#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]

[balrogballs]

Hey, I’m just reaching out to people on Tumblr, it’s not one of those weird sexual blogs trying to get your attention. I’m just curious, you’ve probably heard of Jesus and God, but have you ever reached out to Jesus for problems in your life? Big or small. If you don’t want to talk, that is completely fine, I truly don’t want to force anything on you because that isn’t very kind and it kinda sucks. I hope you’re having an awesome day!!

Also!

I love your blog!! You are absolutely hilarious!! 💕

Hello hello!

Unfortunately I am not a religious person myself, I come from a mixed faith background and my parents have faced tons of contention from both sides + people in public for their decision to marry — and due to that my immediate family and I are very “secular” for lack of a better term, and will continue to be so.

But thank you very much for the kindly worded message and I’m glad you enjoy my blog! ✨

[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..

[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.

[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.

[sgiandubh]

New York, New York

Still recovering from what was an intense and very physically taxing business trip, but I just couldn't let this pass by:

La Mercerie New York, C's latest IG follow - as of today at noon (European time zones), when I got word of it (gracias a ti, siempre 😘).

Of course, that means nothing, right? Unless...

Needless to say, I find all the recent speculation about bars and girls and photoshoots absolutely meh, but also probably encouraged, too. #Williamsburg

Funny when you think Williamsburg is also home to one of the biggest Hassidic Jewish communities in the US. The irony, huh?

Speaking of restaurants and bars & such, it's always LOL time when you read solemn idiocies like this one:

[Same Sad Stalker, of course - no need to link it]

First of all, Fallon did not pronounce the name the way Same Sad Stalker suggested. You can check it out here - at the 04:56 time stamp:

Instead, S's Sazenach is a clear pun and spin-off a classic Louisiana cocktail, the Sazerac. It's got whisky and absinthe spray, as you can see on the above clip from Jimmy Fallon's show, but obviously no gentian flavored Peychaud's Bitters, as the original one.

Mmm. Mrs. Marple was so busy tracking every breath he took, that she forgot to properly do her homework. And nobody corrected her, because they simply are clueless, narrow-minded idiots. Color me surprised.

But slainte - it's Burns Night and we were just served 2024's reheated Austrian innuendo/promo:

In the meanwhile, quiet IG follows suggest a completely different story. And no, I don't care if her MUA did the same.

PS: I wouldn't mind a Sazerac, but I would also very much prefer an Old fashioned, if given a choice and still be interested in this kind of entertainment.

[queer-jewish-spoonie]

Got some Hassidic ink today

[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