#hebrew

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[aviad1b]

Hannukah having one Hebrew spelling but a thousand English ones is the 'hag equivalent of a Hebrew person who uses a bunch of neo-pronouns in English but only one L'shon P'niya in Hebrew because Hebrew doesn't have any gender-neutral terms

[aviad1b]

wait, did you actually do this in vanilla?? no textures, no datapacks?? that's impressive

ive made a datapack for Hebrew letters back in September and just kinda kept it to myself

i wasnt able to ever make this in plain minecraft

Shabbat Shalom Jews on my phone! I was fucking around today and I made banners in Minecraft for the alefbet (minus ף and ך because fuck them i guess)

(I included two stars of Davids if you're that upset)

(also מ is written in it's alternate form because I couldn't get it to work in banner format, if you really want a regular מ I guess use that pattern by the barrel there

If you want me to give the instructions for how to make each individual letter let me know, I just don't want to do that if no one wants it

There's also two equally shitty א patterns to choose from too!

What can I do with these letters?

Lots of things!

Look at this cool Hanukkah décor!

All of these are survival world friendly too! You'll just need a shit ton of banners and dye!

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Child's Writing Exercises and Doodles, from Egypt, c. 1000-1200 CE: this was made by a child who was practicing Hebrew, creating doodles and scribbles on the page as they worked

This writing fragment is nearly 1,000 years old, and it was made by a child who lived in Egypt during the Middle Ages. Several letters of the Hebrew alphabet are written on the page, probably as part of a writing exercise, but the child apparently got a little bored/distracted, as they also left a drawing of a camel (or possibly a person), a doodle that resembles a menorah, and an assortment of other scribbles on the page.

This is the work of a Jewish child from Fustat (Old Cairo), and it was preserved in the collection known as the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts. As the University of Cambridge Library explains:

For a thousand years, the Jewish community of Fustat placed their worn-out books and other writings in a storeroom (genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue ... According to rabbinic law, once a holy book can no longer be used (because it is too old, or because its text is no longer relevant) it cannot be destroyed or casually discarded: texts containing the name of God should be buried or, if burial is not possible, placed in a genizah.

At least from the early 11th century, the Jews of Fustat ... reverently placed their old texts in the Genizah. Remarkably, however, they placed not only the expected religious works, such as Bibles, prayer books and compendia of Jewish law, but also what we would regard as secular works and everyday documents: shopping lists, marriage contracts, divorce deeds, pages from Arabic fables, works of Sufi and Shi'ite philosophy, medical books, magical amulets, business letters and accounts, and hundreds of letters: examples of practically every kind of written text produced by the Jewish communities of the Near East can now be found in the Genizah Collection, and it presents an unparalleled insight into the medieval Jewish world.

Sources & More Info:

Cambridge Digital Library: Writing Exercises with Child's Drawings

Cambridge Digital Library: More About the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts

[thefoilguy]

Pieta by Michelangelo - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[eretzyisrael]

[parsabad]

Mollayaghoub Synagogue/ Isfahan/ Iran

Photography: Saeed amini

[upennmanuscripts]

I'd like to introduce you to LJS 57, a compendium of Astronomical text in Hebrew, written in Spain around 1391. It's an interesting combination of astronomy and astrology, and illustrates how the division between "science" and "not science" was not nearly so clear in the past as it is today. It has some fantastic illustrations of constellations!

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[mysharona1987]

Lady, you are literally admitting to a war crime on tv.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I mean Yiddish has actually derogatory words for goyim, if you’d prefer

[yiddishknights]

Two knights on horseback rendered in Hebrew micrography in the margins of the Yonah Pentateuch, 13th century.

Source: British Library, Add. MS 21160 fol. 192v and 201v

[askjumblr]

How does one laugh over text in Hebrew?? I mean like “lmao” I mean like “hahahaha”,,, signed, convert-in-progress 🫡

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[tributary]

wait no one tell them this is so funny