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Heyyy another aro-spec ace Jew, I'm happy I found another one! :) have a nice day!

Aro-ace spec Jews unite!

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went to the cleveland art museum & they have a maghreb exhibit that was entirely jewish + amazigh art :-) i was really pleasantly surprised

these mitpachat and the b'niqa are 19th century algerian jewish crafted + were my favorites

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Museum Glass. lithograph on paper by Janet Fish, 1975. alternatively titled Kiddush Cups (Glasses for the Jewish Museum) according to the North Carolina Art Museum, this work is one of Fish's many colorful and interesting lithographic works. her art is primarily still life, with a focus on light, transparency, and reflection.

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ID credit: YG110116 on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

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Eshkachech being sung with cave acoustics??!

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while you’re out here hating on us we’re dropping SICK fucking beats. get wrecked.

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what's the 614th mitzvah? wrong answers only

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the stunning spanish synagogue of prague, built in 1868.

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Talmud Study Resources

This will hopefully be an ever growing list. If you have any Talmud study resources you like (online or in print), please send them to me and I’ll update accordingly!

The most important resource for study is community, so if you have a local synagogue, check if they have study group

Free Online Resources

Sefaria Mishnah — reading the Mishnah first can make the Gemara easier

Sefaria Talmud — the go-to free online translation

Daf Yomi — daily image of the day’s daf with audio of it being read (not translated as far I can tell)

Books

Your local Shul’s library probably has a copy of these or similar books! They are far from the only books on these topics

Reference Guide to the Talmud by Rabbi Steinsaltz

I love this book. It has the answers for almost every question a beginner could ask, from how a page of Talmud is laid out to the basics of Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic

The Practical Talmud Dictionary by Yitzhak Frank

Not a comprehensive dictionary of Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic, but it has a lot and is simple to use

Grammar for Gemara & Targum Onkelos: An Introduction to Aramaic by Yitzhak Frank

Sister text to The Practical Talmud Dictionary. Good for beginners with at least some knowledge of Hebrew

Everyman’s Talmud by Abraham Cohen

Basic overview of topics covered in the Talmud. Very dense

The Essential Talmud by Rabbi Steinsaltz

More digestible than Cohen’s book, but not as comprehensive

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We are Jews, the people of the book, and that book, and those books too... Please help I've been trapped under an avalanche of books

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Okay how about Williamsburg, MA because of all the fun of there already being significant Jewish community in Williamsburg NYC?!

Here’s my proposal:

We somehow start a new traditional shul (modox, trad egal, partnership, whatever) in the “five college” area of western Massachusetts.

Here’s why:

Western MA generally has cheaper housing than other parts MA… although this area is more expensive than more rural areas surrounding, and sort of has a housing shortage… but it comes with the benefit of more stuff in the area.

Amherst already has an eruv, so that’s a vote in favor of there. Or if we theoretically had funding to create a new eruv, a town immediately next to it, like Hadley, and have a point where they connect.

If it’s Shabbos walking distance to UMass Amherst Hillel, maybe it would be helpful for their modox group for us to combine on occasion to make minyan.

Northampton has a trad egal minyan connected to the Conservative synagogue. I don’t know enough about them to make claims, but maybe some of them would be interested in a more dedicated building space.

Herrell’s Ice Cream in Northampton is kosher.

There’s a vegan cafe in Hadley that’s owned by Seventh Day Adventists, so it’s closed on Shabbat. As-is, that’s kosher enough for some people. But there was talk about if it would be possible to make it kosher certified— whether that was just theoretical or not, I don’t know.

There’s a Trader Joe’s in Hadley, so easy access to Empire kosher chicken.

All of the aspects of MA that might appeal to someone out of state, such as healthcare and MassHealth.

Most Jewish communities are cities. It would be nice to have a(nother) option that is not.

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Tomorrow is Farhud Day, the day marking the violent ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jews in 1941, equivalent to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.

There used to be thousands of Jews in Iraq. The ancient Talmudic centers of Surah and Pumbedita were in Iraq. Jews in Iraq, and indeed most of the world, had never been treated as equal citizens, being subject to Dhimmi laws, but still the Iraqi Jewish culture flourished.

Today, it is estimated that there are only four Jews left in Iraq. Four Jews.

The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and it was razed to the ground.

If you talk about the Holocaust but don't talk about the multiple ethnic cleansings and genocides of Jews in the SWANA region, you are being deliberately ignorant and antisemitic.

My ancestors lived and died and were buried in Iraq but I can't visit their hometowns and gravesites because they're all gone.

Remember Iraq's Jews.

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Sermon for Shabbat Kallah, Autograph Manuscript of the Ben Ish Hai (Rabbi Joseph Hayyim al-Hakam of Baghdad), 5651 (=1891)

Rabbi Joseph Hayyim al-Hakam of Baghdad (1835-1909) was one of the most prominent halakhic authorities and kabbalists of Iraqi Jewry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While his weekly Sabbath afternoon homily was given in the so-called “small” synagogue, which seated a thousand worshipers, there were four Sabbaths in the year when he would lecture at the “large” synagogue, with a capacity of over ten thousand seats: the Sabbaths before Yom Kippur (“Shuvah”), Purim (“Zakhor”), Passover (“Ha-Gadol”), and Shavu‘ot (“Kallah”). Each of these sermons would typically feature a blend of Jewish law, rabbinic legend, parables, and ethical teachings.

This is the sermon delivered by the Ben Ish Hai on Shabbat Kallah 5651 (29 Iyyar 5654 = June 6, 1891), and written in his own hand.

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beach wedding?

no, bog wedding.

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beach wedding?

no, bog wedding.

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Sacred fruit