#tu b’av

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Tu B’Av!

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It's coming up soon.

Heimish Humor

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Happy Tu B'Av, Jews of Tumblr!

Do you celebrate this holiday? If so, what are some traditions you have for it. If you don't, then just share something you love (can be a hobby, place, interest, person, anything at all).

I don't really celebrate, but Tu B'Av is also my sister's Jewish birthday, so that's usually the focus of the day instead.

For my thing that I love, read my post on libraries!

[cynically-optomistic]

So i was able to find the full image with the artists signature using google image search, which looks like סמחוב זלי.

Which led to Zely Smekhov, a jewish artist from russia who had a whole series of art about the second beis hamikdosh in a very similar style, as well as pages of judaica illustrations i wasnt able to look through fully.

Im almost certain he’s the original artist, and you can find his website here. His work is very beautiful.

Tu B’av in ancient times via the orthodox union website. Artist uncredited afaik (sorry)

[thecodyagenda]

hope captain bagel and lox are having a good Tu b’Av

[spacelazarwolf]

i am certain this poll has been made a hundred times before but idc. goyim u can wait literally 1 day to see the results pls don’t spoil the poll thx.

[orannotoren]

Jewish Holiday Miku - Tu B’Av ❤️💕🌕

[istodayajewishholiday]

19 August 2024 - 15 Av 5784

Yes, today is Tu B’Av. Tu B’Av (the 15th of Av) is celebrated as a holiday of love. It does not have many associated customs. In more modern times it has become similar to Valentine’s Day, a day for weddings or vows of love.

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Girls dancing on Tu B’Av in Hadera, Sharon plain, early 20th century.

Coming less than a week after the sorrowful mourning of Tisha b’Av (on the 9th of Av), Tu b’Av is a Jewish holiday of love. Tu b’Av occurs on a full moon, as the Hebrew calendar is lunar. Linking the full moon with love, fertility, and romance is common in ancient cultures. The first mention of Tu b’Av is in the Mishna (Taanit), where it says, “There were no better days for the people of Israel than the Fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, since on these days the daughters of Jerusalem go out dressed in white and dance in the vineyards. What were they saying: Young man, consider who you choose (to be your wife).”

[bigfootboyband]

Tu B’Av!

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why are all the Jews suddenly posting about cheesecake, you ask? because it’s Shavuot!

sorry, let me give you a quick guide to Jewish holidays

Rosh Hashanah: dip apples in honey, contemplate feeling guilty

Yom Kippur: feel guilty, don’t eat

Sukkot: build a treehouse, shake a lemon at God

Simchat Torah: dance with a Torah scroll

Hanukkah: resist tyranny, eat fried food, set things on fire

Tu B’shvat: hug trees, eat every type of fruit and nut you can acquire, do complicated wine math

Purim: put on a drunken play about a teenage beauty queen, cast shade at tyrants

Passover: don’t eat pastry

Maimuna: eat a ton of pastry

Lag B’omer: set things on fire, shoot arrows, learn about rabbis with laser eyes

Shavuot: eat cheese and stay up all night reading with your female friends

Tisha B’av: mourn, preferably AT people

Hope that clears up any confusion

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Tu B’Av Stamps

Source: jr.co.il

[eretzyisrael]

SHABBAT NACHAMU

One of the paradoxes of Judaism is that joy is often linked to suffering. For instance, we break a glass at weddings to recall the destruction of our Holy Temple. Remembering the bad when times are good also helps remember the good when times are bad, thereby diluting the pain. We just came out of Tisha b’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. The Shabbat after Tisha b’Av is Shabbat Nachamu, named for the emotional opening lines from this week’s haftarah (prophetic reading): "Nachamu, nachamu ami [comfort, comfort my people]” (Isaiah 40:1). The Prophet comforts us with the message that our millennia of suffering and exile will soon come to an end. Only a few days ago we were deep in mourning; now it’s time for feasting and joy. Shabbat Nachamu is more festive than any other Shabbat, and is celebrated like a holiday, with special food and lively song. (It’s no coincidence that Shabbat Nachamu comes soon after Tu B’Av, the holiday of love.) Tisha b’Av looks backward, to the loss of our Temple. Shabbat Nachamu looks forward, to the Final Redemption when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem will once again be God’s home on earth. What’s the thematic connection between these two very different days, less than a week apart? Our Sages teach that “All who mourn the destruction of Jerusalem will merit to see it in its joy” (Ta’anit 30b). We need to experience sadness before we can truly be happy.

Image: Isaiah by Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, 1838

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The Limbs of the Year - 5785 (2024/2025)

I was inpired by all the Wheel of the Year posts and thought it could be really fun to create one for my fellow Jewitches. If there are any dates missing lmk! I have queued this up to post a couple days before the new year to give anyone who forgot (me) time to prepare for it.

Holidays and Fasts

October - 2024

Rosh Hashanah - Oct 2 - 4

Tzom Gedaliah - Oct 6

Yom Kippur - Oct 11 - 12

Sukkot - Oct 16 - 18

Shmini Atzeret - Oct 23 - 24

Simchat Torah - Oct 24 - 25

December

Chanukah - Dec 25 - Jan 2

Chag HaBanot - Dec 30 - 31

January - 2025

Asara B’Tevet - Jan 10

February

Tu BiShvat - Feb 12-13

March

Ta’anit Esther - Mar 13

Purim - Mar 13 -14

Shushan Purim - Mar 14 - 15

Purim Meshulash - Mar 15 - 16

April

Ta’anit Bechorot - Apr 10

Pesach - Apr 12 - 20

Days of the Omer - Apr 13 - Jun 1

Yom HaShoah - Apr 23 - 24

May

Pesach Sheni - May 11 - 12

Lag BaOmer - May 15 - 16

June

Shavuot - Jun 1 - 3

July

Tzom Tammuz - Jul 13

August

Tish’a B’Av - Aug 2 - 3

Tu B’Av - Aug 8 - 9 

Rosh Hashanah La Behemoth - Aug 24 - 25

September

Leil Selichot - Sep 13

Special Shabbatot

Shabbat Shuva - Oct 4‑5

Shabbat Shirah - Feb 7‑8

Shabbat Shekalim - Feb 28‑Mar 1

Shabbat Zachor - Mar 7‑8

Shabbat Parah - Mar 21‑22

Shabbat HaChodesh - Mar 28‑29

Shabbat HaGadol - Apr 11‑12

Shabbat Chazon - Aug 1‑2

Shabbat Nachamu - Aug 8‑9

Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan - Oct 31‑Nov 2

Rosh Chodesh Kislev - Nov 30‑Dec 2

Rosh Chodesh Tevet - Dec 30‑Jan 1

Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat - Jan 29‑30

Rosh Chodesh Adar - Feb 27‑Mar 1

Rosh Chodesh Nisan - Mar 29‑30

Rosh Chodesh Iyyar - Apr 27‑29

Rosh Chodesh Sivan -  May 27‑28

Rosh Chodesh Tamuz - Jun 25‑27

Rosh Chodesh Av - Jul 25‑26

Rosh Chodesh Elul - Aug 23‑25

Solstices & Equinoxes

Autumn Equinox - September 22, 2024

Winter Solstice - December 21, 2024

Spring Equinox - March 20, 2025

Summer Solstice - June 20, 2025

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If you want to do any further reading into the dates I would check out The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons by Jill Hammer. I got the majority of the dates from Hebcal and they have links to things there as well.