beetleeetleeetle
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i use the terms alas and i fear far too much i fear. but alas
2020.06.20
Work pressure πΏπ
Without going into too many personal details, my chronic illness has prevented me from attending my shul for over a month now. I miss my community so bad. Itβs so hard to feel engaged while watching service livestreams. I just want to be in the building again, with my friends.
having poor circulation is great because people will touch your hand and go 'oh! you're so cold!' and for a moment you get to experience what it's like to be a vampire in a romance novel
Jewishly anthropomorphizing and pitying the final candle on the chanukiah. It's not one of those that goes over and over, that lights up the songs every night, that sees every present and hears every giggle, kids taking turns on alternating nights, its base caked with islands of melted wax. It is left for the very very end and only goes once per year. And maybe by then, people are a bit worn out on dreidels and latkes and gelt and so the last candle never even meets some of its seasonal friends. It's okay, baby, you finally get your turn, we wouldn't forget you. Next year it will be different. Next year you'll meet them too.
It's the exact opposite of Tekiah Gedolah - which also only happens once but is unambiguously the star, the main attraction, all the oodles of Tekiahs seen as warm-ups by comparison for their gigantic grand finale elder brother, everybody's favorite and no one even pretends to hide it. I admire the Tekiahs for sticking to their role without one note of resentment or envy - which they totally absolutely feel, but their devotion to their job is greater.
a few days ago a coworker asked me to explain Hanukkah and I asked her if she knew what a menorah was. She said, βlike the Northern Lights?β
Iβm simultaneously haunted by and wild about this concept now. instead of aurora borealis, menorah borealis. menorah borealis
Chanukah is the time to awaken the hidden light within us, to shine brightly even when the world around us is dark.
Lubavitcher Rebbe
Hand Painted Delft Holland Ceramic Dreidel
you know how sometimes you go through the roughest moment in your whole entire life and then you look up and it's like. oh. the moon is still there
oh ok
new years eve!!! wooo!!! go crazy go wild! π₯³π₯³π₯³
a hanukkiah bouquet . έβαͺ₯β. έ
Everybody shut up and look at the Cincinnati zoo Hanukkah otter
y'all aren't ready for 'maybe you shouldn't be an asshole to christians for being christian' and 'you should be respectful of christian's beliefs even if they differ from yours'
my chinese delivery came with two free cans of pepsi that i didn't order and i feel like i know what the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days felt like
Happy Hannukah, y'all! I helped light the Menorah! π°π―
It's okay to form an opinion based on the information you have, but that also means you can't just ignore or dismiss any new information that contradicts that opinion or one that gives it a broader context. Also if you realize the information you based your opinion on is false, like you can't just stick your fingers in your ears and blind yourself to the reality that you've been played.
i mean this in the meanest way possible, if you as a leftist, in an attempt to 'punish' the democrats, either didn't vote or voted for a third party, go fuck yourself. you chose your own self righteousness over actually doing good.
Trying to remember this