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so real. looking at conservative shuls to convert through and the closest one is across the border in canada 😔😔
Converting-in-a-small-towncore:
-Getting stopped in the middle of the street or store
-Everyone talks about you behind your back (and you only find out when your goyish friends/family mention it)
-Closest shul is at minimum forty miles away
-The closest place for conversion is another one hundred miles away
-It's not unlikely you're the only one like you in the whole town
-Where is the kosher section.
-Having to sacrifice aspects of practice that literally can't be done because of where you live and learning how to accept that
-You're going to be so happy regardless, relishing in the offline, yet equally tiny jewish community you've found
about a year after i decided to convert to judaism, i found out my moms dads family was jewish.
my first reaction was irritation. it was mostly a mock anger; i joked that if great-grandma rose hadn’t converted to christianity i wouldn’t have had to go the long way back to judaism. but some of that irritation was real. ever since i started my conversion i’ve felt like i’ve come home. i can’t imagine my life without it at this point. how could she have ever left?
i wondered if her mom- esther, a ukrainian jew who fled to the united states in the 1910’s- was disappointed she’d converted.
all i know about my great grandmas rose and esther are from census records and bits and pieces my mom remembers from her childhood. i know they both spoke ukrainian- esther never learned how to speak english, and rose never taught her son david how to speak ukrainian. i know esther’s name was changed to “stella” at some point in the 1940s. rose made hamantaschen during christmas, and taught my mom how to make pierogi. i don’t know why esther left ukraine but i’ve got a pretty good guess.
i don’t know why grandma rose converted. maybe she really did believe jesus was the messiah. maybe orthodox christianity was, for her, a way to escape antisemitism while being as close as she could to judaism. i don’t know. but i definitely don’t blame her like i used to. i’m coming home, and i hope she would be proud of me.
hebrew national kosher pigs in a blanket should not be $20, that’s just messed up
10pm sundown is a BLESSING. accidentally took a 5 hour nap this afternoon, woke up at 6pm with none of my pre-shabbos chores done, still have three hours to finish them. in the winter i will suffer but in the summer i am thriving
AMAB converts, y’all are so brave. the idea of undergoing circumcision as an adult is so scary. one of my profs was talking about circumcision and he said, and i quote, “it’s a threat. misbehave and i’ll come back for the rest.”
learning about artificial/ornamental ashkenazi surnames is so wild cause like??? what do you mean the austrian emperor just made that shit up
so excited to move to a place with a bigger kitchen cause y’all i’m getting
🔥🗣️🔊‼️‼️stainless steel pots‼️🔥🫡💯🔥🔥
having to work a restaurant shift while fasting is diabolical
my uni is offering a class called “torah in ancient israel” in the fall and i’m taking it because
1. my university NEVER offers classes like this so i gotta take it to show admin that yes, students are interested in this subject and
2. taking it is part of my grand scheme to get into the talmud class in the spring. it’s taught by the same professor BUT i don’t have the pre reqs for it. so my plan is to become bestest friends with my professor and beg him to let me take talmud please please please
today my partner tried to make this 'vegan brisket' recipe and i have never felt more loved in my life. they also noted that tons of jewish recipes include garlic so i got to infodump about the jewish history with garlic to them ahaha.
...i'm sorry so many of our posts are like this but i think we need the positivity considering the horrors plaguing us all at the moment.
Studying commentary on the Torah is a bit like joining a conversation that covers the entire world and all of history
This guy from the 1880s disagrees with that guy from the late Middle Ages about what the text means
A dude in 16th century Poland is building off what that dude in 12th century Egypt said about why the text is written this way
Guys come read Gemara the Old Men are fighting again
save me turtleneck skirt and leg warmers, save me !!
my friend (jewish) introduced me to her friend (also jewish) as a “fellow jew on campus” :))
the venn diagram of star trek nerds and jews is damn near a circle
finally reached out to my local hillel to ask if i could attend their rosh hashanah seder and i was so nervous that i drafted out my message on a piece of paper first. they literally responded to me within a minute saying they would love to have me and that i’m welcome at any future shabbos dinners
made new friends at the rosh hashanah seder last night (!!!!) and one of them asked me if i was at all connected with the frum community in our area. i was so excited and said i had no idea there was a frum community!!
turns out the frum community is me and four other people 😭😭😔