What's a Little More Demon Torah Among Friends
just don't offer them blood, ok
It's Sunday, November 10th,
2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT/7pm UK time /9pm Jlem time
It's the Sunday after the election, and no matter what happens, we'll have what to discuss, and we'll need some Torah to help us process this moment and to help us situate ourselves, and help us figure out where we (individually and collectively) are now.
SO REGISTER. Because you're gonna need it. You know it.
Now What?!? Finding Our Place On Deck After The Election
Happy Halloween!
I know that there are some Jews that do not engage with Halloween on the grounds that it's a pagan holiday. I respect this take, but personally believe that the secular American celebration of the thing is so far afield from the traditional observance of Samhain that we're probably safe. Really, in my opinion, trolling for Skittles in face paint isn't quite the same as offering sacrifices to Crom Crúaich.
As I say every time this comes up, from my vantage, Halloween does something that no Jewish holiday that I can think of does, allowing us space to enter our shadow sides in a potentially useful way. (Purim potentially can, but it doesn't have the same intentionally goth energy of Halloween; it's bringing something different.) Halloween is about standing up to the monsters in your head and saying: "You're not real."
(Maybe if you're going to wear a costume, you could dress up as something that really, actually scares you. See how it feels.)
In any case, in honor of today, here are some more delightfully spooky texts from across my tradition: