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Hello everyone!! I've added more items to my Etsy - please consider taking a look! The apparel comes in multiple colors and everything has free shipping to the US (:

#jewish #Hanukkah #please I'm so broke from medical bills lmao

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hey everyone! I opened an Etsy shop! pls consider buying my stupid little tees < 3

#Jewish #etsy

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Jack black is hot.

#he is very hot

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hey please stop reblogging this post:

The post has about 15k notes at the moment and I have been seeing it on my dash frequently. I clicked one of the links because I did want to inform myself and i encountered this:

In one paragraph there are no less than TWO prominent antisemitic tropes (the idea that Jewish people are socio-economically advantaged and that they use the Holocaust to get what they want.) This isn’t subtle. I wouldn’t be surprised if other links on the post ended up being anti-semitic too, considering op’s willingness to add this one.

This is just part of a larger issue of anti-semitism in discussions of i/p. Yes, you can be anti-zionist without being anti-semitic but to do so you have to make an effort, you cannot just spout old anti-semitic conspiracy theories and then say “oh it’s just anti-zionist so its ok.” Even if you don’t care about jews, at least avoid being blatantly anti-semitic so that your talking points are taken seriously.

I hate to be That Guy who guilt trips people into reblogging but if you aren’t Jewish and are posting a lot about i/p, I implore you to reblog this. Please don’t harass op or anyone who rb’d the post i referenced though because i doubt they actually read the links lol.

#antisemitism

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chag shavuot sameach, friends !

#jumblr #jewish

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are u: “sorry?” or “excuse me?” or “what?” when you dont hear/understand what someone says

#pardon #because I'm Texan

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Can you expand on the sources around Jewish amulets? I'm geeking out pretty hard and would love to dive down this rabbit hole! Thanks!

oooohhhh… now this is a fun question!

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Updates: 

2017.06.04 - added new resources on Incantation Bowls

2017.02.09 - added new specific section on Amulets and some new sources

2017.02.06 - had some great suggestions, so added section on Magic Bowls, and several papers/by Gideon Bohak!

There are sooooooooo many.  Depends on how scholarly you want to get, and which parts of the world you want to dive into.  And I geek out pretty hard on this too, so get ready for the over-share!

Beyond the books on magick and amulets below - I also recommend both of Maggie Anton’s novels about Rav Hisda’s daughter.  They are impeccably researched and really “get” the practice and bring it to life.

The best book on Jewish Amulets is Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Through the Ages.  It’s not the easiest to get, but because it was attached to a museum exhibit – if you google it – you’ll find at least some excerpts.

The second one I would recommend is Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick.  It’s got a really wide range of amulets that also include herb bundles and such.  But it’s a sociological study, so it’s a solid read.  Slog through the beginning, and it totally pays off.

General Amulets in Judaism

Amulets - Jewish Virtual Library 

Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Through the Ages (amazon)

Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick. (amazon)

Maggie Anton’s novels about Rav Hisda’s daughter (amazon)

Hebrew Amulets, Their Decipherment and Interpretation (amazon)This is out of print and a bit hard to find

Magic Incantation Bowl Amulets

Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (h/t @quillflight​)

Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (h/t @quillflight​)

Virtual Magic Bowl Archive (Exeter University)

Curse or Blessing, What’s in a Magic Bowl (PDF)

Hekhalot Literature and Shamanism (PDF)

Naming Demons: The Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Gittin

Incantation Bowl (Library of Congress)

Jewish Magic

Not amulet specific, but these do include great content on Jewish magic through out history, including amulets: 

Ancient Jewish Magic by Gideon Bohak 

Jewish Magic and Superstition by Joshua Tractenberg 

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism by Rabbi Geoffery Dennis

Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition by Gideon Bohak (I have a PDF of this, but I don’t know from where)

Greek Coptic and Jewish Magic in the Cairo Genizah by Gideon Bohak

Gideon Bohak on Academia.edu - loads of great, academic papers on Jewish Magic

Other books on amulets that are worth exploring to figure out your own technique are

Body Guards: Protective Amulets & Charms Protective Amulets and Charms by Desmond Morris

Amulets, Talismans, and Magical Jewelry: A Way to the Unseen, Everpresent, Almighty God by Barbara Black Koltuv

Amulets and Superstitions by Wallis Budge - with the caveat that it’s from the early 20th Century and there’s some off-putting racial elements in a couple of chapters.

Online you’ll find some great resources in surprising places:

Manges Collection

Jewish Encyclopedia

Jewish Heritage Online Magazine 

QueerKeitCoven on Tumblr

Noam Sienna on Tumblr (amazing guy, and great resource)

I also rely on my teachers Rav Jill, Rav Shoshana and Rav Taya. Jill is the one who taught me that bundle-style amulets (aka medicine bags) are referenced in the Talmud. All three are overflowing with book and body wisdom.

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#i remember this holy shit I'm old lmao

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Leonard Cohen in Vancouver, B.C., October 20, 1978. Photo: David Boswell.

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#lmao

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hot take: I don't like jesus. I don't care whether he was a good role model, or a good teacher. I don't care that he was Jewish like me. he is so irrelevant to me. I am not obligated to nurse the ego of Christians whose opinion of me hinges on how much I like/respect their god.

#jewish #personal #jumblr

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ער שווימט אין ים התּלמוד.

Er shvimt in yam hatalmud.

He’s swimming in the Sea of Talmud.

#art

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Beautiful and clever pre-war Yiddish fonts, part 1, Idishe bilder.

#yiddish #fave #the top is the beautiful font...

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