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@ personsonable // @ halogen2 // Dorianne Laux //  Jonny Bolduc // @ pigmenting // @ wiremothers // Melissa Broder

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happy normal fuckin day to everyone who doesnt celebrate christmas or rly any holidays today n tomorrow. hope you have an average day. hope its chill like any other

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a blessing for transitioning genders, rabbi elliot kukla

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Meaning is made, not just discovered. That is what religion for the most part is: the constant making and remaking of meaning, by the stories we tell, the rituals divine commands, and prayer a genuine dialogue with the divine. Religion is an authentic response to a real Presence, but is is also a way of making that presence real by constantly living in response to it. It is truth translated into deed.

    — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, in The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning

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the power of boop really does bring us all together. i don't know who half of you people in my notfis are. i would die for you

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Why is God so quiet?

because it’s your turn to talk

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Everyone queue up this meme I made for next week

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A sign of good fortune entering the new year! Shanah Tova!

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walking into erev rosh hashanah services tomorrow like "what a fucking year, my man"

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I secretly hated treyf food, and wanted an excuse to not eat it

Alright new game for jewish converts only;

Why did you become Jewish?

Wrong answers only

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I'm Aaron, I'm 24, I use he/they/it pronouns. I converted to Judaism through a small synagogue in the upper Midwest (the US). I'm trans, queer, and disabled. I have since moved to the Seattle area.

This blog has been somewhat dormant lately, as I've moved, changed jobs several times, and gotten married. I'm working on reviving it

I am still practicing, and hope to continue being a resource for those converting and curious about it. Feel free to DM me with questions :) (I may not answer right away, but I get back to as many people as I can!)

Lately I've gotten into some (Jew)witchy stuff!

My sideblog is @home-whereelse for homey vibes!

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Jewish converts are like adopted children. sure, they're not biologically related to the rest of the family, but that doesn't make them any less family than the kids who were born into it, even if they joined at an older age.

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“INTERVIEWER Do you think of yourself as having a relationship with God? CARSON No. But that’s not bad. I think in the last few years, since I’ve been working on Decreation and reading a lot of mystics, especially Simone Weil, I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t. So, sad fact, but get used to it, because nothing else is going to happen. INTERVIEWER He’s not available because he chooses to remove himself or he’s not available because he doesn’t exist? CARSON Neither. He’s not available because he’s not a being of a kind that would fit into our availability. “Not knowable,”as the mystics would say. And knowing is what a worshiper wants to get from God—the sense of being in an exchange of knowledge, knowing and being known. It’s what anybody wants from any relationship of love, and the relationship with God is supposed to be one of love. But I don’t think any kind of knowing is ever going to materialize between humans and gods. INTERVIEWER Is it stymied because of the nature of the beast? CARSON Because of the difference of the two orders. If God were knowable, why would we believe in him?”

Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88

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Happy Happy Happy

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jews on simchat torah

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something happens, in the bible, when you get too close to death but re-turn anyway. this 'something' has a phrase: לֹ֣א נָכַר. it translates to "can't be recognized," "was not registered," something like that, but why translate it at all? keep it semiotic. keep it leaky, risky, muddy. in the bible, when god tells you to die but then lets you live anyway, you come back and are not recognizable. job is brought to the brink of death, and his friends לֹ֣א נָכַר him. jacob, about to lose his blessings, becomes לֹ֣א נָכַר to his father. joseph, mock-killed by his brothers, is too לֹ֣א נָכַר. moses comes down from spending 40 days with god. becomes לֹ֣א נָכַר. you can't translate what these men looked like after they didn't-die. their didn't-dying is above register; it, in and of itself, cannot be recognized. sometimes god tries to kill you and you live. and you'll only know it once you see it

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Happy last night of Hanukkah y'all!!

Hope all of you have had a great Hanukah; I'm biased, but it is one of the best holidays B)