#yimakh shemo

[tunneldweller]

DING DONG THE SHITHEAD'S DEAD

[sapphoandvanzetti]

New gender neutral bathroom just dropped!

[genderoutlaws]

The final poem of Palestinian journalist Refaat Alareer before being murdered by the zionist entity. 70+ journalists have been targeted and killed by Israel, yimakh shemo, in the Gaza strip for reporting on the crimes against humanity being committed by the occupation in the past 2 months.

[librarycards]

bulgakov’s country doctor’s notebook. loved the surgical descriptions, almost cozy. morphine fucked me up but it was a great read

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK| liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

it looks amazing, immediately added!! this kind of thing is my catnip.

recs:

Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats

Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

Tom McCarthy, C.

Affinity Konar, Mischling (warning: this book is Rough. it is an extremely taxing narrative/poetic look at medical torture during the shoah, from the perspective of mengele, yimakh shemo.)

[stabbedthrutheeye]

im not saying the president-elect's name ever again. not just for these next four years. for life. that mans name will not come out of my mouth for the rest of my life nor will i type it nor will i write it with pen and paper. this is a solemn vow. i didnt pick the middle name mordechai out of a hat. its a biblical name for a biblical man and im going to be biblical about this. yimakh shemo v'zikhro. may his name and memory be erased forever and until the end of time.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

Prev anon asking you about the video: I hope it didn't come across like I was pressuring you, I totally get where you're coming from, hence I was like "I don't want to support her". I absolutely get how you feel because it's also just... So tiring. Like it's inescapable at this point, and I make an effort to Curate My Experience. I genuinely hope I didn't come across poorly, however. Hope you are able to do something for yourself 🫂

oh nono you didn't at all, thank you ♥️ i've had an astronomically tough day and then seeing this and then immediately after the story about people yelling "heil hitler" (yimakh shemo) at the futbol match between medinas yisrael and paraguay i'm just. man

[vampdyke69]

that petition going around where over 1000 Israeli doctors signed to beg their government to bomb every last hospital left in Gaza . and the air strike on the cemetery that killed 10 workers and decimated the graves of. who knows how many generations of beloved friends and families. who knows how many childrens graves. everything happening now fills me with rage but i’ve found myself speechless to articulate. how purely evil this is. this is hitlerism, this is fascism, this is the zionist death cult functioning as intended is the worst part. i try to remember that i know in my heart palestine will be free, i know in my heart judaism will not become synonymous with israel, yimakh shemo, and its colonization and terrorism, i know in my heart from the river to the sea the palestinian people will return home. but it feels so dire right now and i feel so afraid for them. we are so plainly seeing the worst of humanity and people just go on about their days like its nothing, or worse like it’s justice.

[luxe-pauvre]

There is a phrase in the Jewish traditions, Yimakh shemo, which means, “May his name be erased.” It is an insult - or really, a curse - reserved for those who have done the gravest harm. May their name be blotted out. May they, and the hurt they have created, be forgotten. The room was bathed in afternoon sunlight flooding through the great wall of glass, and [Nan] Goldin peered across the reflecting pool at the ancient temple. This might not represent genuine accountability, she knew. Far from it. As victories go, it was purely symbolic. But Goldin had always believed it was in this realm that she could make the Sacklers answer for what they had done; that for a family which had so venerated its own name, the unambiguous renunciation of erasure from these walls would sting. “It’s wonderful,” she said, “I feel vindicated.”

Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

[jewish-microwave-laser]

yimakh shemo vezikhrono btw

i neeeeeed that fucking tablet

[anonymousdandelion]

Zachor or Yimakh Shemo?

“Remember what Amalek did to you... blot out the memory of Amalek from under Heaven. Do not forget.” - Devarim 25: 17-19

Yesterday was Shabbat Zachor — the “Shabbat of Remembrance” — when we fulfill the obligation to recount how the tribe of Amalek attacked the Israelites on our way out of Egypt.

It’s an interesting commandment, with plenty to be discussed and debated about its meaning and ramifications.

(Incidentally, what did Amalek do that rendered their actions so unforgivable? That is stated to be their attacking and killing of civilians/non-combatants: “the stragglers at the rear.” I doubt I need to point out certain parallels that could be drawn between this Torah example of a war crime and current events.)

But what I’m thinking about today is the wording of those verses I cited above. Remember what Amalek did to you; blot out the memory of Amalek; do not forget.

There’s something a little confusing going on here, no? Are we supposed to remember Amalek, or are we supposed to blot out their memory? Based on the text, the answer would seem to be both.

Well, okay, “blotting out their memory” is at least in part a metaphor for eradicating what Amelek stood for. Their legacy, if you will. And I’m inclined to agree with that assessment. But this isn’t the only instance where we see a version of this apparent contradiction come up.

Shabbat Zachor is observed on the week leading up to the holiday of Purim... because, as tradition has it, Haman (the villain and would-be genocide perpetrator of the Purim story) was himself a descendant of Amalek. On Purim itself, we read Megillat Esther, the Book of Esther. The reading is interrupted every few lines with an outburst of stamping, booing, grogger-whirling, and general chaos as the community performs the custom of drowning out Haman’s name whenever it is mentioned. Yimakh shemo, we curse him: may his name be erased.

When the chaos has quieted down, the reader returns to the text, repeats the word “Haman,” and carries on reading from there. You see, when we listen to the megillah, we are required to hear every word. That means if the groggers are successful at their mission and we therefore miss hearing Haman’s name, then we haven’t fulfilled our obligation.

A little ironic, right? Here we are, deliberately drowning out the villain’s name... and then we have to go back and repeat it so we can hear it after all. Are we supposed to be remembering Haman here, or erasing his name? Once again, the answer appears to be: both.

Haman isn’t the only person about whom we say Yimakh shemo. The phrase is also used in reference to other extreme enemies of the Jewish people. Adolf Hitler comes to mind.

Yimakh shemo, erase the name of the man who murdered six million of us... and, in the same breath, we say Never forget, never again and watch in horror and outrage as Holocaust denial statistics rise and education deteriorates.

And you know, I think it’s really not so contradictory after all. Because even as we wish and strive to obliterate the legacy of evil, not only is it possible to continue to keep the memory of what that evil was and is, it is necessary.

Blotting out the legacy of evil needs to be an ongoing, active undertaking... no mere passive forgetfulness. We cannot hope to erase something if we do not remember what it is we are working to erase.

By forgetting, we invite the metaphorical Amalek back into our midst. By remembering, we can continue our work to keep them and their legacy at bay.

We celebrate our survival (Purim). We mourn our dead (Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day). And whether we were victorious or not, we remember Amalek.

Blot out their memory. And do not forget.

[lgbtunis-moved]

if you're jewish and looking for a blessing to pray for trump's well being, i reccomend "yimakh shemo" <3

[ebony1442]

As a Jewish friend of mine said:

Yimakh shemo v'zikhro; may his Name and his Memory be erased.

LONG MAY HE ROT

[leahbasavraham]

The Hebrew phrase yimakh shemo יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ ("May his name be erased") is a curse placed after the name of particular enemies of the Jewish people. A variant is yimakh shemo ve zikhro יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ וְזִכְרוֹ ("Let his name and his memory be erased"). Yimakh shemo is one of the strongest curses in the Hebrew language.

Abbreviated to יש"ו or y-sh"u

[goy-bullshit-translator]

Why do goyim feel the need to defend Hitler at all? They're always like "Well I'm on your side and Hitler was OBVIOUSLY bad BUT he did [insert usually fake and irrelevant "achievement" of his]" Like literally why? There is no reason for you to be saying this unless you are literally a Hitler (yimakh shemo) sympathizer

Sometimes I think about the difference between Jewish and Christian concepts of forgiveness. In Christianity, a priest forgives you after you go through the requisit repentance, regardless of the feelings of the person who you've wronged. In Judaism, you're not allowed to ask forgiveness from Hashem until you've gained forgiveness from the person. When you murder, you cannot ask the person for forgiveness and you cannot be forgiven. Christians are so eager to forgive or redeem Hitler because they don't see the victims as real people, and thus Hitler is easy to forgive. Jews cannot forgive Hitler, because we know all too well that the victims were real people, and are no longer here to even consider granting forgiveness.

[fruityyamenrunner]

if yimakh shemo there is one of those zionist kinds of cultural christianity Tumblr deplorers, then taking those things personally makes some sense, because it is simple sectarian jealousy.

okay not to be a pedant but if the united states being a christian nation renders a 'secular upbringing' impossible then by the same logic would having a jewish or muslim upbringing within the unites states not also be impossible. like this reasoning just seems so busted to me