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Then I actually visited a Reform Synagogue, where I met some lovely people and realised that they were merely practising Judaism in the way that made sense to them as individuals.

Of course, it’s not how I personally practise, or in fact even view as Halachically correct, but I was performing a far bigger Chillul HaShem than any of them might’ve been, by turning up my nose and feeling superior. G-d forbid, my attitudes could’ve even been off-putting to non-frum Jews exploring traditional Judaism.

Despite personally knowing what it’s like to feel judged by the traditionally religious community - yeah I’m currently celibate, but I’m still a lesbian - I was doing it too.

It was me who needed to looked inwards. It was me that was halting the coming of Masiach.

i want to go to yeshiva potentially next year but i can’t be apart from my cats

Yes. Yes, she is. (Mexican-Jewish, to be specific!)

So I noticed this on one of my last viewings of The Prince of Egypt and I absolutely love it.  I wanted to take some screenshots to show you, because this is really cool.

During the “When You Believe” sequence, you see these two Egyptian guards throw down their spears and walk off, seemingly nowhere.

But if you watch the background during the following Red Sea scenes, you see this:

Those two guards actually went with the Hebrews.

You even see them helping out as they try to cross the ocean floor.

And here they are on the other side.

I seriously never noticed them until recently, and I’ve seen this movie countless times.

We were talking about these antisemitic conspiracy theories and stereotypes and i realized ther history fit this meme template like really really well, so here’s this Thing. Enjoy it. Learn something.

Surprising, I know. And there are many other, even more vivid examples: In Esther 2:7, Mordecai is pictured as nursing his niece Esther. In a similar way, in Isaiah 49:23, the future kings of Israel are prophesied to be “nursing kings.”

Why would the Bible do this? These aren’t typos. In the ancient world, well-expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person. Such a person was considered more “godlike.” In Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the gods were thought of as gender-fluid, and human beings were considered reflections of the gods. The Israelite ideal of the “nursing king” seems to have been based on a real person: a woman by the name of Hatshepsut who, after the death of her husband, Thutmose II, donned a false beard and ascended the throne to become one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs.

MUCH BETTER JEWISH DINOSAURS PREHISTORIC CREATURES BY @cry-olophosaurus!!!!!!!!! 

Brachiotsaurus and Torahsaurus 

Mosesaurus and Challahsaurus 

Jewlindadromeus and Mamenschisaurus 

Halachiraptor and Rabbirhynchus 

(Brachiosaurus, Torosaurus, Mosasaurus, Allosaurus, Kulindadromeus, Mamenchisaurus, Velociraptor, Rhamphorhynchs) 

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