#hassidic

[nesyanast]

Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

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

[estera-shirin]

Mizrach, Jerusalem, Palestine/Eretz Israel, 1863 CE

According to the museum: "Printed Mizrachs were an important part of Jewish art around the end of the 19th century. For the first time, the increasing efficiency of the printing and paper industries made such printed sheets available at reasonable prices to a much wider public that previously. Such Mizrachs a popular item from printers in the Holy Land: for use in that country, for sending as gifts abroad and as souvenirs for tourists. The central image is a scene of the Kotel and surrounding area. There are other Holy Land sites depicted, as well as other images often used by the first printer in Jerusalem, Yisrael Bak. In the early years of the 1860's, Moses and Judith Montefiore sent Bak a new modern press from iron. This early printed sheet was most probably produced on that press.

Yisrael ben Avraham Bak was born in 1797 in Berdichev, Ukraine. In 1815, he founded a printing press in Berdichev where he published 30 books until the press closed. Finally in 1831 he made Aliyah to the Holy Land and settled in Safed where the following year began Hebrew printing for the first time after 245 years. His press was damaged in both the peasant revolt of 1834 and the earthquake of 1837. The final destruction came with the Druze revolt of 1838, after which Bak left Safed and went to Jerusalem. In 1841 he once again established for the third time a Hebrew press in a different city.  This was the first Hebrew press ever in the Holy city of Jerusalem. For 33 year Bak continued to print in Jerusalem, some 130 volumes in all and many single sheet publications, until his death in 1874. In addition to the importance of his printing activity, Bak was also a leader of the Chasidic community and with his son Nisan established the Tiferet Israel synagogue in Jerusalem for Chasidim."

[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"?

[nesyanast]

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[hiddurmitzvah]

A group of hassidic jews in 1915, somewhere in the Austro-Hungarian Empire