#hassidic

[nesyanast]

Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Hassidic Sabbath attire, 1970s-90s, Jerusalem.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

The most romantic story I've ever heard is the Jewish Hassidic story about the king who went to his close friend and advisor and told him that he saw in the stars that next year's crops will be tainted and anyone who will eat from them will lose their sanity.

The advisor told him that they could save up some of this year's crops for themselves so they can remain sane for the next year while everyone else would not.

The king responded that if they did that, they will be considered the insane ones amongst everyone else, despite knowing the opposite.

The king went on to say that, since they can't save up good crop for everyone, they would also eat from the tainted crops but while doing so draw a sign on each other's foreheads so that whenever they look at each other at least they'll know together that they are both no longer sane.

[waugh-bao]

[doolallymagpie]

am i wrong or did Duke Ricol's Marauder often get described as "crablike"?

[salty-goldfinch]

Busy Day

[cursezone]

hassidic music goes so unbelievably hard..

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

As Dr. Einat Wilf said, when the Arabs stop their anti-Zionism, the result is peace. 

If this isnt how peace is made then peace is just a meaningless word.

Emirate Arabs dance with Chabad Jews in a previous enemy state called United Arab Emirates.

[nesyanast]

[infiniteglitterfall]

Uggghhh, what is UP with Canada?!

In Vancouver, the Schara Tzedeck synagogue's windows were smashed on April 19th.

In Toronto on April 19, five windows at the Kehillat Shaarei Torah synagogue were smashed with a hammer.

In Toronto on April 26, someone set a sign on fire at Beth Tikvah Synagogue....

....And again on April 28.

In Toronto in May, Jewish community members started escorting a kid to school because he was being bullied by peers who told him, "We're going to do to you what Hamas did to Israel," pushed him, kicked him, threw stones at him, and told him, "we need to kill you." This had been going on for six months. (His family had gone to both the school and police repeatedly at this point and it had only escalated; the kids throwing stones at him on the way to school was new.)

In Toronto on May 17th, Kehillat Shaarei Torah's windows were smashed again.

On May 25th before dawn, two people shot at Bais Chaya Muska, a Jewish girls' school in Toronto.

On May 29th, in the middle of the night, someone shot at the Belz Yeshiva Ketana school in Montreal.

In Vancouver on May 30, someone poured fuel on the doors of the Schara Tzedeck synagogue, then firebombed them.

In an article on June 7, Rabbi Lisa Grushcow of Emanu-El-Beth Sholom synagogue in Montreal said people have yelled “Hitler was right!” and “Jew!” at her congregants as they arrive for Shabbat services and that Jewish kids are being bullied in local schools.

On June 1 in Toronto, a man smashed the window of the Anshei Minsk synagogue with a rock.

On June 3 in Kitchener, someone smashed the front door of Beth Jacob synagogue.

On June 19th in Montreal, three small bullet-like holes were somehow made in the windows of Falafel Yoni. (I don't know, all the articles go out of their way to say they don't know WHAT made the holes.) Falafel Yoni is owned by a Jewish man who was born in Israel, and has appeared on boycott lists despite the owner never having said anything political about Israel.

On the same day, down the street from Falafel Yoni, someone smashed the windows of a nearby gym whose co-owner is Jewish and had also been born in Israel.

On June 30 in Toronto, someone threw stones at the Pride of Israel synagogue, then at Kehillat Shaarei Torah, smashing windows (again) in the latter.

On the weekend of July 27th, a father and son in Toronto were arrested for planning a terrorist attack and murder on behalf of ISIL, which is wild.

On July 29th, someone torched a bus belonging to the Bobov Hassidic school in Toronto.

And smashed the windows of a DIFFERENT Jewish school in Toronto, Leo Baeck Jewish Day School, and set it on fire.

On July 31 in Toronto, guess which synagogue had three signs set on fire? That's right: Kehillat Shaarei Torah.

Plus one sign set afire at Toronto's Temple Sinai Congregation the same night, presumably by the same arsonist, who might even have been the stone-hurler of June 30.

There are probably ones I missed. Just putting this list together took like three hours, though. I kept having to go, "Wait, surely that can't be the same synagogue AGAIN" and "they only mention the closest major intersection, which one was this?!" and "that can't be a different one, how many windows did they smash??" and go look for more sources. Plus a couple of articles were giving conflicting dates for one of the incidents.

And nobody ever gives actual dates, they just say shit like, "Blah blah blah was reported Monday...." so I have to look at the article date and then look at a damn calendar.

I went back as far as April because everything I found was referring to earlier incidents. Back to April. February and March were relatively quiet, at least in the news. Although interestingly, February is when the most hate crimes in Toronto had been reported, at least as of ... oh, I see.

As of March.

On the bright side, I did discover that Kehillat Shaarei Torah consistently has great jokes on its sign.

[readingbooksinisrael]

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles/Patricia C. Wrede would be my NEEDS to be there since it shows so much how fairy tale tropes can be played around with.

Overall, I think books that play around with a few elements and/or stories would be interesting (Tristan Strong, The Magic Fish, Spinning Silver).

I also think Tristan Strong, Spinning Silver, The Magic Fish, When the Angels Left the Old Country, The Talking Eggs, and The Golem and the Jinni could all be used as fairy tale (element) retellings that are only based fully or partially in a different tradition that the European one.

Overall list then:

The Talking Eggs/Robert D. Souci (also the illustrations! fairy tale illustrations are also interesting)

Dealing with Dragons/Patricia C. Wrede

The Magic Fish/Trung Le Nguyen

When the Angels Left the Old Country/Sacha Lamb

Spinning Silver/Naomi Novik

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky/Kwame Mbalia

Book Discussion

i haven't been able to shut up about my fairy tale class but now i'm wondering: what versions of fairy tales would YOU add to a syllabus about fairy tales and why? it can be any medium, from novels to short stories to movies etc.

[slyandthefamilybook]

does tumblr know about Hassidic EDM because I think it should

[xclowniex]

I just had the TV show "nobody wants this" recommended to me by a coworker so here is why I (most likely) will not be watching it

For those who don't know, it is a TV show where a rabbi falls in love with a goy sex podcaster.

1. The whole jewish women aren't fun trope, and jewish mothers are all overbearing and hate any women in her son's life trope.

2. It also does the "pervy bar mitzvah boy" trope

3. The whole premise of the movie is that it's crazy that a rabbi wants to pleasure his partner!!!! When per the torah, men are supposed to satisfy their partners. And that's why it was so funny when Ben Shapiro admitted he failed at this. I'm not going to act like all jewish men are inherently good and not sexually selfish as I'm sure there are plenty of jewish men who fail to make their girlfriends and wifes orgasm. But it does play onto the feminization of jewish men trope when you act like jewish men inherently are incapable of satisfying their partner. It's neither an inherent or non inherent thing to jewish men, and is generally weird in the first place, but extra weird because they put this trope on a rabbi who should know about needing to satisfy his partner according to jewish texts.

4. The rabbi also lowkey dresses like a youth pastor. This isn't huge up there and not problematic, but damn at least dress him like a rabbi, even a reform rabbi no need to go full hassidic orthodox with it.

That said, I'm not going to clown on anyone who watches it, as long as they are aware of the shows short comings and are aware that it is not good representation. Whilst it sucks that it's super hard to get good jewish rep in shows, it's not like the show is spewing nazi propaganda. I might even watch the show myself if I decide I want to cringe.

[batboyblog]

I keep having an idea for like a Jewish Percy Jackson book series. Basically the idea that Yiddish/Ashkenazi folklore is/was real and like Percy Jackson's greek gods the dybbuks, Golems, demons and all the rest came west to New York City and they're under the city in the subway tunnels and sewers

And I was thinking of two main characters. There's Josh a very modern teenager, who loves ghost hunters, and super natural podcasts and loves his bubbie's stories of Yiddish folklore. He travels into the subway armed with a camera and ghost hunting equipment and comes face to face with....

Yehudah, AKA Hoodie, a young Hassid from Brooklyn. Hoodie's family from hundreds of years have kept the spirts down, fought monsters, and protected the community, first in the old country and now in New York using folk magic and things

Josh is all about science and trying to understand "okay but how does it work?" and Hoodie is very "it's tradition this how its done, please shut up and stop getting in trouble!" A story of two Bar Mitzvah boys studying Torah, dealing with middle school, each other, and being stuck in the tunnels under NYC in the middle of the night facing the horrors

[daitheflu-mx]

they say they're antizionists and then try to kidnapped a hasidic kid in Brooklyn. so called "antizionists" don't even know a large number of hassidic jews in Brooklyn are antizionists due to their religious beliefs. absolute ignorance, absolute jew hatred.