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i'm on spring break (so not in my normal place of living) and i went to a little havurah at a friend's house for kabbalat shabbat and it was fully the first time i've really davened or even felt remotely connected in... maybe like two years? and we all masked up and it was so nice and welcoming? i wish i could bottle up that feeling of being actually surrounded by community again.

#don't reblog please #just had to share #connection is possible #i fully forgot how nice chicago is

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judaism makes me sad now. there’s no more joy in my practice, and the practice is nonexistent. any of that connection i had is gone. idk where to find it but at this point i’m not sure if it’s going to come back. I hope it does, though.

#do not reblog please #sorry for the tmi

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There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

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Everyone’s got little things that get them through their day. I knit on the bus and ponder the unknowable nature of that which is Divine

#you know. basic stuff like that

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reading this book called the Torah and woah this Moshe guy is so cool can’t wait to see what he’s like once he gets inside the promised land

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Geller's Fifth Canto

"It is impossible to describe Adonai, in late afternoon, in the Garden. Here are some metaphors and similes, but, rest assured, they do not even come close.

She is the origin of opera.

She is Botticelli's Flora, multiplied a trillionfold.

She is responsible for: Sappho's poems, London's squares, central Florence, all of Paris (even the bad parts), the poems of Ovid, Spenser, Shakespeare's sylvan, lyrical comedies and romances, the movies of Pabst, Fellini, early and late Bergman and, of course, all Tibetans.

She is a Bombay Sapphire martini, extremely dry, and sipped on a dock at Bluff Drive, on the Isle of Hope, in the state of Georgia, on the first oak-dappled haze of sunset, on a very early spring day.

She is a Johnny Mercer lyric, in which the word 'breeze' is used seventy different ways.

She creates and solves British acrostics puzzles with every breath She takes.

She is the Climax in the Big Bang.

She's even responsible for this novel."

-Stephen D. Geller, Jews on the Moon

#meditations on the nature of the Divine #book quote #found this book at a secondhand shop and it's making me cry #even if it is a bit too Vonnegut-esque #jews on the moon #judaism

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the soul is not the genome the soul is not the genome the soul is not

#these days are all bad and I have to remind myself

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Just wanted to share a little resource today: Shabbat cards from Recustom, a platform with  tools and resources to help shape rituals that work for each of us. I like this very simple set of Shabbat cards, with the blessings in Hebrew, English, and transliterated.

Sometimes it can be really difficult, trying to figure out what we think makes our life Jewish -- what's important to us, what rituals are prayers feel necessary to us, which mitzvot feel most important to keep. It's a deeply personal journey.

For me, Shabbat feels immensely important and is the cornerstone of what having a Jewish home means to me. Keeping Shabbat started very small -- just remembering to light two tealights, as on time as possible, every Friday with my partner. Now we've added wine/juice, and rarely I remember to have bread. It's a work in progress. Little tools like these cards, which are easy to read and have on hand, can help make keeping this ritual possible.

I wish I were a more adept woman that was used to managing a million things, but I'm not -- I am forgetful, I can be a little lazy after a long work day, and I struggle with the balance between my spiritual and modern lives. And that's okay.

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if i'm hitting a point of severe emotional burnout, i know there are others hitting that point or already in it. so consider my DMs open. if you need someone to talk to, i am here (albeit slightly spontaneously because i'm in school and those papers can't write themselves).

#she speaks #don't reblog please #just DM if you need someone to talk to

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Informal poll (feel free to PM as well if you don’t want ppl to see your response): how do you feel about seeing people who aren’t Jewish using the phrase “the Jews,” particularly in a WWII context? Does it set off some alarm bells for you? Trying to gauge what the general feelings are.

#jumblr #I ask you answer

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happy hanukkah to those celebrating but particularly to those struggling to celebrate bc of what is being done in their name. u don't have to answer for it but i know it can be hard to reconcile sadness and community, and u r not alone in this. in better times all our celebrations will be unmarred.

#I don’t have to answer for it and yet I feel as though I have to #Chanukah is nauseating this year tbh #celebrating does not feel good

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this is me…. when ur yelling at me this is who ur yelling at……

#chag sameach indeed

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Anakronic Electronic Orchestra, everybody. They are fantastic. I have linked their album Noise in Sepher, but they’ve got some other great stuff as well!!!

Who wants some french klezmer electronica

#hopefully they won’t milkshake duck #i genuinely like their music

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Who wants some french klezmer electronica

#klezmer #diaspora things

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I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this

And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man

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jewbelong is so funny actually

#I cannot smash the reblog button hard enough #this website gives me the creeps

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Make it edelweiss but in yiddish and about the bats of Brisbane (paraphrased from original caption on tiktok)