#character: Kallah

[stories-in-the-wind]

At the edge of the Starwood

[armaina]

Next art fight piece, revenge against kunstfeuer of her character, Kallah.

[monday3econlive]

Do you have what it takes to save yourself from the Umpire???

ANYONE can play the game! Enjoy!

Side Note: I created a game with a story line for my Econ Live. While it does not obviously seem like the story I used connects to my daily life, I promise it does. I will say the characters and scenarios are totally dramatic and completely fake, but the running theme of loving the game of baseball, loving the Yankees, and streaming games when I could not afford to go to games or pay for a streaming subscription encompasses a huge part of my life. While it is not actually mentioned another economic topic portrayed in my project is opportunity costs and trade-offs. If I went to a baseball game the opportunity cost of going or even streaming the game would be the time I could have spent doing homework or studying for my classes or the trade-off would be the physical money I would have spent to attend the game/watch the game.

[zydraholic-art]

more oc refs babey

[zer0bandit]

As far as I’m concerned, it’s always comfy jumper weather somewhere. More commission work! I do enjoy drawing for this lady, even if the seven tails always kill me dead.

[apothecandy-blog]

Netflix Series Review: Unorthodox

Waking up this Independence Day, I thought about what this holiday meant and the deeper meaning of it outside of the beers, barbecue, and fireworks. Historically it is the ratification of the Declaration of Independence where the thirteen colonies broke away from British rule. Creating a document and obtaining signatures was a way to claim freedom. It seems kind of easy but then we have to understand this is one type of freedom. There are many other types of freedoms to be unleashed.

In Unorthodox, the main character is a woman named Esty from the Hasidic community in Williamsburg, NY. Personally I never knew about this community growing up in the suburbs of Houston, TX and found out about them through various Youtube documentaries. The Hasidic community is very archaic, strict, and by the scroll called Torah. Members of this community are not allowed to use social media, have a strict kosher diet, cannot freely have premarital relations with the opposite sex, and must adhere to the laws of their community. Due to their religion and culture being very streamlined, this community sticks to their own and rarely interacts with members outside of their little world. This series explores how this woman names Esty has the curiosity to venture outside of the Hasidic world.

The series is divided into four parts and it starts out with Esty collecting a few of her possessions and running away. Of course through watching the trailer for this series, the viewer knows that Esty is fleeing her life in Williamsburg and going to Germany. The whole fascination is to answer the question “Why?”. Even though the Hasidic community is portrayed by the media as patriarchal and inhospitable for the modern independent woman, why does this one particular woman named Esty take that step to run away? What is her deal? Why don’t the other married women run away? What is her story?

Her story unfolds through flashbacks throughout the series. It turns out that her mother has also left the Hasidic community in the past to be with her non-Hasidic lover. The mother moved to back to Berlin to live a life away from the orthodoxy. It is revealed that she leaves Esty some immigration paperwork that gives her citizenship in Germany in case Esty ever wants to leave the Hasidic community as well. In the flashback, teenage Esty is cold towards her mother when she gives her the paperwork and Esty asserts that she is happy where she is and will never leave. The viewer knows that this changes and cannot help but smile at Esty and say to the TV screen silently “but you will you crazy girl, stop being so rude to your mom”. 

Esty does leave after a year of her arranged marriage to her awkward man-child husband Yanky. She realizes that there is much more to her than being someone’s wife and someone’s mother. Even during her first meeting with Yanky she does tell him that she is different. I don’t know at that time if Esty knew what she meant by that word “different” or why she said that randomly to her future husband. I think it was at this point she was becoming self-aware of how she did not actually fit inside of this conformist community but did not know what to do with this new information so like everybody else, she just let others decide her life for her. 

However after a little growing up, she realized that this way of living was not for her. She wanted to make her own decisions. She wanted to love how she wanted to without unsolicited advice from her in-laws and the Kallah teacher. With the help of a piano teacher who lives as a tenant in her father’s property, Esty arranges a secret escape to Germany. 

When she first arrives in Berlin, she is too nervous to face her mother so she walks around and takes in her new and different surroundings. The scene where she arrives in Germany is reminiscent of Amish In The City because she is still wearing her sheitel (married Jewish woman wig) with the modest librarian outfit of a boxy long skirt and a turtleneck. Aside from her appearance, Esty just looks confused an in awe of the human interactions around her. She enters a coffee shop to get a drink and then follows this cute musician guy to a music conservatory. Esty is fascinated by performances and lifestyle of the artists. It is seen on her face how she finally has found a place where her true different self fits. She quickly becomes friends with the musicians and they go to the beach. While in the water for what it seems like the first time fully clothed, Esty takes off her wig and lets it float away. This seems emotional for her and as the viewer you cannot help but feel happy for her. It is an abdication of her religion if you want to look at it from that dramatic point of view. It is her way of saying, “I will no longer conform or follow, I just want to be seen”.

While Esty is finding her place in Germany, back in Williamsburg her husband receives a call from her gyno about her positive blood test results. Esty is pregnant. After discovering she has run away, the Hasidic community did put out search parties but after this news of a baby on the way the search for her gains more fervor. This part made me roll my eyes when the Rabbi was like we HAVE to find this woman because she is with child. Is she not important or worth seeking without child? 

Yanky and his creepy playboy cousin Moishe set out to find Esty in Germany. They terrorize her mom who has no idea that Esty is in the same city. Examples of toxic masculinity are seen in their parts of the series. Moishe finally finds her dancing with a musician at a nightclub. Instead of yanking her out of the club on the spot like the misogynist he is, Moishe creeps up on her the next day and tries to emotionally blackmail Esty. He tells her that since she is with child she needs to come back to Williamsburg and is a traitor to Judaism if she stays in Germany. He tells her that she will not survive and will be a bad mother. This riles up Esty emotionally for a short bit but then she decides to run to her mom’s apartment where she is met with open arms. There she learns the truth about the circumstances of why her mom had to leave. Esty makes the choice to stay in Germany and to keep her baby.

Overall this series is dramatic, poignant, emotional, and the cinematography is on point. There have been many documentaries in social media about people’s escape from Hasidism but the thing that makes Unorthodox different is its ability to tell a story. It is the story of one woman named Esty who wants the opportunity to find herself, to find what makes her different, to live by her own rules. To do all that she has to liberate herself from those who try to rule her way of life in the name of religion. Sounds a lot like my friend America ;) 

[infjtarot]

Page of Pentacles ~ Lost  Tarot of Nostradamus

THE PRINCESS OF THE ECHOING HILLS;

THE ROSE OF THE PALACE OF EARTH

The Princess of Disks – Princess & Empress of the Gnomes

Throne of the Ace of Disks

EARTH of EARTH

 Meditation pattern: Place side-by-side Atus IV, The Emperor; V, The Hierophant; and VI, The Lovers. Center the Princess of Disks above them. Optionally, place the Ace of Disks above

her.

   Traditional Description: A strong and beautiful Amazon figure with rich brown hair, standing on grass or flowers. A grove of trees near her. Her form suggests Hebe, Ceres, and Proserpine. She bears a winged ram’s head as a crest, and wears a mantle of sheepskin. In one hand she carries a scepter with a circular disk; in the other, a Disk similar to that of the Ace of Disks.

   HEH-Final of HEH-Final (EARTH of EARTH): Here is the final fruition of the entire set of Court Cards. She is the fulfillment of that initial impulse inaugurated by the Knight of Wands, or y of y. She is that Will which is “done on earth, as it is in heaven,” the fertile, productive ripening  of all  purpose, and  the  perfection of  the  alchemical Stone.  “The  Temple must  be  rightly builded before the God indwells it.” The receiving point must be established before the current begins to flow. It is through her perfection that the lightning-will of y flashes forth. It is she who awakens the eld of the Old King. Like Nature, she is already pregnant – pregnant with possibility, and pregnant with meaning.

   She rules that quadrant of the heavens about the North Elliptical Pole reaching from 0° ��� to 30° , centered on the Earthy Kerubic constellation Taurus, and is the Throne of the Ace of Disks. Taurus represents that Power of the Sphinx called To Will, and corresponds to the Kerubic attribute of Life. In her, Life and Will are one – that is, in the Princess of Disks, “life” means nothing other than the fruition of True Will. It can, for her, have no other meaning. The  correspondence, reflected in her traditional ram’s-head crest, represents that which is imperial; and this Princess represents the actuality of imperial will – the only real governing power in the universe  –  over a  rightly-built  Kingdom. She  is  not only Kallah  the  Bride, but  also  Malkah, the Queen. She corresponds to the Natural Consciousness (x) through which “is completed the nature of all that exist beneath the sphere of the Sun.” This leaves only her relationship to , Atu VI, The Lovers, z. The fulfillment of H is in her wedding to her intended mate. That is, materiality by itself is barren; matter and action must be united with an inner guiding Spirit to be consciously living. Additionally, this  symbol implies the Truth that, while the manifest Kingdom appears to be what the Tao Teh Ching calls “the ten thousand things,” the healing realization of this Princess is that the great diversity of things in Assiah does not detract at all from their essential unity.  

   In divination, the character is generous, kind, benevolent, diligent, deliberate, careful, courageous, persevering. Fulfillment of one’s potential (or of True Will). Pregnant with possibility and meaning. If ill-dignified, she is wasteful and prodigal.  

 From the Golden Dawn Tarot.

[glassrising]

Sorry im posting a lot im just taking a break from other things so I’m thinkin about dragon characters

Fun fact that no one but me will care about: since Kallah’s grove is a secret, it actually falls under the main jurisdiction of Nix (though all of the council knows of it and Alice and Vetrius also get a hand over it).

Nix has probably been to the grove more than any other outsider in the clan, and it’s a weird place for her. The grove’s inhabitants are so isolated from the main clan, they don’t know who Nix is, what she’s done. They only know that she helps protect them. And it’s...kind of nice. It’s probably literally the only safe bubble Nix still has where she actually lets herself not hold up the heartless personality she’s grown into. The grove’s inhabitants see a part of her no one else does.

She’s thankful they don’t know about what she did... After all, her working with the Shade is probably what is killing Kallah. She tries to be heartless enough that it doesn’t hurt when the nature spirit offers her a genuine smile whenever she appears on her routine visits.

Nix tries not to wonder if the Grove misses her, now that she’s on probation within the council and unallowed to leave the fortress. Tries not to let it hurt that she’s ruined the one last good thing she had. 

[furryheavenunlimited]

Flat Colour - Kallah by Toxi

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[thebeautyoftorah]

KI TAVO

bs'd

Shalom.

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KI TAVO-Be Thankfull! This parsha begins with the mitzvah of bringing the First Fruits (Bikkurim) to the Bet HaMikdash. The fruits were brought to the Kohen and their presentation was accompanied by a declaration [1] which is a brief sketch of Jewish history expressing that the Land could never have been given to Israel without G-d's loving intervention. The offerer acknowledged his gratitude for all Hashem has done for him.

There is a Midrash[2] that in a play on words of the opening words of the Torah states that the world was created for the sake of “Reshit” [first]: The world was created for the sake of the people of Israel who is called “Reshit”. Likewise, the world was created for the sake of Torah, which is called “Reishit”. Finally, the world was created for the sake of the Mitzvah of Bikkurim, which is called also “Reishit”.

The Alshich points out that Bikkurim would not seem to be in list of the “top 3 mitzvot”, but here the Midrash says that the world was created for the sake of this mitzvah! What is the meaning of this Midrash?

He answers that the mitzvah of Bikkurim teaches something that is fundamental to every human being; our obligation to express gratitude (hakarat haTov). This is so basic and primary that the whole world’s creation was actualized just for this mitzvah, teaching and training us in the attribute of gratitude.

Chazal tell us[3], “There is nothing harder for the Almighty to live with (as it were) than an ungrateful person". The inability to show gratitude lies at the core of the first and most decisive sin at the very beginning of human history. The reason Adam was exiled from the Garden of Eden was due to his ingratitude. His sin was not merely eating from the Tree of Knowledge (Etz HaDaat). For that sin alone, perhaps he could have remained in Gan Eden. Had he taken responsibility for his action when Hashem confronted him, surely the punishment would have been far lighter. The straw that broke the camel’s back, was the fact that in response to G-d’s question why he ate from the Etz HaDaat, Adam said[4], “The woman you gave me to be with, she gave me the fruit and I ate it.” As Rashi points out, Adam was being ungrateful. Hashem presented him Chava as a gift and Adam complained that she 'caused' him to sin.

The Midrash continues that our ancestors in the Wilderness also angered G-d with their failure to recognize His Goodness towards them. They sadly complained about the Mann and bemoaned their “good old days” in Egypt when they had melons, cucumbers, and garlic.

The Midrash equates the sin of ingratitude with fundamental theological denial (kefira beiIkar) of the Almighty. Those who are ungrateful to his fellow men such as their children, boss, friends, spouse, parents, and neighbors will eventually come to deny the favors of the Almighty as well.

There are many stories about Gedolim. There are stories about their diligence in study; stories about their fear of Heaven; stories about their interpersonal kindness; stories about their sterling human character traits. These stories are all true in general (although each story about each particular Gadol may or may not be 100 percent accurate). However, regarding one attribute, we hear repeatedly how particularly careful the great men of Israel were about the attribute of HaKarat haTov.

Gedolim practiced what they preached. Rav Moshe Feinstein went to a wedding and gave the Chatan an envelope with a wedding present. After the Sheva Brerachot, the Chatan and Kallah were opening their envelopes and they found a check from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein from FDR Drive in Manhattan for $500 dollars. When this story took place (over 50 years ago), $500 was an enormous amount for a wedding gift. The Chatan told his father that he thought Rav Moshe must have added an extra zero on the check by mistake. The father, the chatan, and the Kallah went to Rav Moshe’s apartment and asked the great Torah sage whether he in fact had made a mistake in writing the check. Rav Moshe said, “If I could, I would give you a check for $5,000! Your grandfather was Rav Pessach Prushkin and I studied with your grandfather. I felt such gratitude to your zeida that I wanted to give you a big present; unfortunately I can’t afford to give you more than $500.”

The term "Jew" is derived from the name of Yaakov's fourth son, Yehudah. This name shares the same root as the Hebrew word hodaah, which has two meanings: acknowledgement and thankfulness. One who acknowledges G‑d's goodness and thanks Him and other people for the favors he receives is called a Yehudi [in reality admission and gratitude are one concept].

That is how fundamental Hakarat HaTov is. A person is only considered a “person” when he appreciates all the many favors that the Almighty and others do for each one of us no matter what the state of our life is. Our forefather Abraham abinu is commonly referred to as "The First Jew." As the first person to use his own cognitive abilities to discover and recognize the one G‑d, reject the idolatrous ways of his ancestors and contemporaries. He actively acknowledged, thanked and publicized the truth of Hashem and was prepared to give his very life for these goals. Abraham epitomized "Jewishness" many centuries before the term came into common use[5].

The Chafetz Chaim said at the end of his life “G-d, I wrote the Mishnah Berura, I wrote books on Lashon HaRah, I wrote this and I wrote that (the Chafetz Chaim was a prolific writer). However, he was not bragging. He was not saying, “Hashem look how much I’ve done for You.” On the contrary, he said “You, G-d, have given me the opportunity and the privilege to do all these things that I have done, now what can I do for You in exchange for all these privileges that You have given me?” This is someone who is Makir Tov. He went through life recognizing all that had been done for him. This is fundamental to being a human being and that is why Bikkurim, which is called ‘Reshit’, ranks up there with “for the sake of Torah", which is called ‘Reshit’ and for the sake of Israel, which is called ‘Reshit’.

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[1] Devarim 26:5-10.

[2] Midrash Shifte Kohen to Parshat Bereshit.

[3] Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer, Chapter 7.

[4] Bereshit 3:12

[5] In the 5th century BCE, the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by Assyrian King Sanherib, and the ten tribes were exiled and lost. The only remaining Israelites were the residents of the Kingdom of Yehudah and the term "Yehudi" or "Jew" came to refer to all the Israelites, regardless of their tribal ancestry.

Le Iluy nishmat Eliahu ben Simcha, Mordechai ben Shlomo, Perla bat Simcha, Abraham Meir ben Leah, Moshe ben Gila,Yaakov ben Gila, Sara bat Gila, Yitzchak ben Perla, Leah bat Chavah, Abraham Meir ben Leah,Itamar Ben Reb Yehuda, Yehuda Ben Shmuel Tzvi, Tova Chaya bat Dovid. Refua Shelema of Mazal Tov bat Gila, Zahav Reuben ben Keyla, Yitzchak ben Mazal Tov, Mattitiahu Yered ben Miriam, Yaacov ben Miriam, Yehuda ben Simcha, Menachem Chaim ben Malka, Naftali Dovid ben Naomi Tzipora, Nechemia Efraim ben Beyla Mina, Mazal Tov Rifka bat Yitzchak, Rachel Simcha bat Yitzchak, Dvir ben Leah, Sender ben Sara, Eliezer Chaim ben Chaya Batya, Shlomo Yoel ben Chaya Leah and Dovid Yehoshua ben Leba Malka.

Atzlacha and parnasa tova to Daniel ben Mazal Tov, Debora Leah Bat Henshe Rachel, Shmuel ben Mazal tov, Yitzchak ben Mazal Tov, Yehuda ben Mazal Sara and Zivug agun to Gila bat Mazal Tov, Naftali Dovid ben Naomi Tzipora, Yehudit bat Malka, Elisheva bat Malka. For pidyon hanefesh & yeshua of Yosef Itai ben Eliana Shufra.