happy Yom Kippur
i primarily relate to jewish religious practice via reading religious/historic/rabbinic texts bc that’s a strain of jewish culture ive identified with since i was young, the textual and interpretive (therefore unsettled) aspect of jewish religious community. for me reading in these traditions is a source of ethical and poetic wisdom
posting these selections from things ive read or revisited during this season bc i also believe it’s a good time for American Jews and American liberal jewish institutions/cultures etc to interrogate their complicity with the ongoing genocide against Palestinians being done in our name. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
my favorite line from the pirkei avot goes “Love work, hate power, and do not become too familiar with the authorities”
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1-3: martin bubers collected tales of rabbi nachman
4: charles Bernsteins 1987 inversion/revision of the Yom Kippur prayer of confession
5: franz rosenzweig
6: via jewish currents magazine (quotation of the vidui)
7: Adorno, minima moralia
8: ella shohat
9: 60s lefty yiddish alt weekly
