גם זה יעבור

One thing I love about Judaism and Tanakh and Jewish folklore is how many heroes and villains and figures there are that in other cultures would be gods and demigods, but in Judaism they're just..... people. Like Moshe could easily, in another culture's mythology, be the son of a god, but he's the son of slaves, saved by the heroism of every day people like slaves and princesses and shepherds and tribal leaders. Shimshon may have supernatural strength, Miriam may have prophetic dreams, Eliyahu may have the power to revive the dead, Shlomo may be the wisest of men, but at the end of the day, they were all just people. I love that we don't have any demigods or other gods besides Hashem. It really emphasizes the power we have as humans, that we're all capable of doing great things, for better or for worse, just because we're people. We all have the power to change the world around us with the gifts we are given. No one is a god among men when we're all humans.

also love that our official stance on miracles is "okay big deal they can do miracles. wowza. excellent proof that this person can do miracles" rather than "MUST BE A PROPHET!" like yeah so what you can do miracles that don't say shit about what g-d thinks about you. bad people can be powerful, bad people can do miracles. the only reliable indicator of if someone is a prophet is by fucking listening to them. not the stuff around them, but the words coming out of their mouth.

a lot of jewish tradition is just good life advice tbh. like praying daily or multiple times a day is a genuinely good way of remembering to stop and think for a little bit on a regular basis. going to shul regularly means you're getting out of the house and seeing people. keeping kosher in some way means, at the very least, you're being mindful of what and how you eat, not to mention that in a time before modern food safety, properly prepared kosher food would prevent cross-contamination and thus limit the spread of disease. shabbat is the foundation of the modern concept of the weekend, culturally instituting regular rest. there's a very balanced and regular rhythm to an observant jewish life that our ancestors took great pains to pass down to us so that when we, their descendants, are faced with times when we don't know what to do, we could turn to them. the entirety of jewish history rests on parents teaching children how to live and i am never more grateful for that than when i have absolutely no idea how to live.

ok it's cool the the metropolitan opera is staging kavalier & clay but did anyone think that maybe september 21 to october 11 was not the best possible time to run a jewish show

like if they wanted to choose the worst three weeks possible for jewish audiences and theater artists they really could not have picked better