#lord of shabbat

[revmarques]

Shabbat Perpetual Covenant with YHWH every 7 days.

(Improved on 07/19/2023) Strong H7676 89 verses Sabbath = Shabbat, day of forgiveness, Sabbath year Strong H7673 67 verses Sabbath = Stop, rest, observe Shabbat SHABAT: DAY OF REST Note: every time the phrase “Sabbath” appears, the word H7676 actually appears in Hebrew.           Exodus 16:23-24 “He answered them, ‘This is what YHWH has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath, a Sabbath consecrated to…

[raks777]

Do Not Be Afraid

[generouspersonamano]

The Bible begins with a powerful statement: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

I have never read any other book with such a grandiose beginning. Here, we are not beginning with the story of the Iliad, Lord of the Rings, or the Hobbit. No, we are beginning with the very beginning of everything.

Within the first few words, we learn that God exists, that there was a beginning -- and that God was before the beginning. We learn that God, surprisingly, decided to create the universe - and us - for no other reason that can be surmised except that He was full of unselfish love and wanted to share everything with everyone.

That is beyond my mere mortal comprehension but the fact is - that I am here. That is a miracle. We are all living miracles.

Thank you, Lord, for Your creative power and especially Your love.

[torais-life]

Shabbat Shalom ✨

[lettersfromgod]

"For My people are those who keep My Commandments[16] and take pleasure in My Sabbaths. They abide in My love[17] and have the Testimony, and do not cease from doing those things which are pleasing in My sight.[18]

And behold, the Day is coming quickly

When The Rightful King shall rule...

And His Kingdom shall be a Sabbath,

Even one thousand years;

His reign, forever and ever!...

For The Lord has spoken, and so shall it be:

On earth as in Heaven.[19]"

~ Says The Lord

[16]: 1 John 2:3-4, 1 John 3:22-24, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John 1:6, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 14:12, Revelation 22:14

[17]: John 15:10

[18]: 1 John 3:22

[19]: Matthew 6:10

📖 Excerpt from "Remember The Sabbath and Your God, and He Shall Remember You": https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Remember_The_Sabbath_and_Your_God,_and_He_Shall_Remember_You

▶ Video (with voice over): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xYRmTGpwSo&list=PLE8FlkxQPQkNhyk7QOplwIcW788ErwTRh&index=27

▶ Video (with music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1LqfVQ8WoU&list=PLSVchFJ22QYLFnEgsgioj_Lej_q1CzyfH&index=32

[mantra-the-melancholic]

to all the wise; slowdance to the rhythm of the divine star...it will lead u to the King. celebrate the family, the friends, the strangers; but above all celebrate the day salvation itself crash landed on earth.[□■□■□■ 012.]

[mental-mona]

No way am I getting to post this before Shabbos tomorrow, so posting it now.

[fdelopera]

Never Again is NOW

This evening marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah. This Jewish holiday and Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Yom HaShoah is different than International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the 6 million Jews, as well as the Romani and all the others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II.

Yom HaShoah is the day for Jews mourn our dead and to remember the Jews who heroically fought back against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We mourn the 6 million Jews who were murdered the LAST time the entire world was infected by the mind-virus of Jew-hate.

In the midst of this current global tidal wave of Jew-hate, we Jews say NEVER AGAIN. Never again is NOW.

And a reminder to non-Jews who might try to steal this phrase:

Never Again is a Jewish phrase. Period. It doesn’t belong to non-Jews.

Never Again refers to the Shoah, and to the THOUSANDS of years of violent Jew-hatred we have endured before then.

Never Again states that we Jews will NEVER AGAIN be slaughtered by the millions.

If you are a goy, and you use this phrase for any other purpose, you are engaging in cultural appropriation.

You are appropriating Jewish trauma and pain that IS NOT YOURS.

Unless you are willing to shoulder the burden of 3500+ years of Jewish history, you do NOT get to use this phrase.

If you steal Never Again for any other context, all you are doing is broadcasting that you are a Jew-hating bigot who engages in Holocaust Inversion.

And you can take your antisemitic bigotry and go fuck off into the sun.

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Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, borei p’ri hagafen.

Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’ratza vanu, v’shabbat kod’sho b’ahava uv’ratzon hinchilanu, zikaron l’ma’aseh b’reishit. Ki hu yom t’chila l’mikra-ay kodesh, zaycher l’tziat mitzrayim. Ki vanu vacharta v’otanu kidashta mikol ha’amim. V’shabbat kod-shi-cha b’ahava uv’ratzon hinchal tanu. Baruch ata Adonai, mi’kadesh ha Shabbat.

(Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.

Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, how has sanctified us with his commandments and favored us, and given us in love and favor his holy Shabbat as an inheritance, as a remembrance of the act of creation. For this day is the beginning of all holy days, a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt. For you have chosen us and you have blessed us from among all the nations. And you have bequeathed us your holy Shabbat in love and favor. Blessed are you, Lord, who sanctifies Shabbat.)

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Feel this, to all those races, colors, and creeds, every man bleeds

For the countless victims and all the families of the murdered, tortured, enslaved

Raped, robbed and persecuted — Never Again

To the men, women, and children who died in their struggle to live

Never to be forgotten, Reuven Ben Menachem, yo…

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My own blood dragged through the mud

Perished in my heart, still cherished and loved

Stripped of our pride, everything we lived for

Families cried, there's nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Tossed to the side, access denied

6 million died, for what?

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Yo, a man shot dead in his back

Helpless women and children under constant attack

For no reason 'til the next season and we still bleeding

Yo it's freezing and men burn in Hell, some for squeezing

No hope for a remedy, nothing to believe

Moving targets who walk with the star on their sleeve

Forever marked with a number tattooed to your body

Late night, eyes closed, clutched to my shotty

Having visions, flashes of death camps and prisons

No provisions, deceived by the Devil's decisions

Forced into a slave, death before dishonor

For those men who were brave, shot and sent to their grave

Can't awaken, it's too late, everything's been taken

I'm shaken, family, history in the making

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Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again shall we sit and take orders

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d then burned of our bones

Never again, never again, shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again leave our sons and daughters

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

(Never again) Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d and everything we own (Never again)

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Some fled through the rumors of wars

But most left for dead, few escaped to the shores

With just one loaf of bread, banished

Called in for questioning and vanished, never to be seen again

I can't express the pain, that was felt in the train

To Auschwitz, tears poured down like rain

Naked, face to face with the master race

Hatred, blood, and David, my heart belongs to God and stays sacred

Rabbis and priests, disabled individuals

The poor, the scholars — all labeled common criminals

Mass extermination, total annihilation

Shipped into the ghetto and prepared for liquidation

Tortured and starved, innocent experiments

Stripped down and carved up or gassed to death

The last hour, I smelled the flowers

Flashbacks of family then sent to the showers

Powerless, undressed, women with babies clumped tight to their chest — crying

Who would've guessed — dying

Another life lost, count the cost

Another body gas-burned and tossed in the Holocaust

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Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again leave our sons and daughters

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d and everything we own

Never again, never again, shall we march like sheep to the slaughter

Never again shall we sit and take orders

Stripped of our culture, robbed of our name

(Never again) Raped of our freedom and thrown into the flames

Forced from our families, taken from our homes

Removed from our G-d then burned of our bones (Never again)

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Never Again. Never Again.

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From the USA to Afghanistan

From Israel to Pakistan

From Iraq to Iran

To Russia, Poland, and France

From China over to Japan

Worldwide

Never Again

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Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad

(“Hear O Yisrael, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is One.” The Shema is the most important prayer in Judaism. It is the declaration of our faith in one G-d. Jews say the Shema prayer every day, in the morning and evening. And we also say the Shema before we die.)

FIRE!

*GUNSHOT*

[etz-ashashiyot]

I admit, I don’t personally think it’s possible to truthfully combine a worldview that the Torah is divinely inspired, or at least any worldview that involved an all powerful g*d as a source of morality, and slavery.

I don’t really see how an all good all powerful g*d would send plagues to free one people from slavery, but could not even order those people not to keep shaves within their own kingdom

I’m sorry if this comes across as me shitting on your beliefs, evidently you have them so I can’t claim to don’t exist and they’re also very important to you. It simply seems logically inconsistent from my point of view. Although I may also be misinterpreting your point as well.

Hi anon,

Is this in response to this post? If so, I'd ask that you read it again, as that drash explains it far better than I could.

In my experience, Judaism is a very practical religion, with an eye towards elevating the physical by imbuing it with the spiritual. It's why we keep kashrut, it's why we observe the holy rest of Shabbat, it's why we sanctify sex and menstruation through taharat mishpachat. We say brachot over food, but also over sights, pleasant scents, and extraordinary natural events. We even have a bracha for after using the bathroom!

It's a very enbodied, earthy religion.

And because of that, it is typically very pragmatic about how people live and in trying to meet people where they're at, in the society they live in, in the time they live in. That does not mean that this is Hashem's ultimate ideal for us, but rather follows the principle that a middling step that will be followed is superior to an idealistic rule that will be ignored.

See the thing is, we weren't freed just because freedom is good. (Obviously freedom is good and slavery is bad.) Bnei Yisrael were freed specifically in order to become the servants of Hashem and entering into the Covenant of Torah. Their freedom is immediately qualified by the brit.

And the other thing is that we are all given free will. Hashem gives us free will to do what we want. We can make good choices, or bad. We can do good things, or bad things. An oftentimes, what is good and what is bad are less than obvious, and we find ourselves trapped into deciding between two or more bad options, trying to find the least harmful.

If Hashem takes away our free will, sure He could impose upon us a perfect, ideal world.

But that's not what we were made or set up to do. We were given choices and instructed to continuously learn and strive to be better.

So yeah! Yep! The Torah has a lot of things in it that were made for a different society with things we have since learned from and have moved past. We don't stone people to death for violating certain mitzvot. We don't burn adulterers alive. We don't engage the sotah ritual in the case of suspected infidelity. We don't keep slaves, and don't support any model of society that relies on slavery. These are all difficult, painful lessons that we have learned, collectively, over millennia. But they are very human lessons, lessons that we only learnt because we as human beings have the free will to create interpersonal harm and structural inequalities as well as to improve.

People think that just because G-d is all powerful, all-knowing, and all-good that this means Hashem will do all the hard work for us. That G-d will prevent bad things from happening to us good people and deliver divine retribution to bad actors, and are disappointed when it doesn't work like that. It's certainly caused a lot of people to struggle with and even give up their faith. People will ask "where was G-d when— " instead of asking "where was humanity"?

Show me whatever "it" is for you — and lord knows the Jewish people have a small multitude to select from — and I'll show you the ugly and tragic human acts behind it.

"Where was G-d when— " where were you?

[jewish-culture-is]

Jewish culture is having a giggle with yourself over speaking like a sensitive hearted Christian. Catch me saying “praise the lord” “on gods green earth” And “good heavens” over shabbat dinner

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

[keshetchai]

Okay listen to me very closely (again): the Jewish biblical prohibition against seed mixtures is not simply a poorly thought out banning of all companion crop planting. [My sefaria sheet: The Halakha of...Gardening?]

Basically the quick summary is this:

The prohibition against the planting of diverse seeds (any kind) in a field is maybe limited to Eretz Yisrael (Kiddushin 39a:10)

— unless you are specifically referring to intermixing wheat, barley, and grape seed in a vineyard (Kiddushin 39a:12-13) which is definitely prohibited everywhere.

Sufficiently similar plants of a kind may be planted together and not be considered a mixing of diverse seeds in a field/garden (Pesachim 39b:4)

Even companion planting requires appropriate spacing between plants to maximize efficacy, and minimize your crops strangling each other. Which, incidentally, is what is recommended!:

With regard to a garden bed that is six by six handbreadths in area, one may plant in it five different types of seeds, four types on the four sides of the bed and one type in the middle. This mishna teaches that it is permitted to plant different types of seeds in one garden bed, provided that one maintains the appropriate distance between them.

Pesachim 39b:1, but also

Mishnah Shabbat 9:2

From where is it derived that in a garden bed that is six by six handbreadths, that one may plant five different types of seeds in it? He may do so without violating the prohibition of sowing a mixture of diverse kinds of seeds in the following manner. One sows four types of plants on each of the four sides of the garden bed and one in the middle.

There is an allusion to this in the text, as it is stated: “For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden causes its seeds to grow, so will the Lord God cause justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations” (Isaiah 61:11). Its seed, in the singular, is not stated; rather, its seeds, written in the plural.

Apparently, it is possible that several seeds may be planted in a small garden.

And

Mishnah Kilayim 3:1

A furrow of vegetables measuring six handbreadths by six handbreadths: it is permitted to sow in it five [different] types of seeds--four [species], one on [each of] the four sides of the bed, and one in the middle. If it had a border one handbreadth high, one may sow in it thirteen [different species] three on every border, and one in the middle. It is prohibited to plant a turnip head in the border since that would fill it [completely]. Rabbi Judah said: [it is permitted to sow] six [species] in the middle.

In the Talmud the relevant section is Shabbat 84b:4 — 86a:1. A handsbreadth is the measurement of 4 fingers breadthwise. Roughly 2.5-4 inches long (my own hand is about 2.5 wide above the knuckle.)

If we assume the wider end of what Google told me is the average range, then 6 handbreadths (6 * 4 inches) by 6 handbreadths is 24 inches by 24 inches, or only 2 cubic feet.

Now if you've ever gardened you will learn that seeds NEED spacing in order to grow, obtain proper air circulation, and avoid a host of problems (disease, mildew, pest infestation going unchecked, sunlight competition, etc).

If you've ever gardened in the US specifically you may have seen things like this:

A square foot seeding planter template (above is an image of a green template laid over garden soil. The template has holes placed to guide ideal seed plant spacing, which someone is demonstrating by placing seeds into a color coded hole.)

or this square foot gardening foundation spacing recommendation image for a "typical 4 x 4 square foot garden."

This image shows a garden that is 4 feet by 4 feet square with suggested plants for each square foot.

The leftmost column is "extra large" plants that need at least a full square foot: broccoli, cabbage, pepper，tomato.

The next column (moving left to right), are Large plants (suggesting no more than 4 of each planted within a single square foot): leaf lettuce (listed twice for varied options), swiss chard, & marigold. Leaf lettuce is continually cut back for the leaves rather than allowed to grow a full sized head, hence the need for less space.

Column #3 is medium plants (9 to a square foot): bush beans, spinach (listed twice), and beets.

Column #4 is small plants (16 to a square foot): carrots, onions, and radish (listed twice).

This means that if I were to draw out a 2x2 foot garden over this chart, there would only be 4 different types of plants within that 2x2 area.

In this case, I drew a square around 2 mediums & 2 smalls, for a garden of bush beans, carrots, spinach, and radish (which is a recommended limit of 50 total individual plants within that space.)

The Talmud is stating that you are permitted to plant one type of seed on each of the borders and then another type in the center, which is 5 different types of plants in 2 cubic feet. To follow this guideline I would adjust the total numbers of each type of plant down so that I wasn't going above about 50 individual plants (which is already very crammed!)

(Image just shows the previous 2x2 feet garden with each side labeled 1-4m in the center I wrote 5, and then circled it.) This is a LOT of plants in a small plot.

People frequently see this prohibition and immediately say something like: "BUT THREE SISTERS INDIGENOUS COMPANION PLANTING IS GOOD!!"

And yes, it IS good!! Great, even!!

Native Seeds Search helpfully illustrates three separate 3 sisters garden layouts for us, actually.

The classic mound style plants corn spaced 6 inches apart in the center. Then from a corn plant, beans are planted at least 4 inches away. Then later, the squash is planted 24 inches away from the center (which is roughly halfway between the two corn stalks) Meaning if you have 2 corn stalks in the center (6 inches apart) and then add the distance of two squash from the center, we now have a generic diameter of 54 inches, or about FOUR AND A HALF feet for THREE kinds of plants.

If you made a square by using the 54 inches measurement (the Talmud really likes square gardens as opposed to circles or triangles), rather than a circular mound, it would be a space slightly bigger than the above referenced 4x4 foot garden with 13 different plant types suggested. The suggested spacing for 3 sisters gets much bigger in the other examples at the link because squash needs a LOT OF ROOM to grow!

TL;DR in Judaism, you can absolutely plant squash, beans, and corn in an appropriately sized garden plot without violating the prohibition of mixing seeds.

People like to explain this mitzvah as like, preserving the order of the world (meh) or preventing weird plant hybrids (which IS actually useful in gardening. Cross-pollination can be great but sometimes it can ALSO lead to worse, less tasty produce over time, or even compounding like, stuff that can make us sick to our stomach. I'm looking at you, cucurbits!!).

But in reality it seems to MOSTLY be like "don't plant wheat and barley together in your grape vineyard in Eretz Yisrael, and don't mix grapes with other stuff outside of Eretz Yisrael" and then like, "differing plant types need appropriate spacing in order to grow into something you can eat."

Which is extremely mundane, as far as gardening rules go.

[generouspersonamano]

[torais-life]

100 followers to Tora is life!!!!

KOL HA KAVOD TO HASHEM!!!

I'm so glad...🤗

I know are not 100k (yet) but, who cares???!!!

I love you all!!! (between i know there are many tzadikim and tzadikot)

Thanks to all who like and share that I post every week

Maybe could be more content, and with more quality(believe me, I think about it everyday 😁)

But, most of all, thanks to the Everlasting Father to give us life and emunah

{Please, if you have any comment, suggestion or whatever you want to say about this blog, I'll really appreciate 💕}

With love, Caterina

{From Argentina to Israel, very soon 🇦🇷🇮🇱}

SHABBAT SHALOM 🕯️🕯️🍷❤️

[todaysjewishholiday]

16 Menachem Av 5784 (19-20 August 2024)

The 16th of Av in 5645 saw the death of a great leader within the Jewish community of Great Britain— and indeed, all of Europe and the Mediterranean. This giant was not a rabbi or a sage but a financier, statesman, and philanthropist, who had spent the first half of his life doing his best to assimilate into the upper echelons of British society, and the remainder very deliberately reasserting his Judaism and doing all he could for global Jewish welfare. He died nine months into his hundredth year of life, having witnessed a full century of historical and social transformation at the height of the Industrial Revolution.

Moses Haim Montefiore was born in 5545 in Livorno, Tuscany to a large Sephardic merchant family with interests spread across Europe. He was named for his paternal grandfather, the patriarch who had relocated the family from Livorno to London forty years prior, and came into the world while his parents had returned to Tuscany on business for the family’s firm. Montefiore left school at a young age to begin work in another trading firm, and at the age of 18 became a trader in the London Stock Exchange. For the next thirty years he expanded his business and focused on attaining markers of social respectability, joining both the Freemasons and the local militia as Britain entered the Napoleonic Wars. Soon, through his own efforts and the good fortune of becoming brother-in-law and then stockbroker to Lord Rothschild, the British representative of the famous banking family, Montefiore’s fortune expanded exponentially. In addition to business, Montefiore devoted himself to the popular social reform campaigns of the era, including the promotion of charity hospitals and the abolition of slavery. In 1827, Montefiore and his wife went on a long voyage throughout the Mediterranean that included a visit to Jerusalem. The visit profoundly altered the course of Montefiore’s spiritual life. While he had always been proud of his Jewish heritage, Montefiore had been casual in his religious practice until his first experience of the holy city. While there, he committed himself to Shabbat and kashrut observance, and to attendance at the Torah readings in the synagogue on the second and fifth days of each week in addition to attendance at Shabbat services. He began traveling with a personal shochet and his own kashered dishes so that even when attending soirées and banquets with wealthy gentiles he would always have kosher food available. He also brought his own minyan of devoutly Jewish staff members and a personal Torah scroll so that his business travels would not interfere with his participation in religious services.

The newly devout business magnate then devoted his full energies, talents, and extensive connections to advocating for the welfare of the Jewish diaspora. He traveled to Morocco, Istanbul, Rome, Russia, and numerous other destinations specifically to use his considerable influence to combat antisemitic policies and pressure government to ensure Jewish subjects the same rights given to other citizens. Time and time again, Montefiore’s interventions were crucial. He also raised funds— and donated a significant proportion of his own wealth— to Jewish causes around the world, and especially for the welfare of the Jewish community in and around Jerusalem.

When his wife died, Montefiore had a replica of Rachel’s Tomb built as a mausoleum for her, and also established a yeshiva in her honor. He lived as a widower for another 23 years, still actively involved in a large number of charitable causes, before he was buried there beside her.

[mantra-the-melancholic]

road to resurrection...