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shalom-iamcominghome · 8 months ago

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Another little thing I like about my shul: it feels super homey.

When I went to lutheran church (about once every... two years, if you were lucky to see me there ever), it was very nursing home adjacent - those stereotypes are true, it's super liminal when you're there. My shul, though, is just... very homey, if messy, if I'm honest. It's really comforting, we have a ton of instruments in a part of the shul and it makes my musician heart soar.

I dunno, it's just really nice to feel at home in a place that I spend time in, praying and singing and eating (after service), and learning.

#jumblr #jew by choice #jewish conversion #personal thoughts tag #shul shenanigans #our kitchen is very messy though (as in: disorganized at first glance)#if you have never been in a protestant church those memes that say they feel like nursing homes are very accurate in my experience #that was only a small part of why i was uncomfortable in church and in protestantism though #but now that i know what that feeling of being at HOME in a place of reverence is like i Don't Want to go back #i'm sorry i talk SO MUCH about shul but i genuinely love everything about it #i love my rabbi. i love my shul members. i love the person who bakes the most delicious hamantash ever. i love the books and music #and the kindness and accomodations. and that we are celebrating and mourning and worshipping and mourning and celebrating

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