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Chag kasher v'sameach!

WAIT

I have a question for Israelis!!!!

What is Ken’s name in the Barbie movie if it’s dubbed there?!

Please…please tell me it isn’t changed.

Please…let his name be כן!

שלום! שמי מאדי. בְּעִבְרִית, השם שלי הוא נֶחָמָה. אני מאַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית, ואני גרה עכשיו בְּהָאווַי. Pre-Nursing אני גרה פה כי אני לומדת באוניברסיטה. אני מאוד אוהבת את הלימודים שלי, אבל לפעמים זה קשה! אני לומדת עברית כי אני רוצה להבין יותר את החיים היהודיים שלי. עברית היא שפה קדושה ועתיקה, וזה מיוחד מאוד בשבילי. אני שומעת עברית בְּתפִילוֹת ובחגים, ואני רוצה להבין ולהרגיש קרובה יותר. <3 עברית עוזרת לי לאהוב תרבות, אמונה, ומשפחהץ

Language Exchange-אני אוהבת ללמוד שפות בכלל. עכשיו אני גם מתעניינת ב זה כיף לדבר עם אנשים ממקומות שונים! אני רוצה לכתוב פה ולדבר עם חברים בעברית וגם באנגלית, כי אני עדיין תלמידה. סליחה אם אני עושה טעויות 😅 אני רוצה להשתפר!

La escritora y académica, también experta en cultura sefardí, acaba de publicar el libro “Breve historia de los judíos en España”. Escrito por Daniel Gascón Paloma Díaz-Mas es catedrática universitaria, escritora y miembro de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua. Novelista y cuentista, es también experta en la cultura sefardí, a la que ha dedicado obras como Los sefardíes: historia, lengua,…

But now we also have a strong tendency for certain leftists to act like this original diaspora was itself a myth or a lie, erasing the original history of the word and the people for whom it was coined. They claim, falsely, that Judaism were just another universalistic religion that spread around the world via conversion. It’s like people think a bunch of Eastern Europeans got together and were like, “I want to be one of those Christ-killers who everyone gets psyched about murdering every Easter and Christmas and whenever something bad happens. Let’s do it, let’s call ourselves Ashkenazi Jews. Aren’t you so excited to be a pariah and flee from country to country and die at the sword of the Christians while saying the Shema? This is gonna be really fun! I was born a good European Christian, but there’s just something about living in constant fear for my life that I really am just ready to give all that up for. So yeah, this is why we’re converting to Judaism. Dunno how that’s going to happen since there is no diaspora and consequently no one to instruct us in Jewish law, no Jews to live among, no Rabbinic court to decide our conversion is proper, nor any mikva for us to immerse ourselves in, but I guess we’ll all just wing it.”

The diaspora was not a myth. Nor is it the whole story of the Jewish people, either. After being scattered from Eretz Yisroel we interacted with the cultures we came into contact with. We learned their languages, often adding a Jewish twist to them, and over time our pronunciation of Hebrew lost sounds that were no longer familiar to us, or changed them to more familiar sounds. Our food changed. We made art and poetry and music and philosophy, as a diaspora people.

Occasionally people made the decision to join our nation, and they did all the things they were required to do to join it, and became naturalized. This is just like how when we were still living in the Levant, lots of people were migrating in and becoming Jews, which is why even to this day we call converts “foreigners” (גרים). This is natural; migration has always been a huge thing in every area. The only strange thing Jews did was to take our identity with us no matter where we were, and consequently continue welcoming “foreigners” into the fold.

I’m beginning to plan ahead to teach another ‘How to Read’ Hebrew class through Wrestling with Torah.  I taught the class in the fall and it was super popular and I think there are lots of other people who might be interested.  The class is designed to teach students how to read the Aleph Beit and to begin to read some of the most important blessings.  (Read more about the course here)

If you’d be interested, please message me, email me at [email protected], or reblog this post and say “i’m interested!”