#hebrew texts

[and-her-saints]

Remember those in prison.

[lime-bucket]

im not sure of all the facts, but Lilith is originally part of the jewish myths, not the christian, and was responsible for stillbirths, traumatic births and stealing children away in the night, mostly leading to their demise, however most media these days just likes to make her a feminist icon, sweeping all the rape and murder under the rug

Those modern depictions of lilith r not feminist in my book,rather they fall in corporate feminism shit cuz they remove any depictions of harsh realities related to women & the myths that explore them,as thats not profitable so they can just put a feel good "girl boss" font on the stories

Wich is rlly a shame becuz before i learned abt the history of lilith,i just found her kind of uninteresting/bland cuz my first exposure of the mother of demons came again from her modern depictions that cut out anth considered "terrible" of her,wich is funny since again lilith is a fucking demon

Like damn couldnt the writers at least keep the chiklren stealing stuff up?

[mygraine]

guys would i be clowned on if i made christianity - based mogai terms . . .

[grecoromanyaoi]

mishnaic hebrew is a bad, fake language its not even close to biblical hebrew its just a mix of biblical hebrew, greek, persian, aramaic-

[queerprayers]

does God love me? will He be okay if I go to him, tired and weary, ready to collapse? what will happen when I do that?

Hello beloved, many months later. I'm answering you today because I want you and everyone reading this (and myself) to know the answer to this. Your questions are questions we all ask, ones that people have gone to God with for at least as long as we have stories of God's people.

Mostly today I have God's words for you (through other people), said and experienced much more deeply than I could write, but I will say what I have in my heart too. And that is that God's love is present even when we cannot feel it. God loves you not just when you are aware of this fact. And however much you question it or tear it apart or run away from it or ignore it or forget it, it is all around us and within us. Also, "God loves you" always feels incomplete to me (although it isn't)--I always want to add, take a moment to see the Trinity as Lover/Beloved/Love, see God as Love and the One who Loves and the One who is Love, because love is a verb and a noun and a state of being, and God loves us because we exist in a world in the palm of his hand. God loves you as a person, yes, please know that, and also: our existence is inseparable from the Love moving through each breath. If grief is love with nowhere to go, God is love with everywhere to go.

"Will he be okay" is such an interesting phrase but I think I know exactly what you mean. The answer is that God holds and experiences and is himself the universe, which has space for everything within you. After creating the world, God rested--holy rest is built in to our experiences. God knows and welcomes our need to rest, even commanded it. He will be more than okay--he will rejoice at your arrival, however much of a prodigal son you are, and your collapse will be into him.

What will happen? I can't promise you won't still be tired. There are so many reasons to be tired, and they won't all disappear. Many of things that most tire me are the things that are the things most worth it--the work of love, of caring about the world, of caring for myself, of putting one foot in front of the other. The evil and pain of the world drains us the more we pay attention to it--and yet we are called to do these tiring things. The more I go to God the more love I have in me and the more that care drains me--and yet. It fills me too. God is a well that will never run dry. I drink and am more satisfied and more thirsty than anything else can make me.

What will happen is you will keep caring. And keep working. And hopefully you will have enough rest to not collapse but if you do, if the world fills you with more weariness than you can stand, the One who holds the world in the palm of his hand has room for that. You will be filled with the hunger and the rest of love. A foretaste of the feast to come, when hunger and thirst will be no more.

Some words of scripture for you--may they be a moment of rest.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (1 John 4:16 NIV)

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:37-39 NIV)

[Elijah] went on a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: . . . "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. (1 Kings 19:4-13 NIV)

This is probably my favorite Bible passage. When we collapse in the desert and ask to die, God doesn't make us get up right away. First an angel gives us food and water. And then, God is in the gentle whisper, the quiet breath. Elijah finds his purpose after resting and hears God in the quiet. May it be so for us.

. . . Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" . . . "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:6-7; 13 NIV)

This obviously isn't the full story (which you should definitely read if you're not familiar--this is Jesus talking with a woman Jewish people didn't associate themselves with, already knowing her, revealing himself as the Messiah to her), but I wanted you to hear Jesus tired, asking for a drink of earthly water--and also knowing that what he can give us is more than any well can provide. So, too, with rest. Jesus ate and drank and rested on this earth, while being God. He experienced weariness even though he didn't need to, so he could do it with us--while teaching the bigger picture.

And I leave you with this, which answers your question "what will happen" beautifully:

The LORD your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV)

Go in peace. If you still carry the weariness of this ask, may it be blessed.

<3 Johanna

[gothhabiba]

the fact that Rabea Eghbariah says things such as "See Protected Natural Values Declaration (Amendment No. 2) (Judea and Samaria), 1978."

well, Mr. Eghbariah, I would love to "see" this order for myself. however you have made that completely impossible by translating the title of the law to English, giving me no indication of what the original Hebrew was, no indication of the number assigned to this law, no citation of any translated English publication of these laws, and no citation of any Hebrew publication or archive of these laws. so how, precisely, am I supposed to "see" anything. hm?

[i-shit-in-your-bathtub]

mild good omens s2 spoilers

everyone hypothesizing/hc that Crowley was the archangel Raphael b4 the fall bc not only is Raphael conveniently missing but Crowley was also a high ranking angel pre-fall

great theory! wonderful but there's no text where Raphael falls & also the universe and the stars were never his dominion

I offer you Kokabiel: "the star of god"

a highly ranked angel known as a watcher (meant to watch over the universe) who became a fallen angel and commands an army in hell

known as the angel of the stars and teaches of constellations, Kokabiel while considered fallen is still seen as holy despite being a resident of hell

literally I feel like this fits mr gaimans narrative much better and gonna be honest archangels are actually very low level in angel rankings & Crowley is specifically at least a dominion or throne so he had to be pretty high up there even assuming the book /show moved where archangels fall on the hierarchy plus watchers land high up in the hierarchy so it would make since for him to have access

most fallen watchers fell bc of their involvement in the creation of the nephilim but if Kokabiel is generally considered holy its unlikely that that was the reason he was cast from heaven

and I would say that angel Crowley has a childlike love of his nebulae that it seemed like god did not respect & we can assume that he fell bc of him questioning the almighty about the universe

like I don't think neil gaiman has prefall Crowley set up as the angel Kokabiel but I do think it fits a tad bit better that currently floating theories

again this reinforces my theory that Kokabiel didn't defy god by creating the Nephilim but instead he came upon the corruption of heaven which we know that Crowley knows better than anyone, and that is what led to his fall simply questioning heaven or the almighty & being cast to hell for it

thanks for coming to my ted talk lmao, a lot of research went into this theory

[leroibobo]

ezekiel's tomb in al kifl, iraq is believed by jews and muslims to house the body of the biblical prophet ezekiel, with shi'ites specifically believing the site has its roots on a shrine built by the prophet abraham. the tomb itself was built in the 7th century. today, it's a part of the al-nukhailah mosque complex, built by ilkhanate ruler abu sa'id bahadur khan in the 14th century.

until the mid-20th century, thousands of iraqi jews used to make pilgrimage to the tomb on passover. the rule of saddam hussein saw many of the jewish inscriptions covered in white paint or removed, but they've since been restored.

[exiaax]

dni if you don't like these angels

look in tags for me going crazy about these three hahahahahahahaha

[wrestlingwithtorah]

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[bayofwolves]

i was on the most random nostalgia kick and rewatched the prince of egypt yesterday and let me just say... that movie is truly one of the greatest animated films of all time.

[merlucide]

So I just watched “For our daughters” and holy shit.

As someone who grew up in the church and is familiar with the topics it’s absolutely enraging, disgusting, and fueling to watch.

It really gives perspective on the toxicity and misogynist behavior of the church.

remember ladies!! You do not bow down to man! You are nobody’s inferior!! God made you to be an equal to men, not just to satisfy your husband + give birth to babies.

[lime-bucket]

People talk that Adam was God's/Angels favorite but when he got SA'd he was blamed for it becouse "anybody who was corrupted by Lilith or other 3 queens of Hell is themself to blame since they were too "sinful"."

Like what the fuck.

Adam rlly had it tough all his life huh

Though i never read abt that🤔 & wdym bh other 3 queens of hell? Like they r the sisters of lilith?

[wolrith]

הלכתי ליד ושם לא מזמן - למי שלא בישראל אבל איכשהו יודע לקרוא עברית, זה המוזיאון שואה הגדול שלנו בירושלים. המבנה בנוי בסגנון ברוטליזם, הראשון שראיתי שבאמת יש לו פילוסופיה ולא סתם נראה כמו גוש בטון מכוער. בפנים יש מאות תצוגות שמספרים את אירועי השואה בסדר שהן קרו בערך, מהעלייה של היטלר לשלטון עד לצעדות המוות והקמת מדינת ישראל בסופו של דבר.

אני הסתובבתי שם עם מדריכה שהסבירה על כל תצוגה לעומק, מהנעליים של הנספים עד לשלטי הפגנה של נאצים, שכתבו דברים כגון "חזרו לפלסטין" וכזה. התעמולה של הנאצים מאוד מזכירה לי, כמובן, את התעמולה כיום. המדריכה אפילו הסבירה קצת איך חלק מהתעמולה השתחלה לעולם כיום.

יש שם גם חדר שמציג את תגובת העולם לשואה - איך שאפילו כשהיה ברור מה קורה, התגובה הייתה חלשה וחסרת מאמץ. איך שהמלחמה הייתה מרוכזת בלקחת את השטח בחזרה ולהפיל את היטלר, אבל אף פעם לא בכוונה להציל יהודים. היהודים שנוצלו היו במקרה מטוב לבם של חיילים או פשוט כתוצאה מניצחון לפני שהספיקו להרוג אותם במחנות. העולם כולו עמד בשקט בזמן שרצח העם הכי גרוע בהיסטוריה קרה מולם, ולא עשה כלום עד שהיה ברור שהיטלר ישפיע גם עליהם לרעה.

קיבלנו את מולדתנו אחרי שנים של סבל ודיכוי כל מאמץ ציוני - רצו שנהיה מפוצלים וקלים להשמדה. רק כשיצאנו מהשואה ונלחמנו הסכימו לתת לנו מדינה תחת תנאים קשים, רק כדי להוכיח שהם לא כמו נאצים. מיד אחרי ההקמה, נשכחנו. או שהדעה הייתה נגדינו, או שלא זכרו אותנו כלל. במלחמות היינו לבד נגד אויבים רבים. כל מדינה אחרת שהייתה נתקפת כמו שאנחנו נתקפנו מספר פעמים, הייתה מקבלת תמיכה בין לאומית מוחלטת ועזרה צבאים בימו. בשבילנו עשו את המינימום - נאלצנו לעבוד ולהפוך אותנו לבעלי תועלת. למדנו שלעולם לא נתקבל בקהילה הבין לאומית, לעולם לא יעזרו ליהודים מרצון. הפכנו את עצמינו ליקרים למערב רק כדי שלא נדאג מהשמדה בכל רגע. לעולם לא יקבלו אותנו בציבור למה שאנחנו, אבל כלקוח צבאי אמריקאי, או מבצר במזרח התיכון, אי אפשר לנטוש אותנו שוב. היהודים למדו שכדי למנוע אסון, אנו צריכים להיות יקרים מלנטוש ולהשמיד.

המילים האחרונות של אחד מקורבנות השואה מוצגים על שלט גדול לקראת היציאה של יד ושם. אלו מילים שמהדהדות כיום ומצלצלות לי בראש. המילים האחרונות שלו לפני שנספה ברצח עמו, בבדידות מהעולם לפני רצח קהילתו ומשפחתו:

זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק.

[livethrushit]

was talking to my friend about how i feel silly calling myself a bby linguist when it's "just a special interest" and not something i'll ever be professionally. they pointed out: a special interest i've spent years learning in various ways outside of academia. through multiple ongoing study groups with friends i've made bc they also love learning these languages, countless books and hyper niche journals, videos, and lotsssssss of study practice.

i learn languages very slowly and grammar fucks me up which gives way to imposter syndrome & being bad at my passion. but id rather spend my days buried in ancient languages and painstakingly learning the philosophies, histories, and methodologies of translation and linguistics than study anything else this in depth more easily.

i've done presentations for study groups on translations of specific words and how vast the interpretations could be as a result. like did you know the whale (it's actually a giant fish) in the biblical story of jonah is a masculine noun in the beginning of the story and changes to a feminine noun later on? and how much that confused the fuck out of early commentators? JUST ONE WORD!! it's beautiful.

i know grammar structures of multiple germanic languages & semitic languages. that's not nothing!! that is COOL actually.

academics are people who are *mostly* able to afford to study their special interests is the way i'm choosing to look at it. barriers don't mean my studies are less important.

[goldensunset]

i want to properly hit people with the keykid dalia lore but unfortunately i’m a perfectionist and i believe text should be accompanied with pictures in order to have a stronger impact which means i gotta draw which means it’ll never happen