#daily torah

[bibleluvr]

Okay now that I'm less upset, I suggest Christian followers and mutuals read the daily Tehillim and daily Nakh bc it provides really awesome analysis of biblical stories! I also highly recommend reading the Torah with commentary (whichever commentary calls you!!! My personal favorite is the women's Bible commentary)!

[americanmysticom]

The lower sefirot of the Emanator extend to the recipient.

The conclusion of the present epistle likewise explains 54 that only the hindmost aspect and externality of the netzach-hod-yesod of the higher realm enter the lower one.

Daily Study

Daily Tanya

Iggeret HaKodesh, end of Epistle 19 https://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/tanya.asp?auto=audio&tdate=09%2F18%2F2023#auto=audio&author=13568&index=1

The letters pertaining to speech are engraved in the breath and voice, which is divided into twenty-two parts, one differing from the other with respect to their form,

i.e., the enunciation and utterance of the twenty-two letters in any language,58

for there is no difference between the Holy Tongue and the other languages with respect to the nature of the letters’ enunciation, only with respect to their combinations.59

The letters of thought are—again, in any language that a person may think in—the words and letters of that language and its letters,

which number twenty-two only.

Now in thought, there are three kinds of letters,

for when one sees the visual forms of the letters in the Torah scroll, they are pictured in his thought.

This is called the “action in thought,” i.e., the manner in which thought envisions the letters of actual handwritten script. In terms of the spiritual Worlds of Beriah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah, “action in thought” relates to the lowest World—Asiyah, the World of Action.

Likewise, when one hears the letters of speech, they become inscribed in his thought, and he meditates upon them.

This is called the “speech in thought,” i.e., thinking about the letters of speech, and it relates to Yetzirah.

The letters of thought alone, without any meditation on the letters of speech, are called the “thought in thought” and relate to Beriah.

[The primordial nature of G-d, the Holy Tongue, known to the nations, energizing every aspect of our world]

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[hebrewbyinbal]

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[rescatada]

"See Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death."

- Lamentations 1:20

[torais-life]

"The purpose of chokma is irat Hashem"

-Rab. Rafael Spagenthal

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[squirrelsession]

You are the apple of God’s eye. 

You are cherished, watched over, protected, special, and irreplaceable in God’s eyes. 

“... he encircled him, cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.” Deuteronomy 32:10

“keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings.” Psalm 17:8

“for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.” Zechariah 2:8

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

hey. hey. you there. religious jew who wants to do so well because you truly do love g-d and you see His presence everywhere and you have faith in Him and He gives you everything. yes, you. if you're not a religious jew you can read this too this just isn't geared towards you.

ok now that i have your attention read this: g-d knows you. He made your body and your soul and He understands it fully. there's gonna be some times where you can't commit to something, where you can't fulfill that mitzvah. maybe you've got an amazing new job that will pay the rent and the bills youve been struggling with for months but you need to work shabbat. maybe you cant say prayers or blessings in public bc you dont feel safe to speak hebrew outside of your own home. maybe you struggle to keep up a routine and have a hard time with daily mitzvot. whatever it is i promise Hashem does not hate you and does not see you as a failure.

i definitely understand being a perfectionist and wanting to go all out. to show that you are fully devoted and that you appreciate Him at every point in your life. also lets be real sometimes you just wanna prove to yourself that you can do all these little things and that you have the discipline to do it. or you wanna impress someone else you admire. that's completely normal and those emotions are part of what makes us human (however those can be signs of underlying mental health issues so pls talk to someone if you need!). anyway, Hashem doesnt mind that we can't do it all all the time. sometimes we can't do it all ever. He knows that something is always better than nothing. we were given the gift of life, of food, of being jewish, of the torah, of everything else by g-d and we can express our gratefulness for that in so many ways and they are all important.

g-d is not that shitty teacher you had in middle school who judged you in front of the class every time your essay wasnt an A+. He created everything and gave us the joy of life and is here to guide us through us. He made us human with all of our possible emotions because that is what we are meant to be. we are meant to be flawed and without that we wouldnt even be people anymore. you're gonna have shitty days, weeks, months, even years and He understands that and even if you can only do tiny things it still matters.

[tikkunolamresistance]

Never again means never again for anybody. ANYBODY. Yet, this phrase has been manipulated and warped to fit the Zionist agenda. When we speak of the Holocaust, the education system intentionally frames thid evil to be an ultimatum; the most evil, that nothing could ever be as deprived, that nothing could ever match that scale. An untouchable holocaust, a preserved trauma— the Western hegemony has weaponised Jewish death and trauma to not only sell multi-million dollar movies, but to brainwash us into conforming to a victim complex that upholds the Zionist agenda and their false State.

This brainwashing has festered throughout global Jewish communities, as our Hegemonic countries refuse to do anything about their rising Neo-Nazi groups, about the underpinning white supremacy. The ensurance of Nazism and Jew-hatred by the Capitalist nations gives Israel leverage to enforce their ideology that “there is no other home for Jews” than their settler colony. This division, this sepratism, it is right in front of us.

When Jews, including Anne Frank’s father, tried to seek safety in the United States after World War 2 they were denied entry. So many nations either refused to take in Jews, or they did, but enforced no laws on antisemitic violence. The nations that stood silent during the growing Nazi regime— publishing over 2,000 daily news reports a day on the Nazis activity in Germany— they stood silent.

Because the Jewish people were not of interest to the Capitalist Hegemony, not until the CIA learned of Oil interest in Palestine. Then the Right-Wing, anti-Communist Zionist movement that fit the United States’ geopolitical interests would work in their favour to establish control in the Middle East for resources and further anti-Left suppression.

The State of Israel is not about religion, the Torah itself is evidence enough. This settler project is just a United States puppet. And both must be dissolved.

[bibleluvr]

I have a degree in Jewish studies. You will not know more than me about Judaism unless you have a PhD or you're a Rabbi. Stop trying to "educate me" on the most basic things. I know what I'm doing when I make my posts. Just because I invite Christians to read our texts doesn't mean I'm messianic or Christian; it means that I find it valuable for them to read Jewish analysis and beliefs because I feel like Christians misinterpret our religion which they are based on.

[americanmysticom]

CONNECTION WITH G-D IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN UNDERSTANDING, HUMILITY IS THE ESSENTIAL QUALITY

THE SPARK OF WISDOM

SUPRA-RATIONAL

Now chochmah which, as explained in ch. 3, is the initial flash of intellect, the nebulous, seminal glimmer of an idea, is the source of intelligence and comprehension which first begin to emerge in the faculty of binah, for, as explained there, binah represents the ability to grasp an idea in all its details and ramifications;

it is higher than binah, which is the faculty of understanding an idea and grasping it.

In its relation to the soul’s lower faculties, this single level of chochmah comprises two opposite aspects: On one hand, chochmah is above comprehension and understanding—thus, it transcends the lower faculties of the soul, and it is this aspect of chochmah which enables it to be the recipient of the light of the Ein Sof, as will soon be explained, while on the other hand, chochmah is the source of intelligence and comprehension and is thus connected to the lower faculties.

It is this latter aspect of chochmah which enables it to suffuse the entire soul

Daily Study, Daily Tanya

Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 18

Monday, 1 Shevat 5783 / January 23, 2023

https://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/23/2023&auto=audio#lt=primary&auto=audio&author=13568&index=1

[Moshe was a chariot to G-d by being a prepared vessel. That is why the sage Hasidic tribal leaders of Israel encourage Torah study, and Chassidis https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/222869/jewish/What-Is-a-Chassid.htm For it be a precipitous belief that the souls whom Hashem constantly supports, intimately tends and lovingly grows - annulled in the world to come - they are not! Think more in terms of using shells to mold [or cocoon] hosts of unique sparks everlasting. For the hidden and only way to win the ‘game’ of life, is to be always connected to G-d. Grown well, on the good Tree of Life Everlasting.]

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Someday everything that made you you will be gone. Your people, your tribe, your family - they will all have chosen to go gently into that good night and your genetic descendents will no longer look or act or think like you. You will have no spiritual descendents. Every feature that made your people distinct will have softened into the general pool of humankind, and evened out to become exactly like everyone else. They will have shed the ritual items that made up your daily life and eschewed the traditional words that connected them to thousands of years of wisdom. The tapestry of your religious and cultural life will have been completely unwound into string and repurposed or disposed of to make a new fabric in the image of the masses. Your people will look and sound and act and speak and think like the homogeneous mass of humanity. No longer will your people's language be heard, for there is no need now that we can all communicate freely. The prayers that connected one generation to the next will be discarded in the garbage heap with all the other pesky superstitions. No more will the rituals that sustained generations in exile and preserved at risk of life and limb be a source of comfort and pride. The beauty of the High Holy Days, the music of the psalms, the flavors of foods designed around kashrut, the scent of b'samim after the sacred rest of Shabbat will reside in the genizah alongside every sefer Torah and siddur and set of tefillin.

None of this will be carved out of you. This is not a threat. This is inevitable, because no enlightened person could possibly choose to live like you. Already an anachronism today, your lifestyle will be unthinkable tomorrow. The names and covenant of commandedness will be willingly forgotten, as your descendents bow to the one Truth of the universe, as defined by the secular society of the day. That I imagine this secular wisdom as matching my culture and defining truth as being singular in the same way that I do is totally coincidental and not at all hegemonic. In this future, there will be no need for your silly superstitions and obviously meaningless rituals and quaint efforts to make the world a better place, because it already will be. Your people will no longer identifiably exist, and that will be right and good and the best possible outcome for everyone. Again, this is definitely not a threat. Your descendents will finally see the light of Logic and Reason and willingly become one with the world. They will have saved themselves from the barbaric practices of a Bronze Age religion and have no need for any such relics. They will shake off the yoke of Torah like raindrops and emerge into the glorious future indistinguishable from the nations. And in so doing, will have accomplished what 2500 years of war and bloodshed and imperialism and exile and pogroms and genocide have not yet achieved: the Jews will willingly surrender their Jewishness, quietly and unceremoniously, as they become enlightened. Remember, this is not a threat. This is simply progress. And inevitable.

[hebrewbyinbal]

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[hailmaryfullofgrace55675]

“Ashkenazi Jews don’t actually have Levantine genetic ancestry” has been floating around lately among naïve and conspiracy minded anti-Zionists, a problematic claim that undermines actually correct anti-Zionist principles and defense of Palestinian rights. This claim is

absolutely irrelevant, as “blood” originating on the “soil” does not grant anyone any right to an ethnostate on any land. Using area-native ethnicity to justify discrimination and mass killing is bad when it’s Yamato Japanese discriminating against Korean, Mainland Chinese, and Taiwanese minorities in Japan and it’s bad when it’s Celtic-Germanic descent Brits oppressing Celtic-Germanic descent Irish who they’re genetically undifferentiatable from. It was bad when it was Hutus killing Tutsis and it was bad when it was the Khmer Rouge killing Chinese and Vietnamese Cambodians. The actions of the Israeli state in immiserating and slaughtering non-Jewish Palestinians would be equally harmful and wrong if the diaspora had never happened and every Israeli could trace their resident lineage in an unbroken line back to the time of the Second Temple, because it is bad to destroy people’s homes, burn their crops, imprison them, and kill them.

incorrect, at least according to current scientific consensus. Most genetic studies seem to indicate that Ashkenazim are of majority European descent and also have ancestry in the Levant, that is: the Ashkenazi population had some Levantine founders and there’s been significant amounts of intermarriage over the hundreds and hundreds of years of the diaspora into Southern Europe and from there across Central and Eastern Europe.

irrelevant again because even if, through a combination of conversions, adoptions, intermarriage, and adulterous and out of wedlock pairings between Jews and local gentiles, the diasporic European Jewish population had become completely genetically indistinguishable from local gentiles, those Jews would still have been the children of Israel. They still would have learned to read the Torah and celebrate its festivals. They still would have learned, from their families and communities in an unbroken line, to pray “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai eloheinu, Adonai echad” (Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one) as the rabbinic sages of Roman Judea observed in the Talmud that they were commanded to do. They still would have spoken languages with Hebrew and Aramaic elements, and they still would have written them with letters recognizable in the Dead Sea Scrolls. They still would have had the same interests, affirmed daily and yearly, in the land that their people left so many hundreds of years ago.

One formulation of the claim is “Israel bans direct to consumer genetic testing because it shows that (Ashkenazi) Jews don’t have Middle Eastern ancestry”. The Israeli government does ban DTC genetic testing as part of a genetic information privacy and nondiscrimination law passed in 2000, before companies like 23andMe existed. DNA testing for ancestry can be interpreted and presented many ways, and the ancestry breakdowns given by DTC GT companies just do not correspond to the question “where, how, and through what migrations did this population originate?”.

Once again, Zionism is not bad because people residing in places their ancestors are not from is bad. That is fine. Zionism is bad because from its beginning the Zionist project has been one of violent dispossession and because that violent dispossession continues in and through this very present moment.