G-d To Me Is The Sky. G-d To Me Is The Ocean. G-d To Me Is The Ground. G-d To Me Is Intersexuality. G-d

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!

woah!! a silly jewish bug!! that's so cool

thank u! yes!! hello there moka :D

Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on a rhino, sound asleep.

In South Africa by Zaheer Ali: Zali_Photo

shavua tov to my trad-egal jewish siblings!! do any of yall have resource recommendations on trad-egal practices/halakha/etc? can be websites, videos, articles, books....

tysm!!

Hanukkah is here soon!💙✡️

this take on the Binding of Isaac is quite insightful I think; it maintains the traditional interpretation of the story as an act of supreme trust while subverting the idea that unjust actions for the sake of God are morally correct. (i apologise for lack of ALT text it's quite long and I couldn't copy-paste)

from Bodoff, L. (1993). "The Real Test of the Akedah: Blind Obedience Versus Moral Choice." Judaism: a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought 42(1): 71-92.

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

Image description: Three versions of the same picture: a digital painting of a cluster of yellow dandelions on a dark earthy background. Handwritten in white above and below the flowers is the same text in Yiddish in the alef-beys, in romanisation, and then in English. The text reads: "מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן", "Mir veln zey iberlebn", and "We will outlive them". /end description

this is based

I made a golem :)