Today, 2 Sivan, is Yom haMyuḥas, the participation trophy of holidays. Below, an explanation.
So, the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, like every first day of a month, is Rosh Ḥodesh. This is a minor holiday where we recite an abbreviated Hallel and skip Taḥanun. (1/5)
If you do a close read not only of the Bible but the archeology,
it starts to look like the Israelites, & all but a couple of Judean kings, worshipped a goddess for pretty much the whole First Temple era.
The implications of this are... far ranging--
& her name might not be what we've believed.
We have oranges, tomatoes, and dates, to signify queer folks, modern labor rights issues, and the plight of the Palestinian people. We also do miriams cup, all pouring our glass into a pitcher or bowl to ensure nobodys contribution is left out
me in the national security group chat
Wow, that took me down a long etymology spiral! Looks like that also exists in Ukrainian and Russian. Thanks for this!
Can someone teach me the #yiddish way to say something like "boy howdy!" or "hoo dawgy"? I am humbled and exasperated by the difficulty of memorizing this very dry Torah portion.
I'm leyning for the, what, 4th time this shabbos. This is the first time I'm not totally psyched about it, I think mostly because it's really hard! We're at the "DIY furniture instructions" part of the Torah, and it seems like the text is the same 8 words repeated in various combinations.
"...I've been trying to write this post for days. Words usually come easily. Not now. I want a better world, a world of peace and safety for everyone: every Israeli and every Palestinian... I can't find the right words. Only the cry of my heart...."
velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2025/02...
I've successfully gotten people to delete their posts by simply replying "messed up take imo" or "weird post imo". It's remarkable and funny how people would rather disagree with or yell at people than be thought aberrant by them.
Queen amidala saying, "so this is how democracy dies, with memes and shitposts"
Brings new meaning to "may his memory be for a blessing"
Like sabotage the trails and roads and rewild the park. Be creative and lay low
I do not understand the thinking behind symbolic protest at this point in history. "I am going to take personal risk to publicly ask someone else to do something."
Can you make a cheese burger from a calf you conjured by way of Sefer Yetzirah, a la Rabbi Chiyua and Rabbi Oshiya?
I guess glomim and other such creations could be used as a basis for rulings on lab grown meat.
#DafYomi #JewSky
also: hah! I had no idea until just now that you were the author of velveteen rabbi. Just last week I told someone that your blog is one of my favorites, and your words consistently make a deep and positive impact on me. I'm happy to have contributed a tiny bit to this one.
oof. beautiful and moving! thank you for sharing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jFDCLoGWaDM
I'm a relatively new student, but I think the left most two words in the video title are what you're looking for. سلطة فلاحية
There's actually one really simple little trick that would probably stop the displacement of Gaza's population, if/when the order is given.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
I believe my family is always right.
I guess you can say this makes me a moral relativist.
Listening to an audiobook doesn't *need to be* reading. It's a perfectly valid way of consuming books. It's not less than. And we don't need to torture the English language to recognize that.
Differences aren't bad! Differences are fine!
Felow liberal Jews: if you're longing for a progressive Jewish community and learning right now, please come join us at LAASOK, the liberal Beit Midrash ("House of Study.")
www.laasok.org
We all need hope and courage right now. Come be part of a values-based Jewish learning community. 
You don't have to be convinced of the "we're fucked, nobody is going to save us" premise to appreciate... maybe you'd be interested to read this poignant piece about concentration camp resistance, + anarchist nihilism generally: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame
Can you not add extra fields or details in that password manager? I always pick random questions & random answers and put them all in my PW manager. My mother probably has like twenty maiden names. I don't want to remember anything!
Anyway best of luck hacking yourself out of here. Wish I could help
Would you be interested in a walk through on getting set up with a password manager?I know it wont help thwart the sabotage efforts of past you but it could be kind to future you
I think that's just how it works. If you don't like the single point of failure, anyone can make an alternative. Or we can talk to the person & potentially petition them to somehow make it collectively managed. But the distributed nature of these feeds is literally a feature. As far as I understand
Just plugging @theradr.bsky.social 's posts on Rabbi Jesus here:
https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/jesus2/
"But I thought yelling at people who made a mistake instead of getting into solidarity mode and fighting white supremacy would be a good use of my time as the fascists rolled in!! "
Most of the time, doing a thing on social media isn't "doing something" about anything. Go call a friend or learn something (or practice dry-firing your gun). Take a walk, meet your neighbor.
