Thanks for the interesting insight into your life and practicing your faith. I'm a city slicker so I'm sure it is a million times easier to be jewish here rather than in some remote area. There are a lot of kosher options around.
thanks! Judaism is way more different from other faiths and cultures than most gentiles know.
I cannot even begin to explain. Shabbos is so confusing if you’re fully observant. I’m… mostly observant? Maybe? I brush my teeth, and often use tech (the laws were written before it existed! Modern opinions vary).
Passover is incomprehensible. It’s just confusing stuff happening and surreal question and answer sessions and delicious food eaten in confusing ways.
So much wine! I’m an alcoholic, so it’s grape juice for me, but Purim is a holiday where you’re supposed to dress up in costumes and get so trashed you can’t remember a guy from the book of Esther’s name! I mean, I can manage cannabis usage just fine, so I get stupid, but In Orthodox neighbourhoods 21 year old kids end up in the ER for alcohol poisoning every year, because they don’t know their limit.
point is that it’s super involved, but I think being Jewish and Jewing a Jewish things is awesome.
Fun fact, tradition says that gentiles have an easier time getting into the next world, because they have fewer things asked of them. Being Jewish is hard mode 😂
edit: the fact that I said I couldn’t explain and then went on for paragraphs is the jewiest thing I’ve don’t today and I’ve said blessings in Hebrew maybe 20 times?