Andalusian, North African, Mizrahi, and Mediterranean Jewish tradition.
Come To The Dark Side, Luke While I’m still recovering from the flu and am stuck on the couch with all this extra time to examine my life lol, I thought it would be somewhat instructive for most of you if I listed some of the perks that I see in moving beyond #Ashkenazi/#Sephardic Judaisms … Read more
Went down the rabbit hole today researching alllllll the links in the chain from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 to the establishment of the state of #Israel in 1948. I won’t go into all the details in this post – this needs to be a book – but here’s the upshot: This is not … Read more
Hot Take 🔥🔥🔥 The event that catalyzed the dawn of modernity in general, and of modern Zionism in particular, was the expulsion of the Jewish people from Spain in 1492.
Really enjoying this preliminary research situating the Arizal within the emergence of modern #Zionism and reading Lurianic kabbala as a Zionist project. Immigration, political organization, autarky, ecology – just a few of the relevant elements promoted in the Arizal’s teachings and activities.
Rambam, Maimonides, Abu Imran, or the Ra”m ba”r Maza”l, as he was variously known, was not just a legal scholar and judge, not just a doctor and a philosopher, but a contemplative mystic on the path of prophecy, not just practicing conceptual-emotional quietude through meditative prayer but actively living a life of self-abnegation, service, and … Read more
Finallllllly listening toShabazi – A Tribute to the PoetOn our way to Ma’ale AdummimBeautiful, bold, brassy, funky, traditional all in one sound*Chef’s Kiss*Yemen Blues – Ravid Kahalani
Who invented the Jews? Who invented the Palestinians? “Sand explained during a newspaper interview his reasons for writing the book: “I wrote the book for a double purpose. First, as an Israeli, to democratise the state; to make it a real republic. Second, I wrote the book against Jewish essentialism.” Sand explained in the same … Read more
Jewish Religion: A Rough Sketch At the heart of our practices, theories, and forms lies חסידות, a word translated variously as piety, loving-kindness, and mysticism. For reasons that I hope will become clear, I prefer the somewhat clunky translation “benevolent sensitivity.” The first usage of חסיד in the Torah is in Moshe rabbenu’s blessing of … Read more
“To be Jewish is to be modern, and vice versa.”– R. José Faur z”l Understood correctly, Jewish ideas are at the forefront of human development and are produced by a forward-thinking, pro-social outlook that sees law as an instrument of social perfection, both directly and by creating the conditions in which individual spiritual perfection can … Read more
“Morir habemos” – we all have to die“Ya lo sabemos” – I know it And with that the Sabbath departs and 9 Ab begins. With the departure of our additional consciousness and with a step across the edge of madness. A return to our worst memories from which we can only hope will be birthed … Read more