#ShavuaTov! I hope you had a good #shabbat.

I tried to rest as much as was possible in the circumstances.

I did have some thoughts (and feelings) about #parsha #vayechi

https://babka.social/@sheepchase/109647573341380682

Anyway, I guess I want to say that this #parsha got me in the feels unexpectedly.

#Vayechi

#Parsha #Vayechi really made me think about mortality and what is left in the world after those of us *without* children die. So much of #Judaism is centered around family and much of the first book of the #Torah is about the lineages of children of Abraham (after Noah).

I think for #queer people in particular, we may be childfree/childless and so genetically we leave nothing behind to carry on our story. So what is our place in Jewish history?

#SheepchaseReadsTorah #mazeldon #Jewdiverse

Studying this week's parashah - Vayechi - with the Sefat Emet, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Alter of Ger. From "The language of truth" by Rabbi Arthur Green. I love this book! Some think of Hasidic thought as Orthodox, yet this book is used by Reform Jews, Jewish Renewal, Conservative Jews, Havurah movement, Trad-Egal, etc.

https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/zimm/Zimmern29f.pdf

#Chassidus #Torah #Parashah #Vayechi #Mazeldon

How might queer Jews understand #parsha #vayechi? As the story of Joseph, his bones, and the importance of finding, remembering, queer ancestors.

#torah #SheepchaseReadsTorah

Rashi on Israel blessing Joseph’s sons in #parsha #vayechi. #TIL fish can’t be touched by the evil eye because they’re under water (there’s an etymological connection that leads to the word ‘fish’ that’s explained in Berakhot 20a). #SheepchaseReadsTorah

וידגו. כַּדָּגִים הַלָּלוּ שֶׁפָּרִים וְרָבִים וְאֵין עַיִן הָרָע שׁוֹלֶטֶת בָּהֶם:
וידגו AND LET THEM INCREASE — like fishes (דגים) which are fruitful and which multiply and which the evil eye cannot effect (Berakhot 20a).

https://www.sefaria.org/Rashi_on_Genesis.48.16.3

@sheepchase I like #parsha, you can even specify which one (like #Vayechi). #torah alone I think is too general. At least that's what I think.