#shavua tov

[eretzyisrael]

שבוע טוב

Shavua Tov! May the coming week bring us peace & good health.

May this week be a better week than last.

[girlactionfigure]

שבוע טוב

Shavua Tov, wishing everyone a safe and successful week, our soldiers safety and victory, a speedy and healthy return of our hostages, and a really bad week for our enemies.

For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

(Psalm 37:9)

Amen!

[psychologeek]

I love your work and fics but because of your support of the genocide in Gaza Strip I am unable to truly continue supporting you.

I know that you believe that supporting the Palestinians is anti-semitic but if you learned about these topics you would know. Zionism is inherently anti-semitic itself, Zionism is a political philosophy that was first created in the 1600s by anti-Semitic Christians who believed Jews from all over the world should be expelled and gathered in one place. And then Theodor Herzl, an atheist, adopted Zionism to find a "suitable country" to colonize, and several countries were suggested: Uganda, Argentina, Cyprus, and Madagascar. But with Jews' rejection and with the support of Western politicians, Zionism secured their interests in the resources of the Middle East, thus Palestine.

Maybe if you learned what it was like to see through the eyes of people like Bisan Owda, Wael Al-Dahdouh, Motaz Azaiza, Hind Khoudary, or maybe even the six year old Hind Rajab who died after traveling through a "Safe Zone" with her family and being stuck in a car with their bodies for 12 days.

This is not a war. This is a genocide. I'm not asking you to change overnight, but knowing the full truth of what Israel is doing under the same excuses that you're telling yourself will help you understand what's really going on.

Thanks for the compliment? I think? 

Uh, ok, this isn't about my writing - this is about you complaining about my thoughts and experiences. Cool.

Edit: I have to admit that I'm curious what brought this up. Was it the A/N in "Some of Them (want you)" (a Damian-centric fic), and the mention of the bombed hospital in Israel? Raising awareness to the facts refugees need to bribe their way into Egypt to save their lives? (From Sudan and Gaza)? Was it the mention of the war in Kurdistan? Or maybe it was the way I talked about the Iranian regime, and how Baluchistan and Akhwaz are a flame?

Or perhaps it was the PSA in "Who am I? (to disappear)", in which I tried to remind ppl that watching and passing forward videos of ppl being tortured/killed/sexually assaulted is a bad thing. Do you not agree with the sentiment?

Or maybe you just don't like Cass. That's probably another option

Anyway -

Support genocide etc.

A. I do not support genocide.

B. What's happening in Gaza rn isn't genocide. It's war. And the use of that term is very disrespectful and dismissive to other places, in which there IS, actually, a genocide.

C. That being said, I don't support war. I don't support death. And I really wish this wouldn't happen.

I Don't??? Think?? Supporting Palestine is antisemic??? 

I do think that pro-palestine rallies with chants like "Gas the Jews" and harrasing jews and Jewish place ARE antisemic, yes.

If you need that difference explicitly said, I guess you should look at the rallies and pro-p things you're talking about.

"But if you learned about these topics"

EXCUSE ME????

If I LEARNT ABOUT IT?

Because of course - my knowledge, as part of a minority group, of a subject that is INHERENTLY related to in-group topics, and the what I learnt from people in-group are obviously less relevant than what you, oh great saviour, has learnt through Tik-Tok.

"Zionism is inherently anti-semitic itself"

Do you even understand how ignorant saying that is??

Do you understand how much this is propaganda?

"I believe that (Jewish people right to self-determination and live peacefully) is a bad thing" - do you even hear yourself?? 

"Zionism.... was first created in the 1600s by anti-Semitic Christians who believed Jews from all over the world should be expelled and gathered in one place. "

No. Just don't.

Idk - maybe this is what they teach in America or idk where, right next to "jews, Muslims and Christians lived peacefully before the evil Zionists colonisers " (look up the massacres in Zfad, the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Habron, Gush Etzion, Gaza-several cleansing btw).

Anyway, Zionism in the older form (yearning to go back Home, Eretz Israel as the Jewish homeland, and a connection between God-People-Land) is one of the first things in the Jewish narrative.

Practically, the Jewish calander is SoLunal calander that based on the seasons, weather, and agriculture in the levant.

Religiously - jews prayed to go back to "build Jerusalem" every year since the 2nd temple was destroyed. We kept practicing traditions and Mitzvahs that are related to the connection to the spesific area.

(And there always, always been jews going to Israel.)

Herzel's thoughts and actions to create the Zionist movement came after he watched the Dreyfus trial and realised that jews will always be haunted and discriminated BECAUSE of their Jewishness. So if you want a place without this, you gotta make a Jewish state.   (There are many kinds of Zionism,  I go with this as a general and simple explanation.)

(more about why this is problematic undercut)

"You don't know what it's like" -

What. The. Fuck.

You said you came here via my fics. 

I'm sorry.

Did you miss the whole long AF a/n I wrote in the last months??

About my personal experiences with war?? 

Both current (the whole saga with physical/mental safety, the evacuation, losing my glasses, etc. ??)

And previous (being bombed and evacuation 1 as a kid. My first PTSD. Terror attack and PTSD number 2 (ft. dead babies. Fun times). Rockets, more rockets, war, friends hurt in terror attack, friends-of-friends DIE in terror attack, more wars, etc.

(And that's not even the reason I was suicidal since young teen).

"This isn't war, it's genocide"

I'm sorry, do you remember how it fucking started?? How it continues?? How there are still FUCKING ROCKETS AIMED AT Israel??

Yes. This is sad. People shouldn't die in war. 

In fact, I truly believe that death-machines and people should not be near each other.

**Which is why I'm so mad at the fact non one's talking or doing anything to make Egypt open the fucking borders and let ppl through without having to bribe their life out**

" the full truth of what Israel is doing"

Right.

You, who's purely immune to Propaganda, of course.

You sure knows much more then me - who, you know, the one who ACTUALLY LIVE THROUGH this, and actually familiar with the history of the country and conflict (no, it didn't start in 1948. Not even in 1918. It was way earlier.)

(And just as you mention - have you heard about Ellin (9) and  Eithan (5) Kapshiter? They were shoot in the car with their entire family.

Ellin was considered missing for 2 weeks, before her body was identified. That was a couple of hours after her family's funeral.

For some reason, I didn't see any "where's Ellin?" On Tumblr.

Oh, and do you remember Kfir and Ariel Bibas? Kfir just had his first birthday.

They are still held captive, btw. For some reason, I don't see anyone in the "ceasefire now" crowd talking about how CRUCIAL it is that Hamas bring back the people they, you know, kidnapped. That they should get medical attention and visits from the RC. 

In fact, in the last hostage deal, this was something Hamas refused to include.)

Calling it genocide is problematic in many ways. Including for the people who suffer from this war.

Calling it genocide allows the the activism to be mostly anti-Israel, instead of pro-palestine.

For example, focusing the efforts on "stopping Israel" and "Israel is bad" and "boycott Israel", instead of "how do we save lives" and "why Egypt not opening the borders".

Less "ceasefire now!" (Though a good target) And "defund Israel!"

More "release the hostages and let humanitarian aid in".

(not to mention that all those efforts, for some reason, never go to other places and other people who suffer. Never even go to Palestinian in refugees camps - in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria.)

Pro-tip:

If someone tells you "a (very important thing in a minority's group culture) was actually created by (A majority group) as a (bad thing)", then you have one of those options: It's a lie, reclaiming, and "yes but no" .

1. It's a lie - aka: Just bc you didn't know about it, doesn't mean it's not real. (Sort of like the term of "dark ages" - that come to portray the intellectual darkness in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. Though it wasn't the same if you look at non-european history.)

And in a simpler example-  Pasta! Usually considered "Italian", but only got there at 4th century BC. Evidences in China during the Shang Dynasty (1700-1100 BC). There was also African form of pasta, made of kamut crop. 

2. Reclaiming (see "queer" - was used as a general term, then a slur, going back to an Identity.)

3. Yes, but actually no (take for example sign language (s) - languages, as community languages, started to form when schools-for-deaf became a thing. Residential schools, where the students lived together and worked together ehad to learn to communicate.

Then they learn sign language - of the area/country/etc.

It doesn't mean that "Hearing created SL". The languages were built from home-signs (look at the difference between simple words, like "eat" in different SLs - like brit vs. Japanese) , and gained depth through the creation of Deaf communities. 

[todaysjewishholiday]

25 Iyyar 5784 (1-2 June 2024)

Shavua tov! Shabbat ends with the havdalah service late enough after sunset that three stars are visible in the night sky* and another six days of labor begin.

On the 25th of Iyyar in 4856, a mob of Christian Crusader knights not wanting to have to travel as far as the holy land to commit massacres attempted to attack the Jewish quarter of Cologne in the Rhineland. The Catholic bishop of the city called on civic authorities to bar the gates against the would be murderers and the Jewish community of Cologne was spared. Many other Jewish communities across Europe would not be so fortunate during the crusade years, when many concluded that if crossing the Mediterranean to kill people of other religions was considered praiseworthy a little slaughter closer to home could hardly go amiss. And Cologne’s Jewish community would later experience severe attacks in 5048 and 5109.

The twenty-fifth of Iyyar is the fifth night of the sixth week of the Omer count. Yesterday was the thirty-ninth day of the Omer. After tonight’s count, 9 days remain before Shavuot.

*personal lack of visibility due to light pollution or cloud cover not an issue. Zmanim for your locality easily available online.

[thejewitches]

Shavua Tov!

[yosef81]

A todos les deseo una buena semana. Que la bendición de H’S repose en Israel y en todos aquellos que lo aman. Shalom Shavua Tov

[zebratoys]

שׁוֹמֵר יִשְׂרָאֵל שָׁבוּעַ טוֹב 🤍✨💫 אָמֵן Shavua Tov Blessings Amen ♡ Speak to the soul in a language beyond words.

[newtsoftheworldunite]

My new golemet from @jhscdood (https://jhscdood.tumblr.com/) arrived in time to join me for havdalah tonight.

If you want your own friendly household golem to be by your side, you can get them here: https://ko-fi.com/therapygolems/shop

[thewayofyehoshua]

HalleluYah! Praise, O servants of Adonai, praise the Name of YeHoVaH.

[perimsmouse]

Pretty good baking this week! It's not a perfect braid, but it's delicious all the same! shavua tov!

[torais-life]

I hope you all have the greatest week and an amazing Pesach with Hashem, your families and communities. AM ISRAEL CHAI!!! 💕🇮🇱

[eretzyisrael]

שבוע טוב

Shavua Tov! May the coming week bring us peace & good health.

May this week be a better week than last.

[girlactionfigure]

שבוע טוב

Shavua Tov, wishing everyone a safe and successful week, our soldiers safety and victory, a speedy and healthy return of our hostages, and a really bad week for our enemies.

For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

(Psalm 37:9)

Amen!

[psychologeek]

So

Some antisemitisic incidents from last week:

UK - A Jewish teen was attacked outside a Jewish school in London. He was beaten and forced to call "free Palestine" and similars.

New Zealand - survey among the Jewish community (~10k ppl. 0.2% of the population) show about half reported antisemitic assaults towards children. Since previous complaints were ignored, less than 40% of the parents reported current incidents.

Children were locked in closets, attacked with broomsticks, and got a star of David drawn on their shirts.

"When I reported that my daughter was assaulted due to her religion, the school told me she should just stay away. Now my son experiencing antisemitism, and I can't find a reason to complain again."

(a Jewish father from NZ)

Other incidents included: burning a Jewish community centre last month (Oakland), vandalism of synagogues (all over) and bomb threats.

[todaysjewishholiday]

22 Tammuz 5784 (27-28 July 2024)

Shavua tov! Gut voch! Semana buena! Shabbat is over once havdalah is complete and another six days of labor begin.

The 22nd of Tammuz is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, who died of his wounds on the 22 of Tammuz 5552 after being shot by a Cossack during the unrest that lead to the partition of Poland.

Shlomo was one of the third generation of Hasidic rebbes from the Baal Shem Tov. He was introduced to Hasidism by attending a shiur by Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, and impressed with the rabbi’s learning, asked “Where does one go to become so learned?” Rabbi Aharon replied, “You must go to Metzerich.” Shlomo said he would have to make the trip soon, and in his deep gratitude, asked Rabbi Aharon to come to his home for dinner. Rabbi Aharon declined, saying “If you are ready to go to Mezeritch, you should leave at once.”

Rabbi Shlomo became one of the Maggid’s closest pupils and then made his way to Karlin and became a close friend and supporter of the man who had first introduced him to chasidism. He then became Rabbi Aharon’s successor as rebbe of the chasidim there. Rabbi Shlomo was incredibly close to many of the other chasidish tzaddikim of his generation, even taking in two children of one of his contemporaries after their father’s death. One of his foster sons, Asher, became his successor as rebbe of the Karlin-Stolin Chasidim.

Rabbi Shlomo faced the obstacle of being the foremost representative of the chasidic movement in an area that was deeply dominated by the litvish opponents of chasidism. Near the end of his life he led his community away from Karlin to Ludmir to escape the opposition of the misnagedim.

In 5552 a war broke out in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth between the supporters and opponents of a new constitution, and once more the Jews of the territory were caught in the middle. Cossacks who sided with the intervening Russian Empire arrived in Ludmir on the sixteenth of Tammuz, and began firing on the prayer-hall, and a bullet struck the rebbe as he led the community in prayer. He died of an infection six days later.

Because of Rabbi Shlomo’s great emphasis on joy, his yahrzeit is celebrated by Karlin-Stolin chasidim as a reversal of the mourning practices of the three weeks, rather than as a cause for grief. A joyful man is remembered joyfully despite the violence of his death.

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