Hii, I'm Dahreen!! :3 שלום קוראים לי דאחריןLives in Derrière, Licorne.
My life is dedicated to peace, justice, and the pursuit of being cute as heck!
Cis. Straight. African-descent. 16.
Deeply spiritual (i.e. Christian xD) and like I'm told to do, I love eveeerrryone (in other words, I don't bite.)
I'm learning Hebrew (for personal reasons) and Spanish (for practical reasons) and I want to learn ASL in the future.
My blog consists of social justice, pro-feminism, linguistics (Hebrew/Arabic/whatever looks interesting, I love languages *.*), anything cute, occasional fandom posts (mostly Dr. Who, mostly), and other things. ^w^
I don't know if any other blogs do this, but I also remove/censor out profanity, and if I reblog something with curse words I put a trigger warning. I also do the same thing with ableist words. :P
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TW: Rape
So, I saw these little tutorials or whatever you call them floating around tumblr, and I thought, “How about I do one on the Bible! D:” and yeah so lolol
1) I didn’t cover all the periods of dress that the Jews would have gone through, but just enough so that people get the idea that they didn’t wear those pseudo-Biblical clothes in EVERY era of the Bible SMH
2) I’m aware that not all people are religious so take the Biblical explanations of the world’s cultures figuratively
3) I hope that my wording or phrasing didn’t offend anyone, if so, I offer my deepest apologies 3:
4) Rani Espanioly identifies as an Israeli Arab, I’m in no way trying to promote Israel or delegitamize the Palestinians ~ just relaying information OwO
5) If there is any incorrect information, plz lemme know!
*EDIT*
6) The people on the “Jewish History” section are
Liel Kolit - Israeli singer, she’s an Indian Jew
Boaz Ma’uda - Israeli singer, Temani (Yemenite Jew)
Guy Lubelchik - Israeli model, (from his surname, I’m assuming he’s Ashkenazi, and that would make him an example of a dark Ashkenazi)
Meydad Tasa - Israeli singer (religious), Temani
7) IDK if anyone knows about the “Curse” of Ham, but some racist people have tried to use the concept to justify inhumane treatment of black people. Black people are Biblically recognized as Ham’s descendants, thus by G-d “cursing” Ham, they share the curse and thus are cursed people. The problem with this is that there is no Biblical justification to this
- Ham’s son, Canaan, was cursed, not Ham, and Canaan’s descendants are wide and many, but his main descendants are the Canaanites. Still no Biblical justification for mistreatment. >.>
- Any misuse of the Bible to justify racism is pretty much faulty, actually
8) The whole research on King David having red hair actually cleaned up some of my internalized racism. I thought that light pigmentation was solely an Indo-European thing and that PoC with light pigmentation got it from assimilation, but more study proved otherwise (like the blond Aborigines, the extinct Guanche, several ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, and so on.) So, light pigmentation isn’t inherently a “white” feature, more so than it is just a combination of recessive genes found more commonly in Europe ‘cause most of the people there had the same genes, but every culture has them. >.> I really tried to racialize my anthropological research ._. The more that I’m reminded that race is a social construct the angrier I get about racism. -_- The fact that it’s so extremely unnecessary but we’ve been subjected to a lot of crap because of it is so nerve-racking.
9) Dassit >.>
I found the source! :) http://sacredhandpublishing.com/rejoice_hands I can’t speak for everything else on the website (I haven’t explored it), but what I saw seems pretty legit. :)
I FOUND THE AFIKOMEN AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS AWESOME BAG!
Passover (Pesach) is on it’s way. You can almost hear it coming around the bend. And with Passover comes a variety of ‘supplies’ that help us to re-enact and celebrate the Jews’ exodus from ancient Egypt. Part of that comes at the end of the Seder (that holiday’s special meal) with the search for the afikomen, the piece of matzah that’s broken off from one of the blessed pieces at the beginning of the meal and hidden away. In my family, prizes for finding the afikomen have included umbrellas, a thumb drive, stuffed frogs, and probably a box of Matzah.
This plastic afikomen bag was issued as a fundraiser for the Home for Incurable Invalids in Jerusalem. The image on the bag was the product of the well-known mid-century artist Siegmund Forst. Many people experienced the art of Siegmund Forst through designs for charitable giveaways such as this one.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Lerner, Collection of YU Museum 2011.017
I LOVE finding the Afikomen!
He is my refuge and my fortres by ~kokecit
This is my favorite picture of Jesus. <3 I want to cry! :’)
