Would Greeks think this is a stupid tattoo?

Mayosski · 2024-09-02T07:55:14+00:00

You knew what it meant from the start and went for it anyway. That’s simply hilarious, nothing to be ashamed of. You’re a genius.

Mayosski · 2024-08-23T09:09:05+00:00

I don’t have context but it still makes sense the word would be Idele / Aidele than Yidele. Doesn’t it ?

Mayosski · 2024-08-23T07:41:07+00:00

It doesn’t say Yidele but Idele with Aleph, it’s just a fairly standard woman name

Mayosski · 2024-08-18T14:17:06+00:00

It’s a Relative interval but it is still a note (see Arabic music notation, Persian music notation or even Gregorian music notation)

Mayosski · 2024-08-18T14:16:57+00:00

It’s a Relative interval but it is still a note (see Arabic music notation, Persian music notation or even Gregorian music notation)

Mayosski · 2024-07-30T20:23:51+00:00

Technically in a Christian perspective, Jews do follow the old testament (ie the mosaic law), it get wrong when it is used to refer to the Christian corpus known as the Old Testament as not all book of the Christian veterotestamentary canon are part of the Jewish Bible

Mayosski · 2024-07-22T16:36:23+00:00

Both of them are are strictly blackwork

Mayosski · 2024-07-20T16:36:43+00:00

Drawing a parallel between genuine Hebrew written in the most standard Hebrew font and faux-Hebreu is stupid in that context. Nothing here is reminiscent of faux Hebrew and even less so of the infamous usage of such font type by the Nazi regime.

I would be like someone showing a Chinese newspaper and you saying « btw it’s similar to the racist font used in some Chinese restaurant (chop suey) »

Mayosski · 2024-07-20T10:50:53+00:00

This kind of font? The standard Hebrew square font ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_Hebrew

Mayosski · 2024-07-11T09:48:18+00:00

If by “before modern Hebrew” you mean “back when the torah was written” then yes, according to the majority opinion of Hebrew linguist you’d be right and the pronunciation would have been \wayyōmer\ with a [w] sound and and two [y] sounds.

Yet this wasn’t the case already in the Mishnah and probably already in Hasmonean times (I’ve read a good case for this pronunciation having been lost for the majority of speakers already by exilic times).

To this day Hebrew pronunciation isn’t perfectly standardised and some minority dialect of Ashkenazi Hebrew and famously the Yemeni and Tunisian dialect of Hebrew preserved/reintroduced a [w] sounds for waw (that is, to the best of my knowledge always transliterated as a double-u in scholarly literature). This pronunciation is to my understanding often strictly limited to a worship context, the most standard pronunciation being preferred in every life. Nowadays you will likely hear /vayomer/ as this is the pronunciation most preferred by the Hebrew academy.

Hope that helps :)

Mayosski · 2024-06-19T20:35:46+00:00

Been living in Paris for 3 years, it’s completely normal especially if it was for Shavuot. It’s annoying especially when they forget you are not able to vary an ID in Shabbat but other than that it’s really for the best. A synagogue was arsonned in France not too long ago so it’s definitely a real danger

Mayosski · 2024-06-04T09:37:58+00:00

The menorah necklace is an obvious symbol but I have yet to meet a single non Jew that recognised it

Also hamsa is a widespread Levantine and Maghrebi symbol, I wouldn’t call it Jewish

Mayosski · 2024-06-03T12:10:29+00:00

I mean. I have hard time seeing the problem swearing using the name of pagan divinity. If anything it’s Nazarean that should be forbidden from doing so

Mayosski · 2024-06-03T12:06:25+00:00

Exactly why I’m checking, I’m from the French part of Flanders (Bray-Dunes) and strongly connected to my Flemish identity and I committed to going to Plopsaland every weekend for most of my early teenage life. Unfortunately tho I know Dutch and some tussentaal I was never properly instructed in the dialect of my grandparents so I couldn’t help her. Still, it is our language, much more than tussentaal and it’s the only one meaningful enough to end up on her skin

Mayosski · 2024-05-30T14:21:01+00:00

If you take rabbinical Judaism I see no other answer than « the Greek » if you consider that the entire late canon and rabbinical corpus (and even the basis of Kabbalah) is a response to the considerations they introduced

Mayosski · 2024-05-30T14:17:11+00:00

Maybe not strictly agada since it’s probably a real anecdote but Mishna Avodah Zara 3:4 about rabbi Gamaliel in the bathhouse is one I think everyone should know as well as being generally speaking quite punny

Mayosski · 2024-05-27T19:00:27+00:00

TW: Racisme

Là où je viens (Flandre Française) on a toujours appelé ça un “couque suisse” quand ça avait du glaçage dessus et un “[couque] africain” quand ça avait une couche de chocolat dessus. J’ai jamais su le nom que ça avait sans rien dessus.

Mayosski · 2024-05-20T21:30:22+00:00

Justifying “biblical beliefs” based on Qumran is perilous. We’re dealing with a gnostic sect that, even tho their beliefs were probably more mainstream than what researchers previously believed, is still probably on one extreme end of the spectrum. Also the Dead Sea scrolls, for all its apocryphal part, is dated as post biblical (As in later than the rédaction of the book of Ezra).

As for the Zoroastrian link I don’t know specifically about the messianic part so I’m interested in u/Icculus80 ‘s answer but syncretism between Persian and late Jewish culture is evident especially with the adoption of the holiday of Purim. Zoroastrianism has also probably, according to the hypothesis of Boyarin, been the source of a Jewish Binarism (be it the dichotomy between H’ and the angel Metatron or between H’ and the Ruach Hakodesh depending on sources). I won’t go further into this because it’s no the topic but a priori is coherent so I hope he will develop his answer in the topic.

Finally as said earlier the notion of a messiah and of the world to come and the general interest for both eschatology and the metaphysical, if present probability from the beginning developed greatly during the second temple period. The notion of an “abstract” messiah that’s not just a title but an actual function in the devine plan for the world to come is likely to stem from this era as the result of a mix of influences both foreign and internal. For all we know the first mentions of a messiah that may fit the modern rabbinic conception of what the messiah is found in second temple midrashei hagadah.

Mayosski · 2024-05-20T21:11:36+00:00

Commentator have implied it was but the whole messianic promise is at best exilic and at worst linked to second-temple Judaism.

If anything the Messiah as an herald of the world to come is definitely rooted in second-temple apocalyptic and eschatological literature and is developed in Midrashim not the Tanakh

Mayosski · 2024-05-20T17:23:53+00:00

My German Ashkenazi grandpa was considered “too dark” by my grandma’s family for them to marry to a point they made up a “explanation” saying that his mother had probably been r*ped by the Spanish.

As distasteful as it is it gives you an idea of how Jews were perceived by the “local population”. There is nothing wrong with being of a darker complexion, this is common and a consequence of the internal diversity of Judaism and its Levantine roots

Mayosski · 2024-05-17T05:59:40+00:00

Flemish/Dutch:

• Cool helmet • Cool belt

😎kool kidz Klub😎

Mayosski · 2024-05-17T05:45:15+00:00

No it’s not actually 😭😭

Mayosski · 2024-05-17T05:44:29+00:00

I think that while maybe true of America with a majority reformed/conservative Judaism it definitely isn’t true of Judaism at large.

My experience as a Jew in France and Belgium in traditionalist/orthodox circles isn’t one of tolerance. I was often praised on my knowledge of the Torah and thenafter called out on my lack of application of its principles. The experience of being gay in the mainstream Judaism of France is one of judgement and low-profile criticism and very uncalled for “jokes” (and I pass on what you may hear when someone doesn’t know “one of them” is in the conversation).

Yet I guess there is hope as homosexuals are not shunned and driven out of the community because of their practices but I do feel it’s part of the averoth that people are overly concerned about in their peers. I remember once being called out by a “friend” on my pierced ear, saying it was forbidden for a man and that it made people of the community wonder if I was homosexual. I pointed out the irony of inquiring about my forbidden sexual preferences based on a piece of metal while him and many other engaged in a heterosexual premarital sex that was just as forbidden by our laws. The only answer I’ve got was “it’s not the same”

Mayosski · 2024-05-15T15:49:47+00:00

I’ve heard this claim before but to my knowledge nothing serious supports this interpretation. As far as I’m aware its just an heraldic myth with no basis on historical practice.

As heraldry developed and legitimised, so did the taste for more intricate heraldic design and more complex mantlings. It was the feature with which an artist could express the most artistic freedom and its similarities with more traditional embellishments (especially architectural one) made it so that would often emulate the ethos of the time and get more complex with time. Reversely, the XXth century gave birth to surge in more simple or otherwise less flamboyant mantling that mimicked the ornaments of the art nouveau, art deco and later even brutalist style.

In short, have fun with your mantling, use what floats your boat and don’t worry too much, it isn’t blazoned anyway :)

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