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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
i guess i’m a tired of the whole “jews fight god behind the dumpster of a wendy’s” shtick bc how can you read the torah and not see a God so wholly and fully obsessed w the israelites who just wants to love and be in relationship with us
one of my favourite pieces of torah i’ve learned this past year is from my friend @claire_ism: God knew that being alone was bad for people, because all God knew was being alone. God created people to know them - dude doesnt wanna fight, dude wants to love and chill.
i think i just don’t like the way people have come to fully identify bnei yisrael’s relationship with God as “let’s fight this bitch” because it’s not that. i understand struggling and questioning but that isn’t our entire identity, nor our main relationship w God
this phenomenon started on jumblr 😤😤 stop making it a twitter thing

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