#jacob ben israel

[gleesmostcontroversial]

Most Controversial Glee Character Tournament: Jacob Ben Israel

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[kcdahippie]

Jacob Ben Israel is hilarious. What a bizarre great character.

[limalatina]

For fuck’s sake, Jacob. Asking for sexual favors is worse than hitting on someone. Flattery and IG comments are fine, but I draw the line at any of that other creepy shit. I need you to promise me you won't make any more unwanted advances towards my friends, otherwise I won't hesitate to take an axe to your gossip blog. Understand?

... I'm actually going to kill you.

Define 'hit on', because I just compliment them excessively and thirst-follow on IG. Sometimes I ask for sexual favors. And you can't do that to my blog!

By the way, I was dared to give you a lap dance, the other day. Yay or nay?

[ninewheels]

Black Sails Screen Time Breakdown

(Episode-by-episode listing at the link above)

Captain James Flint / Lt. James McGraw – 469:09 "Long" John Silver – 335:46 Eleanor Guthrie – 269:53 Captain Jack Rackham – 214:51 Max – 181:19 William "Billy Bones" Manderly – 163:57 Captain Charles Vane – 139:21 Governor Woodes Rogers – 130:52 Anne Bonny – 126:42 Madi – 84:29

Miranda Barlow / Miranda Hamilton – 83:15 Mr. Scott – 56:43 Hal Gates – 56:20 Dufresne – 48:44 Augustus Featherstone – 46:59 Captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach – 46:03 Captain Benjamin Hornigold – 34:44 Mrs. Hudson – 34:16 Dooley – 32:43 De Groot – 29:56 Israel Hands – 29:38 Richard Guthrie – 28:07 Idelle – 22:53 Captain Berringer – 21:46 Joji – 21:36 The Maroon Queen – 20:51 Lord Peter Ashe – 20:17 Abigail Ashe – 20:14 Lord Thomas Hamilton – 17:59 Marion Guthrie – 17:50 Randall – 16:47 Ben Gunn – 15:58 Mrs. Mapleton – 15:34 Kofi – 14:57 Captain Ned Low – 14:55 Frasier – 14:26 Muldoon – 14:20 Jacob Garrett – 13:58 Pastor Lambrick – 12:52 Logan – 12:38 Eme – 11:42 Dr. Howell – 9:42 Vincent – 9:23 Jenks – 9:01 Lt. Utley – 8:50 Hamund – 8:02 Captain Bryson – 8:00 Morley – 7:51 Ellers – 7:14 Captain Chamberlain – 6:58 Soames – 6:55 Joshua – 6:48 Obi – 6:47 Singleton – 6:34 Ruth – 6:26 Lt. Kendrick – 6:22 Zaki – 6:18 Meeks – 5:37 Julius – 5:33 Wayne – 5:23 Captain Naft – 5:20

[reality-detective]

Candace Owens reveals that before his assassination, JFK wanted AIPAC to register as a foreign agent, but his request was ignored, and after his death, the requirement disappeared.

She explains that JFK and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion were locked in heated arguments over Israel's nuclear weapons program.

Owens also highlights that Jack Ruby, born Jacob Rubenstein—the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald—was an Israeli national who may have held dual citizenship. 🤔

[girlactionfigure]

THURSDAY HERO: Rabbi Jacob Tarshish

Our mission here at Accidental Talmudist is to elevate social media by sharing Jewish wisdom with everybody. We just learned about a kindred soul, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, who almost a hundred years ago did something very similar. His mission was to elevate radio by sharing Jewish wisdom with everybody.

Born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1892, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish came to America as a teenager. He settled in Ohio and became the rabbi of B’nei Israel Congregation in Columbus. He served as a pulpit rabbi in Columbus for eighteen years before shocking everyone by quitting to start a radio show.

In the 1930’s, radio was becoming increasingly popular in America, with nearly every home owning one. Unlike today, with so many forms of media available to us, radio was the only game in town for home entertainment. The vast majority of shows were light entertainment, music or news. There were also a few Christian evangelists, including the wildly popular Aimee Semple McPherson, but there was no Jewish religious content.

Rabbi Jacob Tarshish set out to change that. He saw in the new medium of radio a golden opportunity to inspire people with Jewish teachings. He called his show “The Lamplighter,” and started at WAIU-AM in Ohio. On the show, Rabbi Tarshish shared universal Jewish wisdom with a wide and diverse audience. He was especially adept at making deep concepts accessible to all, and he had a warm, charismatic personality that gave the show its trademark combination of entertainment value and spiritual uplift. The Lamplighter was so popular that many other stations picked it up and soon the show was available in radio markets all over the country.

Rabbi Tarshish supported his family during this time by airing radio ads for cosmetics and medical supplements such as Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, Kreml Hair Tonic, and Bost Tooth Paste. Some in the Jewish community disapproved of Rabbi Tarshish for selling air space, considering it too commercial and not befitting the dignity of a rabbi (maybe he should have formed a nonprofit like Accidental Talmudist!). Despite the naysayers, The Lamplighter was wildly successful. At the height of its popularity, Rabbi Tarshish had two million devoted listeners all over the United States, the vast majority of whom were not Jewish.

The Lamplighter ran from Jan 3, 1936 to April 14, 1941. After it went off the air in 1941, Rabbi Tarshish became an in-demand motivational speaker who traveled the country lecturing to a wide variety of religious, fraternal, women’s and educational organizations. He gave over 300 speeches a year, setting audiences on fire with his oratory skills and universal message of love and friendship based on ancient Jewish teachings. Rabbi Tarshish wrote a popular book, Little Journeys with the Lamplighter, and published a compilation of his most popular speeches, Half Hours With Rabbi Jacob Tarshish.

Rabbi Jacob died at Hanukkah time in 1960, at age 67, and is buried at the Greater Baltimore Lodge Cemetery. His headstone reads: “Beloved Husband and Father” and below that his Hebrew name Yaakov ben Peretz HaLevi. Rabbi Tarshish was survived by his wife Goldie, children Emanuel Tarshish, Elaine Eistenstein, and Rhoda Cokain, and two grandchildren.

Although Rabbi Tarshish was well-known during his lifetime, he seems to have been forgotten by history. We weren’t able to find any more information about him than what we’ve presented here. We’re very curious to learn if he has any living relatives. If anybody knows more about him or the Tarshish family, please let us know!

For inspiring millions of radio listeners with the light of Judaism, we honor Rabbi Jacob Tarshish as this week’s Thursday Hero.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Hello, I apologise if this is rude, but may I ask what you meant by "Once someone becomes Jewish, they are given a new Jewish name"? What is a Jewish name, and what does it mean to be given one? (I'm sorry if this is an invasive or nosy question, I'm just curious as to what a Jewish name is and how it's different from a non-Jewish one.)

So, when people complete their conversion to Judaism, it's pretty standard practice for them to given a Jewish name. A Jewish name is typically in Hebrew, although some people's Jewish names are in Yiddish or another Judeo-language.

It's important for someone to have a Jewish name, because that is the name used for any religious events, such as marriage, getting called up to the Torah to be given and to give a blessing, and death. Jews who are born Jewish usually have a Jewish name, which is given at one's circumcision for males and naming ceremony for females.

For Jews in the diaspora, one's Jewish name isn't typically one's legal name, but some Jews (including myself and my siblings) just have the same legal and Jewish name. For example, a Jew might have Brian on his birth certificate but when he is called up to the Torah he might be called Binyamin ben (whatever his parents' Jewish names are).

Jewish names hold very important spiritual meanings. Many Jewish communities' naming customs are name after relatives or important religious figures or names related to a holiday someone was born (or became Jewish) near to on the calendar. I'm not a Jew-by-choice myself, but I know many Jews-by-choice choose Jewish names associated with figures from Jewish history who either converted themselves or had an experience of transformation. There's also a belief that when Jewish parents choose their baby's Jewish name, they are given a brief wave of Divine Prophecy when naming them.

There is no protocol on how to choose a Jewish name. If someone has a different legal name than their Jewish name, their Jewish name might not necessarily be related at all to their legal name, and vice versa. A person might have the name Jacob as their legal name, but then Avraham is their Jewish name. Or, they might be related, such as a person having the name Avigayil as their Jewish name and Abigail as their legal name.

In Ashkenazi Jewish communities, it is considered a bad omen to name a child after a living direct ancestor (parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc). Relatives who are not direct ancestors are fair game though (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). However, in Sephardi communities, it is encouraged to name a child after their grandparents, even if they are still alive.

Names can also be omens. Really great Jewish visionaries and scholars might have a name added to their Jewish name with a meaning of "light" or something similar. Someone who is gravely ill might have a name added to their name with a meaning of "life" or "healing" or something similar. For example, I had a significant medical emergency as a newborn, and so my parents added a name to my Jewish name that means "alive".

When a person is named, either as a baby or an adult, there is a line in the naming blessing, "and May their name be called among Israel". This is the crux of why a Jewish name is important, it's the name a Jew is called by among their people and by G-d.

[artandthebible]

Jacob with Leah And Rachel

Artist: Andrea Appiani (Italian, 1754-1817)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Private collection

The Story of Jacob with Leah and Rachel

The complicated story of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel comprises one of the larger sections of Genesis and includes much information relevant to the history of the Jewish people. Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, fled to his mother’s brother Laban. At the time, Jacob feared his twin brother, Esau, would kill him (Genesis 27:41–46). It was at Laban’s that Jacob met Leah and Rachel.

Laban offered his nephew Jacob a place to stay. Jacob soon fell in love with Laban’s younger daughter, Rachel, and agreed to work for Laban seven years in exchange for marriage to her (Genesis 29:16–20).

Laban agreed, but after seven years, he deceived Jacob. On the night that Jacob and Rachel were to be married, Laban gave Rachel’s older sister, Leah, to him as a wife instead. Jacob protested, but Laban argued that it wasn’t the custom to give the younger daughter in marriage first. So it was official: Jacob and Leah were to stay married. Laban then said Jacob could still have Rachel in exchange for another seven years of work (Genesis 29:21–30). In an ironic twist, the deceiver Jacob had himself been deceived. In exchange for fourteen years of labor, Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel.

Jacob showed favoritism to Rachael and loved her more than Leah. God compensated for the lack of love Leah received by enabling her to have children and closing Rachel’s womb for a time (Genesis 29:31). There developed an intense rivalry between the two wives. In fact, at one time the wives bartered over the right to sleep with Jacob. Genesis 30:16 says, “When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, ‘You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.’ So he lay with her that night,” and Leah became pregnant. In the end, Jacob fathered twelve sons and a daughter. Jacob and Leah had six sons and a daughter; Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bore Jacob two sons; Jacob and Rachel had two sons together; and Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, bore Jacob another two sons (Genesis 35:23–36).

After twenty years with Laban, Jacob and Leah and Rachel, now very wealthy, moved their family back to Canaan. As they were leaving Laban’s house, Rachel stole her father’s teraphim and lied about having them (Genesis 31). As he drew closer home, Jacob knew that he would have to face Esau again. He still feared Esau’s anger, and he sent gifts to satisfy him before he arrived. The night before Jacob crossed the Jabbok River, he “wrestled with God” and was given the name “Israel” along with God’s blessing.

The story of Jacob and Rachel ended tragically, as Rachel died giving birth to her second child, Benjamin. Rachel named him Ben-Oni (“son of my trouble”), but Jacob renamed him Benjamin (“son of my right hand”). Rachel “was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb” (Genesis 35:19–20).

Jacob and Leah’s marriage lasted longer, but eventually Leah, too, died in Canaan and was buried in the same tomb as Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and Rebekah (Genesis 49:30–32). Jacob and his son Joseph would later be buried in this tomb as well (Genesis 50).

The story of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel is filled with much difficulty, yet God used these people greatly to impact history. Their twelve sons were the leaders of the twelve tribes that became the nation of Israel. Through their family, God blessed the entire world, as Jesus Christ was born from the tribe of Judah and offers salvation to all (John 3:16; Luke 2:10).

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

Hello!! Do you know of any fics that have to do with the Karofsky situation

So, when I saw your ask, I immediately thought of season 6 - but it's probably season 2 you mean? But I have included here references to season 2, and 3. If it's season 6 you want, I can do a separate ask for it, if you let me know. ~Jen

For season 2 reaction fics, some au, or pre the episodes! It's best to look at the old fanfic site, lovejournal. Here are some:

The Aftermath of the Karofsky Kiss by- iliketowriteaboutklaine (rebeldawgspirategirl)

Once Kurt got over the shock of Karofsky kissing him in the locker room, he had to tell the one person who would understand, at least a little bit. So, Blaine comes over.

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Pancakes and the simple life by rainjoyswritings

Set the morning after Prom Queen. Warnings: Seriously, somehow I ended up in Karofsky's head. Because he's obsessed with Kurt Hummel too? Look, basically, deals with some of the intensely creepy shit going on in his head between NBK and Furt and if you don't want to know then that's cool, I didn't really either.

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Truth and Consequences by rainjoyswritings (AU)

How To Survive parts one, two and three and And Dance, a big pile of angst. Azimio pushes Karofsky too hard against himself and specifically against Kurt, and the fallout reverberates through everyone's lives, including his own. The whole verse can also be downloaded as a PDF at Klaineficspdfs <3

Warnings: The aftermath of violence and a suicide attempt, so it could be pretty triggery. Also just like angsty as all fuck. Nothing past Original Song, but set sometime after S2.

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And the truth shall set you free by @slayerkitty

Author's Note: This fic ate my brain. No, really. It was supposed to be just a short one-shot based on a prompt from foreverfaith101 , in which Kurt transfers back to Mckinley, and on his first day back is cornered by Karofsky in the boys locker room. Karofsky tries to apologize (and based on 2.12, I didn't find that too out of character), but the entire thing is broadcast in the gym during a pep rally (Jacob Ben Israel, I'm looking at you), and the truth about the kiss comes out. It's...not so short, lol. Written pre 2.18

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Coffeespills by elanorelle

"Come on, I'll buy you lunch." Kurt and Blaine after the second Karofsky confrontation in Never Been Kissed.

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3X14 tab - our library tab relating to On My Way season 3.

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There But For the Grace of…  by flamingmuse

By the time the front door opens, Burt is sitting in his favorite spot on the couch, pretending to watch TV.

set during 3x14 ("On My Way")

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Being Born is the Hardest Thing  By @wowbright

Blaine is sleeping in Kurt’s bed while the rest of the family is home because, this week, no one has the energy for pretense. Feelings, with hope. 

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Looking For White Buffalo  by @wowbright

Burt wants to make sure that Kurt is doing things for the right reasons. Visiting your former bully in the hospital? Maybe that’s not such a good idea.

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Visitations by etmuse 

David Karofsky receives two unexpected visitors. Set after 3x14

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[apenitentialprayer]

are there any Jews who view Jesus in a positive way (aside from like messianic Jews who, as far I’ve understood, are considered evangelical Christians by all other Jews)

Okay, ah, to answer this question simply: to my knowledge, as far as Jewish communities who (1) self-identify as Jewish, (2) consider themselves practicing Judaism, and (3) deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah go, none of them have an "official" stance on Jesus. Jesus may be a false Messiah, but this is only a "doctrine" in Judaism the same way that the fact that Vissarion of Siberia is a false Parousia of Jesus is a "doctrine" in Christianity — which is to say, not so much an actually asserted belief, but a natural corollary to more deeply held beliefs.

That being said, individual Jewish people have held a variety of beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth. Some of them are, well, quite negative. For example, one Hasidic story tells of how the Baal Shem Tov saw Jesus and Sabbatai Zvi (both false Messiahs) stuck in the same level of Hell together; the infamous Toledot Yeshu, a parody gospel, certainly does not paint Jesus or His Mother in a particularly good light; Maimonides doesn't even use the usual "may his name be blotted out" as he would when talking about an enemy of Israel, but instead uses "may his bones be ground to dust" after citing Jesus by name.

There are relatively sympathetic views among those whose views are negative too, for the record; for example, there's a story of a Rabbi, Yehoshua ben Prachya, who was said to have been incredibly cruel to a student, and by the time he chose to relent that student had already gone off to form his own idolatrous sect. Struck by the consequences of his harshness, he would go on to emphasize the importance of kindness and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Though the timeline doesn't match up (Yehoshua lived two hundred years before Him), some commentators identified this student as Yeshu the Nazarene.

But, let's actually answer your question. You will find a spectrum of relatively positive views. Bob Dylan technically falls outside the parameters I listed above because he does seem to believe Jesus is the Messiah, but I'll use him as the extreme example, because he continued to be active in his Orthodox Jewish community after his conversion. You also have Leonard Cohen, whose Jewishness was very important to him, who could at least understand the importance of the mystical connection to Jesus that Christians claimed as their own — "the figure of Jesus, nailed to a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering."

You have some scholars, like Amy-Jill Levine; in the work she did in The Misunderstood Jew, The Historical Jesus in Context, and The Jewish Annotated New Testament, she tries to emphasize the idea that the Person of Jesus is something that can bring Christians and Jews into closer ecumenical dialogue; that if Christians could get more comfortable with the Jewish context of Jesus, and if the Jewish community could see the New Testament as a corpus of texts that isn't non-Jewish, but rather a particular type of first century Jewish, then there could be ground for both groups to better understand each other.

During the early modern period, there were attempts by some Jewish thinkers to reclaim Jesus. Rabbi Jacob Emden argued that Jesus never meant to abolish the Law, and that He has actually "done a double kindness in the world" by increasing veneration of the Torah and bringing light to the Gentiles, if only the Gentiles could learn how to properly interpret their own Scriptures (talk about flipping the script!). Moses Mendelssohn also claimed that Jesus never meant to abrogate the Law, and suggested that Jesus and the early Christian community could be models that modern 19th century Jews living among oppressive Prussian authorities could emulate.

The above paragraph was about Jewish individuals who tried to distance Jesus from traditional Christian understandings of Him. So I'm going to end, I think, with Rabbi Jacob Neusner, who engaged the Gospel on its own terms. In 1993, he published A Rabbi Talks with Jesus. In this book, Rabbi Neusner imagines himself as a first century Jewish man and tries to earnestly listen to and consider the words of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Matthew. This work places the words of Jesus in conversation with the Rabbinic tradition, and ultimately ends with Neusner being unconvinced and unable to follow Jesus as His disciple. Pope Benedict lauded this work as an authentic exercise in interreligious dialogue, and cites it frequently in his own Jesus of Nazareth.

[coalescedstardust]

He Shall Add

One My father had two names. One, Jacob, the heel, the grasper, the deceiver. Two, Israel, the man who wrestled with angels, the God-touched, the one who would forever live in awe and blessing.

My father had two wives. One, the wife he didn’t choose, the one he was deceived into taking. Two, the favored one, the one he toiled seven years to win – we heard that story a thousand times – my mother. They all said I looked like her. (And then the two slave women, of whom no one speaks.)

My father thought he was Israel now. He said the angel changed his name, and with his name, his nature. He thought he started over, sometimes more than once a day, and if he started over, then we must too.

My father was two but the two were one. Jacob stole a blessing. Israel wrestled one out. The grasped heel, the wrenched hip. There was no split within him – he enacted it on us.

Two

My mother waited years to bear a child, and when at last I came, they set me apart – the favored one, so lucky to be gifted with robes befitting any spoiled princess and told not to do work that’d sully them. So lucky to be sent into the field and told to snitch to Dad about my brothers (or, should I say, the other mothers’ sons).

The robe fit wrong and chafed against my body (or else my body grew to be untrue – the swell of bust and hips belied my story that I was switched inside my mother’s womb and what was once a girl is now a boy in all the ways that matter).

One day as we were standing in the field I told my brothers that I had a dream, that all their sheaves of grain bowed down to mine, the sun, the moon and the eleven stars (how tiny was my universe back then) bowed down to me from far up in the sky.

At this point I always ask myself if I brought on my fate by telling them – I should have known they wouldn’t take it well – I knew my own self well enough to know that I dreamed true, but others were a puzzle – such a foolish, ignorant boy I was –

for the crime of being “lord of dreams” they debated how to kill me off, but in the end they chose to spare my life and sold me into slavery instead.

At least I got to leave that robe behind.

Three

What can I tell you about the slavers’ gang… they thought that pretty creature was a girl.

No one knows how many boys like me are murdered. Most of us are laid to rest as girls. But even in the enlightened times from which you look back upon my story, half of us are victims of a crime that some would call befitting.

Four

They gave all the slaves a plain sheet of cloth and I fashioned from it a men’s garment and took my place as a serving boy.

There I rose within the household (what did I do to attract such attention, why could I not remain anonymous and unseen) – my master approved of my work and placed me above the others; my mistress took an eye to me (my soft hands, my gentle eyes – such a pretty boy, I bet you’d be good at –) God help me, on some level it felt good.

And then one day she got me alone – I told her no, it wasn’t right – and then she reached for me and found what wasn’t there and I tried to run, and she wouldn’t let go and I tore myself from her grasp leaving my clothes in her hands and she screamed and it was all over.

Five

In jail I learned to listen. You’d have thought my father wanted that (with all the times he screamed that no one listened, that no one understood, only my sainted mother understood him and then little Ben took her from him) – but to him I was a symbol, I was her reflection, and it’s not convenient when symbols talk back or understand too much –

but on the inside, in that forsaken place where no one knew if they would live to see another day, I learned to hear the things that they weren’t saying, to make myself a mirror for the soul. Again I rose – I gained a reputation that I could hear the messages of dreams (that was only a sliver of the truth of everything I was, or everything these places made me into).

I told one man he was about to die. I told another that he would be spared. I asked him if he could remember me when he returned to life on the outside. I never thought I’d see daylight again.

Six

One day (after my gift for dreams saved the land, after I was pardoned, after I rose to rule beside the king, after a woman loved me, after a whole country called me by my name) the famine drove my brothers to my doorstep –

I saw them fall on their faces before me, and I saw they did not recognize the man I had become

From the outside, you can see the poetry, that that same gift that made my brothers hate me became the thing that saved them

I could not see the whole pattern from within it I could only see each step before me and hope that I chose right

I hid my identity I let them think I was someone else I hid their silver in their bags I tricked them to get them alone I sent them on an ordeal through the desert

I gathered my family in and all the threads of different hues were woven into the full design

(my great-grandfather said his wife was his sister, my father passed himself off as my uncle, my stepmother pretended she was my mother, my mother hid her father’s idols in her bag, my brothers spilled blood on my clothes and said that the one who wore them was dead – the ripples spread across the pond and intersect, the echo harmonizes with itself)

We spun the strands of fate into something new we gave them the chance to be otherwise we gave the pattern a chance to change

I cannot say I felt no pleasure in hearing them weep and call me brother

I told them that God made something good from all the evil they had done to me but I don’t think that they could understand what it means to be the loom on which a new self is fashioned, and to be the raw material, and the craftsman, all at once

I don’t think that they could understand that it took someone who had transformed by sinking to the lowest of the low and rising as a new synthesis to rewrite our family’s story

Seven

My sons did not grow up to hate each other. If nothing else that I did turned out right –

reader from the far future, looking back on millennia of slavery and war

and exile and conquering empire and endless blood spilled on my beloved lands –

know that at least they did not grow to hate, know that my father blessed us in the end.

(There is no going back, no starting over, no stating that the past no longer matters –

but there is going forward, there is building for the future, there is telling the whole truth.)

There’s no such thing as a real happy ending, only the place the teller stops – but know

there was a time when we loved more than we hated, when we were not too proud to reconcile.

Amidst the merciless waste of history, that was enough to build ourselves a shelter,

to raise a little light against the dark.

[dancingsunflowers-ocs]

🦦 for Ariel?

Thank you so much @ginger-grimm!!! 💕 Gonna tag the Glee moots @luucypevensie, @manyfandomocs, @rose-of-oz and @ginevrastilinski-ocs!! 💕

Their favorite childhood show: Hey Arnold!

What they would get at the gas station/7-11: When Ariel is making long journeys, which tends to be the only time, she will get an iced coffee and some Nacho Cheese Doritos.

What they wanted to be as a child: Ariel was a child. She wanted to be a spy or secret agent when she grew up.

Their favorite flower: Black Narcissus Dahlia, which has dark maroon flowers with a pinkish center.

What animals they always wanted/still want to see first at the zoo: The snow leopard. She really admires how beautiful and mysterious they look.

Their guilty pleasure reality show: Punk'd.

The first DVD/CD they ever owned: The first CD was American Idiot by Green Day, and the first DVD was The Witches (1990).

One thing/moment they’re really proud of: One moment that Ariel is proud of is the time she stuck up for her sister Rachel, when Jacob Ben Israel was obsessively flirting with her, so Ariel threatened to chop off his dick with a pair of scissors from Principal Figgins' office, before punching him hard in the face.

Their go-to YouTube video genre: Reaction Videos.

Something odd they like: Fictional girls with muscle.

[gleesmostcontroversial]

Which Glee characters are included in this tournament?

Short answer: a lot of them.

I've included nearly a hundred characters, just to be thorough. Below the cut is a list of all the characters who will get polls. If there is an obscure character who is not on this list but you really want them to be included, send an ask and I'll probably add them in.

Updated 2/6/25

Adam Crawford

Alistair

Alma Lopez

Andrea Carmichael

April Rhodes

Artie Abrams

Azimio Adams

Becky Jackson

Blaine Anderson

Brad

Bree

Brittany Pierce

Brody Weston

Bryan Ryan

Burt Hummel

Carl Howell

Carmen Tibideaux

Carole Hudson-Hummel

Cassandra July

Chandler Kiehl

Clint

Cooper Anderson

Cooter Menkins

Dalton Rumba

Dani

Dave Karofsky

David Martinez

Dottie Kazatori

Dustin Goolsby

Elliott Gilbert

Emma Pillsbury

Finn Hudson

Harmony

Hiram Berry

Holly Holliday

Howard Bamboo

Hunter Clarington

Isabelle Wright

Jacob Ben Israel

Jake Puckerman

Jane Hayward

Jean Baptiste

Jean Sylvester

Jeremiah

Jesse St. James

Joe Hart

Judy Fabray

Julia Chang

June Dolloway

Ken Tanaka

Kendra Giardi

Kitty Wilde

Kurt Hummel

Lauren Zizes

LeRoy Berry

Lord Tubbington

Madison McCarthy

Maribel Lopez

Marley Rose

Mason McCarthy

Matt Rutherford

Mercedes Jones

Mike Chang

Mike Chang Sr.

Millie Rose

Mrs. Puckerman

Myron Muskovitz

Nancy Abrams

Noah "Puck" Puckerman

Pavarotti

Penny Owen

Pierce Pierce

Principal Figgins

Quinn Fabray

Rachel Berry

Richard "Rick The Stick" Nelson

Rod Remington

Roderick Meeks

Rory Flanagan

Roz Washington

Russell Fabray

Ryder Lynn

Sam Evans

Sandy Ryerson

Santana Lopez

Sebastian Smythe

Shelby Corcoran

Sheldon Beiste

Skylar

Spencer Porter

Stoner Brett Bukowski

Sue Sylvester

Sugar Motta

Sunshine Corazon

Terri Del Monico

Tina Cohen-Chang

Unique Adams

Walter

Whitney Pierce

Will Schuester

[jacobbenisreal]

Vocal Adrenaline Audition

Pulling the curtains apart, Jacob Ben Israel walked on stage with visible excitement. No, he wasn't a singer, but he could give a performance... probably.

"Yo, what's up everyone? Jacob Ben Israel here." Hyping up a nonexistent crowd, as he walked from stage left to right, giving Stacey a quick wave. "You guys ready for this? Let's go..."

Finally, he approached the mic, and pulled it off the stand. JBI cleared his throat before the backing track began,

and then he starts rapping...

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Jacob Returns to Bethel

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments. 3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons. 6 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

13 Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. 15 Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Benjamin Born, Rachel Dies

16 Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. 17 During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

18 And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.

The Sons of Jacob (1 Chronicles 2:1–2)

21 Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder. 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

23 The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

25 The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

26 And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

The Death of Isaac

27 Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

28 And Isaac lived 180 years. 29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. — Genesis 35 | Berean Standard Bible (BSB) Berean Standard Bible is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. Cross References: Genesis 9:1; Genesis 12:6-7; Genesis 13:18; Genesis 15:15; Genesis 17:5; Genesis 17:22; Genesis 18:1; Genesis 18:19; Genesis 24:59; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 25:26; Genesis 27:43; Genesis 28:15; Genesis 28:18-19; Genesis 28:22; Genesis 29:31; Genesis 30:5; Genesis 30:10; Genesis 30:22; Genesis 30:24; Genesis 42:4; Genesis 47:9; Genesis 48:7; Genesis 49:4; Exodus 15:16; Joshua 15:21; Ruth 1:2; Ruth 4:11; 1 Samuel 10:2; 1 Samuel 17:12; 1 Chronicles 2:1 Micah 4:8; Acts 7:8

Divine Terror

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Nearly all of these quotes are gathered from the chapter epigraphs in the book, M. Shahid Alam, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Springer: 2008). A few of the quotes are from non-Zionists. The sources for most these quotes can be found in this book. 

Chosenness

“Israel is not another example of the species nation; it is the only example of the species Israel.” Martin Buber

“Only Israel lives in, and constitutes, God’s kingdom…” Jacob Neusner

“For me the supreme morality is that the Jewish people has a right to exist. Without that there is no morality in the world.” Golda Meier, 1967

“We do not fit the general pattern of humanity…” David Ben-Gurion

“…only God could have created a people so special as the Jewish people.” Gideon Levy

Zionism

“There are upwards of seven million Jews known to be in existence throughout the world… possessing more wealth, activity, influence and talents, than any body of people their number on earth….they will march in triumphant numbers, and possess themselves once more of Syria, and take their rank among the governments of the earth.” Mordecai Noah, 1818

“The ultimate goal . . . is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have been deprived of for these two thousand years. . . . The Jews will yet arise and, arms in hand (if need be), declare that they are the masters of their ancient homeland.” Vladimir Dubnow, 1882

“…the spirit of the age is approaching ever closer to the essential Jewish emphasis on real life.” Moses Hess, 1862

“…Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of the civilized nations.” Moses Hess, 1862