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This touches on something I feel like most Christians (cultural and/or practicing) reaaaaallllly don’t get which is that rabbis traditionally aren’t clergy/priests in the Christian sense.
A rabbi isn’t a divinely-ordained speaker-for-God whose primary role is leading worship. Traditionally, rabbis are experts in Jewish law, practice, culture, history, etc.
A rabbi doesn’t have any sacred/spiritual/magical powers to bless things that any other Jew doesn’t have. (And that’s not how blessing things works in Judaism anyway. It’s an expression of gratitude, not a transmutation or instillation of magic divine power.)
The reason a rabbi is involved is to *make sure everything’s being done correctly.* Because they’re an *expert*.
Not to “bless” anything to fill it with godpowers or whatever.
Yes yes this.
You call in a rabbi to supervise and make sure that a kosher food production facility is set up properly the same way that you call in a master electrician to check and make sure all the lines are set up correctly. The electrician isn’t blessing your production line any more than the rabbi is - they’re both there to make sure shit is being done right.
So what you’re saying. Is the rabbi is like kOSHA?
lmao KOSHA rep checking your construction site like
love telling people i’m “about to jump in the shower” like it’s just a quick 15 minute task and not a 3 hour long ordeal where i sit on my bed staring at nothing for ages before dragging my heavy body into the bathroom to collapse onto the floor of the tub so i can let the water scald me
all of your feelings are valid as in “worth acknowledgment and internal consideration” but some of your feelings are also stupid and mean, and you need to deal with that shit without making it anyone else’s problem
like we are all beings of light, namaste, but also every single one of us has an ugly, dumb, selfish, lazy goblin living inside of us which can never be silenced or destroyed. and being a decent person means keeping that little fuck in his special little playpen hidden away in your heart, with his colorful enrichment rattles and his favorite pieces of raw meat, where he can pipe up with his wretched little opinions and you can nod sagaciously at him and pat him on the head and tell him you understand why he feels that way and never, ever let anybody else get their feelings hurt by him, because he sucks shit and nothing he has to say is worthy of notice by anyone but you. you should pay attention to him, but only because it’s important to understand your own worst impulses, and because trying to ignore him will make him break down a wall and run out into the street where he can show passerbys his privates and eat cigarette butts right off the ground. your goblin is valid: that doesn’t mean he’s fit for company.
lil 16 page zine that i made at the coffee shop this weekend! a sort of pick your path style mini game, because i love wizards + interactive fiction. hope you get out of the wizard dungeon!!
cats have scent glands in their chins and along their jaws, up to the ear. when they rub on something like this they are essentially marking it with pheromones to indicate that it is affiliated with them – their territory, their stuff, their friend. it’s not as territorial/possessive as that sounds, but more affectionate. so the cat may be rubbing on this puppy to indicate that it accepts it as part of its in-group and has a positive association with it.
if this is the first time this cat is meeting this puppy, it may also be information-gathering; by rubbing all over it, the cat is picking up scent information about the puppy.
