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Software developer. Hassidic Jewish thinker. Husband and father. Science fiction lover. Stranger in a strange land. #Jewish #Torah #inspirational #quotes #fedi22 #searchable

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baruch, to random
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A Jewish Mastodon admin has been harassed and sent death threats and now a ham with swastikas on it has been delivered to his doorstep, so he has been forced to step down as admin and go into hiding.

https://tooters.org/@victor/110573128664662654

baruch, to hebrew
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The idea that the body must be tamed or even “beaten” into submission is a pervasive one. In his book, Walking Words, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano sums up prevailing contemporary views of the body succinctly: “The church says: the body is sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: the body is business. The body says: I am a fiesta.”

The Jewish perspective on the body is quite different. Whereas some traditions view corporeal life as an obstacle course—a series of challenges designed to test our spiritual resolve and integrity—Judaism sees the body as the interface and means of expression for the soul in physical reality. In this way, the body gives the soul a voice, and the soul provides the song.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5785436/jewish/Body-Guf.htm#utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

baruch, to random
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My son's US school sent the following message to parents:

Dear students' families,

For many of our students, staff, and their families, the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel hit very close to home. Some students have family and friends living in Israel and Gaza.

More than 1,100 humans have lost their lives in Israel and Gaza in just a few days.
For classmates, friends, and neighbors, the current situation is not theoretical or distant – it is very real and may involve risk to their own family members.
Terrorist attacks have no legitimate political cause for which debate is worthy.
Terrorism, kidnapping, and murder are not topics for which there are legitimate “sides.”

What is happening right now is a matter of life and death for the loved ones of our community members. We must avoid unintentionally creating any false equivalence between the terrorism of Hamas and legitimate, knowledgeable and civil debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

baruch, to random
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There are records of Jews living in Yemen going back to 110 BCE. The Jews of Yemen have a unique culture and religious tradition going back thousands of years, and they have contributed so much to worldwide Jewish culture. After decades of violent ethnic cleansing there is only 1 Jew left in Yemen. His name is Levi Marhabi. He is being held in jail for helping get a community Torah out of Yemen before it could be destroyed, and will likely be executed. Thus ends the story of Jews in Yemen.

https://combatantisemitism.org/campaigns/freelevimarhabi-and-stop-houthi-antisemitism/

baruch, to Judaism
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14 Shvat is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1935-1983 CE). He was a rabbi, a physicist (who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer), a deep mystic, and one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. He wrote over 60 books on philosophy, meditation, scripture, Halacha, Kabbalah, and Chassidic thought. His works are known for the vast range of sources cited, the effortless blend of Jewish tradition and modern science, and the masterful way they present comprehensive, inspiring ideas in simple, accessible language. He formed a group to experiment with different meditation techniques and learned Ladino just to translate Me'am Lo'ez into English. His writings and their many translations made a wealth of Jewish wisdom readily available to countless Jews around the world, helping them rediscover their own heritage.

baruch, to random
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“A few days ago, the mask went from slipping to completely off: Stop Zionist Hate began spreading overt antisemitic content, including invoking the antisemitic trope that Jews killed Jesus.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-israel-gaza-war-antisemitism-rcna131327

baruch, to southafrica
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"Hypocrisy has, it would seem, no limits when it comes to South Africa’s foreign policy. Exactly a week before the country was due to accuse Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice on January 11th, President Cyril Ramaphosa played host to Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, a Sudanese warlord whose Janjaweed militia and its successor are accused of genocide and war crimes in Darfur... The ANC is trying to elevate this [allegation of genocide] into an election issue, to potentially try and distract from some of the core economic issues."

https://archive.is/boEVL
#SouthAfrica #Corruption #ANC #ICJ #Genocide #Hamas #Israel

baruch, to Judaism
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Next few months of the Jewish calendar, translated for the uninitiated:

  • The fruit birthday.
  • Happy Month 1
  • Happy Month 2 with dress up day, wine, and handing out food.
  • Anxiety & cleaning followed by 8 days of cardboard crackers, more wine, and lots of talking.
  • Sad time, beards, and no music until cheesecake day.

baruch, to Women
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In , there have been 211 confirmed attacks on schools and hospitals, and an estimated 2.5 million girls and young are denied access to .

We need to do better. There is no excuse.

https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/2023/12/afghanistan-a-dire-situation-for-children-due-to-a-lack-of-access-to-basic-services-and-increased-vulnerabilities/

baruch, to random
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“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.”

― Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

baruch, to random
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This illustration of King David playing the kinnor (a type of ancient Jewish lyre) is a fragment of a mosaic tile floor excavated from an ancient synagogue built in 508 CE in what is today Gaza City. The kinnor is common in ancient Jewish imagery, and was featured on coins minted during the Bar Kochba revolt.

baruch, to random
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"You are made in the image of the Creator, so that means you have the power to be the creator of your life. Somewhere along the way, we stopped creating and became managers of our circumstances. We spend our time putting out little fires instead of igniting the powerful fire within ourselves. When we can let go of everyone else’s opinions and all the limiting beliefs and fear that we carry, we can rise up and live with the true intention of life, which is to be an expression of the Creator. Instead of settling for managing your circumstances, be the creator of your life.

Here are three ways to shift the direction of your attention:
· Soul focus: remembering who you are here to be
· Purpose focus: remembering what you are here to do
· Solution focus: remembering how you want to look at your life situation"

Excerpt from: The Three Conditions: How Intention, Joy, and Certainty Will Supercharge Your Life

by Moshe Gersht

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-conditions-how-intention-joy-and-certainty-will-supercharge-your-life-moshe-gersht/19673940?ean=9781649631374

baruch, to Palestine
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Hillary Clinton lays out all the facts about the war in Gaza, and the history behind it. Here's what you need to know.

Hillary Clinton speaks with the hosts on the talk show "The View", including Whoopi Goldberg, about the war in Gaza, its history, and its future.

baruch, to Palestine
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EU nations condemn Hamas for what they describe as use of hospitals, civilians as ‘human shields’

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/13/eu-nations-condemn-hamas-for-what-they-describe-as-use-of-hospitals-civilians-as-human-shields/

baruch, to random
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Our native Jewish homeland has been colonized by the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and British. Our refugees have been expelled or exterminated at least once from almost every country where we sought shelter. Calling us colonizers on our native land is not just wrong, it is using our collective suffering against us and telling us that we are unwelcome everywhere.

baruch, to random
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Why The Most Educated People In America Fall For Antisemitic Lies

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/jewish-anti-semitism-harvard-claudine-gay-zionism/677454/

baruch, to southafrica
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"The ANC [ruling African National Congress] government’s political hostility to Israel and its friendship with Hamas has created a climate in which it is entirely acceptable to target a sportsman because he is proudly Jewish."

https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/12/dangerously-reminiscent-nazi-germany-anger-jewish-captain-south-african-u-19-cricket-team-stripped-his-role/

baruch, to Palestine
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"Ironically, when there is fighting, Hamas goes underground, and people can be more vocal about how Hamas has ruined our lives. People are starting to publicly violate the laws, rules, dictates, and orders of Hamas. They are openly cursing Hamas and its leaders in the streets and markets, and ignoring the directives of the few Hamas officials and police still above ground."

https://www.thefp.com/p/imam-father-gaza-kidnapped-by-hamas

baruch, to Israel
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This photograph from 1855 shows a group of Jewish farm laborers in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem.

baruch, to Israel
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What is happening with Jewish students and antisemitism? How is the story of Israel different from the story of race in America? Why does nearly every English professor in America feel a need to say something about the war with Hamas but not the many other wars in the world? How are high school students holding up? Amazing interviews with journalist Matti Friedman, director Micah Greenland of Jewish Student Union in high schools across North America, and Celeste, a high school student, about the current wave of antisemitism.

https://18forty.org/podcast/what-is-happening-with-jewish-students-and-antisemitism/
#18Forty #DavidBashevkin #MattiFriedman #LeonardCohen #Israel #Antisemitism #JSU #MicahGreenland

baruch, to hebrew
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The Hebrew word for giving, natan (נתנ), is a palindrome, which reveals a deep truth about the reciprocal dynamic of giving: When one gives, they also receive in return.

In a recent study, researchers discovered that those who spent more of their income on others rather than themselves enjoyed significantly greater and longer lasting happiness. In fact, as little as a five-dollar gift was enough to produce measurable increases in one’s happiness. Overall, the self-reported happiness of those who regularly give charity is forty-three percent higher than those who don’t.

In other words, human beings are hardwired to give.

(From https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5784401/jewish/Giving-Natan.htm)

baruch, to mazeldon
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Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (Rishon Letzion) Yitzhak Yosef presides over the lighting of 138 Chanukah menorahs at the Kotel for the missing 138 captives.
@mazeldon

baruch, to Israel
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There is a flood of news coverage of the war in Gaza and Israel, but one thing you probably haven't heard is that farmers in much of Israel were evacuated from their farms to escape the ongoing rocket barrage of Israeli civilian areas. Israeli farms will not get through this crisis without help. Donate to save a farm.
https://saveafarmfund.org
@mazeldon

baruch, to random
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Star Wars day and Pesach Sheni coincide? That can only mean one thing: It’s time to attend a Darth Seder.

baruch, to Palestine
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The decolonization narrative is dangerous and false. It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/

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