None. Halachically problematic to swear, let alone on a tanach.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 AM
None. Halachically problematic to swear, let alone on a tanach.
Dear Everyone:
No, the Bible was not written in English. The Tanach is written in liturgical Hebrew. Most of the New Testament is written in Aramaic.
Sincerely,
Sheryl
No, the Bible was not written in English. The Tanach is written in liturgical Hebrew. Most of the New Testament is written in Aramaic.
Sincerely,
Sheryl
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Dear Everyone:
No, the Bible was not written in English. The Tanach is written in liturgical Hebrew. Most of the New Testament is written in Aramaic.
Sincerely,
Sheryl
No, the Bible was not written in English. The Tanach is written in liturgical Hebrew. Most of the New Testament is written in Aramaic.
Sincerely,
Sheryl
For anyone unfamiliar, Jewish religious media - in Israel and outside of it - is not very enthusiastic about depicting scenes from Tanach (except at like a Muppets-ish level for kids) and Israeli secular media, when depicting scenes from Tanach, tends towards the blasphemous
January 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
For anyone unfamiliar, Jewish religious media - in Israel and outside of it - is not very enthusiastic about depicting scenes from Tanach (except at like a Muppets-ish level for kids) and Israeli secular media, when depicting scenes from Tanach, tends towards the blasphemous
The myth was not about obedience and expulsion, as in the Tanach (Old Testament).
July 31, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The myth was not about obedience and expulsion, as in the Tanach (Old Testament).
Jetzt habe ich so viel Bibel am Stück durcheinander gelesen und soviel über die Entstehungs- & Interpretationsgeschichte der Bibel gelernt, dass ich mir denke, dass der Tanach (vlt. die christliche Bibel) irgendwann Benjamins Textideal geworden ist. Eine Sammlung ganz unterschiedlicher Stimmen &
September 26, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Jetzt habe ich so viel Bibel am Stück durcheinander gelesen und soviel über die Entstehungs- & Interpretationsgeschichte der Bibel gelernt, dass ich mir denke, dass der Tanach (vlt. die christliche Bibel) irgendwann Benjamins Textideal geworden ist. Eine Sammlung ganz unterschiedlicher Stimmen &
The allusions and phrases range from Tanach to Talmud to medieval philosophy
March 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The allusions and phrases range from Tanach to Talmud to medieval philosophy
The idea that it's the Zionists who adhere to the Talmud while the Neturei Karta and other ultra-orthodox antizionists are adhering to the Tanach is so hilariously wrong on so many levels...
Found this winner of a comment:
September 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The idea that it's the Zionists who adhere to the Talmud while the Neturei Karta and other ultra-orthodox antizionists are adhering to the Tanach is so hilariously wrong on so many levels...
Or as Tanach scholars know them, Ezra Aleph & Ezra Beit
I am once again gently reminding everyone that Ezra Levin and Ezra Klein are different Ezras
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Or as Tanach scholars know them, Ezra Aleph & Ezra Beit
The essential difference between the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanach is that the former is a tragedy and the latter a comedy.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The essential difference between the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanach is that the former is a tragedy and the latter a comedy.
Tanach, rabbinic literature, and Disney. These you must know to understand my references.
July 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Tanach, rabbinic literature, and Disney. These you must know to understand my references.
None of those words are in the Tanach
February 17, 2026 at 5:59 PM
None of those words are in the Tanach
Unless I'm forgetting something, the only example in Tanach of ‘brotherly’ love is between two men who weren't brothers
Especially since we Abrahamics don't exactly have a good record with the whole Brothers thing
June 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Unless I'm forgetting something, the only example in Tanach of ‘brotherly’ love is between two men who weren't brothers
Herzl [waving lousy Tanach references to traditional Jews] you morons¹ love this stuff [audience boos, Herzl doesn't get that either]
¹read Litvishly
¹read Litvishly
March 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Herzl [waving lousy Tanach references to traditional Jews] you morons¹ love this stuff [audience boos, Herzl doesn't get that either]
¹read Litvishly
¹read Litvishly
(and the use of Sodomite in the rest of Tanach...)
February 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
(and the use of Sodomite in the rest of Tanach...)
Gut kommt auch "Moment, ich hol mal eben das Original" und ihnen dann mit dem hebräischen Tanach ankommen.
July 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Gut kommt auch "Moment, ich hol mal eben das Original" und ihnen dann mit dem hebräischen Tanach ankommen.
OTOH 'se‘irim’ in Tanach means both ‘goats’ and something like (small-D) ‘devils’
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
OTOH 'se‘irim’ in Tanach means both ‘goats’ and something like (small-D) ‘devils’
Yup. That's one layer of it.
There's also the fact that the primary source NK and other Ultra Orthodox folks cite (the "three oaths") is from the Talmud, not the Tanach...
There's also the fact that the primary source NK and other Ultra Orthodox folks cite (the "three oaths") is from the Talmud, not the Tanach...
September 8, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Yup. That's one layer of it.
There's also the fact that the primary source NK and other Ultra Orthodox folks cite (the "three oaths") is from the Talmud, not the Tanach...
There's also the fact that the primary source NK and other Ultra Orthodox folks cite (the "three oaths") is from the Talmud, not the Tanach...
Obviously this is subjective, especially since my Hebrew education began with Torah, but most of Tanach feels as distant linguistically as Shakespeare does in English (with the occasional parts feeling like Chaucer)
March 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Obviously this is subjective, especially since my Hebrew education began with Torah, but most of Tanach feels as distant linguistically as Shakespeare does in English (with the occasional parts feeling like Chaucer)
It was also a *wee* bit of 'the bulk of sources that say this are Roman, and worse, Jewish, so anything in the Tanach is automatically wrong because Jews unless given three different independent verification'. That bias unfortunately applies in more cases than it should.
The same sort of mentality which led historians to dismiss claims that the Carthagianians practised child sacrifice as 'Roman propaganda' until they started finding the tiny bones.
my friend has been saying this since 2021
September 25, 2026 at 9:57 PM
It was also a *wee* bit of 'the bulk of sources that say this are Roman, and worse, Jewish, so anything in the Tanach is automatically wrong because Jews unless given three different independent verification'. That bias unfortunately applies in more cases than it should.
Recipe:
- take theophoric name from Tanach
- replace YH or El with Ba'al
- tada!
- take theophoric name from Tanach
- replace YH or El with Ba'al
- tada!
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Recipe:
- take theophoric name from Tanach
- replace YH or El with Ba'al
- tada!
- take theophoric name from Tanach
- replace YH or El with Ba'al
- tada!
The fun part of it is that like half the time it's an antitheist who rejects Tanach having *any* historicity, I've seen "sky daddy fairy tale" arguments and "invaders from Iraq" in the same thread
March 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The fun part of it is that like half the time it's an antitheist who rejects Tanach having *any* historicity, I've seen "sky daddy fairy tale" arguments and "invaders from Iraq" in the same thread
This piece of shit fascist probably calls the Tanach “The Old Testament.”
September 7, 2023 at 3:58 PM
This piece of shit fascist probably calls the Tanach “The Old Testament.”