#jewish ask game

[silly-jewish-vents]

Jumblr ask game:

🐷 Do you keep kosher?

🎂 Do you celebrate your hebrew, your enlgish or both birthdays?

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

🐈 Favorite pet?

🐢 Do you do Tashlich and if so arae you a first day or last day type of person

🤬 have you ever gotten hate mail before and if so do you have a really fun hate ask you'd like to share to be mocked?

👿 Do you have horns? what about a tail? (i.e. what's your favorite purim costume)

📕 Whats your favorite Jewish book to study?

🥔 What is your shameful classic Jewish food confession?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

👁️ favorite Jewish symbol

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[meshaamem-li]

🪿?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

you're getting a hebrew joke:

רב אחד ישב במרפסת ביתו ושתה קפה, שלפתע שמע את קולו של אחד מתלמידיו: "רבי! רבי!"

אז הרבי ירה בו.

a Rabbi sat on his porch and drank his moening coffee, when suddenly he heard the voice of one of his students: "Rabbi! Rabbi!"

so the Rabbi shot him.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

PURIM!!!

You guys don't get it; Purim was my first holiday I celebrated ever. And we were in the basement of my shul, and they gave me a grogger and we all read from Esther (and they let me read) and I knew the story, butthe sheer level of jewish resistance in the story struck me. If I wasn't sure then that I wanted to be jewish, then I was 1000% sure after that. Yom Kippur is a close second, but there's something very poetic to me about purim

[magnetothemagnificent]

🎂

🎂 Do you celebrate your hebrew, your english or both birthdays?

Both! It's a tradition in my family to have a cake of one's choosing for their Hebrew birthday, and a chocolate chip cookie cake for their Gregorian birthday.

Thanks for asking!

[hailruth]

Jumblr ask game: 🎂 how many birthdays you celebrate? (English, hebrew, other)

-@silly-jewish-vents

i'm the only one in my family who practices judaism, so i've only ever celebrated my english birthday. however, i've been acknowledging my hebrew birthday more over the years!

[disgruntled-detectives]

👁️ for the jewish ask game?

Ooooo a good one! I love pomegranates and the Star of David most I think. How about you?

[beaniebaneenie]

🎉 (for the jewish ask thing!)

Favorite Chag (holiday)

This is an interesting question for me, especially in the current political climate. There are a lot of things I like about a lot of holidays, including the honey apple cake I make every year for Rosh Hashanah (even though it is a huge pain in the ass because it takes FOREVER).

But I think I'm actually going to say Hannukah.

Hear me out.

As a Jewish person, I spent YEARS reminding people that Christmas is not the only holiday that happens in winter, but also that Hannukah is not "Jewish Christmas". All of us are so used to the whole song and dance.

"no, it's not 'Jewish Christmas'. Just because it's in the winter doesn't mean it's the same holiday. It's not one of the High Holidays. It's not even that important."

A few years ago, when the "War on Christmas" fuckery was really ramping up, there was a popular tweet that made the rounds on Jwitter that said, "we're just saying, you don't hear us complaining about the War On Hannukah, and there actually WAS one."

Which is true. Hannukah is one of the 50% of our holidays that falls into the category: They tried to kill us, it didn't work, let's eat about it.

And the foods are incredible. Latkes, doughnuts, sufganiyot, basically anything fried and/or sweet or made with some type of oil? It's a Hannukah food.

But more than that, Hannukah is about community. It's about a light in the darkness (literally and figuratively, the candle and our people), one we were told would not survive.

Our hopes, dreams, traditions, our culture. From all directions, the message was clear: you will be snuffed out.

Hannukah is about us coming together and deciding that it may seem like a lost cause, but we will still fight for it. Because that light and our strength is fucking worth it. Because we cannot live with ourselves if we do anything less.

And because we fought, because we believed, and gave it everything we had, we did not lose. Our light kept shining.

True, it's not a High Holiday.

But I'm tired of saying that it's not a big deal, especially in view of the darkness that lies ahead. Sharing community, sharing light, and refusing to give up- no matter how deep the darkness or numerous the enemy- is so fucking important right now.

So, may your candles burn bright, and may the festival bring blessings upon you and yours. 💚

[alabastermask]

📕 and 🤬 for the jewish asks

📕 for right now, esther, but i haven’t read or studied very much as i was not raised super practicing so subject to change as i learn more

🤬 oh boy do i. i have kept this singular hate anon sitting in my askbox for weeks and it’s a doozy

for some context, this is a response to this 8 note shitpost i, a trans person, made about trans seinfeld. i have watched maybe one episode of seinfeld max. i just vaguely know about it from my dad, and made the post because i thought it was funny

obviously i do not condone racism or inappropriate relationships. like yeah, the things anon mentions are bad. but given that i literally haven’t watched seinfeld, how was i supposed to know that? like the implication is that i already knew and simply don’t care. which is not the case, but surely there was a better way of informing me? idk man

anyway, i find it funny for a number of reasons, the first being that there are two possibilities for how this person found my post: a) they were scrolling the seinfeld tag, or b) they were scrolling my blog.

in the case of a, anon what were you doing at the devil’s sacrament? like is this person just scrolling the seinfeld tag sending anon hate to everyone? or just the trans people? is this person going around to everyone to inform them that their favorite 90’s sitcom is Problematic (TM)? why?? they were so angry they couldn’t spell michael richards right. has anyone else gotten this message? so many questions.

and in the case of b, THIS was the most objectionable post on my blog??? my 8 note flop post about trans seinfeld? surely anon could have found something far worse than that. which leads me to believe they came from the seinfeld tag. again, why??? just to make themself angry? to spread the word that seinfeld is an irredeemable piece of media and anyone who enjoys it is a racist pedophile? who knows.

secondly, i am trans. trans rights are something i care about very deeply. my trans activism extends far beyond the random things i post on tumblr dot com, and i don’t need the validation of random tumblr anons to be an ally. but i guess in my posting i, a representative of trans people everywhere, have made the trans community look bad. to whom? unclear. the transphobes already think we’re pedophiles either way.

anyway, the disproportionately angry response and the context of it just cracks me up every time i see it

in conclusion, g-d forbid a trans person make a joke on the internet

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

jumblr ask game

🎂 Do you celebrate your hebrew, your enlgish or both birthdays?

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

🐈 Favorite pet?

🤬 have you ever gotten hate mail before and if so do you have a really fun hate ask you'd like to share to be mocked?

👿 Do you have horns? what about a tail? (i.e. what's your favorite purim costume)

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

👁️ favorite Jewish symbol

🎂 only Hebrew, I can’t remember my Hebrew birthday

🎉 I have way too many. I like Chanukah, Purim, and well most holidays

🤬 I mostly just respond with animal facts

😈 I had dressed up as the golden guard from the Owl House, I had made the costume myself

🪿 It’s not really a Jewish joke, but a priest a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar and the rabbit turns to the others saying “Wait, I think I’m a typo”

👁️ I like the chai simple since it represents life and is just nice, I also love the way hamsas look.

[jewishicequeen]

🍷🍾Purim asks!🎭🎉

(Reblog and I'll drop one in your askbox)

1. What's your costume this year?

2. Favorite costume you ever did?

3. Favorite kind of alcohol?

4. Ever attended a Purimshpiel(a theater play of the Megila story)?

5. What're you like when drunk(if you know)?

6. Tell a story of something that went upside-down

7. Any "vort" for purim?

8. The ideal Mishloach Manot for you?

9. Ever wore a mask for a costume?(covid masks count if they're an integral part of the costume)

10. Name all the sons of Haman, without checking!

11. Do you ever cosplay outside of Purim?

12. Best hamentachen filling?

13. Tell us of a character you headcanon as Jewish and how you think they'd celebrate!

14. Give us the bare-bones for a role-swap AU for one of your fandoms!

*15(bonus question)* Any plans for Shushan-Purim?

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

something that really irks me in video games is this certain treatment of religion. specifically: when there is an explicit religion or belief system (explicit here meaning it has a name, describes specific beliefs or practices, or has its Creation Story described) and it's the Only One. no thought given to what other cultures might believe, hell, sometimes there's not even variations in the belief itself. worst though, is when this One Religion is also implied, or directly stated, to be True and Correct. Even whenever the game itself just. treats it to be True and Correct, and often so do fans!

of course, there's often a Singular Exception to this in a token athiest (or anti-theist) characterwho is often grouchy, grumpy, or Troubled in some way shape or form. their story arcs tend to revolve around them seeing the Truth of this particular (and only) religion, in a way that is often Miraculous.

a good example of this would be a certain popular farming sim which i'm not going to name because i'd rather this post Not explode.

in this farming sim we are only introduced to this one religion, something that even the ancient beings and cultures (possibly otherworldly) are shown to believe. some charaters believe more strongly, some believe more passivly, and one activly does not believe and drinks beer, is grumpy and grouchy, and generally a mean character at the start. we get Lore about this belief system, including excerpts from its religious text, items that mean to imply this belief system is True, and there's even a place of worship. as far as i am aware, in the base game we're simply not shown any other beliefs aside from the Lack of Belief (and look how good That character has it (no shame to him of course, i love him, but unfortunatly it is a fact of his character))

The entire thing, quite frankly, strikes me as Incredibly Christian. The lack of consideration of other religions, or what they may or may not believe, and how these religions are tied to different ethnicities and cultures and historie. thestrong beliefe that this One Religion is correct, absolutly so, and furthermore the importance placed upon the fact that it must be correct. The almost Evangalism of these atheist characters being shown to be depressed and miserable without this One True Religion, until their lives are made brighter and happier, usually after witnessing something that cannot be explained in a way Other than the One Religion being True and Correct. This last part doesn't always happen, but it does occur with enough frequency.

It's also incredibly frustrating as well with the homoginization of things, because in real life many many *many* religions are tied to herritage and culture and identity of shared history! It's frankly a touch disturbing seeing such a prominent lack of diversity in a setting, with such a heavy emphasis on all the characters sharing This Religion. No different histories, no different accounts, no different cultures.

i, personally, would just like to see more religions presented in video games, without one of them being Directly Confirmed to be the Good and Correct one that the other characters should be shamed for Not Following

[lostthenfoundmyself]

👁️

“Favorite Jewish symbol?”

I think it has to be חי.

Growing up, Judaism sort of had this association with death for me. None of my family wear a Star of David, so whenever I saw the most well-known symbol of Judaism it was almost always a yellow one. Being Jewish was what got people killed. And Jewishness in my family was something that faded over time, dying with the death of each generation.

And חי is just the complete opposite of that. Life. Living as Jewish, instead of dying. I went to a Shabbat Dinner at Chabad last year when I was feeling lonely and depressed by everything. And that was sort of when it hit me, like, wow, this isn’t some dying tradition. This is alive. Judaism isn’t just something that people are killed for, and isn’t just something staggering along that will die when my granny—the last somewhat-practicing Jew in the family I have regular contact with—dies. We’re alive.

So חי represents what Judaism has come to mean for me now—life, not death—and why it’s important to me even though I have huge amounts of imposter syndrome.

[meshaamem-li]

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

my heart says Purim because Costume Holiday but my soul says Sukkot because of I-con, how am I supposed to choose??

ok I chose it's sukkot.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

(I know this ask game is from a few days ago so. Maybe you're not doing this anymore but in case you are:) 📕 Whats your favorite Jewish book to study?

I'll include all of my favorite authors/books in no particular order!

Rabbi Harold Kushner (z"l) was one of the first jewish authors I intentionally read and I loved the books I read of his. I especially loved how gentle, real, and understanding he was and how real he was.

Elie Wiesel (z"l). Need I say more. I wish I spoke yiddish so I could read his books unadulterated, but regardless, his works were (and are) important to me and helped shape me

Tehillim. Just all of it. I have so much to say about them as a collection, but that would take forever.

Jewish with Feeling (Zalman Schachter-Shalomi). My rabbi had me read this book, and similarly to Kushner, I appreciated how kind and non-judgemental the narrative was.

I mostly read any jewish books with the intention to study (I don't necessarily read for leisure or escape), so I wanted to include as many diverse things as I could. I haven't read enough torah or other overtly-religious text yet to include a specific one, but I have read moments in the torah that I loved (I could rant for hours about when g-d told moses, "I am that I am")

Thanks for letting me rant!!!🩵

[magnetothemagnificent]

🥔

🥔 What is your shameful classic Jewish food confession?

Maybe it's just the generational poverty speaking, but I think rich egg challah is gross and unnecessary, it just tastes too eggy and has a bad texture.

Thanks for the ask!

[hailruth]

i saw u were doin that ask game thingy !! ^_^

I'm gonna do an animal theme i fink ..

🪿, 🐷, 🐈? <3

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🪿: it's not a joke, but i think berakhot 62a:3 is too hilarious not to mention ("this, too, is torah").

🐷: i started to keep kosher a couple years ago, but every now and then i have to eat treif for certain health reasons. however, it shouldn't be a life-long issue for me b"h.

🐈: of course i love dogs and cats (especially "weird" breeds like the xoloitzquintle), but i am just as big of a fan of giant african millipedes!