#but I'm posting this for 'goyishe purim'

[angryjewishcockroach]

HAPPY goyishe Purim, everybody!

ID: A Jewish man in a baseball cap (Eitan Levine, eitanthegoalie on Instagram) speaks to the camera in front of an image of three cutesy ghost decorations; throughout the video, the background changes to match what he is talking about: "merry GOYISHE Purim everybody. HAPPY Halloween! The holiday is around the corner. I hope everyone has their costumes picked out and they're getting ready to go trick-or-treat and just scare the local old people. Aside from going door to door begging for candy, the biggest thing about Halloween is obviously the monsters. But did you know that a lot of the monsters that are synonymous with Halloween have Jewish origins? The scene from Monster Mash is basically a Chabad House. Let's go.

"Let's talk about it first off werewolves. As we all know, werewolves get bar mitzvahs, they're spooky, they're scary, it's boys becoming men, it's men becoming wolves. But also, because of the connection to the lunar calendar, Jews tend to refer to other Jews throughout literature as werewolves. Rabbi Ephraim ben Shimshom literally used it to describe Jacob's son Benjamin as a werewolf. Do you know the guy that wrote The Golem wrote another play called The Wolf that described the rabbi who turned into a werewolf? Also the American Werewolf in London is a grad student named David Kessler. JEW.

"Then there's the goblins, I don't gotta get into it but JK Rowling, you think we're blind?! You think that putting these guys in charge of the banks wasn't an issue?! Are you [sputters] insane?

"Then there's vampires, which was a myth that was believed in the Middle Ages around the time of the bubonic plague. And let me tell you, you--we know who they blamed the bubonic plague on, and it wasn't the Catholics. Vampires' whole thing was drinking blood, which was an homage to the blood libel where Jews were blamed for stealing Christian baby blood.

Anyways happy goyishe Purim." End ID]

[sweetlittleoreo]

this post is for my goyish followers, because I want y'all to hear about the holiday we are having now, which is Purim!

Purim has a great story and I can make a post about it if somebody is interested, but what I wanted to explain is the Holyness of our holidays.

So we have shabbat, right? It's a holy day and we can't work on shabbat (work includes but is not limited to Actual Work, handling money, drawing, driving or riding a vehicle, turning on the lights, cooking, using electrical devices)

We have two categories of holidays: (bear with me on the names)

De'orayta/דְּאוֹרָיְתָא and De'rabbanan/דְּרַבָּנָן (it's aramaic I'm sorry) which means "from the Torah" and "from Rabbis"

The Torah holidays have a Holy Day, which is like shabbat, and some of them have Sand holidays (Chol Hamoed lol) (because we have Holy and Sand days) (which is Holidays and than regular day so sand holiday is the inbetween) anyway,,,

And holidays from Rabbis don't have a Holy day.

The two (low key three but nvm) Rabbi holidays are the famous Hanukkah and its less known sibling, Purim.

Which means both Hanukkah and Purim have the same Religious significance. (And by that I mean... the Holymeter beeps the same)

So the whole shazam around Hanukkah is kind of shit if you don't give the same energy to Purim, because when it comes to actually learn more about jewish holidays and traditions, Yom Kippur means so much more.

P.s yes this post was made because I'm mad Purim doesn't get that much attention even tho it's a kick ass holiday and it's so fun and it's a commend to get drunk

TL;DR Purim deserves as much attention from Goys as Hanukkah, and they both actually need to get much less hype than Yom Kippur or Pesach or Sukkot (which nobody even talks about???)

[Image ID: a gif showing a red, heart shaped digital locket. It opens to reveal text on each side of it, black on white background. The left says "Purim my beloved". The right says "Purim my beloved" in hebrew. The gif loops. /end ID]