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Torah giving? YES GOOD 

The importance of Torah in Jewish tradition? YES GOOD 

The fact that ALL Jews were at some point converts? YES. YES YES. GOOD. 

Celebrating converts? YEESSSSS 

Celebrating Ruth, the “ideal” convert? yAaAaaaAAASSS 

celebrating Ruth who is Hella, Hella gay gooooood goooooooooood 

Dairy food? AHHHhHHhHhHhH thank HASHEM 

Celebrating later spring and the start of summer? So nice. So pretty. 

STAYING UP ALL NIGHT TO STUDY? 

gd made this holiday specifically for me 

Important Shavuot suggestion: make cheese fondu + bread. you can say ha motzi, you can have dairy food, and it’s fucking delicious. 

me:

מפני שחייה קודמין לחייו

“…because [the mother’s] life comes before [the fetus’] life…” - Mishnah Oholot 7:6

Let’s talk about the crossroads between Reproductive Health and Religious Freedom and their relationship with the basic, inalienable rights of women and other’s with uteruses from a Jewish perspective….

Yes, several American Jews owned slaves.  Yes, the past often can be disturbing.  We must learn from it, in order to create a present and future where every last human being, each created in God’s Image, is respectfully and compassionately treated.

Lecha dodi, traditionally sung on shabbos eve, is one of my favorite piyutim and I think that the Abayudaya version is one of my favorites!

Abayudaya is the name of the Jewish communities of Uganda, of which there are several. They’re known for their music (among many other things!) which contains many qualities familiar to other Jews while mixing in Luganda vocabulary and East African musical features.

They live in Eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale and number around 2000–which is miraculous because, due to persecution from the Idi Amin regime, there were as few as 300 Abayudaya people around in the ‘70s.