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im that guy who's obsessed with really random things including but not limited to theology, gothic architecture, and classical lit.
-im an artist! (but i also reblog a ton of stuff so… uh yeah) + my art tag is #my art
-minor/teenaged girl + any weird vibes will be blocked (DNIs arent really my thing just don’t be a jerk)
more info about me + my blog under the cut (recommend reading if youre new here) :)))
theyre making another movie
I won’t let them.
I am sooooo not locked in. I am tucked in. Going to sleep
really love how "Spaniard" is the settled-upon English demonym for those from Spain, given the linguistic quirk from the period it was settled upon where the "-ard" suffix generally means something sucks a lot
"okay ❤️ yay ❤️" remains an unmatched response
how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever
how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever
i don’t know how to explain to my non-jewish audience what it means that two torah scrolls were destroyed in an arson attack but what i can tell you is that during the los angeles wildfires, three staff at the synagogue in pasadena made 4+ trips each back into the building to rescue torah scrolls while the fire was close enough that ashes were falling in the parking lot.
what i can tell you is that we have a holiday once a year where we hold the scrolls and hug them and dance around them. what i can tell you is that they are written with love by hand by trained scribes who take exquisite care to make sure each word, each letter, is perfect. when we read from them we do not touch the parchment directly so that it won’t be harmed by the oils from our fingers.
we make beautiful clothing for our torah scrolls, embroidered cloth coverings and shining worked metal crowns to sit atop them or carved wooden cases plated with gold and silver. the torah is to us the words of the living God, the tree of life, the record of who are and where we’re going, and the torah scroll is our most holy ritual object.
the torah scroll never touches the floor. if it is dropped accidentally, everyone in the room must fast for forty days in mourning. the desecration of a torah scroll is the utmost level of desecration that can be done to a jewish community, short of killing its members. nazis burnt and destroyed torah scrolls as part of their campaign of terror against the jewish people even before widescale mass deportations began. in ancient times, the romans wrapped the rabbis who led our community in torah scrolls when they burnt them at the stake.
this past shabbat, in the middle of the night, a synagogue in jackson, mississippi was intentionally set on fire. the library was burnt to ashes and five torah scrolls were damaged, with two of them completely destroyed.
i don’t know how many books were burnt, how many jewish holy texts and how many stories of jewish life and philosophy and love and resilience flew up with the smoke. i do know that the library was where the congregation had shabbat services and torah and talmud study. it was a sacred space. this is not the first time that people who hate us have destroyed our sacred spaces and our holy texts and our torah scrolls in order to terrorize us. i dearly wish it was the last.
haaattee that ✨ is associated with ai. that’s my emoji, not urs. you’re NOT whimsy.
It's a shame that only a very little portion of people in the world speak italian because they're missing out on all the amazing names birds have in our language. everything is just like cinciarella, cinciallegra, bigiarella, cincia bigia, codibugnolo, tarabusino, sgarza ciuffetto, occhioccotto, strillozzo, pispola, svasso, assiolo, piro piro piccolo, fischione, torcicollo, tuffetto, luì piccolo, gambecchio frullino etc.
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