#tanakh

[doc-davey]

😃….

This reminds me of a ship…

[magnetothemagnificent]

Thinking about Al Naharot Bavel and how we as Jews have been made to entertain our oppressors since....forever

עַ֥ל נַהֲר֨וֹת ׀ בָּבֶ֗ל שָׁ֣ם יָ֭שַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכ��֑ינוּ בְּ֝זׇכְרֵ֗נוּ אֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃ On the rivers of Bavel, there we sat, and also wept, as we remembered Tziyon. עַֽל־עֲרָבִ֥ים בְּתוֹכָ֑הּ תָּ֝לִ֗ינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ On the willows, in the midst, we hung our lyres כִּ֤י שָׁ֨ם שְֽׁאֵל֪וּנוּ שׁוֹבֵ֡ינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁ֭יר וְתוֹלָלֵ֣ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֑ה שִׁ֥ירוּ לָ֝֗נוּ מִשִּׁ֥יר צִיּֽוֹן׃ For there our captors asked words of song; our tormentors, amusement, "sing for us from the song of Tziyon" אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהֹוָ֑ה עַ֝֗ל אַדְמַ֥ת נֵכָֽר׃ How can we sing the song of YHVH on foreign soil? [Tehillim 137 1-4]

Thinking about how throughout history we've been made into the jesters, the comedians, the performers, how we're only good as long as we can entertain and amuse our oppressors. Over and over and over again throughout history we weep by the rivers of every generation's Babylon while our captors jeer and order us to sing our sacred songs.

And honestly? I think it's time we hung up our lyres on the proverbial willows. Enough. We don't have to keep on this performance. We don't live for the entertainment of Babylon. We won't perform for our captors anymore.

Antisemites don't deserve to be entertained by us.

[koshercosplay]

spin the wheel to get assigned a jewish figure from history or tanakh

[hailruth]

tehillim 137:5-6

[snissel613]

Shimshon:

[unsolicited-opinions]

Never let it be said that I don't pray for Donald Trump.

יִֽהְיוּ־יָמָ֥יו מְעַטִּ֑ים פְּ֝קֻדָּת֗וֹ יִקַּ֥ח אַחֵֽר׃

"Let his days be few; and let another take his position."

Psalms 109:8

[koenji]

A Sephardic Torah manuscript with golden Stars of David, Soria/Tudela 1300–1312. ✡

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Hébreu 21, fol. 98v, Soria/Tudela 1300–1312.

From: Clockwise–Counterclockwise: Calligraphic Frames in Sephardic Hebrew Bibles and Their Roots in Mediterranean Culture by Dalia-Ruth Halperin. x

[anniflamma]

Planned to make an animatic about these two for Pride Month but realized I won't be able to do one in time… So here is something cute!

+ the original

[xochunja]

evil Jonathan

The evil Jonathan is my favorite idea!!

THX @sir-davey for providing me with an idea😍

(But if you think I stole your idea, I'll apologize and delete it.)

TW: a bit of a bloody description

maybe Jonathan thought something like this before he died

: He probably wants his memory to mess with David's head even after he's gone.

It's like he's got this sick desire to stick around in David's mind forever...

But, this is just me overthinking stuff :)))

[arri-vixx]

I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I think he might be just a little jealous of his brother

[doc-davey]

Made this a while ago, figured I should post this, I find it really cute <3

This is a little animation gift for @anniflamma >:3

No one underestimates Jonathan’s shots. I also have a headcanon of a little turtledove that likes to follow David and Jonathan around, so here I included one, except it almost gets pinned by Jonathan’s arrow lolll

[nonsensical-raw-material]

I started painting on my TaNaKh. I tried to make them as even as possible obviously but ya know. They're based off the ring neck dove which is native to Israel. I figured I'd share. Also open to ideas on what else I should paint :]

[shiurkoma]

David, accessories inspired by the art works of @eleheba

[hailruth]

Maimonides makes the fundamental point that Reshit does not mean "beginning" in the sense of "first chronological sequence." For that, biblical Hebrew has other words. Reshit implies the most significant element, the part that stands for the whole, the foundation, the principle.

It is not myth. It is not history in the conventional sense, a mere recording of events. Nor is it theology: Genesis is less about G-d than about human beings and their relationship with G-d. The theology is almost always implicit rather than explicit. What Genesis is, in fact, is philosophy written in a deliberately non-philosophical way. It deals with all the central questions of philosophy: what exists (ontology), what can we know (epistemology), are we free (philosophical psychology), and how we should behave (ethics). But it does so in a way quite unlike the philosophical classics from Plato to Wittgenstein. To put it at its simplest: philosophy is truth as system. Genesis is truth as story. It is a unique work, philosophy in the narrative mode.

— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Z"L)

[writer-at-the-table]

It's only a proverb if it's from the book of Mishlei in the Tanakh. Otherwise, it's just a sparkling adage.