A Common Syncretism Question

To me, being trans is one of the most incredible blessings a human can receive from HaShem. From the moment we take our first breath, we are given the wondrous opportunity to mould ourselves b'tzelem Elohim–in the image of G-d. Every day we get to decide what b'tzelem Elohim means for us; we get to lovingly form ourselves like clay, every iteration a reflection of the Divine all on its own, into the image… the person that HaShem always knew we could become.

—G-J-B (Queer & Jewish Musings)

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.

this take on the Binding of Isaac is quite insightful I think; it maintains the traditional interpretation of the story as an act of supreme trust while subverting the idea that unjust actions for the sake of God are morally correct. (i apologise for lack of ALT text it's quite long and I couldn't copy-paste)

from Bodoff, L. (1993). "The Real Test of the Akedah: Blind Obedience Versus Moral Choice." Judaism: a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought 42(1): 71-92.

chag purim sameach! wishing a wonderful purim to everyone :D feel free to comment and/or reblog talking abt your fun purim celebrations! and/or share some fun facts :0

feel free to ask me any!

Religious Ask Tag

ask tags seem to have dwindled but I thought I’d swing for just one more!

Send me an ask with the numbers you’d like me to answer!

1) Which religion/spiritual path do you identify with?

2) When was the last time you prayed?

3) Have you ever doubted your faith?

4) Have you ever belonged to a different religion?

5) When do you feel closest to your deity/ies?

6) Do you have lots of religious paraphernalia?

7) If you could change one thing about your faith community, what would it be?

8) What is your favourite passage from your sacred text, if you have one?

9) Has your faith ever helped you through a crisis?

10) Do you have a favourite prayer/ritual?

11) Have you ever considered converting to another faith?

12) Were you born in a religious family?

13) Do you practise the majority faith of the place you live in?

14) Have you ever been discriminated against on the basis of your faith?

15) Have you ever had a divine experience?

hello!! im just wondering how does being both jewish and muslim work? genuine question and i hope i dont come across as rude!

(also nice to see another jewish alterhuman :3)

hii!! not rude at all dw :D also yippee i love meeting other jewish alterhumans as well <33 it's sort of hard to summarize tbh, since it depends on the specific topic! like for some things, i sort of take the "middle approach" between the typical jewish and muslim view (e.g. judaism rejects jesus, islam accepts him as a prophet/messenger and the messiah, and i say he was a prophet/messenger but not the messiah). but for other things, i kinda pick one or the other depending on which is more reasonable to me (e.g. pantheism, which is much more common in judaism than islam, makes more sense to me than thinking G-d is completely separate from creation like in mainstream islamic thought) and some things i'm still working out! such as what i think modesty standards are for me, what diet i should follow, etc it's been a slow but fun journey so far, and i learn new things every day! i hope that helped u to understand a little better :3

im not crying you are crying!

The golem is too small - but the children who make him, who hand him to their baby siblings to hold who have shaped him with small hands - they make a friend. From the very first children of exile, little ones yearning for their home - they wished for a friend - these small babies - toddlers with halting steps and little tiny children. And so he is shaped to them - to be held.

From all soils but home, he is reshaped - small hands and prayers and hopes - little wishes along with them - from Shiraz to London to Aksum to those that remain in Yerushaláyim - children add buttons, beads, colours and love - the warmth of small hands no matter what happens.

The Golem wishes he was large, that he could protect them - but he can be with them, all the children who are lost to an endless ancient hate - a hand to hold at the end, perhaps a shield from pain.

He lives in a bright place - filled with paints, with colour and toys and he will protect it always and always - though he is very small, he can protect this place now, this little haven and the little ones who pass through the doors.

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chag chanukkah sameach!!

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Beloved is man for he was created in the image of God. Still greater was God’s love in that He gave to man the knowledge of his having been so created. - Pirke Avot 3:18

(Via Gebre Menfes Kidus)