וַתֹּ֤אמֶר רוּת֙ אַל־תִּפְגְּעִי־בִ֔י לְעׇזְבֵ֖ךְ לָשׁ֣וּב מֵאַחֲרָ֑יִךְ כִּ֠י אֶל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר תֵּלְכִ֜י אֵלֵ֗ךְ וּבַאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּלִ֙ינִי֙ אָלִ֔ין עַמֵּ֣ךְ עַמִּ֔י וֵאלֹהַ֖יִךְ אֱלֹהָֽי׃
"And Ruth said: Do not try and coerce me to abandon you, to return to being behind you, for wherever you shall go- I will go, and wherever you sleep, I will sleep. Your nation is my nation, and your G-d is my G-d."
בַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּמ֙וּתִי֙ אָמ֔וּת וְשָׁ֖ם אֶקָּבֵ֑ר כֹּה֩ יַעֲשֶׂ֨ה יְהֹוָ֥ה לִי֙ וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֔יף כִּ֣י הַמָּ֔וֶת יַפְרִ֖יד בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵינֵֽךְ׃
"Where you die, I shall die, and there I shall be buried. Thus shall G-d do to me and thus shall He continue to do so, for only death shall place a separation between me and between you."
[Megillat Ruth, Chapter 1, Verses 16-17]
In a few days is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which among many things is the celebration of the wheat harvest. On Shavuot, Megillat Ruth (the book of Ruth) is read in synagogue. Megillat Ruth is the story of Ruth, a Moabite convert to Judaism. The defining moment of the story is when she and her mother-in-law Naomi are on the road to Israel, and Naomi implores her to leave her and return to Moab where she was held in high esteem. Ruth tells her that she will never abandon her, and that her nation (Judaism) is her nation. Ultimately, by the end of the book, we learn that a descendent of Ruth is King David, and in turn the entire Judaic Dynasty. King David passed away on Shavuot, and the main events of Megillat Ruth take place during the wheat harvest. For these reasons, the Megilla is read on Shavuot.
Megillat Ruth is especially important to Gerim- converts to Judaism, and many of the laws we have today about conversion are derived from Megillat Ruth.
More recently, the LGBT+ Jewish community, especially the lesbian Jewish community, has claimed Megillat Ruth as part of their story. The relationship between Ruth and Naomi is an ambiguous one- Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law, but homosexual in-law relationships are not uncommon in history. Additionally, a lot of the language Ruth and Naomi use for each other can be interpreted as romantic. In fact, when Ruth has a child, the language the Megilla uses is that Naomi became the adoptive mother of the child.
Ultimately, we'll never know for sure what the nature of Ruth and Naomi's relationship truly was, but we do know that it is a story many LGBT+ Jews take comfort and pride in.
This year, as in most years, Shavuot falls in the Gregorian month of June, which is observed as LGBT+ Pride Month in the US many other parts of the world. In many cities, Pride Parades fall out on Shabbat or Shavuot, too often for it to be a coincidence, excluding LGBT+ Observant Jews from participating in Pride celebrations. I know for myself it's something I feel very hurt by, and something I think LGBT+ gentiles need to address and take accountability for.
But, I will still take comfort in Megillat Ruth, and the beautiful and loving relationship of Ruth and Naomi, who are part of my history and heritage as an LGBT+ Jew.
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Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized it’s embarrassing
Why are they like this
this was a prophecy
“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.
Good Job.
It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been
do you think no one else has time travel
Happy one month anniversary to this post that has not allowed me a single day of fucking peace since I made it.
for the last fucking time stop policing the bodies and sexualities of real living breathing short women who like “cute” shit
it’s not pedophilia to be a short adult woman and wear hello kitty underwear. it’s not pedophilia to be a short adult woman who collects plushes. it’s not pedophilia to wear things or to collect things at all.
pedophilia is when an adult sexually preys upon a child, end of.
nothing a woman does with her own self will be “pedophilia” or “pedobait”. pedophiles do not pursue adult women who wear striped thigh highs. they prey upon children.
pedophilia is not wrong because children look a certain way, it’s wrong because they are children and children cannot meaningfully consent. there is not a single child on the planet who can meaningfully consent to sexual activity with an adult.
blaming women who are short and like certain things is misogyny, plain and simple. and I see a lot of you fuckers going after Asian women in particular, which is also actually really fucking racist lmao
donating a toothbrush to a child’s shelter would be more helpful to combat child abuse than anything you keyboard warriors are doing
guess I gotta bring this back because we’re still making takes like “it doesn’t matter if it’s a consenting adult, if you’re attracted to an adult that looks like a minor that’s still pedophilia” in the year of our lord twenty twenty-three
what do these people expect short women to do? remain chaste for all eternity? no really I want to hear the solution. what’s the solution. what do we do about short women who “look like a minor”. what do we do. what do you think we should actually DO.
when people say things like this they do not, for a single moment, consider the woman in this situation. all they’re thinking about is the remote possibility that someone’s getting a boner they’re not supposed to get.
this is the problem with basically any and all relationship and sex “discourse”. the question asked is never “is someone being harmed? is someone’s boundaries being violated? is someone’s agency being denied?” but rather “is someone getting a boner I personally believe they’re not supposed to get?”
and I am goddamn tired of it.
doubloonhaver
my interpretation … mieaow …
New 2023 discourse dropped, everyone prepare yourselves accordingly
you didn't even post the best ones
feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't post the most mask-off shit in all of this:
“you! conspiracy theorist, are you normal about-“
“jewish people control everything”
Oops! All Antisemitism!
For the record I clicked yes and it crashed my game
sorry it was too much for me man
it’s O.K. giant rat
Collection of WGA Strike Tweets I've Seen
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Btw, re: that article:
The @'s of the people in the photo
@/ANDREWTI -- @/real_pornsak
@/yayforzig -- @/netw3rk
is the world really such a terrible place? yesterday i asked if oat milk was extra and the barista said yes so i said ok just regular milk then and when she gave me my chai latte she whispered “i used oat milk ;)” doesnt that make u want to live another day?
hyrude
here is my life philosophy: next week there might be someone ahead of you in line at the store who’s short a quarter and you have a quarter and you can give it to them. if you weren’t there, they’d have to put something back. the week after that you could be getting lunch and the waiter might ask if you want some pancakes someone else ordered and never picked up. you could find someone’s lost cat. you could watch someone’s bag while they go to the restroom. there are so many ways you are going to touch other people’s lives and they are going to touch yours and there’s no way to know when it’s going to happen. so you have to keep living!!! i wouldn’t want to die knowing that tomorrow the barista will give me free oat milk just to be nice.
When I was 11 years old - we went to Sea World for my birthday. This was to avoid the realization I had no friends, and no one to come to a birthday party and probably because someone gave my mother free tickets at work. It was kinda a shitty day despite being at a theme park full of cute animals. There was a new roller coaster there that had just opened so we decided to go on. I was nervous. I’d never been on a roller coaster.
A group of 6 college kids were ahead of us in line and started chatting with me. Full on just having a fun conversation with someone literally going through the beginning of a very awkward middle school period. I was so shocked they wanted to talk to me. I think my mom mentioned it was my birthday. They were very nice about it. When we got on the ride they told us to go ahead of them so we could sit at the front of the car since it held 8 people.
Now the ride (called Journey to Atlantis - I believe it is sadly no longer there) started with a slow ride of beautiful visuals of dolphins and oceans and computerized images of this imaginary Atlantis before going up the hill to the beginning of the coaster, where it paused for about 30 seconds, and then the ride started. The college kids must have known there would be a pause. Maybe they’d ridden it before I’m not sure.
But as we sat there on that peak, 6 people I’ve never known, and will never know again, sang a very very lonely 11 year old happy birthday. Loudly. And with gusto. They were happy and laughing and joyful. And it made me feel less alone in the world.
I am 29 years old this year, and I still remember them. I still remember that kindness. It is so important. It doesn’t go into a vacuum. It exists beside me in my daily life. And I love the idea that I have been that person to someone else too.
It’s stunningly lovely to be human when we’re kind to each other.
OH THIS CAN’T BE LEFT IN THE NOTES
This guy doesn’t pull any punches
regnm
Reblogging this version instead cause ppl think this is about trashing LOK.
And it ain’t. LOK was good despite all the bullshit nickelodeon kept pulling on the creators.
dark-deathrage
you're a stupid fucking anti-sjw lol. This blog is stupid. I hate you crackers white people SUCK go suck a dick.
looks like I triggered more sjws. Keep sending these asks they only fuel my logic.
Never forget the guy who didn’t remember to hit anon before sending himself hate mail
Love that we’re still dragging the poor fuckers corpse around years later so no one ever forgets their shameful mistake lol
We would be in a significantly better place as a people if “old” and “fat” could be neutral descriptions of fact and not seen as insults by default.
Just in case I need to say it, thin/young people can and should feel free to reblog this. That’s kinda my point.
The fact that this post got 10k+ notes before someone vomited a bunch of “there’s a weight limit on who I will afford basic respect toward” and “blah blah UNHEALTHY” bullshit, is a win. I mean it’s annoying as hell to have to suffer that at all, but if this was like 2015, it would have happened at 100 notes and I would have lost a crap ton of followers for defending myself and daring to suggest fatness is OK actually. So I’m taking the chance to be grateful for a little evolution.
whenever i see that post about swapping female characters with male ones in video games i always think about this
finally…men are becoming sluts again
nature is healing
SOMEONE STOLE A FUCKING SHARK FROM MY CITY’S AQUARIUM
you better sit down for this
i see the resemblance
It seems the shark was returned, so yay there.
“The individual obviously had some knowledge on how to deal with these types of animals, we said that from the very beginning, otherwise why take it? And when we got into the garage and into the house, it looked like almost a mockup of (the aquarium),” Salvaggio said. “He had a lot of different marine animals in the home. (He) very much knew what he was doing – kept that animal alive and was able to continue to see that animal thrive which was pretty shocking to all of us.”
this is
is this what Team Rocket would look like in real life