#shammai

[hermthejewishwyrm]

I'm restarting this age old beef

Goyim do not vote

[maimonidesnutz]

Hillel: put your right foot in Gentile: done Hillel: now take it out Gentile: ..Ok Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about Gentile: wait what? Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another Hillel: that's what it's all about

[thelonelyjew]

[i-am-a-fucking-nerd]

[ID: two menorahs. the one in the front has 4 candles plus the shamash, the one in the back has 5 candles lit plus the shamash. end]

My roommate decided that shammai needed some rep this year so she’s lighting her chanukiah by decreasing a candle each night (only bc i’m still doing it the hillel way)

[fish3s]

aziraphale lights his menorah in the hillel tradition. crowley lights his in the shammai tradition. they’re hereditary enemies (they love each other very much).

happy hanukkah! 🕎

[turboheller]

a whole new level of freak

[livethrushit]

during my Rage And Depression nap i had a dream that i was asking why we didnt have a manga version of the talmud. so now i must ask: WHY DONT WE HAVE A MANGA VERSION OF THE TALMUD

[insane-control-room]

@tanakhsexyman why is the whale on the list. number one its not a whale, just a fish. and number two it was a girl. this is blaspheme.

also why are the angels listed. they cant be sexymen theyre genderless beings and *multiple* of them. this entire thing makes me so painfully sad

[garden-ghoul]

chag chanukah sameach, may palestine be imminently free. I'm gonna ask a slightly silly question about candle lighting order, options explained below, as an excuse to make an informational post. please read before voting!

worldwide minhag is with beit hillel in this, as in most things---by far the more popular way to do it is 1 candle on the first day and 8 candles on the eighth day. beit shammai says the opposite: 8 candles on the first day, because there are 8 days left, and 1 candle on the last day. we're told that the light should grow throughout the festival to stave off the darkness of winter! but why must we want that?

kendra observes that increasing our darkness is just as much to be celebrated as increasing our light. they're inextricable anyway: if you put out your candles you decrease the light... but also increase the range of where you can see, because your eyes will see better in the dark! allowing darkness lets us see fainter lights like the moon and stars, so you can also think of beit shammai's order as weaning ourselves off artificial illumination to appreciate the many hours of stargazing winter affords us ::)

[dadyomi]

Thursday 2/2, Nazir 10: The Cow Says Halacha

I started reading today’s daf and immediately thought to myself, “Well, talking cows are esoteric even for Talmud, but like, I’m sure one or two of the Sages talked to a cow in their day” and then immediately after

Ah, okay, good to know even the Gemara was a little weirded out by that one. Also, well done cow, waiting until he promised not to eat you before getting up. 

[zooptseyt]

Jews all exist on a spectrum from Bugs Bunny to Dennis Prager. Not defending or explaining this one beyond stating the obvious which is you should aim to land on the Bugs Bunny side.

[turboheller]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

[i-am-a-fucking-nerd]

Oops, haven’t shared any other nights lol but here is my chanukiah (Hillel) next to my roommates (shammai)

[thejewitches]

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[jerusalemstraycat]

Ok listen I don't like being a hater but tbh I was disappointed in the Crash Course video on Judaism. It was really disorganized (why were the sections on antisemitism and Zionism between the Written Torah and Oral Torah sections???) and had some glaring inaccuracies (the Tanach contains WAY more than the 5 Books of Moses, and the Oral Torah is not just Hillel and Shammai???).

Also, there was very little focus on history, which informs SO much of Jewish culture. I know it's a short video and highly simplified, but there could at least be a token mention that the Talmud was written during the Roman/Byzantine/Sassanid period and the Reform movement started in Enlightenment-era Germany. Little stuff like that. Or at least have the topics in the video be in chronological order.

However, I do appreciate the John Green-typical commitment to sensitivity and neutrality. (even if they proactively turned the comments off. ugh.)

[goatfactsofficial]

Me at Sinai handing out bags of weed lmao

me at sinai talking to jews from 3000 years ago. ok so these things are guinea pigs they're really soft and some people keep them in their homes because they're entertaining and cute- oh what's this brick in my hand?? its my phone I can look at anything I want on it pretty much and talk to people from across the world- how does it work? honestly I dont really know a lot of shit has happened these past few millenia. anyway the short haired ones are called american guinea pigs and the ones that have that little indent are crested guinea pigs. there's a bunch of long haired ones but these are peruvian guinea pigs...