#jewish homesteading

[thepomegranatewitch]

Garden is overrun with pioneering volunteer species and the soil is mostly clay, but I picked these (wild radish) for some backyard salad foraging.

Image description. A lightly tanned left hand in a white linen sleeve holds a metal colander one third full of white and pastel purple four petaled flowers and bright green seed pods. It is golden hour, and tall plants of the the flowers, wild radish, take up the majority of the frame around the colander. The top fifth of frame has cloudless blue sky.

[blissfullyunawares-foodblr]

Fresh Challah Bread 1/7/2025

She chunkyyy and sweet 🤩

This time I used more sugar (about 1/4 cup), no salt (it’s been making my dough too tacky), and olive oil instead of vegetable oil or butter.

I don’t think I let it rise all the way, or maybe it’s dense because I didn’t sift the flour, but these loaves are as heavy as bricks 😂

It could also be that I tried to cram 4 loaves worth of dough into 2 small loaf pans 🤭

[greenflower21]

DAMN I genuinely love it when Star Trek episodes are Jewish trauma AND resilience coded

[pebblegalaxy]

The Cost of Free Land: A Deep Dive Into America's Legacy of Indigenous Dispossession and Immigrant Settlers #TBRChallenge #bookchatter #BookReview

Review of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren’s The Cost of Free Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the historical intersections between Jewish settlers and the Lakota people, centered around the broader issue of land dispossession in America. Clarren’s book is personal and profound, as it grapples with her own family’s history…

[a-queer-seminarian]

Puerto Rican Jewish poet & activist Aurora Levins Morales speaks on solidarity & the history of antisemitism

From her poem "Red Sea":

...We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history's wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay. The sea will not open that way.  This time that country is what we promise each other, our rage pressed cheek to cheek until tears flood the space between, until there are no enemies left, because this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen.  This time it's all of us or none.

I was deeply moved by an article on Levins Morales' website in which she examines modern-day Israel through a zoomed-out lens of millennia of antisemitism:

‘Long before that state was founded out of the ashes of genocide and at the expense of a colonized Arab people, Jews were the shock absorbers of Europe's class societies, "Middle Agents" drafted into being the local representatives of distant and definitely Christian ruling classes who alternately exploited and persecuted them while squeezing the life blood out of Europe's peasants and workers.'

People are often confused by anti-Semitism. They see many US Jews accumulating wealth, moving up, gaining positions of influence, and they say, "What oppression?"... 

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East…’

Levins Morales explains those “buffer” roles in detail, describes how Latin@s are often put in these roles as well, and then brings up an author who said of Israelis, “given all they’ve endured, they should know better.” She responds to this with this insight:

‘Trauma doesn't make people into better human beings. Most of the time, trauma just makes people terrified and easier to manipulate. It makes starving Irish tenants fleeing a devastating famine willing to own slaves or homestead Native American land or police the ghettos they used to live in. It makes the formerly kidnapped and enslaved willing to set up shop in Liberia and hold their African kin in contempt. It makes the survivors of Hitler's Final Solution be willing to become harsh colonial masters, agents of US oil greed and militarism, to bulldoze the villages of Palestinians to make Jewish settlements, torture and kill those who resist, and still insist they are the victims here. People who have faced destruction don't necessarily know better.’

While naming that trauma doesn’t make people “better,” just leaves them terrified and grasping at any sense of security they can, Levins Morales is also sure to note how Jews have always been “disproportionately present in movements for social justice wherever [they] have landed.” To her, fighting antisemitism means supporting Jewish integrity, the Jewish commitment to justice and compassion. 

Furthermore, solidarity with the people of Israel and Palestine alike depends on our clear stand against antisemitism in our own communities, because, she says, 

'The central justification for Israeli militarism and the subjugation of Palestinians is the belief that Jews are alone in the world, that no-one will fight for us, that the next time Jews are blamed and attacked, most of the world's people will stand by and watch.'

Only through all of us standing up to antisemitism and standing side by side with our Jewish neighbors, she says, can Jews feel secure enough to “abandon the middle agent role and get the backs of other peoples, knowing that they also have ours."

It is this vision of interdependence and mutual aid that Levins Morales brings into her poem “Red Sea," which imagines the kind of liberation when Moses parted the Red Sea happening today — but only if we support one another.

[hairtusk]

when I'm posting my long-hair-long-dress content I am not doing it in a white christian homesteader tradcath way, I'm doing it in a jewish prettiest-girl-in-the-shtetl sort of way don't get it twisted

[internetfriend-movedmoved]

Hello fellow Palia self shipper ^^ I self ship with Einar. If you are okay with me asking, do you have a Palia S/I? ^^

I DO !!!!!!

his name is shiloh ehehehe . shiloh sweeney :) he's a homesteader ... and also a trans girl and egl fashion enthusiast . jel designs his dresses and he models !!! he's also disabled (has ehlers danlos syndrome) and jewish (im working on worldbuilding judaism into palia as a lil side project)

he's also . very much an anti-Order kind of person (the government regulating Flow/magic in the game)

i picture him being a tarot reader and other stuff as well, which is considered an illegal business by the Order ... for ... magic reasons idk . he doesn't exactly care tho . he aligns himself closely with zeki as a result, though .

he also has a hopeless crush on sifuu and hodari . and he is very confused at the existence of einar (a golem??? i thought those were fictional...)

[luckylolabug]

What made you decide to have Seb's family be Mormon???? Just curious lol

Oooh, boy, time for me to stand on my Newsies box and shout from the rooftops. My time has come.

Longer explanation under the cut, but TL;DR it's a lot of context clues based on the very minimal we see in the show, compared to my own personal experience growing up in Utah where a HUGE chunk of my school and also my best friends were from LDS families. Take it with a grain of salt of course, everyone's allowed to headcanon their own thing!

Long answer:

Partially, because he comes from a homesteading farming family, and my personal ideal is that puts him out near Farmington which as far as religions go, is 78% LDS by population. That's a HUGE chunk, and there's too many kids in drama club for at least ONE of them to not come from a predominantly mormon upbringing, honestly likely more than one. But if I'm picking someone out of their group that is most likely to lean into it, it's Seb. Sorry not sorry.

Mormons have traditionally large families, I say this with love. We don't know his family PERSONALLY but we know they bought out three entire rows of bleachers to come see his performance. I had moments before then in Season 1 (which I'll touch on in a second) where I started slowly leaning towards my personal thought process that he might come from an LDS upbringing, but it was the moment he pointed his giant family out that really sealed the deal for me. Also, sorry, but it's a giant family of blondes with blue eyes in Utah? The theory writes itself.

A lot of the happy-go-lucky and almost naive at times energy he has is SO surrounded in that culture to me that it's really hard for me unsee it. I went to school with at least six guys that looked and spoke exactly like Seb did as far as his wording goes, and every single one of those was either a deacon or had some leadership role in their church in high school.

This one's a bit more personal, because I went through my own similar experience (though my family is Jewish and not LDS) as well as physically watching one of my best friends in high school go through the exact same plotline. But the smidge we get in season 4 about not being out to his dad yet and being nervous about it really hit my religious trauma like a TRUCK, and my friend who went through it when we were in HS (her dad was a bishop, so it was REALLY hard for her to admit her sexuality for a long time) has said the same thing. Coming out experiences in general can be extremely scary before they're freeing, and when you're growing up as a queer person in Utah, you're not only worried about your family, but also the fact that a seriously good chunk of the state population is religious and conservative. I never personally came to terms with my own sexuality until I moved out of the state after I graduated, but my entire upbringing there was pretttttty pressurized and I felt like I had to follow a lot of social standards that didn't apply to me at all. Hiding a big part of yourself from the people you love sucks!

Another projection, but it tracks, is finding who you really are as a theater kid. (Think the brief "Im home" scene when he's in Sharpay's costume for the first time) I had *multiple* LDS friends (plus me as the group's Jewish gal) who fell into theater and discovered how to be themselves because of it, and it was almost like a second person entirely. A place and group of people that you could finally be who you were supposed to be around. That's sort of the vibe I'm going with as far as Seb's character development in my re-write series, because it's incredibly important to me.

Anyways. Thank you for asking because clearly I have SO many thoughts on this subject.

[things-that-made-me-feel-better]

i was thinking about oppenheimer and how oppenheimer had jewish family and so did einstein and they were both in america during (most of) world war two and i started wondering about how jewish people travelled from the middle east with christianity and islam in the first place, a bunch more research, AND THEN

i found a bunch of german/austrian/jewish people with the last name 'oppenheimer' or 'oppenheim' and found out that oppenheim is a town in germany that had a large jewish population before tensions began to rise around 1900 when some of the jewish people fled, becoming known as 'oppenheimer' because thats where they were from :D oppenheim means (something)-homestead in german. currently working on figuring out what oppen means in this context

[theestervashti]

"The Extortion." From Esther 1: 19-20.

The Esther Torah says there must be a way for individual persons to attain to all that is promised them by rule of law. We are under the supreme delusion this means there are no longer any ways for man to be as happy as he can be and this is ridiculous. Real, legal happiness called Shabbos by the Jewish sages can only take place if it does not harm the interests of others. Shabbos is therefore the Royal Decree. Thou shalt be happy, thou shalt not break the Law or the laws by doing so.

The reason the story of Esther opens with a man notorious to history, called Xerxes, "a prohibition against heresy" is to incite an end to religious practices that put a stop to man's easy natural sources of happiness. The only mention of happiness in the Torah and Tanakh are found here. King David, a huge gay, ruffian, nudist, and interloper who seduced the king's son was the only man in history said to understand happiness:

1 Chronicles 29:9:

King David also was extremely happy. ... Then the people rejoiced because they had given voluntarily, since with a devoted heart they had freely given to the LORD ...

also

1 Kings 4: 20:

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.

The next frame speaks also to another level: Self-government. Self-government begins inside the self but it is a product of public government external to the self. The stifling of the urge to govern oneself in a legally acceptable manner is a crime for which man will not repent.

In ancient times, his need to oppress others was so stubborn, David and Solomon alike worshipped a holy horror terror at times, the goddess Ishtar in order to cement the power of the law to free the people from ignorance and oppression.

Notice there are no laws or decrees in the Torah that explicitly state women must respect their husbands or husbands must respect their wives. Children are told to respect their parents, but respect for one's partners is but implied. A royal household of any composition will not survive long enough to pay attention to the homesteads of the persons it is responsible for governing if this is not explicitly stated.

This might be the reason Queen Vashti and the Noble Women abstained from a discussion between the king and his prince whore concubines from all around the world; surely that was set for a stage for fornication and adultery, which cause scandal and upheaval in governments of all kinds.

Royal couples are given every advantage. There is no reason one can't find a handsome chap or lady to hook on one's arm and do more than just pretend to fall in love. The reality of this fantasy, the epic love story all the little gay boys and straight girls fantasize about life long has the potential to fruitfully order the world from great to small as the Torah below states:

19 “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she. 

20 Then when the king’s edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.

An edict is an emergency declaration that is designed to save lives. That monkey gorilla in Oklahoma who wants the Bible to be taught in public schools is a good example of someone that does not understand the meaning of an edict.

A public school, however, can register the importance of human equity even in very tiny little kids as a result of firm understanding of the Torah, this would be a legally appropriate approach to teaching young human beings to coexist without compromising each other's growth or independence.

Growth from youth until expiration at old age is called "a vast realm" by the Esther Torah. The realm will only devolve into conflict if the laws of the and, signified by women personalities are not tempered by the compassionate heroics of the men. One might think this is done the opposite, but this is how the Hebrew language works. One cannot make stern strict religious laws without considering whether or not mankind is actually better off or not.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 19: The laws of magic and science, "Persia and Media" state Vashti and Xerxes cannot renew their relationship. The verse says "let this be written" meaning let it be memorized then engaged. The Number is 9530, טהגאֶפֶס‎ ‎, "climb up."

The line of succession is an internal exercise in addition to one that is external. From Adam to Moses, from Moses to Joshua, from Joshua to Jesus and then some we know mankind will not settle unless it does more than sing hymns and pray. These elements in the Torah, Tanakh, and Gospels each have an ingot of the Glory of God hidden within them.

The line of succession up to the very steps of the King of Emperor must be manned or womaned by persons of superior intellectual skills, noble characteristics and the ability to make mistakes but not be wicked. Laws are not enough. Follow through by persons who are not corrupt is a must if our world systems of government are to save us all from the schmucks.

v. 20: From the least to the greatest. The current king or queen must be less of a man than the one coming up. This is a tough cock to swallow, but that is how the Torah works.

As stated above, also in the Bhagavad Gita, the strategic partner of the Torah, it is said, "as public officials perform in office, so will the people follow." True love must not be a myth. This is an abomination.

From BG 3:

"Those who restrain the external organs of action, while continuing to dwell on sense objects in the mind, certainly delude themselves and are to be called hypocrites.

But those who control their knowledge senses with the mind, and engage the working senses in working without attachment, are certainly superior.

Those who do not accept their responsibility in the cycle of sacrifice are sinful. They live only for the delight of their senses; indeed their lives are in vain.

But those who rejoice in the self, who are illumined and fully satisfied in the self, for them, there is no duty.

Such self-realized souls have nothing to gain or lose either in discharging or renouncing their duties. Nor do they need to depend on other living beings to fulfill their self-interest.

 You should also perform your duties to set an example for the good of the world. Whatever actions great persons perform, common people follow. Whatever standards they set, all the world pursues."

The Number is 8089, חאֶפֶסחט‎‎, "extorted."

We cannot extort people into a state of happiness that is ridiculous. Adam and Eve could not be exorted into obeying God they were disobedient and were going to screw around anyway. The entirety of the Torah explains how they were to regain God's favor and it included volunteering to follow the edicts within the Torah, the most important of which is to help your partner(s) achieve Shabbos.

The Esther Torah says respect for the Shabbos in this manner will affect the happiness of all mankind if it is performed top down. When the houses of government are in disarray, the world gets damned, just as Krishna and the goddess both have said.

Now we must do the opposite, save the world by rebuilding the house, and fast, like gods and goddesses of lightning, like good gods of justice.

[imperfectly360]

I told Rick Rick that I really like Hannahballarina the ballerina from ballerina farm and Rick Rick is so amazing and told me he will sacrifice Alyssa and their two children so that I can live my dreamy homestead life with him. He told me he will do it right away. I'm so happy Rick Rick will demolish his family for me. He's everything I hope for. He's everything I need. We could both care less about ham hocks and demon children and make joint decisions that make us both happy. Rick Rick understands my heart and we live to please one another. Bye Alyssa! We are considerate and caring and are really sensitive with each other. Rick Rick wants to see me milk cows and smash patties and fry fritter tatters together with other smorgasbord and scoop out that big gourd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rick Rick! Has told me a candle a day keeps our fire burning a forever and that he will soap up my toes every day with well water from the jack and jill hill!!!!! I love Rick Rick he even told me I can keep Alyssa's gnarly slippers from our own mountain goat idk how Alyssa got her paws on them but they sure aren't hers and we snatched them back real quick. Rick Rick told me he doesn't remember Alyssa who anymore. I told Rick Rick, same. We just double sear our potatoes in maple glaze and much on cherry tomatoes all day that we apricot London and champagne because tree bark love music pets and bird to the chicken and wake up eggs zucchini mushrooms gluten magnesium skinny cow popcorn becomes Meijer small bin box bulk small 1.25 feed sunflower enrichment extra foamy squeeze cotton cloud mommy blankets clean linen naked baby no clothes moccasins bb love clean pampered butt powder clean dirty animal no more spaghetti with garlic bread carbi barbi deer rabbit nature milk and kitchen thrift store flea market garage sale yard sale lemonade stand cookies lonely soldier wolf bush berries tent sad boy never cry again whopper big Mac 8 dollars pay lovers lane Starbucks sweet drink more please thanks good boy see you l8r lol apron hairnet nanny Jewish homebody bake bread good morning rise and shine I love Rick Rick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[monsooninn]

Berakhot 7b: 25. "The Huna."

God wants to "runaway", to elope with us. First he wants to prepare us, and then he wants to set us free. The process has to do with a complete understanding of a Shekel. The Torah says we are each given a Shekel and Four Cubits of space in which to live, and we are supposed to get engaged on Shabbos night and complete the marriage by Shabbat.

The Shekel, half contributed by God through the Torah the other by the student of Judaism is the way one completes the understanding of the Jewish Soul. It is not the essence of the soul itself that can only happen through practice. Competence takes all Seven Days to develop. The process according the Mishnah is called the marriage of the groom to the bride. In Gematria the Number is 100, the number associated with one hundred percent of a Shekel or Jewish Soul.

The object lesson is called a Huna in which one plants one's spear, which is in within the homestead. Number 100 is achieved within the Self and then within the other when the Huna is performed.

The Huna like the other Tent Pegs and every letter in the Talmud all pertain to the attainment to Mashiach. Jews are expected to peform the Huna to secure the foundation of Mashiach for the rest of world for all time.

25. In the beginning - to answer him, and in the end - to his bride.

The Value in Gematria is 2247, בבדז‎‎‎ ‎in badez, "Come then."

The purpose of the Gemara is to unify the object lessons and offices in the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh including the Mishnah and lead the people of Israel in the founding of Mashiach.

So long as the people of Israel study this Gemara, their number and Numbers of souls will continue to grow within the Huna, or the "tented environment" of the Tabernacle called the Mashiach.

[elizabethskipp]

CE 1909: Tel Aviv founded

A group of Jewish families, called the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead), establish Tel Aviv near Jaffa. Tel Aviv would incorporate existing Jewish neighbourhoods outside of Jaffa.

[skiplo-wave]

I don't know if this is 100% accurate but the man they are calling Wolf Man wandering around the mountains in Germany might be a descendant of the Jews that escaped Hitler's reign. There was this local story a long time ago that Jewish children escaped into those mountains. They was never seen again, however, there was reported sightings of people in the mountains in the 1960s and the 1970s. It is believed the Jewish children made homestead there and lived like old German tribes. It is believed that Wolf Man could be a descendant of those children :'( And there could be more.

I have questions,,,

[2centsofsilver]

7/6/23 4a

Super mixed up discombobulated; need Amy. Off track. Uncentered. Not sure where I am. Don’t feel like people know me or get me or are meeting me where I am. I’m gonna get there and my parents will long for me / be on their own journeys to heal from me and the wounds I caused them over my lifetime trying to defend myself. They will have to navigate life without me and get accustomed to me gone and the love will run out and then when I visit or FaceTime the love will be short and briefer for little trips & my parents will be old & look different and maybe not love me as much anymore bc they got used to me being gone like a gift in their life. They won’t talk to me about Portland it’s like a big joke that’s not even real or happening. No one will / can confront it. I am so deeply lost and will be so far away and my parents- they will just move on and fade away & I’ll still be lonely out there. What if nobody finds me. I don’t want to be in pain for the rest of my life. When I even just utter that I’m apt searching or excited about a place in Portland I discovered they just don’t even say anything they just continue whatever they are doing as if I’m a dead wall and they haven’t heard me. My mom has a strict stern look on her face, my dad just completely silent. How am I supposed to feel like this transition is real. I occasionally ask, “Are you sad about me leaving? Are you excited for me?” And dad says, “It wouldn’t matter what I think because I know that I can’t stop you; you won’t listen anyway.” How can 2 people who supposedly love me and are literally the root source of my origin act like I’m not even anything. I don’t know how to fix all the damage I have done. All the hurt I have caused. They are hurting their whole life because I was literally the worst little kid daughter & the worst grown up daughter too. I’m sorry for all the hurt that I cause. I hate knowing that my dad and mom are sad because of me, it makes my heart literally ache. I just wish I had love being sourced from somewhere else. My grandma is in heaven and I try to feel her every day and she still leaves me dimes whenever I ask. Most recently in Glen Arbor, the Homestead, on the beach when I was painting the sunset. But I don’t know why I can’t FEEL her very strongly — makes me ask myself if I’m forcing it- if I’m making it up. I can’t believe how long she’s been gone. Today I was thinking about when me & my dad had to say goodbye by her bedside. I helped my dad say, “Bye mom, love you.” My grandma’s love was the most unconditional. It was so fucking strong. I wish I could feel it. I wish that somebody loved me. I’m trying to love myself day in & out for 32 years I’ve tried to love myself. My brother thinks I’m nothing. My parents believe that I’m nothing true or real. I love my brother. He’s another person I hurt. I was the worst sister. I don’t know how to mend that. I’m sorry that my parents didn’t help me become a better sister at the age of 7, 8, 9… I missed your toddler years. The years that now as a toddler teacher I know are so precious so fleeting so pure and I can never get them back. And I can never make you respect me as a real person. I miss my Poppy in heaven. He’s been gone the longest. I wish that I could have known him into my adult years. I wish that he could have seen it all. I wish I felt his love & presence but I can’t for some reason. It’s soooooo distant. Does he remember me? Does he think I’m the worst too? I remember everything about my Jewish grandparents. They raised me. They loved me. Their love was pure. It wasn’t the kind that had to be bought through big fancy vacations and presents. Even tho I was the worst as a child my grandma still loved me so much and always still wanted to play with me and help & support & love me. She never ever turned on me or made me feel unloved or question whether I’m cared for. It was this deep rooted ancestral love that can never ever be disconnected or lost. It is so strong and so tangible like strong arteries or roots that connect the heart, connect all of what it means to grow & be alive

[leahbasavraham]

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