#shammai

[hermthejewishwyrm]

I'm restarting this age old beef

Goyim do not vote

[tommydoesntpayforsuits]

Hillel vs Shammai

[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]

[queer-jewish-spoonie]

Chag Sameach!!

[onservantswings]

The paint may have been drying this afternoon, but I managed to finish it. The shamirakiah version 2 is lit.

[i-am-a-fucking-nerd]

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

[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

[dykerabbi]

Olin b’kodesh v’eyn moridin, dyke sex edition.

We go up in transcendence/holiness, and we don’t go down….i.e it only gets better (except when we’re going down in order to transcend)

[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

[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 ::)

[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

[queer-jewish-spoonie]

Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel, night two!

[thejewitches]

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[hyperpotamianarch]

One old man from Sidon wishes to complain for being excluded from the statistics.

"average jew lights 3 candles the first night of chanukah" factoid actualy just statistical error. average jew lights 1 candle the first night. Candles Shammai, who lives in judea & lights 8 candles, is an outlier adn should not have been counted