#ibbur

To clarify, the Jewish characters who are alive would never contact the deceased mother, though contact would be had by an outside third party

Jewish mother is a benevolent “guardian” spirit who follows her daughter around

We do have a concept that might fit! In folklore there is the concept of an ibbur, which is the spirit of a good person, who is trying to do a mitzvah after death. That might reasonably be stretched to include watching over a daughter until bat mitzvah age, or until marriage or something like that. In the stories I've read, the ibbur usually joins the body of the person they are following. I've heard it described as a peaceful possession, but I've also seen it described as one soul moving over to make room for a second soul for a time, which has echoes in other traditions too, so I prefer that way of looking at it, personally. The only things I would caution about for this is to make sure that it doesn't drift into ancestor worship, which we can't really do. I suggest reading up on ibbur (ibburim is the plural) and on their sort-of conceptual opposite, the dybbuk, who are considered negative. That might help give some ideas to go on.

Wikipedia: Ibbur

Myjewishlearning: Demons, Dybbuks, Ghosts, & Golems

No one will mind if I end up breaking the rules and talking about more than one song right

5. A song that needs to be played LOUD I had a friend send me this and at first I laughed but then I realized it actually kind of goes ridiculously hard

13. One of your favorite 80s songs There's so many 80s songs, when it comes to art all of history is the present as far as I'm concerned, and I never pay attention to when a song was released when I fall in love with it, so I actually had to look through my library to remember that Hallelujah (the ORIGINAL version by Leonard Cohen btw) is an 80s song and isn't just a work of art so irreproachable and eternal it exists outside of time, has always been and always will be. Subways Of Your Mind is also an 80s song that I forgot was an "80s song" because I never think about that as a Thing. 1984 just went off

20. A song that has many meanings to you Men of Wood continues to be a puzzle to me and I have various incomplete interpretations but ugh I love when I don't understand something I have two interpretations of Illusion & Dream, one of which is someone else's they told me about that I strongly agree with while the other is something very very specific to my personal experiences and neither of which are what the song's actually probably about And finally I know what Starlight is actually officially about but to me it's about something else way different.

23. A song that you think everybody should listen to Everyone should listen to every song ever. But I will always take an opportunity to push Ibbur again, an artist so undiscovered they're not even on YouTube anymore (PLEASE), and for those who would prefer someone whose music can be found on streaming platforms back on my bullshit I am once again asking you to try Arockalypse and/or Monofader (sorry yes I know that's three songs and the question says "a")

This weekend I received a gift from my Reddit Secret Santa. They had given me a lovely dream catcher, a headband, a yarmulke, and a dreidel. They are both Native American and Jewish. I was really touched that they wanted to share their culture and faiths with me. Being the kind of person I am I wanted to know more about their culture, especially since it was still Hanukkah. I started researching…

(cont’d) complete a specific set of tasks (doing teshuvah) before they can reunite and become whole again, but that’s some pretty deep stuff that one should study with a rabbi. At any rate, these concepts (along with the Sh'ma, which to me is as much about wholeness and community as it is about being Jewish) helped me to consolidate my own fragmented system into a cohesive family and gain stability as a functionally singular whole - but another’s mileage may vary. (2/3)

(cont’d) Of course, this is just my experience, and what I have gleaned from studies on Jewish texts and their commentaries. I am by no means any sort of Halachic authority and certainly no substitute for a rabbi or healthcare professional; I strongly recommend speaking to a rabbi, and not being afraid to seek a second (or third) opinion. Whatever path you ultimately choose, may it lead you to meaning, peace, and wholeness. (3/3)

(In response to https://jewish-education.tumblr.com/post/173873057129/i-have-did-and-most-of-my-system-is-heavily-drawn)