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Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures
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The most romantic story I've ever heard is the Jewish Hassidic story about the king who went to his close friend and advisor and told him that he saw in the stars that next year's crops will be tainted and anyone who will eat from them will lose their sanity.
The advisor told him that they could save up some of this year's crops for themselves so they can remain sane for the next year while everyone else would not.
The king responded that if they did that, they will be considered the insane ones amongst everyone else, despite knowing the opposite.
The king went on to say that, since they can't save up good crop for everyone, they would also eat from the tainted crops but while doing so draw a sign on each other's foreheads so that whenever they look at each other at least they'll know together that they are both no longer sane.
#i have this strong image of the king and the adviser drawing on each others forheads. how fucking romantic is that#someone should paint this#Judaism#jumblr#Hassidic#mine#i love these stories so much#the jewish moral of the story is kinda condescending. it means that you shouldnt cut yourself off from modern society#but make yourself signs so youll remember youre better than it (ie believe in god)#but dont be alone in your signs because you will end.up.losing them if you do it alone#so yeah
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am i wrong or did Duke Ricol's Marauder often get described as "crablike"?
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hassidic music goes so unbelievably hard..
#christian rock bands could never in their lives hope to achieve what hassidic jews do when it comes to producing bangers#specifically about their faith
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How Did A Court Jester From The Ottoman Empire End Up Buried In Cincinnati?
It almost goes without saying that any given cemetery contains a lot of history. That is most certainly true of Cincinnati’s Judah Touro Cemetery in Price Hill. But Judah Touro, unlike any other cemetery in Cincinnati, can boast the grave of an actual court jester.
There must be a story, and indeed there is. The long journey of Hayeti Hassid begins in Thessaloniki, today the second-largest city in Greece but in 1852 part of the Ottoman Empire. It was in that year that Hayeti was born to David and Esther Hassid. Always small, the boy stopped growing altogether when he was around five years old. For the rest of his life, he stood only around 30 inches tall.
It appears that Hayeti early on developed a talent for making people laugh through a repertoire of dancing, singing and sleight-of-hand tricks. He had a remarkable skill for languages, eventually gaining fluency in Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.
At the age of 20, Hayeti’s reputation caught the attention of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II, who brought him to the royal palace in Istanbul, where he entertained the court for some years. The Sultan’s troubled reign was disrupted by wars, revolutions, intrigue and plots. He consequently developed a well-earned paranoia and maintained a high turnover among those with access to the court. Hayeti was consigned to the harem, where he entertained the Sultan’s many children, becoming, as it were, a sort of Ottoman Uncle Al.
Tiring of the kiddie fare, Hayeti made his way to Paris and joined the troupe of the Folies Bergère, where he was discovered by British entertainment impresario, Lloyd Forsyth and promptly named mayor of Forsyth’s “Tiny Town” revue. Whether as mayor of Tiny Town, or ringmaster of the “Lilliputian Circus,” Hayeti traveled the world. He was billed as the Turkish Tom Thumb, or Pasha Hayati Hassid, “pasha” being an Ottoman rough equivalent to a knighthood.
(The promoters and newspapers had a tough time transliterating his name from the Ottoman, so he appears as Hayeti, Hayati and even Chayatim. Although his tombstone reads Hayeti, most publicity materials show his name as Hayati.)
On a 1908 tour of Liverpool, Hayeti earned accolades from the local Birkenhead News:
“A truly wonderful little man is the Turkish Tom Thumb. His height is only 30 inches, his age being 56 years, and he knows no fewer than seven languages. He went through a smart conjuring performance, and also sang a French song, for which he was loudly applauded.”
The Folkestone Express [20 May 1908] devoted most of their coverage of the revue’s visit to this Kentish seaport on the English Channel to Hayeti’s act:
“Pasha Hayati Hassid, the Turkish Tom Thumb, is creating quite a sensation at the Pavilion this week. He styles himself the continental comedian and cuts a quaint figure as he struts up and down the stage. He talks in a very childish voice and is only able to sing with the power of a child of four or five years.”
Hayeti and his revue performed in Australia and New Zealand as well as in most European countries. The ensemble toured Canada and the United States, but ran into an unusual obstacle at the U.S. border. According to the Cincinnati Post [10 August 1910]:
“Fifty midgets came to Cincinnati Friday morning to entertain Cincinnati and her guests during the Ohio Valley Exposition. The half hundred Lilliputians are connected with the Tiny Town Circus and they have just come from Europe. They are so small that the U.S. immigration officials declared they were deformed and wanted to exclude them from the country. After thinking the matter over for a day, however, they were permitted to land in New York and came to Cincinnati on special cars.”
Eventually, the years of performing with a large group paled, and Hayeti went solo. There wasn’t much to his act. He was usually booked as a sideshow oddity and did little more than sit and be stared at. The 15 January 1908 edition of Punch, a British humor magazine, carried the report of a correspondent who found Hayeti ensconced in the “Mammoth Fun City,” a sort of ongoing freak show staged in the London borough of Islington:
“They are mostly school-children, and are staring at the ‘Turkish Tom Thumb,’ as he sits in a tiny wicker chair, selling photographs of himself on postcards. Whenever his attention is called away the children look at one another and suppress a giggle. Then, as he turns round, they resume their preternatural solemnity with extraordinary suddenness. There is no charge for seeing him. I gaze at him, too but (I hope) without rudeness. The T. T. T. takes no notice of any of us. He merely hands the postcards and pockets the pennies for them with silent and impassive dignity.”
Hayeti’s travels eventually brought him to Cincinnati’s Chester Park. He made $42 a week pretty much just sitting in his chair selling postcards. He never asked for a raise, explaining:
“What does a fellow with a little stomach need a lot of money for?”
While in Cincinnati, Hayeti was reunited with a friend from childhood, Leon Ben Mayor. According to the Cincinnati Post [29 April 1919], Ben Mayor said:
“I had known him at Saloniki [today’s Thessaloniki] when I was a boy, and so I was glad to keep him for nothing. It was just like taking a little child into the house. But he insisted on paying $5 a week for board and lodging.”
Hayeti slept in a crib outgrown by one of Ben Mayor’s children. As his health worsened, Ben Mayor sometimes had to lift Hayeti into the crib. The Turkish Tom Thumb died, aged 67, on 27 April 1919. Ben Mayor and another compatriot, Vita Habib, arranged the funeral, purchasing a child-sized coffin for his burial.
It may surprise some that a citizen of the very Islamic Ottoman Empire is buried in a Jewish cemetery, but Thessaloniki was for many years a majority Jewish city. The Sephardic community there was protected by the Ottomans after thousands of Sephardic Jews were banished from Spain after the Catholic conquest in 1492. In the Spanish-based dialect of the Sephardic community, Thessaloniki was known as “The Mother of Israel.”
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#jumblr#jewish#jews#nesyapost#jewish history#judaism#jewish culture#yiddish#Christmas#linguistics#i love you yiddish speakers so much#i asked my hassidic friend and he confirmed lol#language#ashkenazim
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NINE NORTH, 5 STAR Review, Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
NINE NORTH, 5 STAR Review, Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Nine North
By Art Smukler
November 14, 2022
Reviewed by Angie Mangino, freelance journalist & book reviewer
Rating: 5 stars
“Two years and one day after Nelson Bennett died, he rose from the dead.”
What a powerful way to immerse readers into the story!
The author goes on to introduce Jake.
“… ‘Nelson!’ Jake yelled. ‘Nelson!’ The man was about fifty feet away – close enough for Jake to…
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#cozy mystery#great 5 star review#Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist - mystery & Romance meet Psychology#Living in a Hassidic Community#NINE NORTH#Running from Hong Kong Triad
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Dont get me wrong, I'm glad tiktok is finally discovering the absolute banger mine that is jewish pop, but like. Why that song. It's not close to being the best the genre has to offer. It's not even the third best song called 'yerushalaim'
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Now THIS is a song that makes me want to put on a shtreimel and jump around
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You’re into religion, what’s with these tunnels and the New York Orthodox community? You hear anything about this? Any theories?
its pretty interesting actually. When I first heard about the story, my initial reaction was "Oh wow, tunnels in New York, next you're gonna tell me someone found freeways in Los Angeles."
But no turns out this location has been embroiled in a legal dispute between two different Orthodox sects for decades now. The synagogue itself is the HQ of the Chabad movement, and apparently some messianic hassidic students -who claim their particular sect rightfully owns the synagogue- straight up tunneled under the building in an attempt to occupy it. Which is pretty wild.
As you can imagine, conspiracy theorists have been going fucking insane over this. They saw the words "Orthodox Jewish Secret Tunnel" and just started freestyling. I will spare you the theories I've seen floating around Twitter, but very few of them seem to even be aware that this whole situation is the result of conflict between two Orthodox Jewish sects.
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does tumblr know about Hassidic EDM because I think it should
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