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From Pardes:
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"#ParshasNaso reads like a #parsha that has stopped trying to simplify the human heart. It lets the contradictions stand: jealousy beside blessing, suspicion beside generosity, rupture beside return. It is a parsha that understands how volatile people can be and refuses to hide it. Instead, it asks what a sacred community does with the parts of life that do not behave.
This question is not theoretical. It is the question of every family, every friendship, every marriage, every #kehillah. It is the question of every relationship that has ever mattered. People hurt each other. Sometimes by accident. Sometimes out of fear. Sometimes because they were already carrying more than they could hold. The #Torah does not flinch from this truth. It does not idealize us. It does not sanitize us. It simply tells the truth about what it means to be human.
And then it does something even more radical. It builds a path back."
https://jewishpress.com/parshas-naso-the-torahs-architecture-of-repair/
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Women's League of Conservative Judaism
Parashah YitroContinue Reading: https://www.wlcj.org/2025/02/parashat-yitro-5785/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Judaism #Jewish #Parsha #Yitro
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CW: Torah, Marriage, Infidelity
I love this way of looking at the Sotah ritual in this week's parsha. The whole explanation is good, but I think these are the key points of this interpretation.
Absent Hashem making these innocuous ingredients deadly, the Sotah ritual takes a husband who was worried about his wife spending time alone with a particular man, whom he had asked her not to see like that and then does, and provides the choice for the wife to separate amicably with him being obligated to the get, or the husband gets a demonstration of her divine absolution by Hashem.
As they put it, a method for the marriage to continue if she chooses, or end if she feels he has been irreconcilably unfair to her.
#Torah #Parsha #Get #Divorce #Marriage #Relationships #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #Jewniverse #Jewish #Infidelity
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/understanding-the-sotah-ritual/
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Whose Truth
Sometimes women with voices are shut out of the camp. But that’s not the end of the story.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Apr 8, 2024"...Right, so only Miriam gets tzaraat...
And only she is punished.
Only she is maligned.
Only she is sent away.
The thing is this: The text never says that the Kushite wife thing that caused Miriam and Aaron to "speak against" Moses about wasn't true.
...Most of the women murdered as witches were, in some way, woman who didn't have the protection of a man with power...or those who were racial or religious others (Quakers in a Puritan community, eg).
...All of these things were part of the larger system of which the discrediting of female healers was a part.
We must always be attuned to questions like:
What narrative are we trying to advance, and whose interests does this serve?
Whose voices might be suppressed in the process?
https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/miriamtruth/
#Mazeldon @Jewniverse #JFedi #RabbiDanya #Parashat #Parsha
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Yocheved’s Journey
by Rabbi Sonja K. Pilz, PhDA poem for Shabbat Shira
https://ritualwell.org/ritual/yocheveds-journey/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #ShabbatShira #Parashat #Parsha
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Avram is no gung-ho superhero, no conquerer, no Superman, no Rambo. He is stricken with anxiety, with self-doubt, with conflict, with blame. The crushing weight of responsibility sits on his shoulders - After an exhausting night of defending the carcasses of sacrifice, "a great dark dread descended upon him." Rashi says this is representative of the woes and gloom of the Jews in exile. But for Avraham, he is as a nation, a people within himself - with all the internal struggle that that entails. More on that come Parsha Vayera!
After all that, he'd be forgiven for being an overly-serious grinch. But this founding patriarch is no self-aggrandising pompous stoic! His very first action under the name Avraham is to laugh in the face of God and doubt the efficacy of his loins!
I don't have a blog, but I'm starting to see the appeal.
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#mazeldon #jewdiverse #parsha #parshah #ParshahThoughts #torah #torahstudy #lechlecha
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The plagues that afflict the Pharoah and his household - the very ones Avram feared would kill him - are on account of Sarai. And that which Avram acquires thanks to her is from the Egyptians: The Jewish nation will be strangers among them for many years to come, and yet it is their riches that helped sustain the creation of Am Yisrael.
And so what is his response to the King of Sodom's offer of possessions for persons? "You shall not say, ‘It is I who made Avram rich.’" Because that would be a falsehood - Avram was made rich by many before him!
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#mazeldon #jewdiverse #parsha #parshah #ParshahThoughts #torah #torahstudy #lechlecha
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In turn, they are sustained by the tents he pitches, the altars he builds, the lives he saves, the nation he will birth. It is worth mentioning that the first time Avram is told of the land being assigned (Bereshit 12:7), it is assigned only to his offspring, not directly to him. His name will be made great, but the great name in question is the one he will be given. The goal he is pursuing is one he will never personally witness.
And so it goes on, with Sarai's support - "Please say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you."
"And because of her, it went well with Avram; he acquired sheep, oxen, donkeys, male and female slaves, jennies, and camels." (it is worth mentioning that according to Midrash, this bounty includes Hagar!)
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#mazeldon #jewdiverse #parsha #parshah #ParshahThoughts #torah #torahstudy #lechlecha
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After a very satisfying hour of Torah study...
A Layman's Thoughts on Parsha Lech-Lecha:
I begin with an aside: Gematria and that sort of number-coincidence thing aren't really for me, but it feels worthwhile to at least mention that in the year that Israel turned 75, this is the parsha where Avram is mentioned as being 75 at the start of his journey. Now, on with the show.
Selfless In Every Sense, or; The Model Of The Torahic Hero
Everything Avram achieved was supported by someone else.
Everything Avram achieved was in support of someone else.
He is selfless in both senses of the word - without others, he is nothing, but they too are sustained by his actions."Go forth from your native land, your father's house." His upbringing, and indeed his entire adulthood, shaped him. This is a 75 year old man with 75 years of life lessons and personal influences. The self-made man is a myth!
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#mazeldon #jewdiverse #parsha #parshah #ParshahThoughts #torah #torahstudy #lechlecha
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@shabbosbadger
I also love Shabbos and occasionally write about it, or about the weekly #Parsha. This account is mostly for my Hebrew posts, whereas I have another, less active account, on c.im (accessible from my profile here), for longer posts in English.Feel free to follow either account or both!
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"This is the book of face to face.
In it, curved throat of god brought close."- from we who desire by Sue Swartz
https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/we-who-desire/(We just put this poem in a forthcoming newsletter at the end of the Torah cycle, so it's a good time to sign up: https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/join-our-email-list/ )
#Jewish #Mazeldon #JewishBooks #Newsletter #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Parsha #Deuteronomy
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This week's #TunesOnTuesday shares the second song I competed based on the weekly Torah portions in the Jewish tradition. Shoutout to @miriamanzovin for inspiring this musical retelling of the story of the daughters of Zelophehad (Parashat Pinchas, Numbers 27). http://ohljazz.com/2023/07/11/tunes-on-tuesday-what-about-us/
You can hear the whole thing on my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/orenlevine/what-about-us-parshat-pinchas #songwriter #songwriting #composer #lyrics #piano #jazzpiano #music #musician #torah #jewish #mazeldon #parsha -
One of the reasons I love talking about the weekly #parshah on social media is because every week has one, and yet each one only comes once a year, so it is both a timely yet ever-present topic of conversation. It is a great alternative to whatever "timely" topic happens to have the internet angry and at each others' throats at any given moment.
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Parshat Korach is an interesting one, because Korach is quite clearly cast as the villain of the story, yet his core claim against Moshe and Aharon:
"כָל הָעֵדָה כֻּלָּם קְדֹשִׁים וּבְתוֹכָם ה' וּמַדּוּעַ תִּתְנַשְּׂאוּ עַל קְהַל ה'
All of the nation is holy and have God amongst them, so why do you raise yourselves above the congregation of God?"seems to be a just one. Understanding why Korach is nevertheless wrong is one of the most interesting questions of the #parshah. A great discussion topic for your Shabbos meal!
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The Generation of the Wilderness
The Rabbis argued in Bet Hamidrash
About the generation of the wilderness
Do they have a share in the World to Come?"במדבר הזה יתמו ושם ימותו"
Hashem said in His Holy Torah:
In this wilderness they will perish
And there they shall die!
"They shall perish" refers to our own world
"And there they shall die" refers to the world to come
This is what Rabbi Akiva said;
Said Rabbi Eliezer
They enter the world to come!It is thus stated:
Gather unto me
My pious ones
Who had made a covenant with me over a sacrifice.
The generation who suffered for Hashem
In Egypt and in all travails
Through heat and cold, hunger and thirst
Is not that the greatest sacrifice?Said Rabbah, the grandson of Channa, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan:
שבקיה רבי עקיבא לחסידותיה?!
Oh, Rabbi Akiva!
How could you
Abandon your piety!This is what Hashem said to His prophet, Jeremiah:
Go and call out
In the ears of Jerusalem
And say: "I remember for thee
The piety of your youth
The love of your nuptials
Your following after me
Through a wilderness that cannot be sown."
Now, argued Rabbi Yochanan:
If others enter through their merit –
They, themselves, all the more so!
(TB Sanh. 110b)
#Parsha #Parshah -
You can read Rabbi Botnick's thoughts on Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei in this week's Jewish Chronicle here:
https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/parashah-of-the-week-vayakhel-pekudei-4wceQHiAdzbRgxYwKiqgPE
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Our big #JewishPoetryMonth sale is going to end soon with Shvat drawing to a close. Let's finish in style!
We have a huge book pile.
📚 1 like - 1 book rec 📚 from our 100+ title backlist. (Not restricted to poetry either!)
+comment with your preferences for your personal rec!
#Mazeldon #Poetry #Jewish #Bookstodon #JewishAuthors #Nonfiction #Parsha #Fiction
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This week's #Parasha is Mishpatim. The poem is about unfair expectations of disadvantaged people & how society blames the poor for not being able to overcome structural poverty.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
#Torah #Parsha #Judaica #Mazeldon #JewishGifts #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #JewishArt #MastoArt #Handmade #FediGiftShop #Crafts #ShopHandMade
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On this week’s #Parsha, #Mishpatim (which contains some problematic ‘rules’ for our current society).
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CW: Jethro vs. Abraham
According to the Midrash of our Sages, Jethro, who is honoured to have this Sabbath's Parshah named after him, discovered God on his own, through a method of trial and error.
Scripture reports him declaring: "Now I know that the Lord is is greater than all other gods, for the very thing with which they had contrived, turned up over them."
In order to be able to make such a statement in credibility, he had to try first to worship all other gods in the world, and find them lacking.
This brings to mind the way through which our ancestor, Abraham, discovered God. According to the Midrash, he saw the sun rise in the east and reign supreme among the hosts of heaven during the day, so he worshipped the sun. When the sun disappeared at sunset, he realized his error, and seeing the moon rise and reign supreme among the other hosts of the night skies, he worshipped the moon.
When Abraham saw the moon vanish at dawn, he said to himself: "Can such a magnificent palace [meaning the universe] be without a leader?" God then revealed Himself unto him and said: "I am the leader of the palace."
I asked today at the Shabbat table, why God didn't appear in a similar manner to Jethro at the beginning of his spiritual journey, allowing him to blunder through the worship of countless, useless idols.
Answer 1: Jethro should have learned from Abraham's experience. There is no need for every person to go presonally through the experience of searching for the true God, if he has such good precedents.
Answer 2: When Abraham realized his second mistake, he didn't choose a 3rd false option, but stopped his search, in perplexity. This is the key to true revelation. Jethro, on the other hand, kept trying blindly every available option.
I think the difference between Abraham and Jethro goes deeper. Abraham was motivated by the need to serve a Higher power. He sought for the most supreme power in order to worship it. That was why, when he realized that he lacks the means by which to find the true answer, he didn't try any available option. He sought the ultimate truth.
Jethro, on the other hand, sought a deity whom he could gain benefit from. A deity powerful enough to help him in return to his service. That was why he tried any available idol, and only despaired of each when he made sure it was utterly powerless. He didn't care if his idol was worthy of his worship or not--all he wanted was a relationship that worked.
Of course, since he was sincere in his search, he eventually found the true God. He is lauded as Moses' father-in-law, and his partnership with the People of Israel is honorably recorded at length in Scripture, including Balaam's prophecy about his descendants surviving until the end of days.
Shavua Tov, and thanks for reading this! Your thougths and comments are welcome, and of course please boost this if you liked.
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You can read Rabbi Botnick's thoughts on parshat Yitro here in the JC:
https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/parashah-of-the-week-yitro-5K8VeLtSuj2F8HPmJSl3fR
#parsha #mazeldon @mazeldon #jewdiverse
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I know I am a week late parsha-wise but I loved this discussion about the layout of Shirat Hayam, from Rabbis Amirit Rosen and Elisha Anscelovitz at Pardes Institute. It makes me think about the importance of leaving empty space and time, not just filling every moment with constant activity even though there is never enough time to get stuff done and open time makes me feel guilty or lazy. #jewish #parsha #mazeldon https://elmad.pardes.org/2023/02/beshalach-5783-the-sacred-pause/
