Proposed Jewish Spirituality Prompt List

[paradoxcase]

Hello, I recently joined up and am really excited to start! My story has some Jewish themes, so I thought it would be neat if there was a Jewish-spirituality-themed prompt list to remind me to integrate some additional themes as well. I've tried to keep this to a short 10-item list mainly dealing with concepts from ethics and interpersonal relationships, rather than including specific rites like brit or bar/bat mitzvah, or specific holidays or texts, so that it can be more relevant to a fictional religion, or even a non-religious story. I've added English translations, and I believe many of these have Wikipedia articles that could be linked, as well.

Color: Techelet (a shade of blue, I have no opinion on exactly what it should look like)

Prompts:

1. Chesed (loving kindness)
2. Tzedakah (obligation to charity)
3. Teshuvah (repentence)
4. Tashlich (casting off sins)
5. Tikkun Olam (repairing the world)
6. Olam Haba'a (the world to come)
7. Mitzvah (commandment)
8. Gemilut Chasadim (acts of loving kindness)
9. Shalom (peace)
10. Mechilah (forgiveness)

Chesed and Gemilut Chasadim seem kind of similar in the English translation, but I think usually Chesed is God's love for humanity and Gemilut Chasadim means humans doing kind and loving things for each other.

Anyway, please let me know if you think there's something glaringly obvious missing from the list or if you have a better translation or romanization for something.

Comments

[bookblather]

This looks really great, actually. If you want to do a more detailed and more specifically Jewish list, please feel free! We've got space for everything. :)

[paradoxcase]

Great! I can definitely work on assembling a longer and more specific list later. This one I mainly want so that I can use it with my story, haha.

[bookblather]

Completely valid. I'm too early in my conversion to feel comfortable writing a list like this, so I'm so glad you did!

[paradoxcase]

Oh, it's great to hear you're converting! My mother converted to Judaism, too, and she was always the one who was most dedicated to the religion, in our family, I think. I hope your conversion goes wonderfully!

[bookblather]

Thank you! I'm loving almost everything I learn (there's always something; less here though). Especially the idea that you're meant to argue with G-d and Torah and the rabbis, like that's half the point. Israel means struggle and we're supposed to struggle and I love it.

[paradoxcase]

Yes, that's one of my favorite things about the religion as well! And I love that the story behind that name is that Jacob had a literal fight with God in a dream, and then God named him, basically, "Fights With God" and he was the progenitor of the whole Jewish people under that name.

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