Oh Woah!! That Does Help Tysm :0 /gen

TRUE someone finally said it! please save us from secular binary gender 🙏

my gender identity is jew if that makes sense

OP you need to say this so much louder for the people in the back!

If you’re not Jewish, you can kindly shut the fuck up about the following:

The Talmud

Zionism

What is or is not antisemitism

The word “goy/goyim”

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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

Alright, Chanukah starts tonight, which means it's time for me to finally make a post about different kinds of menorahs.

This right here? This is the Temple Menorah:

There's some debate over whether the branches were straight or curved, but here's a few things we do know:

It had seven branches of equal length.

It was made of one solid piece of gold

It was at least five feet tall.

It used pure olive oil.

The Temple Menorah is what people mean when they talk about The Menorah. It's what you'll see on historical or commemorative artifacts such as the Arch of Titus in Rome or Israeli currency:

During the time when the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the High Priest lit all seven flames on this Menorah every day (using the aforementioned pure olive oil):

No one lights this on Chanukah.

This is a Chanukah menorah:

There are countless variations, but here are the important things:

It has eight branches of equal length, plus a ninth "helper" branch, known as the shamash, which is set apart from the rest of the branches and used to light the others.

It can be made of any material.

It is usually used with wax candles or oil, but, if necessary, one can use anything that burns.

In Hebrew, this kind of menorah is called a chanukiah.

Some Chanukah menorahs, like the one shown above, have the shamash in the middle. Others have it on the side:

Regardless, this kind of menorah is the one that has been lit by Jews on Chanukah for thousands of years. It's the menorah you'll seen in photographs of Jewish households, including this famous picture taken in Germany in 1931:

(The message written on the back of the photo reads: "Death to Judah"/ So the flag says/ "Judah will live forever"/ So the light answers)

On Chanukah, whoever is lighting the menorah will first light the shamash, then the number of candles corresponding to whichever night of Chanukah it is. The first night, only the rightmost candle is lit, the second night the two rightmost, etc. (The newest candle is always lit first):

Again, a valid Chanukah menorah has eight branches of equal length, along with a shamash. There is no such thing as a Chanukah menorah with six branches of equal length and a longer seventh branch, and no valid Chanukah menorah has eight branches of completely different lengths.

If you see either of the above designs (or anything similar) on Chanukah-themed decor, it tells you the creator has absolutely no idea what they're doing and couldn't be bothered to do more than two seconds of research to make sure their product was accurate. Anyone who knows anything about the holiday will laugh at these. (They may buy them anyway, especially if that's all that's available-- my new Chanukah sweater has an invalid menorah pattern, but it's adorable, so I'm still going to wear it. But I am also laughing about it and invite you all to do the same.)

Anyway, have a happy Chanukah, everyone!

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!!

this is based

I made a golem :)

hello!! im just wondering how does being both jewish and muslim work? genuine question and i hope i dont come across as rude!

(also nice to see another jewish alterhuman :3)

hii!! not rude at all dw :D also yippee i love meeting other jewish alterhumans as well <33 it's sort of hard to summarize tbh, since it depends on the specific topic! like for some things, i sort of take the "middle approach" between the typical jewish and muslim view (e.g. judaism rejects jesus, islam accepts him as a prophet/messenger and the messiah, and i say he was a prophet/messenger but not the messiah). but for other things, i kinda pick one or the other depending on which is more reasonable to me (e.g. pantheism, which is much more common in judaism than islam, makes more sense to me than thinking G-d is completely separate from creation like in mainstream islamic thought) and some things i'm still working out! such as what i think modesty standards are for me, what diet i should follow, etc it's been a slow but fun journey so far, and i learn new things every day! i hope that helped u to understand a little better :3

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

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A four page comic about something that happened to me in Saudi Arabia last November. Be gay, run from security, don't get caught.