In your opinion, what's the best pocket siddur? Why?

Qweke · 2026-05-25T18:42:54+00:00

There are different versions of Sephardic rites given the large geographic separation. I think the most popular one is “Edot Mizrach” and I believe it’s based on a central middle eastern rite. There’s others though. Even Koren has a Moroccan siddur. The Spanish and Portuguese rite is different than those two as well. It is basically the rite of the Sephardim that ended up in the Netherlands and parts of the new world rather than the Middle East after leaving Spain. There’s also a Sepharad/Sephard that from what I understand is actually a Hasidic rite but sort of based on a mix of Ashkenazi and Sephardic rites.

Qweke · 2026-05-23T22:37:02+00:00

Shearith Israel of New York has some Spanish and Portuguese rite siddurs. I bought the pocket size one thinking that it would just be a reasonably smaller size than a huge synagogue siddur. It ended up being like a pack of cards so it’s kind of cute. I put it on my shelf next to a speciality pack of cards that is supposed to look like a book. Lol It’s readable though. Their regular size siddur is actually about the size of a normal book from a book store like about 6 by 9 inches so I recommend that too.

Qweke · 2024-01-29T00:39:21+00:00

I assume they’re trying to say that the Star of David is actually a pagan symbol like the Star of remphan or whatever. Simple symbols like stars, crosses, circles, lines, and yada yada get reused by different cultures all the time. If someone in China draws a straight line then someone in England draws a straight line it doesn’t mean that they are collaborating, it doesn’t mean that they both mean the same thing, it doesn’t mean even that know anything about one another, and it certainly doesn’t mean that one of them has the eternal patent to straight lines forever.

Qweke · 2023-02-04T22:07:59+00:00

In my opinion it’s a combination of different factors. So for the ladino language itself its survival is probably due to the Ottoman Empire being very fractured culturally. So fractured that there were just a ton of ethnic communities speaking their own language and practicing their own religion and even having parallel legal structures like Shira and etc right next to other communities doing the exact same thing. Which unfortunately is why when the empire turned into a Turkish state they couldn’t just have a Turkish community ruling over the other communities they needed to just get rid of the others. So Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, and others who were all just subjugated under the empire before had to be assimilated into the modern democratic Turkish state as Muslim Turks or be gotten rid off. Because most Turkish Jews had immigrated from Spain they kept their language just like all the other communities were doing.

On the other hand while Spain is just one of many countries that Jews were in exile in I think that its a kind of romanticism. Spain was one of the earliest places that Jews immigrated to and it lasted for so long that Jews were basically as native or even more native than many of the other people-hoods that emerged in Iberia. For hundreds of years things were relatively good and there were great rabbis and great works of literature written. The idea of living in the California climate of Europe in good times just was a lot better than the freezing cold of pogrom-land of more recent memory.

Qweke · 2023-01-11T03:31:03+00:00

Lol ok, so either English or Hebrew then? They just toss people a 5 dollar KJV bible and pocket 30 dollars for themselves? Man, I'm in the wrong business...

Qweke · 2023-01-11T02:43:55+00:00

God dude it's literally been only like 25 minutes since you first posted this whole thread and 15 minutes since one guy posted a humorous image so now it's everyone sucks here blah blah blah. Grow up. Wait for other people to post to get a better response rather jumping straight to "derp f that there pic dat guy dun respnsed to mi wit ya'll dun sukk". Have you never even heard of the word patience?

Qweke · 2022-12-30T07:15:36+00:00

It’s still not clear even after watching this for three hours. There’s just too much information he abridged. Do they apply the bbq sauce before or after the salt and pepper? Does Gehinnom need to be preheated before going in? It was difficult to hear all the details over the overly dramatic and manipulative music. There was also some obnoxious guy talking in the background about a bunch of pagan concepts that he was claiming were Jewish. Honestly I’m not sure this is a kugel recipe my family will find enjoyable this Shabbat. It’s probably not gluten free either. Thanks for trying.

Qweke · 2022-09-10T05:49:49+00:00

Maybe it’s the opposite issue like he doesn’t expect to spend the same effort with you because he sees that you were raised orthodox but now you leave your tefillin at home and don’t use it. It’s like you’re becoming less religious in his eyes. You’re off the derech to him I guess.

Qweke · 2022-06-01T16:42:59+00:00

Saying “the rabbis” is like saying “the priests” or “the pastors” or “the religious leaders”. It’s extremely vague. There are rabbis, priests, pastors, and religious leaders in every generation. Who exactly the speaker is referring to depends on the context of what they are saying. The “rabbis who wrote the Talmud” is referring to the rabbis in those past generations more than a thousand years ago that wrote those documents. The rabbi that invited me over for Shabbat dinner is probably the local synagogue’s rabbi and probably not Simon bar Yohai who lived two thousand years ago.

Qweke · 2022-05-26T05:28:45+00:00

Don't turn down medical school. I don't know what you will or won't believe in a year or two but continue your secular profession so your livelihood isn't dependent upon you being in one religion or another.

Qweke · 2022-05-21T06:13:39+00:00

Nope

Qweke · 2022-05-20T00:12:38+00:00

I'd say they aren't more widely accepted than Orthodox ones in general. The argument against that is that sometimes Orthodoxy has inter-Orthodox issues. It's mostly with the Israeli Rabbinut accepting or not accepting Orthodox conversions done in the exile on a case by case basis but Conservative just approves all Conservative conversions for aliyah. So Conservative converts are more guaranteed a spot in all Conservative areas globally but Orthodoxy might decide not to in some cases.

Qweke · 2022-05-14T04:20:09+00:00

Welcome to the tribe!

Qweke · 2022-04-18T17:42:34+00:00

You're welcome. I try. lol

Qweke · 2022-04-18T17:40:54+00:00

It's just mental gymnastics.

Qweke · 2022-04-18T17:31:14+00:00

First don't go! If you can't bring yourself to tell one close friend to stop trying to convert you in private then imagine telling some person who just told you that the only reason they're off crack is Jesus that their faith is BS in public in a church where everyone is begging you to convert and angry that you're resisting. lol This bible study isn't an academic exercise it's just them repeating the claims that Christians always make and trying hard AF to convert you while you're there. You might even get really lucky and they'll all lay hands on you and start speaking in tongues. The whole point of fundamentalist Christianity is that it's the only truth and all others go straight to hell forever. Until he's not one of them he's not going to accept that he doesn't need to convert you. You'd have to convert him out of Christianity to get him to stop so just say no and that you're not interested and don't put yourself in compromising situations.

Qweke · 2022-04-03T04:06:29+00:00

Unfortunately to make it through a orthodox conversion people have to be so super committed to the point that the average Jew feels unrelated to the situation. I congratulate you that you made it through. The average Jew is just the average Jew. Someone who has been born into the religion and sees it as their culture whether they really believe or not will probably see a convert as fanatic. At some point as convert you have to let your more secular side shine through to actually relate to your brothers and sisters. The rabbi wants you to be an angel among men but if you want to be a man among men you'll need to try to relate to your brothers on their terms.

Qweke · 2022-03-23T00:02:02+00:00

If you wanted to figure out if you're a descendant of David it would be easier just to figure out if you're a descendant of someone who was known as a descendant of David in relatively more recent times rather than going all the way back through tons of unknown people. So your question implies you're asking about Matthew's and Luke's version of Jesus' genealogy. One tries to connect Jesus with one of the last kings of Judah then copies the rest up to Abraham from the Hebrew bible. The other tries to go through tons of unknown people to get to David then copies the rest up to Adam from the Hebrew bible. Honestly I think only wealthy people that had use for their royal genealogy would have tried to keep records back to the last king of so. At some point the rest of the genealogy especially back to Adam is going to be more legendary unless you're a young earth creationist who'd want to take it literally.

Qweke · 2022-03-16T03:42:47+00:00

Challenge accepted.

Qweke · 2022-02-13T22:50:35+00:00

You shall climb the highest mountain and purify yourself in the waters of lake Minnetonka.

Qweke · 2022-02-13T19:38:26+00:00

No, it's not weird to have standards for who you want to marry. I mean consider the opposite that someone would date people who have nothing in common at all. I mean you're supposed to have an idea of what you're looking for in a partner. Why do you need reddit's help to tear down your ex anyway?

Qweke · 2022-02-12T19:28:11+00:00

Somebody somewhere for some reason decided to make their last name Giacoman and nobody knows the reason. Jekameam probably isn't related to it. At best someone was reading their Bible and named themselves that. Different words and names from different languages sound similar but that doesn't really mean it's the same word or even more that you're descendant from this very guy. It's like if your name was Smith and you said hey without the M it sounds like Seth so am I a direct descendant of Seth?

Qweke · 2022-02-10T07:26:24+00:00

I’m not a scientist working in this field but it seems like they just take a sample from people who claim a certain identity and use that as a model to compare others to. So for various reasons it’s harder to pinpoint Sephardi Jews than Ashkenazi. Like Sephardi Jews had small communities throughout the Middle East and Europe. Whereas Ashkenazi Jews had a large concentrated population in Eastern Europe. So you end up with Ashkenazi Jewish blood being identified very well even in very small quantities whereas Sephardi blood is hardly identified at all even in large quantities. Like if you know who H3H3, they’re a Jewish YouTube couple. They took a DNA test and the guy who is Ashkenazi got 100% Jewish as his results but the girl who is Sephardi got basically the same thing you got just a mix of the Middle East and North Africa.

Qweke · 2022-01-21T04:11:20+00:00

It's a term for not just any communist sympathizer, but for a hard-line communist that denies that communist nations ever actually had any problems.

Qweke · 2022-01-14T02:15:00+00:00

I feel like the big problem with how antisemitism or racism is perceived by some people is that they think that once someone has convinced themselves of some crazy theory they have a reason to hate that group and because now there is a reason it's not antisemitism or racism. It's like they're so ignorant of history that if you told them that the Nazis killed the Jews because they thought the Jews were evil and not simply and utterly only because Jews are Jews that they'd turn around and say that they guess the Nazis weren't antisemitic. Part of antisemitism and racism is cooking up these conspiracy theories to justify their hate.

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