#Jewish wisdom

[dragoneyes618]

"A Jew passed in front of Hadrian [ the second-century Roman emperor] and greeted him. The king asked, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am a Jew." Hadrian exclaimed, "How dare a Jew pass in front of Hadrian and greet him?" and ordered, "Off with his head!" Another Jew passed and, seeing what happened to the first man, did not greet him. Hadrian asked, "Who are you?" He answered, "A Jew." He exclaimed, "How dare a Jew pass in front of Hadrian without giving a greeting?" and again ordered, "Off with his head!" His senators said, "We cannot understand your actions. He who greeted you was put to death, and he who did not greet you was put to death!" Hadrian replied, "Do you dare to advise me how I am to deal with those I hate?"

- Lamentations Rabbah 3:9 commenting on verse 3:58

Hadrian acknowledged what most antisemites deny: Their hatred of Jews is unassuageable by any Jewish behavior. Thus, antisemites who fault Jews for "pushing in where they are not wanted" presumably would find no fault with those Jews who ghettoize themselves and remain within their own community. Yet studies have shown that the very antisemites who despise Jews for their "incursions" into the majority culture also are apt to denounce them for "clannishly sticking together."

Antisemites frequently reach for the argument that sounds most plausible. Thus, Jew-haters in the former Soviet Union long focused on Jews as capitalists who were subverting communism, while American antisemites accused Jews of being communists and subverting capitalism.

It is useless to try to reason with these disciples of Hadrian. As the nineteenth-century German historian Theodore Momsen noted: "You are mistaken if you believe that anything at all can be achieved by reason. In years past I thought so myself and kept protesting against the monstrous infamy that is antisemitism. But it is uselss, completely useless" (cited in Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, page 1)."

- Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 463-464

[gay-jewish-bucky]

What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair, and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.

― Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, Wisdom to Heal the Earth: Meditations and Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

[thejewitches]

Via Yiddishwit.com

[hebrewbyinbal]

Let this Jewish wisdom by The Baal Shem Tov הבעש"ט הבעל שם טוב sink in 💙

Learning Hebrew is one of the best ways I know to bring more light and wisdom into your life 🤍

[cree-n-jewish-thoughts]

I'm going to reword my question, the one I like to use as the best way to describe what is happening in Gaza.

Question to leftists:

You have a gun on your person. A person is stabbing you. You have asked them to stop, you've bargained, you have even told them 'I have a gun"

and they tell you "I will not stop until you are dead".

Are you going to shoot that person? Or let them kill you?

I want you to find a reliable source to find the history of terror attacks against innocent Israeli citizens. There have been thousands of deaths of women and children, and you are letting it continue on a massive scale?

Now imagine you are in your home. Again you have a gun. Your neighbours break in and take your partner, your children, even your pets. They kill one child in front of the other, sexually abuse your spouse and then continue to stab you until you sign over the deed to your house, but you have a gun. Are you going to shoot them, incapacitate them? Or let them continue to ransack and destroy everything you love.

Are you going to shoot the home invaders that took your family from you? Or let them keep your partner and live child and also sign over the deed to your house to them?

Think critically. Use your brain. Use reliable sources for information. See through all the lies and propaganda. See the massive wave of antisemtism that has and continues to exponentially rise?

[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.

[lesbianlenses]

Sinister Wisdom 29

[overeasybluebloods]

My mom (not Jewish) got me the Taylor swift candle holders, super proud of herself because, “You can use them for Shabbat candles in your dorm! Swiftie Shabbat!”

So much… so much to unpack in that one

[zebratoys]

שׁוֹמֵר יִשְׂרָאֵל שָׁבוּעַ טוֹב 🤍✨💫 אָמֵן Shavua Tov Blessings Amen ♡ Speak to the soul in a language beyond words.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Way of Wisdom

1 Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table. 3 She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city, 4 “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!” To someone weak-willed she says, 5 “Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed! 6 Don’t stay unsure of yourself, but live! Walk in the way of understanding!” 7 “He who corrects a scoffer only gets insulted; reproving a wicked man becomes his blemish. 8 If you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you; if you reprove a wise man, he will love you. 9 Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more. 10 The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holy ones is understanding. 11 For with me, your days will be increased; years will be added to your life. 12 If you are wise, your wisdom helps you; but if you scoff, you bear the consequences alone.”

13 The foolish woman is coarse; she doesn’t think, and she doesn’t know a thing. 14 She sits at the door of her house or on a seat at the heights of the city, 15 calling to those who pass by, to those going straight along their ways, 16 “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!” To someone weak-willed she says, 17 “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.” 18 But he doesn’t realize that the dead are there, and that those who accept her invitation are in the depths of Sh’ol. — Proverbs 9 | Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) Complete Jewish Bible Copyright © 1998 by David H. Stern. All rights reserved. Cross References: Deuteronomy 11:21; Job 5:17; Job 22:2; Job 28:28; Psalm 68:11; Psalm 111:10; Psalm 141:5; Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 3:2; Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 5:8; Proverbs 5:16; Proverbs 5:18; Proverbs 6:32; Proverbs 7:11-12; Proverbs 7:26-27; Proverbs 8:2; Proverbs 8:35; Proverbs 10:14; Proverbs 13:1; Proverbs 23:19; Song of Solomon 5:1; Matthew 7:6; Matthew 22:3-4; Luke 14:16-17; John 6:27; 1 Corinthians 3:9-10; Galatians 6:5; Ephesians 2:20

[dragoneyes618]

"Two thousand years ago another Governor washed his hands of a case and turned over a Jew to a mob. For two thousand years that Governor's name has been accursed. If today another Jew were lying in his grave because I had failed to do my duty, I would all through life find his blood on my hands and would consider myself an assassin through cowardice."

- Georgia Governor John Slaton, June 21, 1915, commuting the death sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment.

In 1913, Leo Frank, a prominent Jewish Atlantan, was arrested and accused of murdering fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in his pencil factory. Although the evidence against him was very weak, the prosecution insisted on trying Frank, carefully suppressing evidence pointing to his innocence.

Frank's arrest triggered an outbreak of antisemitism in Atlanta. Throughout his trial, the jury heard mobs outside the courtroom's open windows chanting, "Hang the Jew! Hang the Jew!" Subsequent to his conviction, "[a jury member confessed] to a northern reporter that he was not sure of anything except that unless Frank was found guilty the jurors would never get home alive" (Leonard Dinnerstein, "A Dreyfuss Affair in Georgia," page 101).

Despite the clear miscarriage of justice (among other things, the "star" prosecution witness against Frank had confessed committing the murder to his own lawyer, information that the lawyer apparently passed on to the judge), the US supreme Court refused to intervene, so that the decision whether or not to execute Frank was left in Governor Slaton's hands. Although assured by the powerful anti-Frank forces of a Senate seat if he let Frank hang, Slaton carefully investigated the case and became convinced of Frank's innocence. In the prevailing turbulent political climate, he was afraid to pardon Frank, hoping apparently that that would be done a few years later. Therefore, Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence, an act that permanently ended his political career.

Several months later, Frank was dragged from his prison cell by a mob consisting of, among others, two retired superior court justices, a former sheriff, and a clergyman. They lynched Frank; for decades, a picture postcard depicting his hanged body was widely sold throughout the South.

In 1982, sixty-nine years after the trial, eighty-three-year-old Alonzo Mann, who had been an office boy in Frank's factory, admitted that he had seen Jim Conley, ab lack employee at the factory and the chief witness against Frank at the trial, dragging the girl's body into the factory's basement on the day of the murder. Mann's mother had pressured him not to get involved in the politically charged trial. In 1986, the state of Georgia granted Frank a posthumous pardon.

-Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 482-483

[oldmanontumbler]

Me: so, in the game Lobotomy Corporation, eleven of the thirteen characters are named after the ineffable Kabbalistic Sefirot, and a lot of other things within the game, from its lore to its mechanics, draw on similar elements.

Aleister Crowley: you went to the MOON?

Me: so, do you think that representing "Netzach" as a defeated alcoholic serves to underscore the idea that the characters are, in fact, headed away from their objective, since "victory" itself has become dejected, and they're all introduced from Malkuth and then down the Tree instead of up?

Aleister Crowley: the MOON in the fucking SKY???

[thejewitches]

The Kotzker Rebbe compared death to 'moving from one home to another'

Read about death in Judaism

[hebrewbyinbal]

Have you ever met someone who seems quiet and reserved, but you just *know* there's a universe of thoughts and emotions below the surface?

That's what this saying captures, and knowing how to express it in Hebrew allows you to connect on a soul-deep level with locals and native speakers.

This is not just about learning words; it's about understanding the human condition, the deep wisdom rooted in everyday sayings.

With this phrase in your conversational toolkit, you're not just speaking Hebrew—you're living it, loving it, and lighting up lives with it.