain." Rain began to trickle down, but only in small droplets. He said: "I did not ask for this, but for rain to fill the cisterns, ditches, and caves with enough water to last the entire year." Rain began to fall furiously. He said: "I did not ask for this damaging rain, either, but for rain of benevolence, blessing, and generosity. Subsequently, the rains fell in their standard manner but continued unabated, filling the city with water until all of the Jews exited the residential areas of Jerusalem and went to the Temple Mount due to the rain. They came and said to him: "Just as you prayed over the rains that they should fall, so too pray that they should stop." He said to them: "Go out and see if the Claimants' Stone" —a large stone located in the city, upon which the proclamations would be posted with regard to lost and found articles— "has been washed away." (In other words, if the water has not obliterated the Claimants' Stone, it is not yet appropriate to pray for the rain to cease.) Shimon ben Shetaḥ, the Nasi of the Sanhedrin at the time, relayed to Ḥoni HaMe'aggel: "Were you not Ḥoni, I would have decreed that you be ostracized, but what can I do to you? You nag God and He does your bidding, like a son who nags his father and his father does his bidding without reprimand. After all, rain fell as you requested."

Tractate Ta'anit 19a:6b-9a

Hyrcanus then began his high priesthood […] when presently [his younger brother] Aristobulus began to make war against him, and as it came to a battle with Hyrcanus at Jericho, many of his soldiers deserted him, and went over to his brother; upon which Hyrcanus fled into the citadel, where Aristobulus's wife and children were imprisoned by their mother, as we have said already, and attacked and overcame those of his adversaries that had fled thither, and lay within the walls of the Temple. [...] Now there was one, whose name was Onias [Greek for Ḥoni]; a righteous man he was, and beloved of God, who, in a certain drought, had prayed to God to put an end to the intense heat, and whose prayers God had heard, and had sent them rain. This man had hid himself, because he saw that this sedition would last a great while. However, they brought him to the Judean camp, and desired that, as by his prayers he had once put an end to the drought, so he would in like manner make imprecations on Aristobulus and those of his faction. And when, upon his refusal, and the excuses that he made, he was still by the multitude compelled to speak, he stood up in the midst of them and said, "O God, the King of the whole world! Since those that stand now with me are Thy people, and those that are besieged are also Thy priests, I beseech Thee, that Thou wilt neither hearken to the prayers of those against these, nor bring to effect what these pray against those." Whereupon such wicked Judeans as stood about him, as soon as he had made this prayer, stoned him to death.

Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews (XIV.1.2, XIV.2.1)

[girlactionfigure]

POWER OF SPEECH

The name of this week’s Torah portion is Emor, meaning “speak,” and starts with God commanding Moses to speak to the priests about their special responsibilities and restrictions. Why is the parsha named for the very act of speaking rather than the important Kohanic laws Moses speaks about? One reason is to emphasize the vital importance of speech in Jewish practice. What we say matters and has the power to cause considerable pleasure or pain to others. 

“Lashon Hara” (evil tongue) describes a wide variety of forbidden speech and is often used to mean “malicious gossip.” Our Sages teach that “Lashon hara kills three: the one who speaks, the one who listens, and the one who is being spoken about." Certainly the one who speaks does damage, as does the one who listens rather than walking away or changing the subject. But how does lashon hara hurt the one who is being gossiped about?

The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches that speaking about a person’s negative traits actually reinforces them, even if the person never knows what was said. Perhaps seeing someone in a negative light will cause you to unconsciously treat them in a negative way, and often we live up to others’ expectations of us, whether deliberately or not. Let’s make sure to think before we speak, and assess honestly whether it is necessary and helpful for us to say anything. Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel said, “All my life I have been raised amongst the wise and I have found nothing better for the body than silence.” 

Accidental Talmudist

[monsooninn]

Berakhot 9b: 26. "The Consequent."

The process of an internal definition of Ha Shem continues. We are trying to create a private reference guide for the terms that explain the God of Israel in the family in order to protect His interests.

As we know He was first. He is One Without a Second, He El, "all the names, everything". He became the Flesh and the Flesh returned to Himself, about this there is no doubt. There can be no further argument this inside the Brace and we must always do what is needed to settle it outside.

The Gospels are ours, they always have been. They are not a missing link, or alien to us, we are their owners, this they say. For Mashiach to work, we must embrace this fact, along with the rest in between the Flesh and its future.

Following is a kind of hidden meaning called a Damra "an ostrich that flaps its wings" a secret meaning that is not a Mishnah or a Gemara. It is found in the terms 80 verses and Ten Blessings. Whatever this means, for some reason King David kept it to himself:

26. Rabbi Yehuda Beriah Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi said: Because David did not say except after eighty verses, therefore Rabban decreed after eighty The ten blessings.

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The God of Judah's Health, lubrication makes the son fuzzy said: Because David did not say except after eighty verses, therefore the Scholar decreed after eighty The ten blessings.

Eighty verses are 1499, אדטט, adtat, "until you submit,"

Ten blessings are 498, דטח‎, dash, "flap, and best regards".

Together, they are 1997, אטטז‎‎‎, "a splash, a spray, a ricochet".

To understand this, we need to understand the difference between sprinkling and splashing:

The sprinkling of the blood means "put your hands in the hamper", specifically, to make your own clothes out of your own time, experience, gumption, and wherewithal.

The splashing of the blood is #620, ובאֶפֶס‎, "grab the future by the ankle."

Splashing is obviously a bit more serious. There has never been a way to drink to the Judah's health without shedding blood, all Jewish men yound and old fuzzy and bald know this.

As for the secret knowledge of Ha Shem entailed in the Mishnah the Value in Gematria is 7648, נמשך‎, "a lasting attraction that is continuous protracted, gravitating, enduring, abiding, consequent."

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The Jewish race must continue or the human race is through. Most people alive today think the opposite, that if we don't exterminate the Jew and Judaism with it something important is going to go missing from our lives.

The Torah says we must stand against this repulsive strain of music...from Pinchas:

The Lord said to Moses, 

11 “Phinehas "the oracle" son of Eleazar "God has helped", the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

[globalworship]

Three Pillars (Jewish teaching + painting)

Shimon HaTzaddik, also known as Simeon the Righteous, was a Jewish High Priest during the Second Temple period. He is also referred to in the Mishnah, where he is described as one of the last members of the Great Assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_the_Just He famously said: On three things the world stands. On Torah, On service [of God], And on acts of human kindness

--Mishnah Avot 1:2

שמעון הצדיק היה משירי כנסת הגדולה הוא היה אומר על שלשה דברים העולם עומד על התורה ועל העבודה ועל גמילות חסדים:

A variant translation: He used to say, "By three things the world exists: On the Torah, on worship and on acts of loving kindness." [Soncino translation] https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/114864.3

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Here is a pertinent painting by Yoram Ranaan, one of my favorite contemporary artists of Israel. He titles it "Three Pillars."

Prints for sale at https://www.yoramraanan.com/sanctuary-prints/3-pillars

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Follow his art at https://www.facebook.com/RaananArt

and see many more of his marvelous paintings and read about the artist at https://www.yoramraanan.com/

The artist recently at work on a different painting, from his FB page:

[drifleaf]

thanks for the tag @fionajames!!!

Dscf (DECO*27)

Rollin girl (wowaka)

Idsmile (Toa & Nightcord 25)

From y to y (Jimmythumb-P)

Lucifer (¿?Shimon)

Egoist (Ounuma paseri)

Abnormality dancing girl (guchiry)

Fixer (nulut)

Tags: @currentlyverytired, @teacup-birb, @purple-priest, @jujubeansy, @s-i-c-y, @enby-mori, @itsjustagoober, @starkitten101

Really sorry if you don't want to be tagged!!!

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Tagged by @sailforvalinor, and thank you this looks like fun!

Remember and Proclaim (Andrew Peterson)

All I Ask of You (Jackie Evancho)

Innocence (Nathan Wagner)

Níl Sé'n Lá (Celtic Woman)

I Still Need a Savior (Billy Sprague)

No Strings (Ed Sheeran)

Take Me Back Road (Tim & the Glory Boys)

How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin)

Everything Sad is Coming Untrue (Jason Grey)

El-Shaddai (Amy Grant)

Voice of Truth (Casting Crowns)

Endlessly (Amaranthe)

Not Alone (Red)

I'm an Open Road (Paul Brandt)

Never Leave Your Side (Sam Tinnesz)

Good to Be Alive (Skillet)

Hoo boy, can I think of sixteen people?

@griseldabanks @kraytwriter @kingofattolia @catkin-morgs @clawedandcute @nerdychristianfanboy @steampunk-archer @sergeanttomycaptain @smhalltheurlsaretaken @scribblermerlin @authortobenamedlater @stainedleather @mrtobenamedlater @mrgartist @get-loved-nerd @a-fount-of-blessings (Ignore if this is a repeat tag. Unless you want to do it again. Up to you. :)

[teachings2023]

Rav Nathan Tvsi Finkel

Le 21.2.2023

"A PARTIR DE MAINTENANT, PREND L'HABITUDE D'INTERROGER ET D'ECOUTER LES GRANDS TZADIKIMS, NOUS. ILS TE DIRONT DIRECTEMENT CE QUE TU DOIS SAVOIR, CE QUE HASHEM VEUT QUE TU SACHES. BARUK HASHEM." 📜🕎 🇮🇱

Les 20 tzadikims importants dans le judaisme sont:

Rabbi Akiba,

Akiva ben Yosef (Mishnaic Hebrew: עֲקִיבָא בֶּן יוֹסֵף‎ ʿĂqīvāʾ ben Yōsēf; c. 50 – 28 September 135 CE),[1] also known as Rabbi Akiva (רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא‎), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as Rosh la-Hakhamim "Chief of the Sages". He was executed by the Romans in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Rabbi Ishmael,

Rabbi Ishmael or Ishmael ben Elisha, meaning: Ismael son of Elisha, (90-135 CE [1], Hebrew: ) was a Rabbinic sage from the third tannaitic generation [1]. He was descended from a priestly family and the legends refer to him as High Priest although he lived after the destruction of the Second Temple [2]. He is generally referred to simply as Rabbi Ishmael [3]. As a young child, Ishmael, whose parentage is not known but who traced his lineage through a high priestly line [3], was known for his wisdom and was seen as a prodigy. He was one of the most prominent Tannaim (the great Sages of the Mishnah) and was a central figure in the development of rabbinic Judaism [4]. His teachings and commentaries on the Torah and Mishnah are recorded in the works of Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael and Sifrei. He is also credited with originating the concept of Midrash, which is a method of interpreting scripture through narrative and allegory.

Rabbi Judah ben Ilai, Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, Rabbi Eleazar ben Shammua, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, Rabbi Abbahu, Rabbi Simeon ben Gamliel, Rabbi Yose HaGelili, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Hillel, Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri, Rabbi Abba Arikha, Rabbi Yehuda HeChassid, Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, Rabbi Isaac Luria, et Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Ces tzadikims sont connus pour leur sagesse, leur savoir et leur influence sur le judaïsme et les écritures bibliques à travers les âges.

[dark-pharaoh-atem]

Atem summoned the priests, Hashira and Shimon to the throne room.

@marikslittleangel

[nevertem]

😡 maybe the first time he felt betrayal?

The apprentice High Priest of Ra--Mahad, of Deir El-Medina, disciple of Anubis, beloved of Thoth, dedicated to Meretseger--took over as High Magician on the day that the Prince was crowned King.

Though he was hardly older than the Prince--though the two of them studied magic together under the same master--it had indeed been deemed that he would be skilled enough to take over the training of the next God's Wife of Amun, if only because he was the last magician who was skilled enough under the court of Ma'at, due to the day of the Prince's crowning of Kingship.

He had been decorated that day, of course, small face tipped upwards as his servants attended to him. Shimon, his adviser, had been acting in place of Pharaoh since the death of his father, and while the boy king was talented in magic, intelligent, and inquisitive, he was still immature, due to his childish nature. He was still a sensitive child--prone to bursting into tears, prone to childish pranks, prone to mischief. The court attendants, of course, took notice of his behavior. He was frequently scolded for such actions, only encouraging him, in his mind, to act out more. To convince his fellows that their days of fun were limited, so they may as well make their time together last. Such was the innocence of the Prince, and such was the behavior, he figured, that led to his friends needing to take on too much responsibility, much too soon.

It was because he had decided to skip the formalities. It was because he had run, skipping the ceremonies he needed to attend. It was because he had been caught, and he had cried openly, angry that he had to do these things, angry that he still felt the pomp and circumstance was ridiculous. It was because he had cried about not wanting any of it. It was the resentment that had built in the older court members, watching a child throw away years of tradition that they had worked hard to maintain. The old guard of Pharaoh Akhenamkanon. The ones who had given up so much to get where they were, only to have a spoiled brat come in and throw everything away due to his selfish tantrums.

It was only fair that they should turn on him, when he would be crowned king.

"I will not dedicate my life to an unworthy King!"

He had been dragged into the throne room by Shimon, and while his vizier had stood in front of him protectively, his scribe priest Akhenaden on his other side, one arm in front of him. Ceremonial robes in place. Both had been standing in front of him, guarding him, while the magicians of his father had come to stand before him in protest--and the Prince, for the first time, had seen faces that would have him harmed--things that saw him as unworthy, that had expected more from him than he'd ever known before.

"He is the son of Akhenamkanon, whom you have sworn yourselves to. Understand that he will one day be the same."

"And what until then? What will become of Kemet under a child?"

"He has the guidance I have offered him. He will grow into a fine King."

"That isn't good enough! Look at him--he has no love for tradition, no love for his people, no love for what brought him here! He is an emotional child without pride--you are only defending him because you will be acting as Pharaoh until then!"

The Prince, who had been gripping his Vizier's arm in fear, shook at the words. Was he really disrespecting his father as much as they said he was? His father's words rang in his head. To never turn his back on something that was unjust. Had this been what his father had spoken of? Had he been acting unjust to his own court?

"You must stand down, in the name of Akhenamkanon, great Pharaoh of Kemet." Akhenaden said, firmly. "His son will be put on the throne. That is the way it will be."

And it had all happened in an instant, really. Too fast for him to really register.

In just a few second's time--half a minute or more--he had been swept up by the torso, and yanked into the hold of an adult. The High Priest of Ptah. The one who had been holding the Scales. The ceremonial sidearm had been brought to his throat.

And the Prince's blood ran cold, his head feeling distant. Perhaps it was a dream. Tears welled up in his eyes, spilling down his cheeks. He started to sniffle, and cry. Wailing, and he pushed, crying out for Shimon's help.

He'd tasted blood for the first time, too.

"Shut up, you stupid brat!"

In his struggling, he'd managed to pull somewhat out of the Priest's grasp, and he was yanked back by the arm. He was cut, then. The blade ran across his lower lip, enough to leave a scar. He'd frozen in shock, fear filling his bones. He'd never been struck before, not really. He'd never been threatened before. He'd never known pain like this before.

"This prideless, emotional thing is supposed to lead us? Do you forget what the King is supposed to be? This child will never be a man to begin with--I will refuse to accept this as the end of Kemet, so let it begin at the 20th dynasty!"

He was going to die.

And he knew that, deep in his bones, and he knew that there would be nobody else to save him, here. He knew that they were right. He knew he wasn't fit to be King as he was. He knew he was without pride. He knew he would be the end of his father's legacy. But he knew he wasn't going to die here and now.

He still had so much left to do.

If he was going to live, he was going to have to be King.

And his tears would be dried by himself. And his blood would be stopped by himself. And his life would be saved by himself.

"Stand down."

And when he spoke, his voice was not his own, and his eyes were not his own, the blood of the Dragon of the Heavens was in his veins, and in his bones.

And when the sky opened the heavens split.

And he was dropped in fear, but that was not the end. He was scrambled away from, ran from as his father's court, and the boy of all of eleven stood before the throne,

And he wiped his mouth free of blood, and even as he shook. He would be what they wanted. He would be what his people desired.

He would be his father.

The mouth of the dragon god opened.

He walked past them, bodies splayed, blood pooled. Hands that were open. Eyes that were open. Without pomp, without circumstance. He picked up the Items in shaking hands. Gold that he tucked under his arm. He sat upon the throne, for he would be the King of a throne soaked in blood, and he would be crowned in a Kingdom soaked in blood, and he would bear the curse of his very eyes being the blood of the Demon King, and this would be what he would inherit.

For if they did not want a boy to lead them, for if they did not want a human to lead them, for if they wanted the tradition of his forefathers, he would be that. He would be exactly what was asked of him.

He sat upon a golden throne.

"Crown me as Pharaoh, Akhenaden. Continue with the ceremony."

And that would be the last time he would cry.

[ljf613]

then we have SIMON.

"simon" comes from the biblical name שמעון (read as "shimon"), which translates to "listen" or "G-d has heard".

shimon was the second son of yaakov (jacob), born from his first wife, leah. leah knew that her husband didn't love her the way he did his second wife, so she prayed for children to love instead-- hence why she named her second son "G-d has heard" (ie. "my prayers"). shimon is most well-known for teaming up with his brother levi to destroy the entire city of shechem after the city's prince kidnapped and assaulted their sister dina. yaakov was concerned that shimon and levi were too impulsive and quick to anger that lead to dangerous and disastrous results, especially when they were left alone together. when the land was divided among the different tribes, shimon's portion was entirely surrounded by the land of his brother yehuda (judah), with the idea being that yehuda's tribe would be able to curb shimon's descendants' more dangerous impulses.

what does any of this have to do with "simon cullum"? for one, a name meaning "listen" is a good fit for a priest. there's also an implication that he's being kept on someone else's careful leash, and that, perhaps, there's something angry or dangerous about him that should not be given free reign...

think i'm going to write an analysis about the usage and significance of biblical names in The Ancient Magus' Bride.