#jewish joy
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I love us.
I love giggling in private messages during zoom Torah study with another queer woman because we’re 12 years old and studying the Song of Songs.
I love sitting in someone’s living room watching the Prince of Egypt and we keep pausing it because someone in the room has a Point and we need to discuss it. And it takes us four hours to watch a two hour film.
I love Hillel sandwiches. I really do.
I love these silly arguments over frog vs frogs and even more so because I know that our rabbis and sages have been arguing about this for literally centuries.
I love that I cry during l’cha dodi every fucking time. Doesn’t matter the tune. Every. Time.
I love that I can say the words “erotic love is holy and sacred too” in a zoom room full of old people and none of them shut down the conversation.
I love that we have a holiday that traditionally means you study Torah all night long.
I love that we have another one that celebrates we got to the end of Torah. Let’s have a dance party and start over!
I love swaying while I pray.
I love that I can disagree with my good friend on fundamentals of our religion and that’s a good thing.
I love that I’m starting to be able to make connections with strangers and say “oh! I know xyz! Do you know abc?”
So many more things but overall. I love us. I love being a part of Judaism. I love being allowed to be here and invited in.
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So pro tip that comes from absolutely no firsthand experience-
If you are surrounded by antisemetic protesters yelling for an intifada and for Zionists to kill themselves, and they’re closing in on you- start singing Daiyenu very loudly. Slap your knees, belt the words “Dai-Dai-Daiyenu! Dai-Dai-Daiyenu! Daiyenu!”
It’s very easy to get into that rythym, feel that happiness and strength and to make the crowd think you’re strong. Because you are strong. What G-d has given us, it’s enough.
Again - totally not firsthand experience whatsoever.
#fromgoy2joy thoughts#if something like this did hypothetically happen to me#I’m pleased to let you know I’m okay#jumblr#jewish#jewblr#jewish tumblr#antisemitism#antisemitism tw#Judaism#jewish joy#Passover#Passover things#tw antisemtism
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My Magen David necklace is really useful to stim and fidget with, that helps keep me happy and calm
Neurodivergent Jews unite!!
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Jumblr, we are dancing a horah togther!
Rb to join the dance ❤️✡️❤️
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I love you Jews in my phone ♥️
I am gently kissing you all on the foreheads and telling you it will be ok; I am feeding you challah and chicken soup, and hamantaschen
#jumblr#jewish joy#honestly you guys have helped keep me sane the past few months#youre all amazing#whether we agree on things or not i value you being here
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tomorrow i will have the honor of being a mikveh & hatafat dam brit witness for a transwoman's conversion and i just wanted to affirm for people that yes, trans people can certainly be accepted in jewish community -- not just reform, either, as in this specific case it is a conservative conversion. ❤️
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Every Jewish person is ethically jewish weather they are born from the waters of a womb or the waters of a mikvah
#jumblr#actually jewish#jewish conversion#jewish culture#jewish convert#jewblr#jew by choice#jewish#jewish joy#jewish positivity
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thinking about how fucking resilient Jews are.
thinking about my great grandparents in romania, raised in a land colonized by the same empire that sent them to the balkans, still working as tailors and butchers like their ancestors had for generations.
thinking about them stowing away on ships to america so their children could live to see adulthood.
thinking about how many other five foot two bookworms have been in my family. i know i’m not the first, and i certainly hope i won’t be the last.
thinking about how many seders my family has held throughout history, how many “next year in jerusalem”s were shouted. it hasn’t happened yet, but maybe it will.
thinking about the women who passed down kabbalah to their children while witches burned in the next village over. how many mothers kept literal magic alive.
thinking about how every single person that lived before me, every branch of my family tree, had to choose to survive. living has always been in the present progressive for Jews; every breath they took was a choice to fight just a little longer.
i come from people who survived the spanish inquisition, the soviet union, the Shoah, the judeo-roman wars, ottoman imperialism, the rise and fall of so many empires i cannot name them all, and the only uniting factor is them. they taught their toddlers the sh’ma and lit candles and read books and sewed clothes and spun linen and cured meat and davened and smiled and laughed and they did that for two thousand years. ten years ago i became the first bat mitzvah in my family line. the first woman in my family to read from the torah.
i hope they’re proud. i hope i was worth it for them.
#jumblr#big feelings!#jewish joy#i refuse to assimilate for goyische comfort#i am jewish and i will always be jewish and i always have been jewish and my children will be jewish and their children will be jewish#we will not disappear because our existence complicates your worldview#i am not a jew with trembling knees#ngl i cried while writing this#im just so tired of proving my humanity day in and day out#i keep telling myself that we will outlive them#we will outlive their hatred#i will keep my door open like avraham and sarah and i will let them sit at my table when they are ready#i will not let their hatred make me hateful
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i love you jews
i love you secular jews i love you religious jews i love you observant jews I love you cultural jews i love you ethnic jews i love you converts i love you reform jews i love you reconstruction jews i love you conservative jews i love you modern orthodox jews i love you orthodox jews i love you jewish community
#jumblr#jewish#jewish love#jewish joy#only reblog if you're jewish#gentiles you can comment and like but this one's for the jews#I love being jewish#judaisim
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purim stimboard! chag Purim sameach to my fellow jews!!!
🎭🍷🎉 / 🎭🍷🎉 / 🎭🍷🎉
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Jewish joy is receiving a message through Ancestry.com from a distant cousin who has managed to trace a branch of your family tree.
they have old photos from the 1800s and everything!
and before this, your knowledge of the family began and ended with the great-grandparents, in America. you could never trace them across the sea.
and here they are, in 1880s black and white, in diaspora in Lithuania, near the border with Poland. just a decade or so before they escaped to England, and then America, because the antisemitism there wasn't as dangerous as what was growing in Eastern Europe.
and their surname ties them to a Jewish diaspora town in Germany.
in the 1300s, the Holy Roman Empire murdered nearly all the Jews in that town because Christians made up conspiracy theories about the Jews spreading the bubonic plague.
but a few Jews survived. including your ancestors.
their surname also ties them to Jews living in Italy in the early Middle Ages. and through genealogy and studying Jewish forced migrations, you can trace them to Jews who were brought as captives to Italy from Jerusalem. and it turns out there is a whole genetic genealogy project on that branch of your family tree.
you see, your ancestors were among the Jews who *gave* that town in Germany its name. your ancestors named that town.
and ... and that town in Germany, it still exists. the town that your Jewish ancestors gave their surname to. in the 1940s, the Nazis murdered the Jews who remained there.
only one single Jew in that town survived the Holocaust.
after WWII, the Germans wanted to pave over the old synagogue and put in a parking lot. (you can't make this shit up!!)
but now, there is a tiny community of Jews who have moved there. there is a new Synagogue. a new mikvah. they have restored the Jewish cemetery there.
and yet for how long? how long before all the Jews in that German town are murdered again? how long before the Jewish cemetery is desecrated again? how long before the synagogue is burned down?
Jewish joy is always mixed with Jewish sadness.
when we find our people, we also find tragedy.
and yet. we have to keep looking for the joy.
because we are Jewish. because we love who we are. because being Jewish means learning to laugh through tears.
because being Jewish brings us joy.
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I often get exceedingly anxious about my conversion. I stay up at night, considering ways I could be "failing" at it. How I wouldn't make a good Jewish woman in the eighteenth century, or what my place in the history of the Jewish people is.
But then I realized- I’m not going to be a Jewish woman in the 18th century or what have you. I’m going to be one in the here and now. I don’t need to worry about fitting in on the hills of a beautiful shtetl, gone from us too soon (so soon ) . I'm alive, wonderfully and divinely, in an age where there has never been a bigger connection of jewish folk.
No longer do we have to rely just on word of mouth or rare newspaper postings to find out about the safety or fate of the rest of us. We can call across the world "are you alright?" or bite your nails constantly checking the news. We can rally together and demand safety and protection- that we are not cheap.
In ten seconds or less, I can have thousands of google results for Halachic questions or send a discord-full of people in a tizzy about it. Now finding the answer is the harder part, but hasn't that always been the case!
I have a group chat worth of people to tell me to eat, to send me links like "I know you wanted to learn hebrew!" or "this is why three meals a day is important, Joy." Or even things as preposterous as "Licking the frosting off donuts is not a meal!"
(I hold that it is glucose and thus energy to be used).
We have queer torah, way too many interpretations of "shalom alechem", and "kosher near me" on GPS. We have Star Trek with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, and Jewish astronauts- we can see ourselves in the stars.
I'm here. We're here. And I still can't believe it.
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Jumblr, important question.
Do you like matzah?
I know to the more sane ones among us the very notion that matzah is tasty or good may sound preposterous. And yet, somehow, such baffling humans, who enjoy burnt-tasting dried flour-water paste exist.
So yeah I was just wondering :)
I mean like, the regular kind. Not fancy egg matzah or whatever.
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Shabbat shalom Jews in my phone.
We've moved on from feeding you hamentaschen to feeding you challah.
Yes, poppyseed coated challah, don't @ me
#jumblr#jewish food#challah#bread#jewish joy#i also make plain and sesame challah but we are hosting tonight so im going fancy#god i love bread so much#the house smells awesome right now#shabbat#שבת שלום
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✨✨✨here to sprinkle some JEWISH JOY into your inbox✨✨✨
you:
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Tiny Human was fussing today, until I asked "do you know what day it is?"
"Yah?"
"It's shabbat!"
"Shaaaa!"
So I lit the candles, and as usual I sang Shabbat Shalom while bouncing TH. When the song was over, TH tried to get me to continue. "Shaaaa shohmm! Shaaa shohmm!"
So, from my family to yours, shaa shohm.
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