#avot

[juanepstein]

Lechi Lilit - לכי לילית - Victoria Hanna & Berry Sakharof - ויקטוריה חנה & ברי סחרוף 

[eclipnet]

i dont know if anyone remembers Animation Vs Oregon Trail / AVOT (which was a school project i never got around to finishing last year) BUT i still have alot of concept stuff i made for it, and since its technically been around a year since i had the idea for it (even though i posted about it in november i had the idea in august !!) & because its my birthday (in an hour since im in EST but still) heres some stuff i made for it a year ago that i never posted !!!

!! HALF OF THIS WAS FROM A YEAR AGO i promise my art is better now !! (idk why the quality is so bad on some of these ill edit this later with a better version if i can !!)

⬇ this was when i was trying to figure out how i wanted ghosts / deaths to work in it

⬇ this was the first background i made for it (but when i was still working on it i did plan to remake it since this was from my ipad)

i have more stuff like storyboards and the actual plot but tumblr doesnt like multiple videos and so just to keep it easier ill just reblog this with more stuff as i find it !! (alongside the plot i had planned !!!!) i may not be working on this anymore but it was still fun !!! :)

also, old avot posts are under #avot archive ☆ ! also also. here's the orignal avot post / my first post on this blog !!! :)

[no-context-daf-yomi]

Rabbi Yehuda haNasi putting his own quotes in Pirkei Avot

[utilitycaster]

it is extremely funny to me when people's complaint about a video game is "I am a GAMER and I play OTHER GAMES ON HARD and when I played THIS ONE ON HARD I died therefore it is bad." I have a master's in physics and when I tried to do this job that required a master's degree in microbiology I killed all the cells and they fired me, this job is bad and full of shit.

[girlactionfigure]

Pirkei Avot Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar

"Do not appease your friend at the time of his anger, do not console him when his dead lies before him, do not question him at the time of his vow, and do not try to see him at the time of his disgrace."

Pirkei Avot 4:18

[comepraisetheinfanta]

GIFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Do Not Be Daunted - Art Board Print

Do Not Be Daunted - Poster

Do Not Be Daunted - Acrylic Block

Do Not Be Daunted - Art Print

[unic0rnsandmurder]

One of my life's hard-won lessons is that people basically do what they want to do.

If someone is treating me poorly and they do not respond to my requests to stop or change their behavior, that's not because I didn't ask the right way. It's because this is how they want to act.

So I'm going to skip the political recriminations that the left didn't offer the right messaging or that Dems need to work harder to appeal to [insert demographic here] voters.

The voters had the information they needed and they have made their choice. It is not our job to coax people into caring about others/the planet/their own future. Voters are not cats hiding under the bed. It's insulting to everyone to act like they are.

This is what most of the voters wanted. Accepting that fact means we are in a much better position to do real good where we can instead of continuing to bang our heads against the wall of indifference.

I reject the idea that I have to make caring palatable for people who don't wanna. Letting go of that "obligation" to perfect the message frees my energy for things that will actually move the needle.

Remember the Pirkei Avot: "You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it."

[maimonidesnutz]

NEW DESIGN: Continuing the tradition of important rabbis (or figures) in contemporary garb, I present to you: Hillel the Elder in a flower crown! Why did I draw Hillel in a flower crown? Maybe it is because of his known kindness and openness…or maybe it’s just because I was feeling a little silly. Either way, now it’s an image that exists.

The text says “if not now, when?” from his famous teaching in Pirkei Avot: “If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when?”

For me, it’s a movement. It means grounding, balance, and action. It’s a way to address both the joys and pitfalls that come into your life. It’s a way to expect them and move through them.

It’s more than a saying, it’s a way to live.

Available in many colors and styles! (Scroll down from the image to see all the products in the “similar products” field)

https://maimonides-nutz.creator-spring.com/listing/floral-hillel?

[zionistgirlie]

No "Study Pirkei Avot with Me" today because of a flare-up in ZG's health.

All the best and shabbat shalom ♥

[jewishpangolin]

That quote, DAMN, thank you for that. It's etched on my heart now.

I recently found out that this is actually a splice of two different quotes. The part from "It is not your responsibility..." to the end is actually in the Talmud, but the first part was written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro in 1995. Still a good quote, I just wanted to make sure I set the record straight.

[apenitentialprayer]

are there any Jews who view Jesus in a positive way (aside from like messianic Jews who, as far I’ve understood, are considered evangelical Christians by all other Jews)

Okay, ah, to answer this question simply: to my knowledge, as far as Jewish communities who (1) self-identify as Jewish, (2) consider themselves practicing Judaism, and (3) deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah go, none of them have an "official" stance on Jesus. Jesus may be a false Messiah, but this is only a "doctrine" in Judaism the same way that the fact that Vissarion of Siberia is a false Parousia of Jesus is a "doctrine" in Christianity — which is to say, not so much an actually asserted belief, but a natural corollary to more deeply held beliefs.

That being said, individual Jewish people have held a variety of beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth. Some of them are, well, quite negative. For example, one Hasidic story tells of how the Baal Shem Tov saw Jesus and Sabbatai Zvi (both false Messiahs) stuck in the same level of Hell together; the infamous Toledot Yeshu, a parody gospel, certainly does not paint Jesus or His Mother in a particularly good light; Maimonides doesn't even use the usual "may his name be blotted out" as he would when talking about an enemy of Israel, but instead uses "may his bones be ground to dust" after citing Jesus by name.

There are relatively sympathetic views among those whose views are negative too, for the record; for example, there's a story of a Rabbi, Yehoshua ben Prachya, who was said to have been incredibly cruel to a student, and by the time he chose to relent that student had already gone off to form his own idolatrous sect. Struck by the consequences of his harshness, he would go on to emphasize the importance of kindness and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Though the timeline doesn't match up (Yehoshua lived two hundred years before Him), some commentators identified this student as Yeshu the Nazarene.

But, let's actually answer your question. You will find a spectrum of relatively positive views. Bob Dylan technically falls outside the parameters I listed above because he does seem to believe Jesus is the Messiah, but I'll use him as the extreme example, because he continued to be active in his Orthodox Jewish community after his conversion. You also have Leonard Cohen, whose Jewishness was very important to him, who could at least understand the importance of the mystical connection to Jesus that Christians claimed as their own — "the figure of Jesus, nailed to a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering."

You have some scholars, like Amy-Jill Levine; in the work she did in The Misunderstood Jew, The Historical Jesus in Context, and The Jewish Annotated New Testament, she tries to emphasize the idea that the Person of Jesus is something that can bring Christians and Jews into closer ecumenical dialogue; that if Christians could get more comfortable with the Jewish context of Jesus, and if the Jewish community could see the New Testament as a corpus of texts that isn't non-Jewish, but rather a particular type of first century Jewish, then there could be ground for both groups to better understand each other.

During the early modern period, there were attempts by some Jewish thinkers to reclaim Jesus. Rabbi Jacob Emden argued that Jesus never meant to abolish the Law, and that He has actually "done a double kindness in the world" by increasing veneration of the Torah and bringing light to the Gentiles, if only the Gentiles could learn how to properly interpret their own Scriptures (talk about flipping the script!). Moses Mendelssohn also claimed that Jesus never meant to abrogate the Law, and suggested that Jesus and the early Christian community could be models that modern 19th century Jews living among oppressive Prussian authorities could emulate.

The above paragraph was about Jewish individuals who tried to distance Jesus from traditional Christian understandings of Him. So I'm going to end, I think, with Rabbi Jacob Neusner, who engaged the Gospel on its own terms. In 1993, he published A Rabbi Talks with Jesus. In this book, Rabbi Neusner imagines himself as a first century Jewish man and tries to earnestly listen to and consider the words of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Matthew. This work places the words of Jesus in conversation with the Rabbinic tradition, and ultimately ends with Neusner being unconvinced and unable to follow Jesus as His disciple. Pope Benedict lauded this work as an authentic exercise in interreligious dialogue, and cites it frequently in his own Jesus of Nazareth.

[thosefaroffconstellations]

Look I’m a summer girlie through and through but I can’t do long shabbats I just can’t without complaining about it five million times, what do you mean shabbat ended at a little after 8pm and it’s only gonna get later from there??? like I know I’m not supposed to look forward to the end of shabbat and I usually don’t, but my yetzer hara feeds off of havdalah being way past bedtime

[eclipnet]

(probably) last avot update

hihi tumblr !! i havent posted anything since february , but if your following / remember this account, you probably (?) may recognize me for my idea of Animation Vs Oregon Trail, otherwise known as AVOT for short !

tldr; as of now, i probably wont end up making it :(

(ill give a longer explanation under the cut if your curious or wanna know why)

ill still use this account to showcase my personal artwork & animations alongside ava/avm fanwork however !! :)

longer explanation: AVOT started due to a project that originally was required by me in highschool, i needed to gain volunteer hours and so i decided to make an animation for one of my previous teachers, so i could gain animation knowledge, get the hours needed, and make a video heavily inspired by one of my favorite series !! however, during the process of planning AVOT, i had far too much self expectations and less than a years worth of animation knowledge, and it technically could be do-able, and in the future i may pick it back up again, but as of now i probably won't. i no longer needed to do the required project as i earned enough credits to graduate highschool a semester early, and i plan to go to art school, so right now im just focusing on working on my art to prep for my portfolio when i apply :)

and because in total, AVOT would probably end up being somewhere around 10 minutes, and that would just be too much for me to currently do :(

however, i will post my actual art, doodles, my ocs, ava/avm fanart & animations here & hopefully that is as equally good if not better than the AVOT updates !!! :D

if you read all the way through, i hope you have a nice rest of your day !! :)

[frownyalfred]

In re: pickuah nefesh and omega heats. My wife LOVES to remind me that it’s a mitzvah to fuck on shabbos, so maybe in an a/b/o world the mitzvah of satisfying a heat overrides fasting.

Also can you even imagine the crazy shit that would be in the Talmud in omegaverse… the sages discussing slick… you’re right that’s enough internet for the day. //capsrecedinghairline

You asking me this on Shabbat and me answering this on Shabbat says a lot about us, huh 😅

I suppose, as others have noted, that the line is drawn when you consider whether satisfying or not satisfying a heat/rut will have an actually detrimental effect on a person. Will they just be uncomfortable? Will they get sick or possibly die?

Just thinking about how shomer negiah would work with various dynamics makes my head hurt.

[wellconstructedsentences]

You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Pirkei Avot

[hexkrona]

Pirkei Avot: Chapter 1 Reflections—

“Be cautious when rendering a decision.”

Of course this can be applied to many different situations. I can recall multiple instances where I instinctively responded to a situation before putting much thought into it. Be careful not to do this. Your choices have consequences.

“Make your home a regular meeting place for the scholars; sit eagerly at their feet and drink thirstily their words.”

My first thought was not necessarily of scholars, but some of my friends. We’ve longed talked about organizing study groups but never committed yet. Maybe we should start.

“Select a master-teacher for yourself; Acquire a colleague for study…”

Related to the prior, there are many people I know who have much knowledge to offer, should I only ask for it.

To study with a colleague is a blessing. One I hope to acquire soon.

“When you assess people, tip the balance in their favor.”

A friend of mine mentioned how often people’s intentions are not always malicious. Don’t always assume the worst, unless it is clear they are taking advantage of you.

“He who seeks fame, destroys his name; knowledge not increased is knowledge decreased; one who does not study deserves to die; one who exploits Torah, will perish.”

A bit harsh, but powerful statement. Never cease learning, but do not do so for ulterior motive. Do so for others sake.

“Say little, do much.”

“Select a master-teacher for yourself so that you avoid doubtful decisions; do not make a habit of tithing by estimate.”

I really like that final line. It says to me, don’t half ass your work, whatever it may be. Do things correctly and have someone to help teach you right.