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@velveteenrabbi.bsky.social any thoughts?
So, the original bronze age audiences might have *expected* something bad to happen when the idols were removed.
Archeologists digging through the layers of Canaanite civilization they find layers with no pig bones, the Israelite period. But they find no layers without female figurines, fertility goddesses. So, the writers of this story probably had idols in their houses, or their wives did.
In Gen 31:19 Rachel steals Laban's idols. In 35:2 Jacob requires that all of the idols be buried, so we assume that Rachel gave up hers. Then in Gen 35:19, a dozen verses later, Rachel dies in childbirth.
Those idols were probably fertility godesses. Did Rachel lose her protection?
We need a new election. We need to know if all Israel supports or reviles this war.
Diasporism is the new doikayt?
Purim Torah from the great rabbi Aryeh Cohen.
Aren't all ethnicities, and religions, and even sects within religions, defined by their exceptionalism? What makes Jewish exceptionalism exceptional?
It's success is why the anti-government folks want to kill it. Just like they go after the post office. Not because they are failing but because they are successful.
Day light savings is kicking my ass this year. The older I get the harder the adjustment is. I strongly prefer standard time since I'm an early riser, but the switching is the worst.
That's my brother!
Efficiency... Riiiight....
It’s a scam
And the other women wearing tighter and shorter shorts than men do is not oppression? Bikini volley ball is not a result of cultural oppression? Do those women "choose" their clothes or do they do what our culture expects of them?
We're just used to women as sex objects. We don't even notice it.
Spent time last night researching which congresspeople walked out of Trump's speech. Write an angry letter and don't want to send it to the wrong people. My Congresswoman was exemplary, Lateefa Simon walked out early and gave the Working Families response.
This rail project is the largest most visible screaming example of why the Democratic Party is useless, and wants us to know it. #CADem owns CA govt, all branches with super-majorities, and we can't build a train? Hello?
If we want to learn how just look to EVERY OTHER ADVANCED COUNTY.
How do I get full episodes?
One thing I love is that small dogs don't seem to know they're small, and big dogs just want a lap! If even dogs don't see the difference, why do we focus on it so much?
The blond is front and center though. As always.
Trump seems to trying to get the war going again. He's constantly threatening Hamas anyway. Why do you think he won't allow Netanyahu to fight?
I finally got the lamp I ordered last December. Handmade, wooden. It doesn't match any of our other furniture. But then, none of our furniture matches any of our other furniture.
So, thank you, and go women in the skilled trades! Become the bosses! Be contractors.
And, please, fight the Republican depredation of all that is good in America.
My first response was, "Really?!? The country is being set back decades every week and a commemorative week is all you have to offer in response?"
But, women in construction undermines the maga agenda. They want women to go back to being homemakers or menial laborers.
We have new fat furry bird at our feeder. He is enjoying himself a little too much for my taste.
#backyardwildlife
3) If you have a Dem representative, ask them, "WHERE ARE YOU?" WHERE WERE YOU DURING THE SPEECH?" Did they confront the lies, the insults? Did they stand up for their colleague when he was thrown out? Did they stand up for their colleague when she was called Pocahontas?
When will they stand up?
2) No to elimination of taxes on tips. Again, the working poor don't pay income taxes. And this would open the door to the wealthy getting paid in tips.
The right path is the elimination of the sub-minimum wage. It is a legacy of racism and should go.
Write your congresspeople!
1) No to the elimination of taxes on Social Security. 50% of recipients already don't pay federal income tax. They are too poor. So the tax cut goes to the upper middle class and the wealthy.
