#jewish faith

[cloudofbutterflies]

Happy "a girlboss stopped jafar from fucking killing all of us" day to all my fellow jews.

[malkahpariyz]

A word for all sisters in faith (if you follow Abrahamic religions we are sisters) 💕 One Love.

♥ Paris Dior | The Modest Blog

[mental-mona]

Biblical truth, a truth that cannot emerge at once but only through the experience of formative events, is a movement from acts done by God for the sake of human beings, to acts done by human beings for the sake of God.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, To Heal a Fractured World p.157

[waldorfsvibe]

“Go ahead and let it out and have yourself a cry” — Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida may have misrepresented her religious background and only recently began identifying as Hispanic, according to a new report from The Washington Post.

Luna, elected last year to Congress to represent Florida's 13th congressional district in St. Petersburg, said in an interview with Jewish Insider in November that her father raised her as a Messianic Jew — a Jewish person who believes that Jesus is the Messiah.

"I was raised as a Messianic Jew by my father," said Luna, defending the fact that she was endorsed by far-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who's been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks. "I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi. If she were antisemitic, why did she endorse me?"

But according to three relatives who spoke with the Post, her father, George Mayerhofer, was Catholic, and they were unaware of him practicing any form of Judaism.

Monica Luna, the congresswoman's mother, told the Post that George Mayerhofer was a "Christian that embraced the Messianic faith" and that the congresswoman "buried him to Jewish customs."

Immigration records reviewed by The Post showed that the congresswoman's paternal grandfather — Heinrich Mayerhofer — identified as a Roman Catholic when he immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1954. According to several other family members who spoke with The Post, Heinrich Mayerhofer served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany when he was a teenager in the 1940s.

One relative, Jolanta Mayerhofer, told The Post that Heinrich Mayerhofer had no choice in the matter.

"It hurt for him to talk about it," she said. "He said, 'You getting the letter, you need to show up, otherwise your life is over. … He did not like it, but that's what life was."

The congresswoman, born with the last name "Mayerhofer," also began to embrace her Hispanic heritage more publicly only in recent years. When she registered to vote in Florida in 2015, she identified as "White, not of Hispanic origin." She updated her ethnicity to "Hispanic" when she re-registered to vote in Washington state in 2019.

"I would like to represent my Hispanic heritage and have the same last name as my mother," she wrote in a petition she filed in 2019 to change her last name to Luna.

Monica Luna told The Post that the congresswoman has "never not identified as being Hispanic as far as I know" and that Luna's father spoke Spanish around her when she was a child.

"Anna can check both boxes," she told The Post. "She's bicultural and biracial. It's not easy to figure out what box to choose."

Luna did not respond to The Post's requests for comment. Reached for comment by Insider, Luna's congressional office said they will release a full response later on Friday. In a series of tweets, Luna has disputed other aspects of The Post's reporting.

On Capitol Hill, Luna has been among the furthest-right members of the Republican conference, joining several other lawmakers in initially opposing Kevin McCarthy's bid for House Speaker.

She is also one of the few Republicans who has continued to be friendly with scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos of New York, who notably also lied about being Jewish — later claiming to the New York Post that he was simply calling himself "Jew-ish."

[unlovablereject]

I am losing my faith...

I'm taking off my Magen David.

I don't know what to think or feel.

[spn2006]

the fact that eric kripke isn't even christian really adds something to the way christianity is depicted on supernatural. because its really not about being christian at all, but about living in america, a country dominated by christianity, and having to decide for yourself how to handle that. faith is huge in supernatural, and the mythology of the show is very bible-centric, but notably, christ is never there. even sam, who starts out revering the angels, who once said he prays every night, doesn't actually call himself a christian or imply that he believes in jesus--the show is steeped in christianity and biblical lore and yet neither sam nor dean are christians. in fact, over and over again the church itself is depicted as a haunted house that sam and dean will only ever enter as strangers, as outsiders. priests, preachers, faith healers, chapels, crypts, etc. are all just iconography that create an intense sense of unease that sam and dean respond to instantly. as a jew, its very relatable. an essential part of living in america when you're not christian is that exact sense of unease, of knowing that the culture of your country has ensured that you'll get knocked over by christianity no matter where you go, that you'll see hundreds of people truly believing they're good people while doing awful things in the name of their god, and you have no choice but to confront that. kripke gets it

[revdrjamesjshowersjr]

Jewish Holiday for 20230813.

Tzemach Tzedek Departs Petersburg (1843)

I do apologize Ms. High Pro Glow

[mrkilroi]

Watch "Judaism vs Christianity on Sin: Rabbi Tovia Singer Explains Why We Differ" on YouTube

[alostwanderernotfound]

Do you think maybe that there’s a chance you are REALLY, REALLY behind on current events & the statue is the beast? I mean literally. Like the statue sits there until the apocalypse & then it turns out it’s an actual robot that a consciousness can switch into when they decide it’s the right day. I’m sorry to be scary, but It is. It’s not just a warning. This is really happening, just like all those other signs you see are also there. It’s there because it’s supposed to be hidden in plain sight to then be switched on, just like other things/statues/etc hidden in plain sight. You’ve been warned many, many times, but each time until the end there’s always a chance to change the future. It’s never hopeless, but you have to come to terms with the fact this has been right in front of you for a very long time. Do you want to take it seriously or do you want to ignore it till it’s too late? The decision is always in your hands.

[nerdygaymormon]

[cloudofbutterflies]

I’m a faggot & I’m a lesbo & I’m a queer & I’m a homo & I’m a fruit & I’m a fairy & I’m a tranny & I’m nonbinny & I’m an ace & I’m a dyke & I’m a lesbo & I’m a poof & I’m asexy & I’m an aomeba & I’m ace of spades & I’m a jew & I’m retarded & I’m a nutter. All these words you’ve used against me don’t work anymore because I use them too. Reclaim slurs. It works. 

[malkahpariyz]

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

~ Paris Dior | The Modest Blog

[mental-mona]

The Jewish people, tiny, vulnerable, lacerated, having stood face to face with the Angel of Death, still survives, and prays, and gives thanks to God. Somehow faith outlives every attempt to destroy it. Its symbol is not the fierce fire that burns synagogues and sacred scrolls and murdered lives. It is the fragile flame we, together with our children and grandchildren, light in our homes, singing God's story, sustained by our hope.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"tl, "The Flame of Faith That Has Survived All Tyranny," article in The Times 12/19/2008

[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.

[screamingfromuz]

Listen. LISTEN, the longer I spend in the academic world, I am more convinced that describing Judaism and Jews as a religion/ethnic grope/ethnoreligion is unhelpful outside of Academic circles.

The best way to explain Judaism is using the tribe model. A lot of times Judaism is a community first and a religion second, i.e., your level of religiousness is rarely a thing that alienate you from the community.

Think of other tribes, like the Sámi, Aboriginal Australians, Māori, Yurok, Inuit ect. Each have their own unique religion, but we do not think of them as a religious group, because the tribal identity is more important, and the religion is considered part of the culture, not the opposite.

IMORTANT SIDENOTE: I am aware that many of those tribes, and other tribes have a big chunk of Christians in them, usually more Christians than those who follow the indigenous religion of the tribe. BUT for the sake of discussion, I am equating Judaism to the section that does follow the indigenous religion of the tribe.

So, despite the fact that the religious structures of Judaism is very integral to Judaism, it is partly because of the community based focus of Judaism. The most basic example is the Minyan, the fact that prayer is preferred to be done in a group. Or the fact that the Sader is meant to be a celebrated in a group. and so on.

SO, ethnoreligion is a great academic term, but for outside that world? A tribe is a much better term to explain Judaism.