#hineni

[mondschein14]

( i know you can't really read the font but I just think it's neat)

Anyways this isn't a total shitpost for once because today i discovered this BANGER OF A SONG and could practically smell the toxic old men yaoi

GO LISTEN TO THE SONG AHHHH (You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen)

Also tumblr, when will you let us post bigger videos pls 😔

https://youtu.be/8YTnSfhdJyw?si=csfxYY7m2eQ0LDZb

[lightinthemaze]

El Paraíso nunca fue solo el jardín, el paraíso es estar contigo. 🪴🤍

[compassionmattersmost]

Embracing the Eternal Now: Cultivating Spiritual Presence in Daily Life

A Journey Through Mindfulness, Equanimity, and Spiritual Connection In the whirlwind of our daily lives, it’s easy to become consumed by the relentless pace of duties, responsibilities, and the constant barrage of information. The echoes of the past and the whispers of the future often tug at our attention, leaving us fragmented and seldom at peace. Yet, the present moment holds a profound…

[lauvra]

Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us Your servant, St. David, as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed through the many penitential practices he instituted in his monasteries and carried out in his own life. Amen.

[mosho347]

Click the link to check out the music vid & sample of the main single from the upcoming album HINENI: L'Y"H (pronounced "Hee-neh-nee: Leh-YA"), Here I Am: Unto Y-h (spelled in English as 'Y, A, H,' a transliteration of the Hebrew hyphenation of the Tetragrammaton, G-d's name... This description's kinda long, huh). I tried uploading the original video, but tumblr won't let me.

I shot this music video while I was homeless lol, in two separate locations; my aunt's house in Denton, & my sister's apartment in Dallas, both in Texas. I used only my phone's camera & a flashlight; it was fun if nothing else. Album coming soon.

https://youtu.be/GIt6PfkBCjc

[iannozzigiuseppe]

Tu vuoi più buio - Leonard Cohen (Traduzione e adattamento: Giuseppe Iannozzi)

TU VUOI PIÙ BUIO (Leonard Cohen; traduzione e adattamento: Giuseppe Iannozzi) Se sei tu a distribuire le carte, sono fuori dal gioco Se sei tu il guaritore, significa che sono a pezzi e zoppo Se tua è la gloria, allora mia dev’essere la vergogna Tu vuoi più buio Noi spegniamo la fiamma Magnificato, santificato Sia il Santo Nome Vilipeso, crocifisso Nelle cornice umana Un milione di candele…

[dailydillard]

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? There is no one but us. There is no one to send, nor a clean hand, nor a pure heart on the face of the earth, nor in the earth, but only us, a generation comforting ourselves with the notion that we have come at an awkward time, that our innocent fathers are all dead--as if innocence had ever been--and our children busy and troubled, and we ourselves unfit, not yet ready, having each of us chose wrongly, made a false start, failed, yielded to impulse and the tangled comfort of pleasures, and grown exhausted, unable to seek the thread, weak, and involved. But there is no one bus us. There never has been.

Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, 1977

[theinfinitedivides]

going to freak out about my bestie Daniel again by talking about headcanons but to me he's like. not only half-Armenian half-Irish (yes Molloy is an Irish surname but Eric is Armenian people. so what do we do we make the sensible choice and split the difference. put that shit in your fics my rep is lacking) but also Jewish. not necessarily practicing but yk. it's called his mother grows up in the US in a household where her father's Armenian Orthodox and her mother's Jewish and takes a little bit of both but mainly from her mother and then she meets his raised-Catholic nebulously-agnostic Irish-American father and gives shit a shot. and here's Molloy in the midst of it all, born to wreck marriages fail at parenting his own kids and get his shit absolutely fucking rocked by two vamps in the 70s

[utilitycaster]

Any thoughts on FCG's first commune with the Changebringer?

LOVED IT.

I think my initial frustrations with FCG are extremely well-documented, but I've been a huge fan of FCG exploring faith - as I've said elsewhere, for all this is a robot flipping a coin, it's genuinely one of the more thoughtful portrayals of how grappling with religion as an institution and a philosophy actually looks like. Like, for all FCG has professed so much belief, his first question is "are you real".

I've loved all the explorations of religion on Critical Role, to be honest, and have found that they've covered a wide range of experiences - but until this campaign, it's always fallen into two categories:

people who have been followers of a deity since childhood (Pike, Jester, Caduceus)

people who have been rescued by or made a promise to a deity for something incredibly important (Vax, Yasha, Fjord; to a lesser extent Vex and Scanlan; this is also where Deanna falls)

FCG is just here because they're exploring! They're here because they didn't know how to feel about the fact that they were, demonstrably, put on this planet as an assassin, and killed many of their friends, and the same person who told them about the Care and Culling also said "hey, change and reinvention and finding a different path are possible; I believe this utterly, and here is the token of my belief." He's not really asking for anything other than "is there someone out there who sees me as more than what I think I am." Honestly, while it frustrated me earlier that he had no source for his powers? It means that this is truly entirely coming from him. Like, I don't think it lessens the devotion of other characters that they have gained benefits or abilities from their gods or feel they owe them something. But it's also fascinating that FCG is not (for example) like Fjord, trying to find a way out of a bad deal, or like Vax, trying to save someone he loves, or like the characters who have had cleric powers reliant on their deities from such a young age that it is central to their identity. This is purely voluntary.

In some ways, it's the most realistic depiction of real-world religion because like...man, I don't know if anything's out there. I do not believe there is an old dude in the sky, and I think religion, when it is at its best, is a consolidation of a community-oriented philosophical and moral framework that we hang on a made-up anthropomorphic entity because abstract concepts are hard and concrete things are easy and ritual is grounding. I don't think I will be struck down by lightning if I eat bacon, and especially as someone who has something of a "do what feels right" approach to what practices I follow I in fact know I won't be struck down by lightning if I break some. And yeah, it's an arbitrary accident of birth and circumstance that I am the religion I am. But also, I don't get Guiding Bolt out of it, so it's a wash.

However, unlike me, or any of the many people who fall neither on the "I believe this utterly" or hard-line atheist scale but rather somewhere in the vast in-between, FCG worships a god we know is real and actually gets to ask them some questions. And when they do all they ask for is whether the Changebringer is real, and sees them, and what they can do, and that's an incredibly beautiful moment. Commune is one of those spells you can use to try to just get answers and none of this is about that. It's just about a connection. And particularly in the wake of what FCG has just witnessed, and the fact that the gods have withdrawn slightly, it says a lot that this worked.

[cruucigerglobus]

recent art of ttrpgs im a part of !!! first is a friends character, gaugith, then my Kids on Bikes character michael, and third and fourth are a reference sheet for my main fav hineni

[wickershells]

If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame……………

[sabbioneta]

hineni, hineni i'm ready, my Lord there's a lover in the story, but the story's still the same there's a lullaby for suffering and a paradox to blame but it's written in the scriptures and it's not some idol claim you want it darker we kill the flame

[mental-mona]

When God calls, He does not do so by way of universal imperatives. Instead, He whispers our name – and the greatest reply, the reply of Abraham, is simply hineni: ‘Here I am’, ready to heed Your call, to mend a fragment of Your all-too-broken world.

- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, To Heal a Fractured World p.262

[sheydgarden]

a collection of custom Jewish tattoo designs, 2020-2023

reminder: custom tattoo designs are for client use only. it's disrespectful to get an artist's work tattooed without permission, and incredibly so to steal a design that was made for someone else. if you're inspired by these, you can commission me to create something for you!

descriptions & details below

as a Jew with (Jewish) tattoos, i'm delighted whenever someone commissions me for a design that speaks to some core aspect of their personal relationship with Judaism. the first of these is an angelic meditation on the phrase "hineni" ("here i am") & its connection to fearless self-embodiment, the next two are illustrations for passages from the Talmud (one about being self-made, featuring the miraculous "first tongs", the other about the life cycle of Jewish demons), and the last is a more traditional tree of life with torah scroll.

if i had the time/money for a tattoo apprenticeship, i would love to learn & be able to do this work myself - as it stands, i'm honored to be part of it as a designer & grateful to the talented tattooers who have inked or will ink my pieces!

image descriptions:

an ink line drawing of a black heart with four angelic eyed wings, over a ring of flame around it and the word הנני

an ink drawing of a pair of tongs, with flames wrapping around them that contain the words ועשיתם אתם

an ink line drawing of a hyena skull, surrounded by thorns with a pair of bat wings above it and the letter ש

a vector drawing of a stylized tree with a torah scroll below it and the words עץ חיים היא

[winchestertheory]

magnified, sanctified / be the holy name / vilified, crucified / in the human frame / a million candles burning / for the help that never came / you want it darker / hineni, hineni / i'm ready, my Lord

— you want it darker, leonard cohen

[bitter-panacea]

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord