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My favorite reading from Shabbat evening service is this tiny section right here. Wishing you all a peaceful Shabbat full of whatever it is that makes you feel all of the good things ❤️
i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
This poll is for Jews who currently live in North America, and consider it their permanent residence (ie, not people here for a couple years on a work or student visa).
For the Jewish ancestor of yours who moved to North America most recently, what is their relationship to you?
If multiple ancestors arrived together, pick the one the shortest distance from you. For example, my mother came with my grandparents, so I'm going to pick "parent(s)."
I don't like see results buttons because they make the results weird, sorry non-Jews and non-North-Americans. You're welcome to reblog for sample size if you'd like.
i'm sure people have sent you the answer 293 times already too but just in case, the water texture is a default photo filter on the tumblr photo editor!
In the books about Judaism I've been reading, there's a repeated emphasis on Jewish history being taught as something that happened not just in the past, but also to the people telling the stories in the present. The narrative is "it happened to us, to me" as opposed to "it happened to them."
This is something I've also noticed a lot in Native communities. They massacred us, they took our children, they banned our traditions, they forced us off our lands. There's no distancing ourselves from our ancestors, from the Native people of the past; their suffering is ours, their grief and pain and fear lives in us.
I think this is a vitally important part of how certain groups interact with history; when your people are constant victims of extreme hate, of prejudice, of violence, you cannot afford to distance yourself from the past. The moment you do, you forget and you relax and you aren't prepared when that violence rears its head again. Because it will. If our history has taught us anything, it's that periods of quiet and "peace" (in the loosest sense of the word) for our people are the exception, they're temporary, and we need to remember that to survive.