The one frog...

IT WAS ONE GIANT FROG

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attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

Jumblr, we are dancing a horah togther!

Rb to join the dance ❤️✡️❤️

Due to the Assyrian-Greeks’ attempt to destroy the menorah, they caused millions of menorahs to be lit around the world each year from now on instead.

living is a jewish value. partake in it. <3

ITS ME. I AM IN THIS POST.

jewish culture is the fact that i can’t cook small quantities. no matter how hard i try, my default is Food For Ten.

omw over so you have somewhere to put the extra food o7

*clears throat, stands up*

You guys, Passover is in a week, and my kitchen is a cha-mess!!

*sits back down* Thank you. That will be all.

So like Am Yisrael Chai and all that, don't get me wrong I'm so grateful for the superhuman resilience of Israelis (and really the whole Jewish people) because it's necessary

but damn, like

Could it just, for once, not be?

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

as an autistic jew, passover is objectively the best holiday because it’s a dinner party with a script that everyone has to follow

It's really interesting the difference between how people act when you talk about racism vs antisemitism.

Like when I've talked about racism that I face as an arab as well as talk to other poc about racism and even non poc about racism, people always are ready to jump in with their thoughts and have a proper conversation.

However when I talk about antisemitism, unless it's with other jews, most people just act uncomfortable and the conversation never goes anywhere. This is both pre and post Oct 7th.

And like, antisemitism inherently isn't anymore of an uncomfortable topic than racism. It just makes me wonder why.

Is it because antisemitism is less socially acceptable to talk about? Is it because there just aren't a lot of jews where I live so often it's people's first conversation about antisemitism? Is it because the people I'm talking to are closet antisemites?

I don't even know which answer would be the "good" answer.

The inability to discuss stuff like this with people i know irl just makes me feel so lonely offline.

Okay so you know how a lot of us have been feeling abandoned and hated by both left and right sides of the political spectrum (especially since October 7th, but this has been a long time coming in my opinion)?

Well I've struggled with what to call myself, because I'm not a centrist either. I'm not even really a "third/middle path" person. Instead, much like with existing gender frameworks, I don't find myself on any two-dimensional map at all. So I would like to propose another option for anyone else stuck in this quandary:

Let's take our politics into three-dimensional space, with constructive compassion as our North Star and our feet firmly planted on the path of pragmatic problem-solving.

That is to say - we might have to veer left or veer right, move forward or even turn around, but the most important thing is to get where we're going on the road to justice in a way that is both practical and compassionate to all people, all living things, and the earth.

(I still have no idea what to call this, though.)

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

so insane to me how being Jewish is just like:

the world: fucking hates you Jews: okay but we still have to love and to live

* rolls up to your Seder wearing this *