To Me, Being Trans Is One Of The Most Incredible Blessings A Human Can Receive From HaShem. From The

why tumblr gotta be so real like this lol

i didnt forget to update earlier, what are you talking about-

SUCCESS idk how i pulled that off but my first ever pesakh with two seders has indeed happened!! nothing caught fire either b"h

i am gonna *try* to do a solo seder for the first night of pesakh, since i go to my family's on the second night. . . wish me luck!! i definitely procrastinated too close to the sun and am panicking but i think that is a fairly common jewish experience lmao

hopefully i dont burn the house down trying to figure out a pre-existing flame for chag pesakh candles!

a common syncretism question

i get asked often how i syncretize judaism and islam (understandably!) but probably my least favorite "question" is when people say "well you can't syncretize that because X and Y beliefs are different." i fear people don't know that syncretism isn't just simultaneous practice of several beliefs but is indeed the forming of new beliefs/traditions from those original ones.

also, if religions A and B had no differing beliefs, they would be the same religion!! thus making syncretism impossible in the minds of some people. i respect the confusion but it gets so tiring to explain this specific thing lol

oh woah!! that does help tysm :0 /gen

tbh this has been my experience trying to observe shabbat more traditionally so far lmao. we tear so many things!! (toilet paper & packaging are the biggest ones...)

regardless, has been quite fulfilling thus far :D

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Beloved is man for he was created in the image of God. Still greater was God’s love in that He gave to man the knowledge of his having been so created. - Pirke Avot 3:18

I love being Jewish. I love the way a bracha rolls off my tongue, half whisper, half inheritance, and suddenly I'm not alone.

I'm stitched to something older than exile, older than fear.

There are generations behind me, candlelit and stubborn, who prayed with the same words, who wept and danced and buried their dead with the same rhythms.

Through halacha, through ritual, through the ache of tradition, I belong.

עם ישראל חי

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

Goyim who think that you can tell whether someone is Sephardi/Ashkenazi/Mizrachi/other based on skin tone shut the fuck up about jewish culture and community dynamics challenge

feel free to ask me any!

Religious Ask Tag

ask tags seem to have dwindled but I thought I’d swing for just one more!

Send me an ask with the numbers you’d like me to answer!

1) Which religion/spiritual path do you identify with?

2) When was the last time you prayed?

3) Have you ever doubted your faith?

4) Have you ever belonged to a different religion?

5) When do you feel closest to your deity/ies?

6) Do you have lots of religious paraphernalia?

7) If you could change one thing about your faith community, what would it be?

8) What is your favourite passage from your sacred text, if you have one?

9) Has your faith ever helped you through a crisis?

10) Do you have a favourite prayer/ritual?

11) Have you ever considered converting to another faith?

12) Were you born in a religious family?

13) Do you practise the majority faith of the place you live in?

14) Have you ever been discriminated against on the basis of your faith?

15) Have you ever had a divine experience?

gender and religion...

tell me about the ways your religious or spiritual identity is connected to your gender!! do you have seperate religious and secular genders? is your gender represented through scripture? do you share a gender with an important figure in your spiritual tradition? feel free to share! :D