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“movies that have some asshole or monster claim to be a god and so some…”

I can’t help but feel that the Jewish people should not be proud of israel meaning “he who fights with G-d.” It’d be like Christians being called “those guys that really hate Jesus”

Your big mistake was taking xtianity and trying to apply it to Jews, Judaism, and our relationship with G-d.

You can not on a fundamental level apply xtianity to Judaism because they are nothing alike and highly incompatible.

To understand this concept of fighting G-d you have to solely look at Judaism otherwise it won’t make any sense.

See xtianity sees fighting with god and takes that to mean one hates god.

Jews see fighting with G-d and we go ah that person loves G-d.

Fighting with G-d to Jews is an expression of love. It is a massive aspect of relationship with G-d. 

There is a reason that there are many atheist Jews and those Jews are some of the most like hardcore Jews ever.

There is a famous story of two Rabbis arguing about something in the Torah and finally after much back and forth The Voice of G-d speaks to them and says Rabbi A is correct.

So Rabbi B says to The Voice of G-d that might be, but You gave us the Torah for us here on Earth to understand and interpret so what you say is correct has no bearing on this argument.

G-d starts to laugh and says “Look at how wonderful my children are”

To Jews, G-d is not necessarily necessary to the equation.

So to fight G-d is rather an expression of love rather then hate.

Fighting G-d whether you be like Yakkov who physically fought G-d or if be a battle of words like pretty much every Jew ever is a basic core of Jewish culture.

No matter where in the world we are, no matter how far we are from each other, no matter what the one thing you can always count on is that fighting G-d will always be apart of Jewish culture, Judaism, and the very nature of every Jewish person.

Why is one the most important words in Judaism. Why allows us to explore the world, ourselves, and each other. Why helps to debate and to understand. Why lets us argue with G-d and Why helps to become closer to G-d.

One of the fundamentals of Judaism is to ask questions and question everything.

Question your leader, question yourself, and question G-d.

When we question and fight G-d we don’t come away hating G-d or rejecting Judaism. Rather we come away with a deeper understanding of everything and with a further love of G-d.

To G-d there is nothing as wonderful as when a Jew comes and fights with G-d.

And to a Jew it is one of the most fundamentally Jewish things they can ever do.

An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon. She mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson and takes care of him. The demon decides to stay at his new home.

I think we should make Puritan naming customs cool again, but like, updated to reflect Millenial values. So we can have names like Resistance Jones, Self-Care Williams, and I-Am-Not-Throwing-Away-My-Shot Anderson.

When you’re in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, that’s the best feeling in the world. 

By coming together, all of us, by pledging our solidarity, our friendship, we’ve made history.

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a 6-year-old girl’s sparkly tiara as PROTECTION FROM TROLLS DRAPED OVER THE MODEM. LONG FLOWING LOCKS AND REAL SWORDS. I love everything about this post.

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