#Jewish soul

[yak-leather-whips]

Okay THIS is what I’m talking about with the Osmir shit! Religions are not all evangelistic! My faith can be deep and profound and personal and can also have FUCK ALL TO DO with what anyone else believes. The number of adherents to a belief is not a measure of its goodness or righteousness!

[whitesunlars]

y'all know there's still 200 innocent civilians being held hostage by a terrorist organization, right? does anybody care?

[former-leftist-jew]

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[maimonidesnutz]

[bfpnola]

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

I'm tagging this as jumblr bc i trust the jews to help me with my jewish polls! im currently stuck on analyzing the data on these polls because i need to compare the two and they have wildly different sample sizes. I am not explaining what i was doing here until i have all my data analysis done bc i would like to know if the results are significant or not first.

anyway if anyone has a good method of comparing 2 surveys with different sample sizes and determining if results are statistically significant please let me know! i have a few ideas but i definitely need second opinions bc i have not done stats in a hot fucking minute. the main problems I have are 1) different sample sizes and 2) most methods i find are for experimental data, not nonexperimental.

in short i want to compare the data from each individual poll button (which all correlate with each other) while also factoring in the differing sample sizes. it would also be helpful if the method was good with percentages. i really really fucking hate stats however i refuse to just treat 2 different sample sizes the same bc that would probably kill me.

i also have limited tools at my disposal. i have a shitty old laptop and an even shittier older ti-84. they can do a lot bc i bully them into submission regularly but these things are not fancy whatsoever and they have limits and they express those limits frequently

[thejewitches]

Ashkenazi Jews, particularly those of Eastern Europe, would take part in the practice of soul candles, or ner neshama. Feldmesterins, or cemetery measurers, who were typically older women within the community, would walk through the Jewish cemetery blessing thread as it is wound. Very often it would be done in groups or pairs, with one winding the thread as the other held the ball. Once the ritual of grave measuring (Keyvermestn) was complete, the blessed thread is turned into candles--known as Kneytlekhleygn or "wick laying". Read more

[homochadensistm]

You'd make a Muslim Arab the head of a Jewish state?

truly how SCANDALOUS!!

[princessg3rard]

hey my favorite bible nerd! I have another weird question. with all the jesus stuff again I'm wondering if he celebrated any holidays and you seem most likely to be able to answer <3

ok I’ve got this one :3 as a second temple era jew, jesus would have celebrated most of the holidays modern jews do - just a little differently.

(a fuck ton of yapping below the cut :3)

before we go in tho, pls keep in mind all of these practices are closed. these are holidays and fasts that are incredibly important and have been around for generations, and trying to do them without invite from a jewish person is a sucky thing to do. u can emulate jesus in plenty of other ways <3

when the temple was still around, jews were obligated to come over to it from all around the land and worship there - especially for the big 3, sukkot, passover, and shavuot. the big 3 (or shloshet ha’regalim as we call them, loosely translated as “the three pilgrimage holidays”) are agricultural holidays, so there was also the obligation to bring the fruits of your labour.

from historical and biblical sources, we can infer that jesus definitely celebrated these holidays as every other jew from around this area (Galilee, Golan, etc - modern northern Israel and southern Syria). He’d leave his house to make the pilgrimage to the temple in jerusalem, sacrifice some of his property/fruit of his labour to the lord, and then have the traditional Seder.

his Seder however looked a little different - probably without most songs, and because this is all pre-shulchan aruch, I really can’t tell how long the blessings and games would take (most of my context is obv how we do it modern day, but the earliest Haggadah known is from the 14th century - we mostly guess about the additives).

so yea, jesus probably did it kinda like me and most modern jews - celebrated the agricultural holidays (there are so many of them), and also the non-agricultural holidays (which would be Hanukkah and purim), and fasted at most times we do in modern times (minus tisha be’av, tzom gdaliya, and im putting sfirat haomer here too bc it’s sad and he wouldn’t have done it (I know it’s not a fast)).

[jimberlyjones]

spacelazarwolf was just so incredibly antisemitic to me and so racist to palestinians i'm in shock. have any other antizionist jews experienced this with him??? in need of advice thanks

[jewish-culture-is]

jewish culture is having to remind people that most if not all conspiracy theories can somehow be traced back to something antisemitic

[jimmyspades]

[animatedamerican]

Happy Eighth Night of Chanukah, Jumblr! Please enjoy this rendition of Tom Lehrer's "Hanukkah in Santa Monica", in Yiddish. (Transliteration and English translation subtitled.)

[sopranoentravesti]

Man it’s really fun when goyim just cannot cannot resist letting rightful criticism of Israel descend into the whole “Jews control the media.”

Take it from someone who has bitched about Hasbara for longer than you’ve known what it was. Please stop saying shit about “Israel’s PR Army.”

[sesshomarou]

i have a sickening feeling that once israel ceases to be politically beneficial to western countries the governments will try to use it as a way to once again scapegoat Jewish people

[fuckyeah-bears]

you're so funny. palestine this, palestine that, i cant keep the bear blogging it feels fake. not a word about ukraine (a second year of internationally recognised genocide) or karabakh (ongoing ethnical cleansing fully forgotten by anybody except armenians, but who cares about those, i guess). is it only important if its poor poor muslims suffering at the hands of evil evil jews?

Hey do everyone a favor and fuck off to be a miserable racist Islamophobic person somewhere else