queer anarchist mezuzah
baker of breads, drinker of tea, worrier and tinkerer.
this is a jewish-normative account, but feel free to ask for context if you don't know what's going on. you should equally expect from this account: random boat building posts, a lot of jewish stuff, shitposts and metashitposts, and grumbling about software.
| pronouns | they/זי |
| Heimathafen | Süderelbe |
Partner decided to oil our cutting boards just as someone was coming over and I almost tried to stop them, but a voice in my head popped up saying,
"You fool! $partner carries not the Curse of Anxiety with which we are afflicted. You underestimate the limitless power of such a being. They are not bound by the same rules as we."
$partner is oiling the wood outside, an option which I hadn't thought of. Indeed, they are a powerful witch.
Running with that idea in my own words: by starting to categorize things as tov and ra, we create a differentiation - which becomes a difference/distance between ourselves and g-d. Similarly, death enters the picture the moment we begin engaging in the dualistic point of view (eating the fruit of knowledge of good and bad -> certain death). We begin to sort, "this is good, that is bad, god is here, god is not there, this is lively, that is dead", and we begin to see our own perceptions of things rather than existence as it is. (Only a sith deals in absolutes.)
Jewish practice makes things sacred and holy by honoring and making them different. It's "performative" in the Butlerian sense. We dance with the tension בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל as we strive to recognize that creation is still unfolding, there is no "tov", nor "ra", and we're still in the presence of the holy one.
Zohar teacher just casually dropped the hint of an idea that blew my mind. Maybe it's super common, but I've never heard it before:
Eating from the tree of knowledge of good and bad was the start of reifying dualism.
Nero Burning ROM will always stay in my heart as the best product name ever. This is not open for discussion.
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פְּרִי
Jan Wildeboer 😷