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From “The Forbidden Question,” (“De verboden vraag”) De Groene Amsterdammer, September 9, 2026, excerpted from Antizionisme: Een Joodse geschiedenis (Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History):

Benjamin Moser describes unlearning #Zionism as “a process of growth, a deconstruction,” comparing it to unlearning a mother tongue.

He writes that Zionism was a recent and contested project, not an ancient or inevitable expression of #Judaism. Anti-Zionism among Jews was older than Zionism; before Herzl, the idea of Jewish return to Palestine was originally Christian, while many Jews saw Zionist nationalism, separatism, and militarism as a step backward.

Rejecting Zionism was not “amputating” part of himself but entering a hidden Jewish tradition that Zionism had suppressed and that Zionism’s escalating cruelty ultimately vindicated. He’s calling for Jewish self-centeredness to end and for Palestinians, “the real victims of Zionism,” to be placed at the center.

Dutch https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-verboden-vraag

#zionism #judaism #history #bookstodon #benjaminmoser #palestine #gazagenocide #nakba #antiszionism

From “The Forbidden Question,” (“De verboden vraag”) De Groene Amsterdammer, September 9, 2026, excerpted from Antizionisme: Een Joodse geschiedenis (Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History):

Benjamin Moser describes unlearning #Zionism as “a process of growth, a deconstruction,” comparing it to unlearning a mother tongue.

He writes that Zionism was a recent and contested project, not an ancient or inevitable expression of #Judaism. Anti-Zionism among Jews was older than Zionism; before Herzl, the idea of Jewish return to Palestine was originally Christian, while many Jews saw Zionist nationalism, separatism, and militarism as a step backward.

Rejecting Zionism was not “amputating” part of himself but entering a hidden Jewish tradition that Zionism had suppressed and that Zionism’s escalating cruelty ultimately vindicated. He’s calling for Jewish self-centeredness to end and for Palestinians, “the real victims of Zionism,” to be placed at the center.

Dutch https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-verboden-vraag

#zionism #judaism #history #bookstodon #benjaminmoser #palestine #gazagenocide #nakba #antiszionism

From “The Forbidden Question,” (“De verboden vraag”) De Groene Amsterdammer, September 9, 2026, excerpted from Antizionisme: Een Joodse geschiedenis (Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History):

Benjamin Moser describes unlearning #Zionism as “a process of growth, a deconstruction,” comparing it to unlearning a mother tongue.

He writes that Zionism was a recent and contested project, not an ancient or inevitable expression of #Judaism. Anti-Zionism among Jews was older than Zionism; before Herzl, the idea of Jewish return to Palestine was originally Christian, while many Jews saw Zionist nationalism, separatism, and militarism as a step backward.

Rejecting Zionism was not “amputating” part of himself but entering a hidden Jewish tradition that Zionism had suppressed and that Zionism’s escalating cruelty ultimately vindicated. He’s calling for Jewish self-centeredness to end and for Palestinians, “the real victims of Zionism,” to be placed at the center.

Dutch https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-verboden-vraag

#zionism #judaism #history #bookstodon #benjaminmoser #palestine #gazagenocide #nakba #antiszionism

From “The Forbidden Question,” (“De verboden vraag”) De Groene Amsterdammer, September 9, 2026, excerpted from Antizionisme: Een Joodse geschiedenis (Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History):

Benjamin Moser describes unlearning #Zionism as “a process of growth, a deconstruction,” comparing it to unlearning a mother tongue.

He writes that Zionism was a recent and contested project, not an ancient or inevitable expression of #Judaism. Anti-Zionism among Jews was older than Zionism; before Herzl, the idea of Jewish return to Palestine was originally Christian, while many Jews saw Zionist nationalism, separatism, and militarism as a step backward.

Rejecting Zionism was not “amputating” part of himself but entering a hidden Jewish tradition that Zionism had suppressed and that Zionism’s escalating cruelty ultimately vindicated. He’s calling for Jewish self-centeredness to end and for Palestinians, “the real victims of Zionism,” to be placed at the center.

Dutch https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-verboden-vraag

#zionism #judaism #history #bookstodon #benjaminmoser #palestine #gazagenocide #nakba #antiszionism

From “The Forbidden Question,” (“De verboden vraag”) De Groene Amsterdammer, September 9, 2026, excerpted from Antizionisme: Een Joodse geschiedenis (Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History):

Benjamin Moser describes unlearning #Zionism as “a process of growth, a deconstruction,” comparing it to unlearning a mother tongue.

He writes that Zionism was a recent and contested project, not an ancient or inevitable expression of #Judaism. Anti-Zionism among Jews was older than Zionism; before Herzl, the idea of Jewish return to Palestine was originally Christian, while many Jews saw Zionist nationalism, separatism, and militarism as a step backward.

Rejecting Zionism was not “amputating” part of himself but entering a hidden Jewish tradition that Zionism had suppressed and that Zionism’s escalating cruelty ultimately vindicated. He’s calling for Jewish self-centeredness to end and for Palestinians, “the real victims of Zionism,” to be placed at the center.

Dutch https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-verboden-vraag

#zionism #judaism #history #bookstodon #benjaminmoser #palestine #gazagenocide #nakba #antiszionism

I had too much time on my hands this morning. I know only 2% of one city will understand but let’s talk about Rosh Hashanah in Pittsburgh https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83HmtWy/ #pittsburgh #judaism #IfJewKnowJewKnow #yinzer

Sailing the Adriatic Sea on the Celestyal Journey https://www.byteseu.com/2362394/ #Croatia #Greece #Italy #JewishHistory #Judaism #Montenegro #TheBalkans #Travel

Rothschild Out of Control: What Happened to Tel Aviv’s Most Upscale Boulevard?

Thursday evening, Rothschild Boulevard at the corner of Nahalat Binyamin in central Tel Aviv. Crowds of teenagers and…
#Israel #News #Israeliculture #Judaism #mizrahi #popculture #telaviv #TelAvivnightlife #Ultra-Orthodox
https://www.europesays.com/3247540/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/289276/ Dr. Phil and Sylvan Adams get Israel right #Activism #antisemitism #CampusProtests #CollegesAndUniversities #Israel #Judaism #Nonprofits #October7

Rosh Hashanah 2026: After October 7, Jewish unity and connection must endure

Every Rosh Hashanah, Jews stand before the uncertainty of another year, asking: “Who shall live and who shall…
#Israel #News #Gaza #gazahostages #HershGoldberg-Polin #Judaism #RachelGoldberg-Polin #Religión #roshhashana #telaviv #TheOctober7Massacre
https://www.europesays.com/3246783/

Russian drones attack the Ukraine-Moldova border, leaving two dead

The attack on the Starokozache border crossing left two civilians dead and forced a temporary closure of border…
#Moldova #MD #Europe #Europa #EU #Antisemitism #AuroraIsrael #Israel #Israelicurrentevents #israelinews #Israelipolitics #JewishCommunity #Jewishculture #JewishNews #Judaism #middleeast #newsinSpanish #Shoah
https://www.europesays.com/3246432/

I don't practice any abrahamic religion, and I don't support Israel, but Jews have perhaps the most coherent narrative of the 3. I mean, Christians know nothing about their religion. Most of them don't know who Isaac, Moses, Isaiah and others supposedly were. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have not had to educate a Jew while debating yet.

#religion #christian #bible #culture #judaism #islam #thoughts #opinion #israel

I don't practice any abrahamic religion, and I don't support Israel, but Jews have perhaps the most coherent narrative of the 3. I mean, Christians know nothing about their religion. Most of them don't know who Isaac, Moses, Isaiah and others supposedly were. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have not had to educate a Jew while debating yet.

#religion #christian #bible #culture #judaism #islam #thoughts #opinion #israel

I don't practice any abrahamic religion, and I don't support Israel, but Jews have perhaps the most coherent narrative of the 3. I mean, Christians know nothing about their religion. Most of them don't know who Isaac, Moses, Isaiah and others supposedly were. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have not had to educate a Jew while debating yet.

#religion #christian #bible #culture #judaism #islam #thoughts #opinion #israel

I don't practice any abrahamic religion, and I don't support Israel, but Jews have perhaps the most coherent narrative of the 3. I mean, Christians know nothing about their religion. Most of them don't know who Isaac, Moses, Isaiah and others supposedly were. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have not had to educate a Jew while debating yet.

#religion #christian #bible #culture #judaism #islam #thoughts #opinion #israel

Russian drones attack the Ukraine-Moldova border, leaving two dead https://www.byteseu.com/2358113/ #antisemitism #AuroraIsrael #Israel #IsraeliCurrentEvents #IsraeliNews #IsraeliPolitics #JewishCommunity #JewishCulture #JewishNews #Judaism #MiddleEast #Moldova #NewsInSpanish #Shoah

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ,
תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ.
Let a year and its woes end, let a year and its blessings begin.
that's what many Jews sing on Rosh HaShana, which starts tonight.

happy Jewish new year everyone, shana tova. here's to one better than the last.
🍎 🍏 :pomegranate: :shofar:

#Jewish #RoshHaShana #ShanaTova #Jew #Jews #Judaism #NewYear #JewishNewYear #Tishrei

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ,
תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ.
Let a year and its woes end, let a year and its blessings begin.
that's what many Jews sing on Rosh HaShana, which starts tonight.

happy Jewish new year everyone, shana tova. here's to one better than the last.
🍎 🍏 :pomegranate: :shofar:

#Jewish #RoshHaShana #ShanaTova #Jew #Jews #Judaism #NewYear #JewishNewYear #Tishrei

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ,
תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ.
Let a year and its woes end, let a year and its blessings begin.
that's what many Jews sing on Rosh HaShana, which starts tonight.

happy Jewish new year everyone, shana tova. here's to one better than the last.
🍎 🍏 :pomegranate: :shofar:

#Jewish #RoshHaShana #ShanaTova #Jew #Jews #Judaism #NewYear #JewishNewYear #Tishrei

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ,
תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ.
Let a year and its woes end, let a year and its blessings begin.
that's what many Jews sing on Rosh HaShana, which starts tonight.

happy Jewish new year everyone, shana tova. here's to one better than the last.
🍎 🍏 :pomegranate: :shofar:

#Jewish #RoshHaShana #ShanaTova #Jew #Jews #Judaism #NewYear #JewishNewYear #Tishrei

תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ,
תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ.
Let a year and its woes end, let a year and its blessings begin.
that's what many Jews sing on Rosh HaShana, which starts tonight.

happy Jewish new year everyone, shana tova. here's to one better than the last.
🍎 🍏 :pomegranate: :shofar:

#Jewish #RoshHaShana #ShanaTova #Jew #Jews #Judaism #NewYear #JewishNewYear #Tishrei

"Over the centuries, #American #Jews have built a vast religious landscape in which no single institution or orthodoxy can reign supreme or dictate how #Judaism should be practised. Such free market Judaism has produced a panoply of diverse religious #Jewish life, but it has also made collective representation more difficult.

Who ends up speaking on behalf of American Jews when #antisemitism spikes? Who testifies on Capitol Hill before Congress? Who can synthesise the concerns of #Orthodox, #Reform, #Conservative and unaffiliated Jews without pretending their differences don’t exist?

Whether #America ever gets a chief #rabbi again or a universally-accepted council of chief #rabbis may be beside the point. What isn't beside the point is that at a time of disturbing levels of antisemitism and a Jewish community fractured by politics, some kind of unity, however America chooses to build it, has never felt more necessary."

https://www.thejc.com/opinion/could-america-ever-have-a-chief-rabbi-rforj7x8

Rising antisemitism in Canada is driving Jews to Israel

For most of my life, I rarely thought about being Jewish in Canada. It wasn’t something that demanded…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Aliyah #batmitzva #breakingnews #Canada #Israel #Jewish #Judaism #MarkCarney #TheOctober7Massacre #Toronto
https://www.newsbeep.com/711684/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/269182/ Israel must reclaim Judaism from the religious establishment claiming to own it #2026IsraeliElections #ChiefRabbinateOfIsrael #FreedomOfReligionInIsrael #haredim #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #Judaism #Religion #SupremeRabbinicalCourt #UltraOrthodox

From My Jewish Learning:
Think ancient history left women behind? Think again.

Join celebrated novelist and literature professor Ruby Namdar and our friends at My Jewish Learning for an eye-opening, 4-week journey into the bold, complex, and fierce heroines of the Hebrew Bible: Matriarchs: The Strong, Proud and Willful Women of Genesis.

Forget passive figures on a page—we’re stepping into the worlds of:

- Sarah: The proud Mesopotamian aristocrat
- Rebecca: The tough, calculating strategist
- Rachel & Leah: The fiercely determined sisters
- Tamar: The bold, cunning trailblazer who risked everything to redefine her destiny

Whether you're looking to refresh your perspective this High Holiday season or dive into rich Biblical narrative for the first time, this course will help you rethink how you view these incredible women.

Class begins September 8, claim your space now: https://my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/matriarchs-ruby-namdar

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Torah

" #Rabbi #ChaimSteinmetz of #CongregationKehilath on the #UpperEastSide has #published “A Proud #Jew,” drawing on his weekly #Torah #essays.

The essays collected in the new volume, his third #book, reference weekly Torah portions, the holidays, Jewish life and contemporary events. Together, they explore what it means to live as a Jew in a complicated world and why #Jewish identity should be a source of strength rather than something to conceal.

The book’s title comes from one of its essays, but as #RabbiSteinmetz writes in the preface, it reflects the message of the entire collection: “Our mission is to carry with pride #Judaism’s message to humanity.”

That message has taken on particular urgency in Rabbi Steinmetz’s work in #NewYork."

https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/rabbi-steinmetz-book-presents-a-proud-jew,26755?

JIMENA convened a coalition of 14 leading Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish organizations to challenge New York Magazine’s Habibi City feature and its exclusionary framing of Middle Eastern, North African, and SWANA identity.

“We are not asking to be tolerated as exceptions to an ideological rule. We are asking to be recognized as what we are: peoples of the region.”

Read the full letter: https://www.jimena.org/habibi-city/

Read the Forward coverage: https://forward.com/news/846803/sephardic-mizrahi-new-york-magazine-habibi-city/

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Mizrahi #Sephardi #MENA

Weekly Torah Podcast from Pardes:
https://pardes.org.il/pardes-from-jerusalem-the-weekly-torah-portion-talk/

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #Torah

From Harif:
The ‘Arab world’ is a misnomer for a region comprising a rich mosaic of non-Arab and non-Muslim  peoples, sects and religions,  many of whom predate the Arab conquest and Islam in the Middle East.

However, Middle Eastern minorities have suffered a decline due to conflict and persecution. Many have been forced to flee. Demands for autonomy and self-determination have been frustrated.

What is the future for Middle Eastern minorities? To discuss this pressing question, Middle East specialist Jonathan Spyer will chair a distinguished  90-minute panel comprising Kurdish spokesman Veysi Dag,   Juliana Taimoorazy, representing Assyrian Christians,  and Yusri Khaizran from the Druze community.

Join Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85975251365?pwd=kvm3FsjSKb0ZzVL6mqchd1OeS3dt7J.1
Webinar ID: 859 7525 1365
Passcode: 948345

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #MENA #Mizrahi #Sephardi

Voices of Distinctions:
A Library of Sages with Tamar Zaken

Join JIMENA for the second session of our Voices of Distinctions virtual conversation series, featuring contributors to Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal, on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET.

Drawing on a rich library of Sephardi wisdom, Tamar will share practical ways educators can bring Sephardi perspectives into their classrooms and communities.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YOFYS-ZDTHa2WUWWr6sEuQ#/registration

Read Tamar's Article: https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/a-library-of-sages-bringing-sephardi-wisdom-to-jewish-day-schools-2/

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Sephardi #Mizrahi #MENA

"In a townhouse in #Greenpoint, #Brooklyn, a gathering for #TuBAv was underway. There was chanting and breathwork, singing and ceremony. Several Brooklyn-based #Jewish communities, including Temple of the Stranger and Lab/ #Shul, had come together for the experience.

These vibes are usually associated with Eastern traditions, paganism or indigenous American practices; most Westerners who want that form of spirituality go looking for it at Buddhist meditation centers or ayahuasca retreats, forms of engagement more often associated with the 1960s or ’70s #counterculture movement than with a #synagogue.

But a group of #rabbis, leaders and #spiritual seekers believe drum circles, chanting, #meditation and #mysticism are, in fact, just as core to #Judaism as any #rabbinic text — a sort of lost magic that has impeded vibrant, direct spiritual experience."

https://forward.com/culture/845078/ivri-judaism-jewish-ritual-practice-mysticism-spirituality/

Pardes Weekly Torah Post:
https://www.pardes.org.il/pardes-from-jerusalem-the-weekly-torah-portion-talk/

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Torah

"The story of the #Soviet #Jewish #refusenik movement is often told through the courageous men who challenged the #Communist regime, taught #Torah in secret, and fought for the right to leave for #Israel. Less often told is the story of the Jewish women who bravely sustained their families and communities. Their resistance was often a private matter, but without them, the movement could never have survived.

Among those remarkable women was #IraDashevsky. Born in #Odessa in 1958 and raised near #Moscow before moving to Moscow, Ira grew up in a society where #Judaism was suppressed, religion was mocked, and #antisemitism was part of everyday life. As a child, she watched peers ridicule #Jews and destroy letters her parents had sent her at summer camp.

Yet rather than diminish her identity, those experiences strengthened her determination to understand what it truly meant to be Jewish."

https://aish.com/the-strength-of-jewish-women-behind-the-iron-curtain/

JIMENA's Matthew Nouriel Joins Unpacked's Wandering Jews with Mijal Bitton

JIMENA's Director of Community Engagement Matthew Nouriel recently joined Dr. Mijal Bitton on Unpacked's Wandering Jews podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about identity, belonging, and the diversity of the Jewish people.

As a gay Iranian Jewish activist, Matthew shared his personal journey navigating multiple identities while remaining deeply connected to his Jewish and Mizrahi heritage.

Watch the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uidYc0b-ZJk&list=PLgPaAFlsq_5OPEEzj7qIyHDCL3ojnlARg&index=3&t=22s

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #Mizrahi #MENA

Join JIMENA for the first session of our Voices of Distinctions virtual conversation series featuring contributors to Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal.

Whether you're an educator, student, or lifelong learner, this conversation will offer meaningful insights and practical tools for bringing Sephardi stories into classrooms and communities.

Read Denise's article: We Belong Here, Too: Cultivating Sephardi Presence in Jewish Education
https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/we-belong-here-too-cultivating-sephardi-presence-in-jewish-education/

Register for the Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j2Rk8eFlQlu0cZ1QYQ6zIQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Sephardi #Mizrahi #MENA #JewishHistory

From Pardes:
https://pardes.org.il/pardes-from-jerusalem-the-weekly-torah-portion-talk/

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Torah #Parashat

!Electronical-Computer-Mechanical
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!COmputer & Programming
#компьютер, #компьютеры, #ЭВМ, ремонт компьютеров, компьютерная техника, железо, #программы, #настройка, #диагностика, операционные системы, игровые приставки, аппаратные средства, computer, #computers, computers, computer repair, computer equipment, #hardware, #programs, #setup, #diagnostics, operating systems, game consoles, #hardware, #комп'ютер, #комп'ютери, #ЕОМ, ремонт комп'ютерів, комп'ютерна техніка, #залізо, #програми, #налаштування, діагностика, операційні системи, ігрові приставки, апаратні засоби ремонт телевизоров, #мониторы
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/372

_Фонд редких книг
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/371

Энергетика и целительство
Energy and healing, Енергетика та цілительство
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/370

Эзотерическая рунология
Esoteric runology, Езотерична рунологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/369

Шаманизм, Шаманізм, shamanism
#Шаманизм, #Шаманізм, #shamanism
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Фэн - шуй
Фен Шуй, Feng Shui
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Тантрическая традиция, Tantric tradition
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Медитации и транс, Meditation and trance
#Медитации и #транс, #Meditation and #trance
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Магия, Magic
#Магия, #Magic
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Каббала и Тора, Kabbalah and Torah
#Каббала и #Тора, #Kabbalah and #Torah
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Йога, Yoga
#Йога, #Yoga
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Иудаизм, Judaism
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Индуизм, Hinduism
#Индуизм, #Hinduism
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веды, Veda
#веды, #Veda
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suteres, koans
#suteres, #koans
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esoteric эзотерика мистика мистицизм оккультизм
#esoteric #эзотерика #мистика #мистицизм #оккультизм
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_буддизм, Buddhism
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_Дзен, zen
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_Даосизм
Taoism
#Даосизм
#Taoism
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!Electronical-Computer-Mechanical
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!COmputer & Programming
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_Фонд редких книг
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Энергетика и целительство
Energy and healing, Енергетика та цілительство
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Эзотерическая рунология
Esoteric runology, Езотерична рунологія
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Шаманизм, Шаманізм, shamanism
#Шаманизм, #Шаманізм, #shamanism
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Фэн - шуй
Фен Шуй, Feng Shui
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Тантрическая традиция, Tantric tradition
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/365

Медитации и транс, Meditation and trance
#Медитации и #транс, #Meditation and #trance
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/364

Магия, Magic
#Магия, #Magic
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Каббала и Тора, Kabbalah and Torah
#Каббала и #Тора, #Kabbalah and #Torah
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Йога, Yoga
#Йога, #Yoga
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Иудаизм, Judaism
#Иудаизм, #Judaism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/360

Индуизм, Hinduism
#Индуизм, #Hinduism
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веды, Veda
#веды, #Veda
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suteres, koans
#suteres, #koans
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esoteric эзотерика мистика мистицизм оккультизм
#esoteric #эзотерика #мистика #мистицизм #оккультизм
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RELIGION
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#RELIGION
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_Цигун, qigong Qi Books
#Цигун, #qigong #Qi Books
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_буддизм, Buddhism
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_Дзен, zen
#Дзен, #zen
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_Даосизм
Taoism
#Даосизм
#Taoism
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There's actually a very active frum fitness scene.

"It may be one of the most overlooked #religious obligations of our time.

Not #prayer. Not #charity. Not even #Torahstudy. But #exercise.

That may sound odd, because #Judaism is not a culture of physical vanity. We do not worship the body, glorify muscle, or measure human worth by outward appearance. The #Torah’s ideal is not the #athlete in the stadium, but the #Jew who lives with #faith, discipline, humility, and a sense of higher purpose.

And yet, somewhere along the way, many of us seem to have confused rejecting vanity with neglecting #health.

When it comes to sleep, diet, movement, and basic physical care, too many people treat the body as if it were religiously irrelevant."

#Jewish tradition says otherwise."

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-904096

Ashkenazi Jews

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Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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For all the attention the Middle East conflict attracts, the expulsion of nearly a million Jews from Arab countries is rarely acknowledged. This is why Lyn Julius has written ‘Cast Out’, a long-form essay published by the Jewish Quarterly.

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