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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

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my mind for the past four days:

Dai-dai-yenu

Dai-dai-yenu

Dai-dai-yenu

Dayenu

Dayenu!

(dayenu)

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I’ve seen a lot of posts from fellow Jews about how hard it feels to observe Pesach this year, how it even feels wrong while there are Jews being held in captivity right now.

I would argue that’s the very point of Pesach, and observing it has never been more appropriate than it is now.

The first Seder was not a celebration of a victory already won. The first Seder was held by the Jews while we were still in Egypt, while we were all still enslaved, huddled inside with lambs blood on our doorposts. We were anticipating imminent departure from Egypt, but it hadn’t happened yet and we had no way of knowing if it would.

Pesach is not an after-the-fact celebration of finally being out of danger. The origin of the Seder is a deliberately premature celebration, a demonstration that we have so much faith in G-d saving us that we act as if it’s already happened.

We don’t have the Seder because we are finally free. We have the Seder as a show of faith that we will be, no matter how unlikely it seems.

חג קשר ושמח

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yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

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Went around campus to get a ✨️Professional Headshot✨️ today because I am an Adult who is Graduating. Managed to capture some pretty pictures of my jewelry while out.

#judaica #jumblr #jewish #jewish convert #its been a week and I still can't believe it's real

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it was so beautiful.

beit din + mikveh tomorrow

#thank you all for your well wishes

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beit din + mikveh tomorrow

#conversion to judaism #jewish conversion #jumblr #im so excited and nervous i cant think

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"maybe angels don't need to breathe" still one of the softest, most soul-crushing, beautiful lines in supernatural, can't change my mind.

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me and the shalomies are bringing back shtetl life (we have an urban garden near shul and occasionally share food with each other)

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

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shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay

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first of all, who let me get so emotionally invested in a television show

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Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck