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Goyim who think that you can tell whether someone is Sephardi/Ashkenazi/Mizrachi/other based on skin tone shut the fuck up about jewish culture and community dynamics challenge

Hanukkah is here soon!💙✡️

TRUE someone finally said it! please save us from secular binary gender 🙏

my gender identity is jew if that makes sense

Before you say “religion”...

Take a moment and ask yourself a few questions:

- Do you mean just 1 religion? 

- Do you know enough about the all worlds religions to make a potentially harmful generalization about all of them?

- Are you making assumptions about other religions based off of your experience with one religion?

- Are you making assumptions about other religions and cultures based on your limited experience with a single person or group of people from said religion or culture?

- Are you taking out your valid frustrating, anger, hurt, and pain with one religious group on people who have nothing to do with it by making a generalization?

If you don’t actually mean the every single one of the vast, diverse, multi-faceted religions in the world, don’t make a blanket statement and list the one(s) you mean specifically. This also goes for using ‘grouping’ labels that do not apply, like Abrahamic, etc. 

dont forget!!

If you’re Jewish, 18 or older, and live in the United States, vote tonight or tomorrow in the World Zionist Congress.

After tomorrow, there won’t be another election for 5 years, so do the voting now.

✡︎ introduction ✡︎

shalom! i'm a trans alterhuman jew <3 religion is my special interest, and i am on something of a ba'al teshuva journey. i hope you enjoy my tumblr! 𓋼𓍊

name: bug

pronouns: bug/ix/it/they

sexuality: queer + aegosexual

altertypes: bug + angel

magical practices: ancestor veneration, tarot/oracle cards, protection magic, deity worship

interested in: spirit work, cubomancy, meditation, dream/astral work, mediumship

♡ blog content ♡

• ba'al teshuva things

• jewish folk magic

• queer-religious intersectionality

• religious appropriation and its effects

✧₊⁺ other blogs ✧₊⁺

@sillyjewishqueer - my art blog!

@queerholybug - my secular blog!

divider credits: @cafekitsune

blinkies below the cut!

A fellow hetrodox Abrahamic! :0

im quite pleased with the amount of heterodox and/or heretical folks on tumblr lol, ive found my people 🙏

a common syncretism question

i get asked often how i syncretize judaism and islam (understandably!) but probably my least favorite "question" is when people say "well you can't syncretize that because X and Y beliefs are different." i fear people don't know that syncretism isn't just simultaneous practice of several beliefs but is indeed the forming of new beliefs/traditions from those original ones.

also, if religions A and B had no differing beliefs, they would be the same religion!! thus making syncretism impossible in the minds of some people. i respect the confusion but it gets so tiring to explain this specific thing lol

oh woah!! that does help tysm :0 /gen

tbh this has been my experience trying to observe shabbat more traditionally so far lmao. we tear so many things!! (toilet paper & packaging are the biggest ones...)

regardless, has been quite fulfilling thus far :D

this is genuinely so helpful i need to look at this every day lol

I'm autistic and I currently feel like shit checklist

Hi there. Are you autistic? Do you currently feel like shit and don't know why? Try this checklist to see if you can Fix The Problem!

When was the last time you used the bathroom? If you answered "I don't know" or "at least 3 hours ago", go now!

Do you need a drink? Go get one if you don't have one in front of you.

When was the last time you ate? If you haven't eaten yet today, consider eating A Meal, or perhaps A Snack. Something is better than nothing, eat whatever you feel able to!

Is there something in your immediate surroundings that is bothering you? If the light is too bright, turn it off. If there is an annoying sound, make the sound stop or reduce your ability to hear it (earplugs, headphones, etc.). If your clothes are bothering you, change them.

Is your space messy? Pick one area of your room and clean it up as best you can. Clean your whole room if you have the energy!

When was the last time you did An Activity? Scrolling on social media doesn't count. Try actively doing something fun! Play a game you like, read a book, make something, or go for a walk.

When was the last time you Spoke to a Person? Consider talking to a person you like if it has been a while.

How long has it been since you did something Special Interest related? Make some time to do that today. Infodump to a friend, have a nice long research session, look at related images or gifs, make art about it, whatever works best for you!

Try stimming actively! Put on some music and dance, spin in circles, go to the park and use the swings!

If you still feel like shit after trying all of these things, you might be tired or sick. Go to bed early and get some rest. Hopefully you will feel better tomorrow!

Hope that helps :)