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Okay I promise this is the last thing about this for now (bli neder 🧿) but something I haven't seen cross my dash yet is how sometimes "bearing witness" can cross a line from refusing to look away into a kind of self-harm. I think that for a lot of folks who are physically safe for the most part and have so far escaped the situation personally (mostly) unscathed, there's an intense survivor's guilt embedded in our collective mourning. There's also this desperate sense of helplessness that comes from wanting to do something significant and having to simply watch from the sidelines peeking between your fingers and praying with every breath that the people in the field do the right things and that Hashem protects them.
Put together, that survivor's guilt, that helplessness, that desperate unfulfilled desire to help - often devolves into "bearing witness" to atrocities in a way that is on balance maybe helpful, maybe not, but for certain hurts and takes a giant toll. It can be traumatizing, it can literally change your neural pathways if repeated frequently, and ultimately it can act as a kind of self-harm.
And so I think my advice to people like me who are struggling with this (let's see if I can take my own advice, ha) would be to seriously consider who this knowledge actually helps. If there is not a concrete goal that can be tangibly achieved by it, and even if there is, if the expected benefit to the community is significantly outweighed by the harm done to yourself, honestly?
Skip it. Disengage. Look away. Save your sanity and guard your heart for when it really counts — and make no mistake, that day will come and you will want to face it with all the mental fortitude and resilience you can muster.
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#i forgot to post this earlier but it is still shabbat nachamu for me <3#like. nachamu ami yomar elokeihem....#txt#jumblr#jew tag#parasha songs
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I need to know. Am I the only one who grew up listening to the Jewish band Safam?
My parents used to play their CDs in the car until they started skipping and I've never heard anyone else ever talk about them? For those who don't know them, look them up! They're a Jewish American band from the 70s and here are my favorite songs of theirs in order from most to least:
Just Another Foreigner (One of my all time favorite songs)
Tribute (Sad but sweet)
Leaving Mother Russia (the ending lives rent free in my head)
World Of Our Fathers (finding a good quality version on youtube is unfortunately very hard)
Bad Choices (sounds like a sitcom opening in the best way)
Nachamu Ami
Judah Macabbee (funky)
Chassidic Kaddish
#jumblr#jewblr#jewish#jewdaism#jewish joy#Safam#music#putting this on my side blog because my main is art only now
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O Yehudah, O Ephraim - Tony Robinson (with subtitles)
Prière pour la réunification de Juda & Ephraïm car des efforts sont à fournir des deux côtés.
Prayer for the reunification of Judah & Ephraim because efforts are to be made on both sides.
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“The next song is called - Oh Yehudah Oh Ephraïm -
I tell you a little bit about the song basically when it comes to the people of The Book you have.
I’m just going to paint in broad categories :
You have Judaïsm and they accept that the Torah is like a Tree of Life.
They understand but they reject Yeshua as the Messiah.
And altough Christians accept the Bible, but for the most part reject the Torah but they understand that Yeshua is the Bread of Life.
So this song right here is a prayer for the re-unification of the Two Houses of Israël.
That the House of Judah would see that Messiah is like the Bread of Life and the House of Ephraïm would see that the Torah is like a Tree of Life.
So this song is basically a prayer.”
" La chanson suivante s’appelle - Oh Yehudah Oh Ephraïm -
Je vous parle un peu de la chanson en gros car il s’agit des gens du Livre que vous avez.
Je vais juste dépeindre les grandes catégories :
Vous avez le judaïsme et les juifs acceptent la Torah comme un Arbre de Vie
Ils comprennent mais ils rejettent Yeshoua comme le Messie.
Et les chrétiens acceptent la Bible, mais la plupart rejettent la Torah.
Mais ils comprennent que Yeshoua est le Pain de Vie.
Donc ce chant est une prière pour la réunification des Deux Maisons d’Israël.
Que la Maison de Juda voit que le Messie est comme le Pain de Vie et que la Maison d’Ephraïm voient que la Torah est comme un Arbre de Vie.
Donc ce chant est fondamentalement une prière. “
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Yehudah one thing you know Eh-leh divray chayim
(these are the words of life !)
Yehudah you won't let go of the Torah of Life and the blessing
But do you know that Mashiach has come for you
He has longed to reach out and to gather you
Nachamu Ami (Comfort My People)
Yet you count Him a strange thing
Oh Yehudah He is the Bread of Life
Ephraim one thing you know Adonai gave us His only Son
Ephraim you won't let go of Yeshua the Life and the resurrection
But do you know that the Torah was given to you
To be a source of life and blessings to you
Nachamu Ami yet you count it a strange thing
Oh Ephraim it is the Tree of Life
This is my prayer for one new man living in peace in the Holy Land
Adonai please hear my cry restore the Tabernacle of David
Oh Yehudah partake of the Bread of Life
Oh Ephraim partake of the Tree of Life
Then as one in His hand we'll be gathered to the Land
Reunited in Eretz Yisrael
Oh Yehudah partake of the Bread of Life
Oh Ephraim partake of the Tree of Life
Then as one in His hand we'll be gathered to the land
Reunited in Eretz Yisrael
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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨
Some classics and some you may not have heard of before
1. I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis
2. Don’t Stop Believing by Journey
3. Fields of Gold by Sting
4. Nachamu Ami by Omek Hadavar
5. Shalom Rav sung by Alex Blue (favorite version)
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the Spirit has formed us into a single Body, interconnected.
Paul illuminates this in his writing with Today’s reading of the Scriptures from the New Testament being the 12th chapter of the Letter of First Corinthians:
Now let me turn to some issues about spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters. There’s much you need to learn.
Remember the way you used to live when you were pagans apart from God? You were engrossed—enchanted with voiceless idols, led astray by mere images carved by human hands. With that in mind, I want you to understand that no one saying “Jesus is cursed” is operating under God’s Spirit, and no one confessing “Jesus is Lord” can do so without the Holy Spirit’s inspiration.
Now there are many kinds of grace gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit. There are many different ways to serve, but they’re all directed by the same Lord. There are many amazing working gifts in the church, but it is the same God who energizes them all in all who have the gifts.
Each believer has received a gift that manifests the Spirit’s power and presence. That gift is given for the good of the whole community. The Spirit gives one person a word of wisdom, but to the next person the same Spirit gives a word of knowledge. Another will receive the gift of faith by the same Spirit, and still another gifts of healing—all from the one Spirit. One person is enabled by the Spirit to perform miracles, another to prophesy, while another is enabled to distinguish those prophetic spirits. The next one speaks in various kinds of unknown languages, while another is able to interpret those languages. One Spirit works all these things in each of them individually as He sees fit.
Just as a body is one whole made up of many different parts, and all the different parts comprise the one body, so it is with the Anointed One. We were all ceremonially washed through baptism together into one body by one Spirit. No matter our heritage—Jew or Greek, insider or outsider—no matter our status—oppressed or free—we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Here’s what I mean: the body is not made of one large part but of many different parts. Would it seem right for the foot to cry, “I am not a hand, so I couldn’t be part of this body”? Even if it did, it wouldn’t be any less joined to the body. And what about an ear? If an ear started to whine, “I am not an eye; I shouldn’t be attached to this body,” in all its pouting, it is still part of the body. Imagine the entire body as an eye. How would a giant eye be able to hear? And if the entire body were an ear, how would an ear be able to smell? This is where God comes in. God has meticulously put this body together; He placed each part in the exact place to perform the exact function He wanted. If all members were a single part, where would the body be? So now, many members function within the one body. The eye cannot wail at the hand, “I have no need for you,” nor could the head bellow at the feet, “I won’t go one more step with you.” It’s actually the opposite. The members who seem to have the weaker functions are necessary to keep the body moving; the body parts that seem less important we treat as some of the most valuable; and those unfit, untamed, unpresentable members we treat with an even greater modesty. That’s something the more presentable members don’t need. But God designed the body in such a way that greater significance is given to the seemingly insignificant part. That way there should be no division in the body; instead, all the parts mutually depend on and care for one another. If one part is suffering, then all the members suffer alongside it. If one member is honored, then all the members celebrate alongside it. You are the body of the Anointed, the Liberating King; each and every one of you is a vital member. God has appointed gifts in the assembly: first emissaries, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, healers, helpers, administrators, and then those who speak with various unknown languages. Are all members gifted as emissaries? Are all gifted with prophetic utterance? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Or are all gifted in healing arts? Do all speak or interpret unknown languages? Of course not. Pursue the greater gifts, and let me tell you of a more excellent way—love.
The Letter of 1st Corinthians, Chapter 12 (The Voice)
Today’s paired chapter of the Testaments is the 47th chapter of the book (scroll) of Isaiah that gives warning to such acts as magic and sorcery and astrology:
[An Ode to the Fall of Babylon]
“Get down from your throne and sit in the dust, O Miss Babylon!
Sit on the ground where you belong,
not on a throne, O Miss Chaldea!
For you will never be described again as ‘delicate and dainty.’
Take off your pretty veil;
take two millstones and grind grain.
Lift your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Your humiliating nakedness will be uncovered,
your shame exposed and seen by all.
I will take vengeance and let no one intercede for you.”
We have a Redeemer. Yahweh is his name,
the Commander of Angel Armies, the Holy One of Israel!
“Sit silently and go away into the darkness, O Miss Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called the Mistress of Kingdoms.
I became angry with my people,
so I wounded my special ones.
I handed them over to you, and you took them captive.
You showed them no mercy;
you even made the elderly suffer under your heavy yoke.
You thought,
‘I will be the Mistress of Kingdoms forever.’
But you never considered what you were doing
or reflected on how all this would end.
So now, listen to this, you pampered lover of pleasure,
who sits smug and secure and says in her heart,
‘I am, and there is no one like me!
I will never have to live as a widow
or suffer the loss of my children.’
Suddenly both of these losses will overtake you in one day,
for you will lose your husband and your children.
Despite your many magic spells and your powerful sorceries,
you will be overwhelmed by these tragedies in full measure!
You felt so smug and secure in your wickedness.
You thought, ‘No one sees me.’
Your idea of ‘wisdom’ and self-professed ‘knowledge’
has led you astray, saying in your heart,
‘I am! There is none like me!’
An avalanche of evil will come upon you
that no magic spell will be able to avert.
Great disaster is about to fall upon you
that you will not be able to ward off!
Total devastation will strike you suddenly.
It will happen so swiftly you won’t even see it coming!
So go ahead—keep trusting in your sorceries
and the witchcraft you’ve practiced since your youth.
Perhaps you might succeed!
Perhaps you’ll scare away your impending doom!
You must be fatigued with so much counsel!
Let the stargazers and astrologers take their stand.
See if they can help you now!
Let them make their monthly predictions.
Maybe they can reveal what
is about to come upon you.
Look at them!
They’re nothing but straw for the consuming fire.
They can’t even rescue themselves from the power of the flame.
And this is not some cozy fire
that you sit beside to keep yourself warm!
These traders, with whom you have dealt since your youth,
will do nothing but disappoint you.
Each has wandered off to his own way—
there is no one left to rescue you!
The Book (Scroll) of Isaiah, Chapter 47
A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures for Sunday, july 25 of 2021 with a paired chapter from each Testament of the Bible along with Today’s Proverbs and Psalms
A post by John Parsons that looks at a prophetic picture of restoration:
The prophet Zechariah (זְכַרְיָה) foresaw the future Messianic Era when the various fast days of the Jewish year would be transformed into appointed times of great joy: “Thus says Adonai Tzeva'ot (יהוה צְבָאוֹת): The fast of the fourth month (Tzom Tammuz), and the fast of the fifth month (Tishah B'Av), and the fast of the seventh month (Tzom Gedaliah), and the fast of the tenth month (Asarah b'Tevet), will be to the house of Judah for joy and rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved” (Zech. 8:19).
Because of this prophecy of coming consolation for Israel, on the Sabbath immediately following the fast of Av (i.e., Tishah B’Av) we recall the promise of coming comfort from the LORD God of Israel. Therefore the sages named this Sabbath the "Sabbath of Comfort" (i.e., Shabbat Nachamu: שַׁבַּת נַחֲמוּ) and assigned the prophetic portion from the Book of Isaiah that begins: נַחֲמוּ נַחֲמוּ עַמִּי - Nachamu, Nachamu ami - "Comfort, O comfort, my people..." (Isa. 40:1). The sages reasoned that the word nachamu was repeated to offer consolation for both Temples that were destroyed. Thematically, this Shabbat marks a time of joy over anticipated comfort: Despite present tribulations, the LORD will vindicate His glory and completely ransom His people.
Shabbat Nachamu marks the start of a series of seven weekly readings related to the final redemption of the Jewish people - and indeed the entire world (these readings are sometimes called "The Seven Haftarot of Consolation," or "Shiva D'nechemta" in Aramaic). In other words, we have seven weeks to prepare for the start of the new year (Rosh Hashanah) and the High Holidays - a prophetic season that concerns the return of Yeshua. From the Sabbath following Tishah B’Av until Rosh Hashanah, we read words of comfort from the prophets. These selections foretell the restoration of the Jewish people to their land (the ingathering of the exiles), the future redemption of Israel, and the coming of the Messianic Era. May Yeshua return soon, chaverim! [Hebrew for Christians]
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Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research
July 25, 2021
Come Thou Fount
“And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” (Revelation 21:6)
Promises of God’s fountain of blessings fill Scripture. They beckon our prayers for fulfillment, not only in heaven but even now. Christ assured us that “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). The precious hymn “Come Thou Fount” reminds us of our position of blessing in Christ. The first verse says:
Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.
God acts toward believers in grace and mercy, not deserved justice, eliciting praise from the recipients. His “fount” assures us that He “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).
We look forward to singing and praising our Lord with the angelic “flaming tongues” above for all eternity. “The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever…saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created” (Revelation 4:10-11), and “I heard the voice of many angels...saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing” (Revelation 5:11-12).
Even so, come Thou Fount. JDM
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“I ask not for a lighter burden but for broader shoulders.”
Yulenka’s Playlist
1. Ki L’olam // Moshe Tischler
2. Ashira Lashem // Ari Goldwag, Dovid Pearlman
3. Nachamu Ami // Omek Hadavar
4. Modim // Aryeh Kunstler
5. Rise Up // Simcha Leiner
6. Eight Flames // Nissim Black
7. Uman Anthem // Mendy Worch
8. Modeh Ani // Moshe Tischler
9. V’zakeini // Benny Friendman, Baruch Levine
10. Kol Halayla // Sruli & Netanel
11. Chelek Sheli // Eli Marcus
12. Hafachta // Ari Goldwag
13. On My Way // Nissim Black
14. Od Yishoma // Boruch Sholom
15. Gesher Tzar // Beri Weber, DJ Kraz
16. Da Ma // Yoni Z
17. Anim // Gad Feureisen
18. Yeridah Letzoirech Aliyah // Lipa Schmeltzer
19. Ahalela // Avi Zelinger
20. Tefila Sheli // Uri Davidi
21. Kol Hamelamed // Shmueli Ungar
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This Shabbat, immediately following Tisha B'Av, is called Shabbat Nachamu - the Sabbath of Comforting - after the beginning of the prophetic passage (Isaiah 11:1-26) that is read, "Nachamu, nachamu, ami - Comfort you, comfort you, my people." It is the first of seven Shabbatot of comforting haftarahs that climb from the depths of Tisha B'Av to the renewal of Rosh HaShanah ... It takes us seven weeks to move from the deathday of the whole people (Tisha B'Av) to the birthday of the human race (Rosh Hashanah). In these seven weeks we complete the circle of the year, moving from the burning sun of summer to the first cool breeze of autumn. From the hot and thirsty fast of Tisha B'Av to the wellsprings of Hagar and Abraham, and our own visit to the river for Tashlich. We complete the circle, from exhaustion to new life.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
for people not as familiar with the terms:
Tisha B’Av = a holiday of mourning for the Jewish people over historical tragedi(es) on which there is a major fast.
Rosh HaShanah = the new year, one of the holiest holidays of the Jewish calendar.
Tashlich = a ritual taking place during Rosh HaShanah in which our wrongdoings and regrets are “cast off” and we start anew - often in the form of throwing scraps of bread or similar symbolically into the river.
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Rabbi Naftali of Kollel Beth Yossef in Montreal, Quebec, Canada giving a sermon explaining parchat Va'etchanan which is read on Shabbat Nachamu; 2013.
Shabbat Nachamu, or Shabbat of comfort in Hebrew, is the first Shabbat after Tisha B’Av. The name comes from the first words of the Haftarah, “Nachamu, Nachamu Ami” – “Comfort, oh comfort My people, says your G-d.” According to the Abudarham the first lines of the Haftarot play out a narrative between G-d, the Prophet Isaiah, and Israel; a narrative which is continued in the seven Haftarah between this Shabbat and Rosh Hashanah.
Shabbat Nachamu begins on the evening of August 4th and continues until the evening of August 5th. Shabbat Shalom from all of us at the Jewish Virtual Library!
#Kollel Beth Yossef#Montreal#Quebec#Canada#video#2013#Shabbat#Shabbat Shalom#Tisha B'Av#Shabbat Nachamu#Hebrew#Naftarah#Rosh Hashanah
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The End of Nachamu Ami Business Reviews and Information
Where Disciples Grow
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Nachamu, nachamu ami, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Isaiah 40:1) ...Let us all pray we can find comfort in our daily prayers
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Been taking a lot of comfort in Psalm 27 lately, especially the Lev Shalem translation of it. I think they really captured the beauty of the original Hebrew here.
I especially love this musical setting of the last couple lines:
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nachamu // (comfort)
nachamu, nachamu ami
nachamu, nachamu yo’mar elohe’chem
dabru al-lev y’rushalem, v’kiru aley’ha
ki mala tz’vaha, ki nirtzah avonah
ki lak’cha m’yad, m’yad hashem
kiflayim b’kohl khatote’ha.
#jumblr#jewish tag#idk im jammin to it tonight it's a really good song#ok to relog /#i love my people and our language i could listen to it all day
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Thank you Rabbi Buchdahl for these words of wisdom; this was exactly what I needed to hear today. It seems that pretty much across the board Jews have experienced being abandoned by the left and are reeling from the news and people's apathy towards our lives.
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Now that I have managed to snap myself enough out of the grief and rage and dread to do so, I'm gonna start being proactive by posting things that I have personally found meaningful or comforting under the tag "nachamu nachamu ami."
This is just a resource sharing thing from one religious Jew to my fellow yidden, not politics, discourse, or whatever. Anyone trying to start anything on my posts with those tags is going to be blocked without warning, discussion, or engagement.
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אֵֽלֶּה אֶזְכְּרָה וְנַפְשִׁי עָלַי אֶשְׁפְּכָה...
Each Yom Kippur we read Eleh Ezkarah, These I Remember, about the martyrs killed by the Romans for being Jews. But my shul always gives contemporary martyrs of antisemitism after the first verse, and I need you to know that I sobbed this year even more than normal because all of them, all of them were killed since I started going to shul six years ago. All of them except, of course, Rabbi Akiva.
That realization hit me like a landslide and stayed in my mind like a shadow until well after Ne'ilah.
For the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting, this year we read the poem "A Minyan Plus One."
At the end, we read a special Kaddish Yatom that interposes the names of the Holocaust death camps between the traditional words.
And I thought. Chaverim I thought, foolishly, that at least next year, I'd be ready.
#jumblr#nachamu nachamu ami#has someone already started writing this? I bet they have#if not#who wants to start one with me?
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