Page Of The Ashkenazi Haggadah, Published In The 15th. Century In What Would Become Modern Day South

Page of the Ashkenazi Haggadah, published in the 15th. Century in what would become modern day south Germany. This page contains the recitation “Ha Lachma Anya”, translated in full here: “This is the bread of affliction that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Anyone who is hungry should come and eat, anyone who is in need should come and partake of the Pesach sacrifice. Now we are here, next year we will be in the land of Israel; this year we are slaves, next year we will be free people”.

Tumblr LOVES cameras, and my lovely model is holding a Polaroid 420 camera. I had to figure out how to open -- then close, which was more challenging -- the bellows, but no equipment was harmed in the making of this photo. This was produced 1971-1977 and you could still get film for it until 2016. The flash unit is really interesting because what you see at the top right is just a holder for a FlashCube, which filters the light more evenly.

You know that feeling when you're in a space and you see someone visibly queer like you and you just feel joy and peace and safety, just seeing someone like you out in public?

I was walking out of the pharmacy today and passed by an elderly couple walking in arm in arm. The man was wearing a kippah.

And the second I saw this visibly Jewish couple, I just immediately smiled the brightest smile I've felt all week. An immediate surge of joy and peace.

And something must have registered with them too, seeing a man like me, disheveled and drenched from rain and clearly having a day, suddenly light up at their sight, because they smiled right back.

We exchanged our "hello's" and "have a good day's" and I'm still thinking about them.

About how they must have been in their eighties. Maybe not Holocaust survivors themselves, but so close in time that they would remember almost the entirety of Jewish history from then up till now. And how brave it is to be openly Jewish these days. And they're in their eighties and clearly in love and openly Jewish and so alive.

I love that.

I dunno who needs to see this, but Caleb Hyles and Jonathan Young have done metal covers from Prince of Egypt

The full playlist is here:

YouTube

Prince of Egypt - Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles

Spoilers: "Playing With The Big Boys" is the best, but "Deliver Us" and "The Plagues" also slap

YOUR JEWISH FRIENDS HEAR YOUR SILENCE

A Yemenite Habani Family Celebrating the Passover Seder at their New Home in Tel Aviv. April, 1946. Photographer: Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (1896-1977). לע''מ/GPO