#Torah Meme

[zarinaa113]

They weren’t paired up like this, I just can’t make five more Spider-Men.

I mean, I COULD but I’m too lazy

#My Post #Non-fandom #Parsha #Torah Meme #Jumblr #Naso #Torah #Spider-Man #Silly #Meme #Bamidbar #Cartoons #Korban #The Twelve Tribes #My Meme Post #Funny #My Torah Post #Edit #By Zarina A113 #I think I'm so gosh darn hilarious #MINE

[socialist-microwave-laser]

you're telling me yaakov """wrestled""" with a """man""" in the wilderness and then changed his name and had sciatica for the rest of his life???

what else gives you sciatica? pregnancy

what else makes you change your name? 🏳️‍⚧️

who are some people that both change their name and get pregnant? transmascs

wake up the members of my nation i think we're onto something here

#jumblr #queer #transgender #torah commentary #torah study #jewish memes #יעקב #queer jews #trans jews

[therubberchickenflies]

Me: phew, Rosh Hashanah is over. Now it’s time to relax :)

Me: *looks at my calendar*

#rosh hashanah #jewblr #jumblr #jewish #yom kippur #sukkot #sukkos #simchat torah #shemini atzeret #no I’m not being lazy and using the same cat meme again #this is simply the high holidays cat meme #I’ve decided that just now

[obsessivefangirl]

#stealing this from a reddit antisemite #Cain #Cain and Abrl #Abel #Christian meme #Judaism meme #Christianity meme #Jewish meme #Islam meme #Muslim meme #<- they don't use the same name but like. same guys tmk #Genesis #Bereshit #bereshit? more like wheresh *i get shot* #Torah #yeah i ain't adding any more tags sorry

[arielthedaydreamer]

Serpent: The apple will give you free will.

Eve: Ok. *Chooses to eat the apple using the free will she clearly already has.*

God: Oh shit, she has free will

#adam and eve #bible #old testament #lucifer #bible memes #judaism #christianity #torah #genesis #writers of tumblr #adam #eve #free will #philosophy #bible story #good and evil #bible plot hole

[skankhunt44]

#mine #i made this! #meme #chag sameach #Shavuot #חג שמח #שבועות #yom tov #Ashkenazi Jew #jewish #proud jew #judaism #jewish holidays #jewish holiday #festival of weeks #what weve all been waiting/counting for! #thank you Adonai for the giving to Moshe and the Jews Torah and the Ten Commandments #cheese day #torah study party tonight

[redditantisemitism]

Here’s an interesting one-is this antisemitism? I think so. Let’s discuss:

First, the context. This comment was left on a post containing this meme, poking fun at the messianic “Jews” (they aren’t Jewish) and antisemitic Christians that appropriate Pesach.

Now. This person does make a few correct statements, and I’ll give them credit. They’re right that a lot of Christians and Christianity are antisemitic. But with that out of the way, let’s look at the myriad of ways they’re so very wrong:

I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about Passover

User admits that they are not qualified to be making judgements. As a Christian it isn't their place to tone police Jews anyways, but especially since they admit that they have no idea what they're talking about.

I would refrain from throwing all Christians under the bus

I'm sure they would. That isn't what is happening though, and framing it like this highlights their defensiveness- they aren't trying to have a productive conversation, they just don't like seeing Christianity being portrayed this way. Playing the victim, and not for the last time.

The Catholic church has largely been the main culprit here

Interestingly, there is a Catholic elsewhere in the thread blaming the Protestants. Typical Protestant vs. Catholic stuff, and this user is using it to attempt to distance themself from the "bad" Christians. Also, in my experience, almost every Christian "seder" I've seen or heard of has been held by a Protestant sect of some sort.

it's important to know that all the while the persecution was happening to jews by christians, there have been other christians speaking out against it.

More of the same, see above. "not all Christians!"

Please don't forget about the Christians who are willing to lay down their lives for the Jewish people.

Here's where the fetishization starts. Also, literally nobody asked you to do that, don't use us to feed your martyr complex. Also also, where exactly are these Christians, because they've been doing a shitty job.

Christians like myself are perfectly capable of seeing Yeshua in the Passover without changing it, or preaching to you up and down about it.

And this is where the explicit antisemitism starts, as opposed to the red flags we've been seeing. This person, based on their language, seems to be some sort of "Torah believing Christian"- something inherently appropriative and antisemitic.

Furthermore, YOU SHOULD NOT BE SEEING JESUS IN PASSOVER. That is, at best, idiotic, and at worst, actively antisemitic. It's certainly supercessionist. JEWISH TEXTS DO NOT PROPHESIZE JESUS. Christians should not be touching Pesach uninvited in ANY way, regardless of if they change things or not.

Yeshua didn't change it and neither should we

This person demonstrates an astounding level of ignorance. Any modern Seder would HAVE to be different than any Seder Jesus might have held (assuming he even existed), because it is impossible to do it like him. There is no temple to offer animal sacrifices at, like there would have been at the time. Regardless, not only should Christians not be changing seders, they shouldn't be touching it.

They then rant for a while about how Easter is bad. Which. My dude. That's your holiday. Go fuck around with that and leave Jews alone.

Please have patience and a soft heart for Christians who believe that:

More "not all Christians", this time with an added level of playing the victim. Hard pass.

-Jews don't need to be converted

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

-Christians have the holidays and events wrong

Uh? No? Is this some weird Christian intracommunity thing? Your holidays are your holidays, leave ours alone.

-the dietary laws were upheld by yeshua

Regardless of if this is true or not, Jesus was Jewish. This poster isn't. Kosher is for Jews. Christians aren't entitled to Jewish practice just because they worship a Jew.

-all of the torah was upheld by yeshua

see previous bullet point.

-the Jews are the chosen people of God

Typical Christian misunderstanding of "Chosen". "Chosen" to uphold the mitzvot, not to be better, or put on a pedestal. This is another example of how they fetishize Jews, and it does not get better.

-the Jews come first

See previous bullet point. Fetishization like this is disgusting and harmful. It removes humanity and personhood from Jews, instead presenting us as some mystical object of worship that we never claimed to be and can never live up to. We are not a zoo exhibit, we are a vibrant and living culture.

-salvation is of the Jews

See previous bullet point. We are people, not a tool for your salvation.

-the Jews have been entrusted with the words of Yah*weh

See previous bullet point. Also super disrespectful to just throw that name around in Jewish spaces, but I don't know what I expected from an antisemitic, philosemitic Jew fetishist.

-we should be suffering with the Jews, not against them

WE ARE NOT FUEL FOR YOUR MARTYR COMPLEX. Plenty of Jewish suffering would be alleviated if Christians like this person would just leave us alone. But they don't actually want Jewish suffering to stop, because then they'd lose a tool and a way to play victim.

they end with a plea not to lump all Christians together with the "bad" ones- something literally nobody was doing. Once again, it's a lot of "Not all Christians!!!" and their own self-victimhood. They say not all Christians are "like that", which is true. But this one certainly is.

Chag Pesach sameach everybody, and stay off the fuss bus.

#antisemitism #christian antisemitism #cultural appropriation #passover #reddit #messianic judaism #<they aren't jews btw #philosemitism #long post #religious antisemitism

[lepertamar]

Since it was buried deep in a long esoteric fandom post, i kinda want to extract and expand on this comment as its own post

There is an ancient, global, historical and cultural meme that gets glossed over a lot: a ton of christian concepts of Satan, and of Hell, and satanic-ness, is based on antisemitic interpretations of jews, but also, and i mean this in the coolest possible way, as a Jew, much of it is based on Jewish imagery -- in particular, it is based on Jewish G-d.

there's the explicit, overwhelming, absolutely ubiquitous association with fire, to the point where it is the overwhelmingly major attribute of G-d, and any invocation of fire in the jewish tanakh hints at connotations of G-d. Blood dashing and blood marking, and flesh sacrifice by slaughtering and burning of offerings throughout the jewish Tanakh, especially in Exodus. The frightening imagery of fire and brimstone has entered basic western vocabulary so deeply that this imagery -- imagery that in the sources characterizes all of G-d's and the Jews' presence and religious behavior in Exodus and throughout the rest of the Tanakh -- is casually described as hellish and satanic. Volcanoes' lava fields are 'hellish', fires of natural gases producing pillars of flame and smoke are 'hellish'. rituals of fire and blood and burning and heavy costumery and ancient crumbling scrolls hidden in arks embossed and engraved with strange tongues are satanic. and the devil is given a characterization thinly echoing torah's depiction of jewish G-d: as a challenging and frightening and alluring figure who straddles fae-adjacent borders between tricksterish disruption and extreme legalism, who makes deals and bargains (covenants, even) with humans.

In christianity it's usually a distancing game -- a forcible identification of all these recognizable attributes of G-d and judaism with the non-god, christian figure of the devil; and simultaneously a forcible identification of jewish g-d with christian god (after all these attributes are stripped out), and of christian god with extremely different attributes, or at least opposition to the devil. But not always.

It's found in exactly as many words in foundational Gnostic theology that had a great amount of influence on the development of early christianity: it explicitly and actively (rather than the implicit coding above that mainstream christian imagery does) identifies Jewish G-d, as in the exact God of the Jews who is depicted in the Torah, as a false god, the archon and demiurge, who should not be, who is responsible for creating the material world as an illusory, fallen, sinful, inherently corrupted world as an intentional prison, rather than an incomplete starting point a la grapes-but-not-wine, and whom Jews evilly or deludedly follow to maintain the existence of this sinful world rather than escaping to the neoplatonic purity of true forms, where the True God, the New Testament god who includes Jesus Christ, rules instead.

It's pretty ~normal as a process goes! (it in fact totally mirrors some stuff in judaism, where we identified various things as treyf because they had connotations of a canaanite pagan thing LMAO. semiotics using ingroups and outgroups in this way is very very common, and normal! and our g-d, of course, with Its troubled, complex heart, in many ways is from folding the hearts of many different canaanite gods into one person). but in this case it's maybe unique in scope and subtlety, for contingent historical reasons: a case of the sign outstripping the signified to an incredible extent and also of trying to backdoor-in identification with the god in question (eg the designation of gnosticism as a heretical sect by christianity, because mainstream christians preferred to recontextualize/repurpose jewish g-d, rather than break from It and allow jewish g-d to be defined by/identified with jews, even if in the gnostics’ explicitly evil way).

it does also have a weird consequence more modernly, among ppl who backlash to christianity with eg [demonic imagery is cool] stuff and don't realize what it looks like to people who have a slightly larger camera aperture: just skipping over the entire existence of judaism in terms of why the hell-stuff exists or is a hell-thing in the first place (there are a few reasons, and this is the big one). like, it DOES feel bizarre when there's like, ppl trying to be edgy and subversive by embracing christian demonicness that [checks notes] is just aesthetics and attitudes that are just very traditional jewish imagery and ritual. yk it just feels a bit....'hm....do they....uh.....know...'. when the old satanists 'inverted' the jesus pentagrammaton with uh, just the sigil of baphomet, as if the hebrew lettering etc is originally christian. like….

as most peopel know, the association of judaism with satanism is both extremely a longstanding Thing in antisemitism, but also smth jews are Super dystonic and jumpy to disclaim for obvious reasons.

now ofc jews's flat statement that this association is just fake is like, 'true', in that while judaism certainly developed in the past 2 millennia with an awareness of christianity and in the same world as a variety of other cultural influences, judaism is obviously not about christianity. as in, it doesn't categorize its elements and framework of the world according to christian elements and frameworks. but 'it's fake' is not like...a complete answer i guess. (like, it implies hell aesthetics were totally independent and preexisting and judaism was only associated with it post-hoc); it's also kinda, giving up ground? in the going straight to 'hdu say we're freaks! we r normal!' rather than 'is that supposed to be an insult? being a freak is cool and also your instinct to categorize us this way is telling and interesting'

this isn't unique, similar reactions happen alot where there's a marginalized culture trying to avoid violence lol, but it's sort of. lame. why not lean into this attempted dunk. the material universe as a delicious as well as incomplete and perilous mass of bursting universeness, whose materiality is what brings about both fortune and misery, brought to material existence by jewish g-d who is scary and bizarre and fiery and has a great deal of weird opinions/ideas about a bunch of detailed specifics about this-worldly life and the this-worldly material of the universe, who makes deals with the particular people who engage with them -- who is a recognizable germinating seed of the surface of christian hell and satanic aesthetics and ideas, is metal and interesting!

and it's not like. idk. a set of frames that are incompatible with christianity either, afaict some traditions lean harder than others, but i'm jewish and obviously not exactly an expert in those aspects of christianity lol.

a friend of mine regarding their conversion to judaism said:

like g-d as a... person, for lack of better terms. g-d who is a bit of an unknown quantity? sort of devilish, smirking at you when They offer a deal and you are not aware of the legalese (or maybe you are! ) and it's just like. this is how g-d is. g-d is just being g-d, g-d is this rascal who is quite particular but also endlessly enamoured with what people will do...

i didnt (& still dont!) care for satan in the christian sense because ....i don't find a god who is unchangign and eternal and sort of... impersonal.... in any way interesting. & thus an anti-god who is.... there and personal but like just to "tempt" you or w/e is also boring in comparison.

but g-d who is playful, who is tempting and trying to seduce you and be seduced, who you can bargain w and get into a contract w which might seem "unfair" in some ways (fucking halakhah right wwww) and like bullshit legalese but it's like, you are agreeing to it! you are taking that on bc you find that worthwhile. like how someone sells t heir soul to the devil, because they think it's worthwhile; but ig in this case you're not rlly getting like, "be able to play the fiddle better than any mortal" type just a... you have the option and you want to take it! that is all far more compelling to me and far more godlike. bc it transforms g-d into an active participant

#j #i wrote this uh #just before october so #i sat on it instead of posting it for several months LMAO #long post

[koshercosplay]

Hey.

Sorry if I’m interrupting anything.

I’m just curious.

I saw all these memes and posts about the plague of frogs during the recent Passover week. (I’m not Jewish myself, I was raised Catholic but I’m not religious, idk what to believe tbh)

And it got me wondering.

Would frogs be considered kosher or not?

Assuming you know I mean. (Sorry if I’m wasting time)

I’d say probably not with the whole plague thing but idk.

Hence why I’m asking.

not a problem at all! the question of whether frogs are kosher actually has nothing to do with the plagues. there are very specific guidelines for which animals are considered kosher.

no reptiles or amphibians are kosher. any water-dwelling creature must have fins and scales in order to be kosher.

(land animals must have split hooves and chew their cud. birds are... more complicated, the torah lists 24 specific types of birds that are not kosher, but you can imagine the difficulty in trying to accurately translate biblical hebrew bird names and identify which modern day species they refer to)

#thanks for asking! #plagues #passover #pesach #kosher #dougielombax #asks #answers #frogs

[socialist-microwave-laser]

me: why are there no torah commentator memes? like, i can't think of any specific one to make, but i know the vibe would just be impeccable. there needs to be rashi memes and maimonides memes and all that, and there needs to be memes of the talmudic sages yelling at each other. it's a completely untapped market, it would be a fucking hit on jumblr! like, okay. so you know how for supernatural there's like deangirls and samgirls and casgirls, and how popular that is? i think there should be that but for the rabbinical comentators. like are you a rashigirl or an ibn ezragirl or a rambamgirl or whatever

my roommate, both earbuds in, just trying to practice for their piano test tomorrow: yeah

#jumblr #jewish memes #judaism #torah study #tanakh sexyman #bc i think people in that tag would agree #i have a paper due in one hour that i need to finish but i can't stop thinking about this

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

I, someone with absolutely no prior knowledge of the Torah or its Christian interpretations, decided to check out this week's Torah portion on MJL with the commentary for the first time ever.

And my peeps, this week's haftarah is I Kings 3:15-4:1, the one where a guy (King Solomon) suggests cutting a baby in half, something that I have seen a million memes about and that shocked me so much to see as my first haftarah reading that I just had to. Take a long moment for myself.

#hush and shush

[howl224tgeundying]

I must ask, since I keep seeing you remake, what on earth are you getting sniped for? (If you can't say without getting nuked again, pls ignore this ask, not trying to get you in trouble >_<;)

Well I post a ton of offensive memes but it seems that when I get asks relating to the Talmud and I genuinely respond by pointing out what it says, I seem to get deleted shortly after.

I mean many religious texts have horrible things in it towards those who don't follow it, Islam has infidels, christians thier heathens and Jews have their gentiles. But only one seems to spark the banhammer and it's surely a coincidence as Dave Chappelle would say.

If I get banned again I'll just remake, I'm going to screenshot my mutuals just in case lol but I don't really think I can stay silent about how the Talmud, which many jews take to be doctrine, has a wide range of awful things such as how non jews (gentile and or goys) are cattle to the Jews, that killing a goy is like killing a wild beast, Jews can steal, lie to, rape and so on and so forth to non jews and there's no repercussions.

Furthermore if you look at the kabbalah, which is like their mysticism, they believe there are 3 types of souls, only one can be redeemed through good acts and it's the jewish soul, the other two which are animals and non jews must be utterly destroyed. And while I could become Christian or Muslim and get into their heavens, and really any religion except judaism, you have to be born a jew.

It's an inherently racist and hateful religion and all I do is point out what it says in their holy texts and doctrines and the ban comes soon after.

And to be clear I don't really consider myself antisemitic, I have a few jewish friends, but they have to denounce the Talmud and theyre all secular because otherwise the essentially see me as below them, im a beast to Jews that believe the Talmud and the Torah and I refuse to accept that.

[sapropel]

I keep meaning to do one of these memes but with Torah

[thorneprincess]

For the Munday meme :)

🎄 — favorite holiday(s)?

🧶 — any non-writing hobbies/interests?

💖 — what was one of the greatest/happiest moments you’ve had in the rpc?

🎄 - PURIM. You get to dress in stupid costumes, eat a shit ton of junk food and have a mini carnival in the school. It's also one of the few Torah legends where the women's names were not only written down but also actually moved the story along. It made my little nine year old feminist heart very happy.

🧶- I'm slowly going back to taking myself on nightly walks for a chance of atmosphere. Summer time is the best for that. Two days ago I took myself to the Namal (I have no idea how to write in English) and I think I can still feel the salt in my nose.

💖- When I first set up my blog and all the awesome people I met at discord immediately followed me. It was an incredibly validating moment for me. Second best being when I finally finished my first promo. It was such a weight of my chest.

#its great to see you again! #i missed you in my inbox #Asks

[jewishjoy]

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I want to keep this blog as joyful as possible, with as few mentions of hate crimes, antisemitism, genocide, and other such things, as possible. There will be some posts that contain mentions of, or directly address, these things that I deem worthy of being on this blog. But, I want this to be a very safe and happy space, so I'm going to do my best to tag appropriately. I do not want anyone seeing something hurtful on here that they aren't totally prepared to see.

For any and all mentions of antisemitism, I will use the tag "antisemitism mention". For any and all mentions of the Shoah, I will use the tag "shoah mention". Other such tags include "death mention" and "homophobia mention". Please send me an ask, or a message, if there is anything else you would like tagged.

#jjtext

[fayoftheforest]

I posted 2,276 times in 2022

That's 715 more posts than 2021!

97 posts created (4%)

2,179 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,260 of my posts in 2022

Only 45% of my posts had no tags

#south park - 57 posts

#ask - 43 posts

#fave - 27 posts

#ask game - 17 posts

#birthfay 🎂 - 14 posts

#sp kyle - 12 posts

#sp k2 - 11 posts

#writing - 10 posts

#headcanons - 10 posts

#south park fic - 10 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#also just realised the blurb i pasted here was from an old draft where the soulmate tag was on their arm not their chest 😳how embarrassing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

man, it kind of bums me out how the majority of the time that kyle's jewishness is a focal point in fan content, it's for a negative reason. if kyle's contemplating the fact that he's jewish, it's because he's being bullied or harassed, because he's feeling insecure about his appearance or self worth, because he's feeling lonely and isolated, because he's having a crisis of faith, etc etc. these are all totally valid themes and character arcs to explore, of course! i think many jews like myself may be able to relate to these themes, thanks to living in a society where antisemitism and other shitty behaviour runs rampant. but i think we're really missing a golden opportunity to explore the complex and compelling positives of being jewish. where's his love for his community? where's his excitement for an upcoming holiday? where's the comfort he might take from prayers? where's his curiosity or knowledge about his family history? where's his passion for debating interpretations of the torah? these are also valid, relatable and in-character directions you could take things!

i know that this trend is probably heavily influenced by the presence of this pattern in the show itself, but it's still a bit sad. or maybe gentiles (non-jews) shy away from celebrating his jewishness because they don't feel confident in commenting on a religious experience that they've never had. to those people, I would ask, why is it you feel comfortable speculating on the hardships of being jewish, but not the joys?

that isn't to say that you're not allowed to write about the former if you're not jewish, of course! regardless of religious background, anyone can empathise with his struggles because, at the end of the day, we're all human, and it's our humanity that unites us. but i'd encourage you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, do a little research and have some fun celebrating and supporting his jewishness once and awhile :)

109 notes - Posted October 30, 2022

#4

today I am thinking about... fat tweek! and fat butters! and fat wendy and heidi! maybe throw a lil fat kyle in there too! I'm sick and tired of fatness being equated with immorality when it comes to south park (and the world in general tbh) and it makes me sad that so many people seem afraid of portraying any of the non-cartman characters as plus-sized. 'fat' is a neutral descriptor and not a dirty word, and displaying body diversity amongst the cast is not only realistic, but a wonderful and beautiful thing! so anyway reblog this and put in the tags which character(s) you've always headcanoned to be fat or not skinny :)

113 notes - Posted August 21, 2022

#3

STOP RIGHT THERE 🔫 THIS IS A STICK-UP 🔫 NOBODY SCROLLS ON UNTIL THEYVE WATCHED @roostertuftart 'S GLORIOUS VIDEO THEN REBLOGGED IT 🔫

142 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

#2

I'M ABSOLUTELY BLOODY LOSING IT OVER THESE VINTAGE SOUTH PARK MUGS I FOUND ONLINE

THE CAPTIONS. THEIR EXPRESSIONS. THE FACT THAT STAN IS KNOWN AS "THE CUTE ONE"?? LIKE?? IS HE?? WACK :D ANYWAY SHOULD I BUY THESE YES/NO

256 notes - Posted November 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

fucking obsessed with this meme that came up on my pinterest feed

what IS up with gay eople liking south park???

1,222 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

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#year in review #don't know if this will be interesting to anyone else but me #but I enjoyed looking through it!! #can't believe my top post was that stupid fucking sp meme though sdjfhsdfjhsd #anyway. thanks to those who accompanyed me on my tumblr clownery this year #can't wait to be even more goofy and silly next year #Youtube