#temple recommend

[lovingldsconvert]

trying to schedule an interview with my stake president who lives an hour away in a different state when i don’t drive or have a car is so difficult 😭 why can’t we meet at the stake center which i know i can get to and not at your ward out of state i’m BEGGING

this is such an ominous email to receive that one would think it’s about worthiness. it’s literally about scheduling my temple recommend interview

[judahmaccabees]

all Temple recommends are canceled and withdrawn.

[bijoumikhawal]

hello! i hope it's alright to ask you this but i was wondering if you have any recommendations for books to read or media in general about the history of judaism and jewish communities in egypt, particularly in ottoman and modern egypt?

have a nice day!

it's fine to ask me this! Unfortunately I have to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of books on Egyptian Jewish history have a Zionist bias. There are antizionist Egyptian Jews, and at the very least ones who have enough national pride that AFAIK they do not publicly hold Zionist beliefs, like those who spoke in the documentary the Jews of Egypt (avaliable on YouTube for free with English subtitles). Others have an anti Egyptian bias- there is a geopolitical tension with Egypt from Antiquity that unfortunately some Jewish people have carried through history even when it was completely irrelevant, so in trying to research interactions between "ancient" Egyptian Jews and Native Egyptians (from the Ptolemaic era into the proto-Coptic and fully Coptic eras) I've unfortunately come across stuff that for me, as an Egyptian, reads like anti miscegenationist ideology, and it is difficult to tell whether this is a view of history being pushed on the past or not. The phrase "Erev Rav" (meaning mixed multitude), which in part refers to Egyptians who left Egypt with Moses and converted to Judaism, is even used as an insult by some.

Since I mentioned that documentary, I'll start by going over more modern sources. Mapping Jewish San Francisco has a playlist of videos of interviews with Egyptian Jews, including both Karaites and Rabbinic Jews iirc (I reblogged some of these awhile ago in my "actually Egyptian tag" tag). This book, the Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, is avaliable for free online, it promises to be a more indepth look at Egyptian Jews in the lead up to modern explusion. I have only read a few sections of it, so I cannot give a full judgment on it. There's this video I watched about preserving Karaite historical sites in Egypt that I remember being interesting. "On the Mediterranian and the Nile edited by Harvey E. Goldman and Matthis Lehmann" is a collection of memiors iirc, as is "the Man in the Sharkskin Suit" (which I've started but not completed), both moreso from a Rabbinic perspective. Karaites also have a few websites discussing themselves in their terms, such as this one.

For the pre-modern but post-Islamic era, the Cairo Geniza is a great resource but in my opinion as a hobby researcher, hard to navigate. It is a large cache of documents from a Cairo synagogue mostly from around the Fatimid era. A significant portion of it is digitized and they occasionally crowd source translation help on their Twitter, and a lot of books and papers use it as a primary source. "The Jews in Medieval Egypt, edited by: Miriam Frenkel" is one in my to read pile. "Benjamin H. Hary - Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll" is a paper I've read discussing the Jewish record of the events commemorated by the Cairo Purim, I got it off either Anna's Archive or libgen. "Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef" is a paper in my to read pile. "Jewish pietism of the Sufi type A particular trend of mysticisme in Medieval Egypt by Mireille Loubet" and "Paul B Fenton- Judaism and Sufism" both discuss the medieval Egyptian Jewish pietist movement.

For "ancient" Egyptian Jews, I find the first chapter of "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD” by Simon Schama, which covers Elephantine, very interesting (it also flies in the face of claims that Jews did not marry Native Egyptians, though it is from centuries before the era researchers often cover). If you'd like to read don't click this link to a Google doc, that would be VERY naughty. There's very little on the Therapeutae, but for the paper theorizing they may have been influenced by Buddhism (possibly making them an example of Judeo-Buddhist syncretism) look here (their Wikipedia page also has some sources that could be interesting but are not specifically about them). "Taylor, Joan E. - Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae reconsidered" is also a to read.

I haven't found much on the temple of Onias/Tell el Yahudia/Leontopolis in depth, but I have the paper "Meron M. Piotrkowski - Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period" in my to be read pile (which I got off Anna's Archive). I also have some supplemental info from a lecture I attended that I'm willing to privately share.

I also have a document compiling links about the Exodus of Jews from Egypt in the modern era, but I'm cautious about sharing it now because I made it in high school and I've realized it needs better fact checking, because it had some misinfo in it from Zionist publications (specifically about the names of Nazis who fled to Egypt- that did happen, but a bunch of names I saw reported had no evidence of that being the case, and one name was the name of a murdered resistance fighter???)

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Drawings from around Japan :)

[kelpiemomma]

forgive the random idea, but I was thinking about how much I love stories about people with power and in power, able to destroy lives and countries without a thought, being immeasurably strong and deadly... Being so soft and gentle towards their child.

Ingo being a god, a god who's been around for millenia. He's seen nations rise and fall, people come into and out of power. He's been revered and feared and forgotten and renamed. He's lived inthe heavens and on the earth. He's been mortal as an immortal, living a human life before dying and returning to godhood. He is old and tired and powerful. He has caused forest fires and destroyed mountains. He has provided bountiful harvests and life saving rains.

And then one day a child is left on the floor of his temple. A pair of wanderers stayed the night, and with nothing else to their names they left their infant behind. Ingo has no idea who they were, barely noticed that they had lingered, but the disturbance of the child left behind - a taste of innocence that lingers on his tongue, like the breeze over a wheat field and the cleanliness of a newborn - has him going to see what was left.

He's never had a child left as an offering, as payment. Sacrifices? Yes. But this one is still alive. She is so small, her eyes so big, and she looks at him without fear. He can't remember the last time he was looked at without fear, without blind devotion. He hesitates to touch her, not sure how to be gentle, and she reaches out first. She grabs his finger and begins to chew on it.

And Ingo is lost.

[hyakinthou-naos]

Recommendation Request

Khaire! The Temple would like to create and maintain a listing of metaphysical/spiritual stores run by Hellenic Pagans / Roman Pagans. Both online as well as brick and mortar shops welcome!

If you have or know of any such stores, please comment, reblog, or send us an ask/DM with a link to the website.

Bonus points for stores run by marginalized and disenfranchised community members!

Eriene -peace and farewell,

- The Temple of Hyacinthus

[westbifire]

I feel like the inside of the Senobium is going to look like that one level from Abzu.

Also gonna be real for a second but does anyone know exactly what the Senobium is? (like I know its a university/library but do we know anything else?)

[fagbearentertainment]

My jumbo mabel is here I love her so much!! :D

[fazmid]

I'm not calling the game "unproblematic" bc it's not but I've been continuously surprised by the lack of the same bullshit I hate in later persona games while I play through P2:IS. Why is this game from 1999 more normal about women and gay people

[disability-can-be]

[ID: a photo of the children's book "the girl who thought in pictures: the story of dr. temple grandin." the book is green and features an illustration of a light-skinned girl with brown, curly hair. various pictures float around her head, connected to her by dashed lines: two diagrams, a blue ribbon, a mooing cow, a rocket ship, someone riding a rearing horse, and a cow in a restraint device.]

This is the cutest kids' book We've seen in some time!! Temple Grandin is a personal hero (openly autistic, a woman in animal science, and a great speaker) so I was delighted by this book.

The Girl who Thought in Pictures: the Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

[twinsoulvisionary]

REBEL JEDI TEMPLE GUARD Cosplay Costume UPDATES!!!

The only things still to arrive are the rest of the armour from the 3D printer, 2 hand made light-sabre staves and the custom Rebel Jedi Temple Guard boots.

This design was created by myself TwinSoulVisionary and Silvia Maccioni - SognoCosplay.etsy.com / costume designer, Italy. She has had full experience within design house Georgio Armani as a seamstress and is AMAZING with intricate details!

I highly recommend her. You can see for yourself in 10 pictures ‘above’ of her expertly created Rebel Jedi Temple Guard cosplay costume - now completed, in the mail and on it’s way to me... I’m so excited to do an unboxing!!

More updates soon.....

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think apologism is fun and sexy but sometimes you see people defend a character in a way that is not just wrong but antithetical to the character's actual motivations and moral framework like girl. Not even the guy you're defending thinks you're right. You are getting fired as his defense lawyer and sued for misrepresentation.

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 9, day 25

I stayed up too late >_<

There's a little bit of cleanup work to do on these before I skip through the part of the tutorial I already went above and beyond and did myself without following instructions. Debating with myself if I want to do all this work over again with the other leaf textures I have from previous projects, so I can have leaf options on the vines...

We'll see how I feel tomorrow I guess lol

[nookisms]

Had a weird dream last night that I was going to get married and I was so convinced of it that for almost two hours I was like "should I ask my friends if this is real or not? Like it feels so real should I check"

[thinkingincrystal]

I'm being ghosted by my stake clerk please send help

[liddopixie]

Mimurotoji - The Flower Temple