sillyjewishbug
adult | bug/it/ix/they | jewish
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do you have a favorite bug? Or bugs you think are particularly cool? I think all bugs are pretty neat, especially that one bug with a really long neck built like a straw...
(p.s sorry for yapping in your inbox haha)
LOL good question! i think ants are very underrated, i think they are super cool :0
i assume u mean giraffe-necked weevils!! those are epic as well, very good favorite bug! ill put a picture under the cut
<3
woah!! a silly jewish bug!! that's so cool
thank u! yes!! hello there moka :D
I love being Jewish. I love the way a bracha rolls off my tongue, half whisper, half inheritance, and suddenly I'm not alone.
I'm stitched to something older than exile, older than fear.
There are generations behind me, candlelit and stubborn, who prayed with the same words, who wept and danced and buried their dead with the same rhythms.
Through halacha, through ritual, through the ache of tradition, I belong.
עם ישראל חי
OP you need to say this so much louder for the people in the back!
If you’re not Jewish, you can kindly shut the fuck up about the following:
The Talmud
Zionism
What is or is not antisemitism
The word “goy/goyim”
Jumblr: Feel free to add more.
dont forget!!
If you’re Jewish, 18 or older, and live in the United States, vote tonight or tomorrow in the World Zionist Congress.
After tomorrow, there won’t be another election for 5 years, so do the voting now.
i rly like Clozemaster! it was recommended to me and i felt like i was learning actual plausible dialogue instead of random duolingo shit lol. i hope it helps u!!
i’m going to israel in a couple months and i really wanna learn more hebrew (i only know the basics) and i was wondering wondering if anyone had good recommendations for good apps/sites (not duolingo pls) id love to hear them! also preferably free or free for students!
any recs are helpful tysm!!!
this one. this one right here.
I hate you "Abrahamic", I hate you "Judeo-Christian", I hate you Protestant interpretations being the academic standard, I hate you "BC/AD", I hate you "X amount of years before Chr*st", I hate you academic supercessionism, I hate you ignoring Jewish translations and interpretations, I hate you "The Bible", I hate you making sweeping statements about Judaism even though you have no authority to, I hate you "expert in religion", I hate you casual academic antisemitism.
i didnt forget to update earlier, what are you talking about-
SUCCESS idk how i pulled that off but my first ever pesakh with two seders has indeed happened!! nothing caught fire either b"h
i am gonna *try* to do a solo seder for the first night of pesakh, since i go to my family's on the second night. . . wish me luck!! i definitely procrastinated too close to the sun and am panicking but i think that is a fairly common jewish experience lmao
hopefully i dont burn the house down trying to figure out a pre-existing flame for chag pesakh candles!
i am gonna *try* to do a solo seder for the first night of pesakh, since i go to my family's on the second night. . . wish me luck!! i definitely procrastinated too close to the sun and am panicking but i think that is a fairly common jewish experience lmao
hopefully i dont burn the house down trying to figure out a pre-existing flame for chag pesakh candles!
oh woah!! that does help tysm :0 /gen
tbh this has been my experience trying to observe shabbat more traditionally so far lmao. we tear so many things!! (toilet paper & packaging are the biggest ones...)
regardless, has been quite fulfilling thus far :D
tysm for the tag!! why are we all "oh the horrors"?? lmao
anyways tags: @coffee-butler @mondaysmournings @bubblefemmes
Let's all be in a TV show!!!
> Do this quiz
> do this picrew (Based on urself + quiz answers)
> tag ppl
> profit.
Tags (/nf ofc):
@mxlilly @circus-of-horror @yourleastfavoriteguyinthechair @microsoupmouse @the-firefly-jar-system @punkrockinchair @theplushiesystem @coded-pup @florasolarsystem + ANYONE else who wants to join
TRUE someone finally said it! please save us from secular binary gender 🙏
my gender identity is jew if that makes sense
blog update
hello my sillies! just fyi this is no longer a syncretism blog, it will just be judaism stuff (personally) moving forward! happy almost-spring to u all <33
chag sameach!! happy tu bishvat!!
happy birthday to all the trees out there <33
I love you pomegranates I love you olive branches I love you doves I love you menorahs and chanukiahs I love you Shabbat candles I love you shofars I love you Torah and Tanakh and Gemara I love you Ladino and Judeo-Marathi and Krymchak and Yiddish and Judeo-Malayalam and Judeo-Arabic and all the languages I love you seven species I love you kiddush cup I love you sefarim I love you Aron I love you sniut I love you henna I love you nose rings and earrings and necklaces I love you rain and snow and storms I love you and sun and moon and stars I love you white clothes on Yom Kippur and Shabbat. I love you Judaism.
A fellow hetrodox Abrahamic! :0
im quite pleased with the amount of heterodox and/or heretical folks on tumblr lol, ive found my people 🙏
Hello from a fellow bug! Hope you're having a lovely day!
aww thank u!! i hope your day is wonderful as well <33
Person with no whimsy: Why are you trying to trick g-d with loopholes? 🙄🙄🙄🙄
so many people arent ready for this one. . .
the thing about the R slur is i do think its technically reclaimable- if youre a person with an intelectual disability, disagnosed learning difficulty, downs syndrome, or anything else that wouldve been historically categorized under that label and you want to say "fuck it, i am that label, i'm gonna own it" then like. fine, thats your prerogative. you'll probably get some weird looks but i don't think anybody can police what you call yourself. the problem is literally every instance ive seen of someone 'reclaiming' the R slur has been using it to insult someone else and then pulling the "im allowed to say it because i'm neurospicy" card and like. thats not how this works. thats not how any of this works.
trying my hand at some digital art!
queer jewish flag coining!
[pt. queer jewish flag coining! end pt.]
nivrah bein hashmashot
a term for queer jews, translating to "created between the suns" in reference to the night between the sixth and seventh days of creation. the rainbow was created then, along with other things that transcended binaries.
ovri
term for queer (especially trans and/or gender non-conforming) jews, translating to "one who crosses over" which can reference transition or subverting gender/sexuality norms. the plural is ovrim.
these flags/terms are jewish-exclusive! other than that, feel free to use
if you credit/tag me, you can use these flags as inspiration or redesign them!
credits: where i first heard these terms!
G-d to me is the sky. G-d to me is the ocean. G-d to me is the ground. G-d to me is intersexuality. G-d to me is transgenderism. G-d to me is lesbianism and queerness and pride and joy of the self and man and woman and both and neither and myself and you and us and we.
G-d to me is faith and trust and love and feeding my loved ones to make sure they’re full and happy and cared for.
G-d is the feeling of my partners skin on mine and the feeling of warmth in bed and the feeling of good soup in my stomach and the feeling of my mother laughing and the feeling of my fathers approval.
G-d to me is nature and the machine and the flesh and the divine and the air and space and the unknown and the knowledge that one way or another things will be okay because we all have a soul that means something.
G-d to me is making latkes with my sister for my first hanukkah, even though she isn’t jewish she does what she can to support me and my love and my self.
G-d to me is good books and good music and art that makes me cry and language that makes me laugh and fibre of my clothing and thread of my arts and the beads of my jewelry and the light of my candles and the warmth of my blankets.
G-d to me is the hebrew that i want to learn and the english that is all i know and the french of my great grandmother and the indigenous language of my ancestors and the portuguese of my friend and the ukrainian of my classmate and whispers of my lover.
G-d is me and you and us and we and together and apart and i love him, her, them, it, us, we.
Alright, Chanukah starts tonight, which means it's time for me to finally make a post about different kinds of menorahs.
This right here? This is the Temple Menorah:
There's some debate over whether the branches were straight or curved, but here's a few things we do know:
It had seven branches of equal length.
It was made of one solid piece of gold
It was at least five feet tall.
It used pure olive oil.
The Temple Menorah is what people mean when they talk about The Menorah. It's what you'll see on historical or commemorative artifacts such as the Arch of Titus in Rome or Israeli currency:
During the time when the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the High Priest lit all seven flames on this Menorah every day (using the aforementioned pure olive oil):
No one lights this on Chanukah.
This is a Chanukah menorah:
There are countless variations, but here are the important things:
It has eight branches of equal length, plus a ninth "helper" branch, known as the shamash, which is set apart from the rest of the branches and used to light the others.
It can be made of any material.
It is usually used with wax candles or oil, but, if necessary, one can use anything that burns.
In Hebrew, this kind of menorah is called a chanukiah.
Some Chanukah menorahs, like the one shown above, have the shamash in the middle. Others have it on the side:
Regardless, this kind of menorah is the one that has been lit by Jews on Chanukah for thousands of years. It's the menorah you'll seen in photographs of Jewish households, including this famous picture taken in Germany in 1931:
(The message written on the back of the photo reads: "Death to Judah"/ So the flag says/ "Judah will live forever"/ So the light answers)
On Chanukah, whoever is lighting the menorah will first light the shamash, then the number of candles corresponding to whichever night of Chanukah it is. The first night, only the rightmost candle is lit, the second night the two rightmost, etc. (The newest candle is always lit first):
Again, a valid Chanukah menorah has eight branches of equal length, along with a shamash. There is no such thing as a Chanukah menorah with six branches of equal length and a longer seventh branch, and no valid Chanukah menorah has eight branches of completely different lengths.
If you see either of the above designs (or anything similar) on Chanukah-themed decor, it tells you the creator has absolutely no idea what they're doing and couldn't be bothered to do more than two seconds of research to make sure their product was accurate. Anyone who knows anything about the holiday will laugh at these. (They may buy them anyway, especially if that's all that's available-- my new Chanukah sweater has an invalid menorah pattern, but it's adorable, so I'm still going to wear it. But I am also laughing about it and invite you all to do the same.)
Anyway, have a happy Chanukah, everyone!
Hanukkah is here soon!💙✡️
why tumblr gotta be so real like this lol
