Shabbat Shalom! This week's #Parsha is a double portion, one of which is Vayalech.

The question we wrestle with is literalism - are the words TRUTH or just Truth? (I believe the latter.)

This journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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I also love Shabbos and occasionally write about it, or about the weekly #Parsha. This account is mostly for my Hebrew posts, whereas I have another, less active account, on c.im (accessible from my profile here), for longer posts in English.

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My first #TunesOnTuesday on Threads! This week's tune is the second song I competed based on the weekly Torah portions in the Jewish tradition. Shoutout to @miriamanzovin for inspiring this musical retelling of the story of the daughters of Zelophehad (Parashat Pinchas, Numbers 27). http://ohljazz.com/2023/07/11/tunes-on-tuesday-what-about-us/
You can hear the whole thing on my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/orenlevine/what-about-us-parshat-pinchas #songwriter #songwriting #composer #lyrics #piano #jazzpiano #music #musician #torah #jewish #mazeldon #parsha

This week's parashat is Nasso.

This poem is another lament that in the patriarchal worldview, women aren't people, they're property - and so are children. The sotah's unborn child is killed. God forbids a cuckold.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you.

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This week's parashat is Bamidbar.

This poem is a lament that in the patriarchal worldview, where women aren't people, they're property. In the texts women are mentioned only in passing, yet doing many ritual things.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you.

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This week's parashat is Emor.

The poem goes with the thread on my Universeodon account about a holocaust memoir.

https://universeodon.com/@ShekinahCanCook/110312853152003988

The same evil men justifying their hate and violence are here.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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This week's parashat is a double portion, Acharei Mot and Kedoshim.

The poems for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal are about finding freedom in exile and about rejecting hateful and evil laws.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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The secodn part of this week's double portion, Tazria-Metzorah.

I am angered by the idea that the male priesthood walks in and just throws away all of a woman's things and tears down her house - and walk out again with no obligation whatsoever to make sure supplies and housing are restored.

Where is the commandment to take care of this family? Nowhere, because it is presumed they are "guilty" of...something.

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This week's Torah reading is a double portion, Tazria-Metzorah.

These ideas that women are unclean and inferior, imported from the babylonian captivity, are inserted into the mouth of Moshe, probably by Ezra and his school that edited and redacted the earlier stories and texts into "acceptable" forms.

Acceptable to whom, of course, is never explicitly stated.

Take a guess.

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This week's #Parasha is Tzav.

The poem for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal is about the feeling you've definitely done something FUBAR, hurt someone you love, and there's no way to fix it.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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I can’t say it’s fantastic reading, as a vegetarian…

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וְהַקֶּרֶב וְהַכְּרָעַיִם יִרְחַץ בַּמָּיִם וְהִקְרִיב הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הַכֹּל וְהִקְטִיר הַמִּזְבֵּחָה עֹלָה
הוּא אִשֵּׁה רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ לַיהֹוָה׃ {פ}

The entrails and the legs shall be washed with water; the priest shall offer up and turn the whole into smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to יהוה.

https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.1.13

You can read Rabbi Botnick's thoughts on Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei in this week's Jewish Chronicle here:

https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/parashah-of-the-week-vayakhel-pekudei-4wceQHiAdzbRgxYwKiqgPE

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"Who among us hasn’t played the game

of naming that which we cannot touch

of supposing fibrous wisp to be torso /

tiger / palace shifting across pure palette

of sky / loneliness or love or pride

called out in thin disguise?"

- from (mutable cloud) by Sue Swartz, on this week's parsha!

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/we-who-desire/

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Shavua tov! It's time for another thread of #ParshahThoughts on this past week's #parshah, Ki Tisa. This will be somewhat of a sequel to my thread on parshat Yitro (
https://babka.social/@bosheshabayis/109890671485452182), though reading that thread is not a prerequisite for reading this one. 🧵​1/

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This week's #Parasha is Tetzaveh.

The poem for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal is about the impact of a mere seven days on you as a person. It's an opportunity to redirect your life.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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… and, yep, I think it was a #unicorn! 🦄🌈 @baruch

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4298548/jewish/What-Was-the-Mysterious-Tachash.htm

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This week's #Parasha is Terumah.

The poem for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal is about how our home & all our places are dwelling places for the Divine, even if we forget or feel unworthy.

The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.

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The instructions also include Keruvim (cherubs), which probably didn’t look like the chubby winged babies. They’re on top of the Ark of the Covenant and also in the curtains.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/cherubim/

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So this week’s #Torah #Parsha, #Terumah, is where the details are given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai for the construction of the tabernacle.

For someone like me who has a short attention span and isn’t good at maths, it’s rather like trying to follow IKEA instructions but without any pictures 😭

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Our big #JewishPoetryMonth sale is going to end soon with Shvat drawing to a close. Let's finish in style!

We have a huge book pile.

📚 1 like - 1 book rec 📚 from our 100+ title backlist. (Not restricted to poetry either!)

+comment with your preferences for your personal rec!

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