Elliya

Elliya's name means "my God is Yahweh".

they/them singular pronouns.

• nominative (they): they lead Team JES.
• accusative (them): Joru and Spinnefo rely on them for guidance.
• pronominal possessive (their): these are their notes.
• predictive possessive (theirs): this dorm is theirs.
• reflexive (themself): they're working emboldening themself and others to speak out in order to create a world we all want to live in.

Current Favorites:

• Chill Beats for Worldbuilding and Writing by Tale Foundry.
• Nowhere Somewhere 🌸 Deep Lofi Beats by Dreamhop Music.
• Dark Techno / Industrial / Cyberpunk Mix 'Revenge ll' | Dark Electro by Aim To Head Mix.
• Drawfee Host: Nathan.
  • Random Photoshop Tool Drawing Challenge 3.
  • Background Drawing CHALLENGE.
  • It's Worm Train!
  • Drawing Randomly Generated Inspirational Posters.
• Evelyn Silver. (good friend).
  • Writing Jewish Characters.
  • Breathless.
  • Jews in Modern Fantasy: Done Right and Done Wrong.
• Dreidel20.
• Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
  • “To my mind, the most decisive single factor – the great break of Judaism from the ancient world of magic, mystery and myth – was the deconsecration of nature that followed from the fact that God created nature by an act of will, and by making us in His image, gave us too the creative power of will. That meant that for Jews, holiness lies not in the way the world is but in the way it ought to be. Poverty, disease, famine, injustice, and the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful are not the will of God. They may be part of human nature, but we have the power to rise above nature. God wants us not to accept but to heal, to cure, to prevent. So Jews have tended to become, out of all proportion to their numbers, lawyers fighting injustice, doctors fighting disease, teachers fighting ignorance, economists fighting poverty and (especially in modern Israel) agricultural technologists finding new ways to grow food in environments where it has never grown before. What can be changed need not be endured. Human suffering is not a fate to be borne, but a challenge to be overcome. What can be healed is not holy. God does not want us to accept poverty and pain but to cure them.”
• Jewish weddings around the world.
• Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
  • "Strangely, the Torah contains no reference to an afterlife… Perhaps the Bible did not raise the issue of afterlife because it recognized that when it becomes central to religion, it diverts people’s attention from their responsibilities in this world."
• Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation: a guide for non-Jews by ninininny.
• Anne Frank House banned Orthodox Jewish employee from wearing his skullcap at work by Nic White.
• Anne Frank House banned Jewish employee from wearing kippah by Daniel Sugarman.
• Bikers Against Child Abuse.
• #ParshaChat.
• Moshe ben Maimon | Maimonides | Rambam.
  • He had little patience for those who cared more about the prestige of scholars than the merits of their assertions and admonished his students: “You should listen to the truth, whoever may have said it.” ― Maimonides (Rambam) and His Texts by Danny Moss.
• @JihadalHaqq:
  • my SF/fantasy opinion today is the grip that Christian religious structures have.
  • One uncomfortable thing I've noticed in sci-fi/fantasy is the exportation of racism...

TBR:

• We Need To Eat!: A Guide to Consciously Cheap Eating by Microcosm Publishing.
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi.
• Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows.
• The Mammoth Book of Steampunk edited by Sean Wallace.
• The Illustrated Pirkei Avot: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Ethics by Jessica Tamar Deutsch.
• A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 by Noam Sienna and Judith Plaskow.
• The Angels We Give, The Messengers We Send and The Grappling by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.
• Jacob Wrestles With the Angel by Mendy Kaminker.
• Using Jewish Culture to Understand Autism and Inclusion by Rabbi Ruti Regan.