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one liberation begets another: the uchiha & jewish themes of resistance i was thinking a bit today about how historically jewish people have used the celebration of our holidays as a guise to gather in order to hide the fact that they were planning rebellions against their oppressors in the present. and this is interesting to me bc jewish holidays are largely thematically about uprisings by jewish citizen’s militias who were able to defeat the large military forces of their oppressors ( best examples are jewish people winning their freedom from slavery in egypt which is what passover is about and the maccabees, which were a very small militia of jewish people who successfully fought to take their temple back from the roman emperor, which is the story of hannukah. these and other holidays commemorate actions jewish ppl took to reclaim their freedom and liberation ).

there is a passage from the passover text, the haggadah, that explains this and gives a historic example that really resonates with me:

A tale is told of five rabbis who were holding a seder in the town of B’nei Brak, and talked about Pesach (passover) until dawn broke, when their students had to interrupt them saying,“Rabbis, it is morning and time to recite the morning prayer.”

This story takes place during the rule of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who ordered that the Temple be moved so he could put a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount. In the year 123 of the Common Era, a guerilla insurgency began, which resulted in a crack-down by the Roman authorities. B’nei Brak was the headquarters of the rebellion against Roman occupation, a rebellion of which one of the Rabbis was a leader. Because of rebel activities, the Roman authorities had forbidden gatherings of Jews, on pain of death. The seder described in this passage was used not only as a chance to discuss the liberation from the story of passover—but also to plan a strategy of resistance against current Roman occupation. The students were standing guard, ready to caution the rabbis to disband at daybreak, lest they be caught.

 This tale may be read as a story of how one liberation begets another.

and i’ve always been really taken with the phrase “one liberation begets another” when we got to this part in passover because it is the gathering and speaking about a historic liberation that provides the opportunity, the cover under which to plan to fight for a present liberation.

so i was thinking about this in the context of the uchiha ( and whether you view these practices as actually the customs of jewish people or if you understand this more as an allegory to the uchiha as outsiders with their own customs that the people of the leaf are unfamiliar with, and see this all as a sorta allegory or common theme, that is up to you! and i’m happy either way! )

so the uchiha are an ancient clan with practices the rest of the leaf are unfamiliar with, who are viewed as inherently different, as outsiders, who are kept siloed away in their own section of the village. and i can see so clearly how they would use these holidays or cultural practices/festivals that no one really understood as a guise to gather all the adult members of the clan together to talk, without suspicion, about their circumstances in the leaf and to plan their uprising against it. who use the fact that they are viewed as outsiders with a strange set of customs to use those gatherings in order to have non-suspicious meetings to plan their rebellion and insurrection right under the leaf’s nose.

and i can see it so clearly, the clan gathered in dining rooms, by the candle light and all the customary table settings of the holidays. from the outside it looks like every other observance. but this time their prayer books are lined with maps of the leaf and surrounding area which they study and mark up together. and perhaps they speak in their own language, one spoken ancestrally by their clan but not shared by the people of the leaf ( and in the case of judaism, perhaps it is hebrew or yiddish ) and it sounds like all the other old prayers they speak in that vaguely sing-song way. but they aren’t, not this time. they are planning, discussing tactics, organizing themselves in a tongue only they are familiar with. using celebrations about rebellion as cover to plan for their own rebellion. one liberation begetting another.

#Season reblog of my pasaover meta too #shisui

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mizrayim, the narrow place & shisui uchiha.

hebrew words & jewish stories that this drabble references are here.

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#Seasonal reblog of my Passover drabble : ) #Shisui

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happy passover, I write the uchiha as Jewish bc I’m obsessed w shisui & Passover imagery. pls ask me abt it I’m an insane person. chag sameach.

#Ooc

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#Suigetsu #I’m actually gonna Yell

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New Naruto season official illustration - Autumn.

#STOP these r my spcialest guys #love u so much #shisui

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#pls note the disappointment 'i thought we were goin straight now' like this girl actually Loves destructive anarchist activism. #fuck the State #smellerbee

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Cool coloured besties

#pidge #best friend. guys that love each other so much they Cry abt It : ) #( pidge )

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i stumbled over all my words, i made it weird i made it worse

#shes everything shes everything shes everything to me #pidge

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Some pidge art idk what to right at the bottom of this

#she's my very special girl #(pidge) #what if im back on my Pidge Bullshit

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mizrayim, the narrow place & shisui uchiha.

hebrew words & jewish stories that this drabble references are here.

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#💕 Jewish posting on the first day of Nisan !!! #Shisui #This is one of the best things I’ve ever written #Shout out to can’t Kakashi for being integral to the landscape this drabble takes place in

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today is the first day of the Hebrew month of nisan, and that means it’s time to aggressively reblog my seasonal passover shisui drabble.

#Happy spring time!! #ooc

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i love this panel

#suigetsu #strugglers

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thinking about the unbelievable restraint bee shows when staying with jet, injured and dying, at age fucking twelve. how, if they lose him, she has to make the choice to prioritize her own survival and longshot’s survival over bringing his body back with them for a proper burial. how, if he survives, she and longshot have to drag him out, to keep steady and attentive and careful and stealthy, all while jet is bleeding out. how even then she can’t feel any of it for some time, because so soon after ba sing se falls. because there’s work to be done; caring for jet, regrouping the rebels she can find or recruiting new ones, building resistance from the inside of the conquered city, continuing to survive. there is no rest, and as far as she knows, there is no avatar anymore- a loss of hope she has no time to grieve.

it’s back to work, back to the fight. it’s restraint and buried emotions and denial of her own vulnerability. it’s not knowing how to stop moving or else the pain and grief will swallow her whole.

#Self rb again #she’s my special gal I actually yell everyday abt her

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“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who loves you. The people who have your back.”

— Clary Fray (via 1n-calescent)

#smellerbee #i had this on bee’s blog snd ur made me 🥺

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hi all just a psa that I am experiencing an extreme and durational ocd episode that is making it hard to focus or be present. i apologize if I have been unresponsive or inconsistent - I love writing and chatting and plotting but Brain is unable to settle at this moment. If you want to pop in to say hi, I welcome it gladly, just responses will be inconsistent for a minute!

#Ooc #epic ocd moment

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thinking about the unbelievable restraint bee shows when staying with jet, injured and dying, at age fucking twelve. how, if they lose him, she has to make the choice to prioritize her own survival and longshot’s survival over bringing his body back with them for a proper burial. how, if he survives, she and longshot have to drag him out, to keep steady and attentive and careful and stealthy, all while jet is bleeding out. how even then she can’t feel any of it for some time, because so soon after ba sing se falls. because there’s work to be done; caring for jet, regrouping the rebels she can find or recruiting new ones, building resistance from the inside of the conquered city, continuing to survive. there is no rest, and as far as she knows, there is no avatar anymore- a loss of hope she has no time to grieve.

it’s back to work, back to the fight. it’s restraint and buried emotions and denial of her own vulnerability. it’s not knowing how to stop moving or else the pain and grief will swallow her whole.

#self rb #smellerbee #much to think about (i h8 everything)

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They're not waking up.

"Are you okay?"

"Answer me."

"Please answer me."

"Do I need to call for help?"

"Are you breathing?"

"They're not breathing."

"Help, someone, please."

"You need to get help."

"Can someone help me."

"I have you."

"Please wake up."

"Please, please, please."

"Promise me you're going to get better."

"I promised I'd keep you safe."

"I didn't meant to let you down."

"You need to wake up."

"Wake up for me."

"Please."

"Please hang on."

"Help's coming."

"No..."

#im actually throwing up screaming crying ??? rb this and i WILL send u one