amatekha:

There’s a story about a man who spent all his life devoted to studying Torah, and Talmud, and by the prime of his life he burned with a desire to learn the mysteries of Kabbalah. He went to the great Ari, Reb Yitzak Luria, to present himself and all his learning and beg for a course of study. And the Ari really looked at him, looked at him deeply for a long time, and then told him “There is a flaw in your life that will prevent you from understanding Kabbalah. Go home and fix it, and then come back to me in a year.“

The man went home completely mystified. He spent a month examining himself, inspecting and double-checking everything he did, every word he said, every thought. He meditated on the problem. He prayed. Finally, at the end of a month he went to his wife, and told her what HaAri had said, and that he found himself helpless to figure it out. She spent a week watching him like a hawk, talking with him late into the night about each day’s doing, and at the end of the week she broke down in tears telling him, “I cannot help you. Over the years you have become the best of men to me, and I cannot understand this anymore than you can.” He went to the fellowship with whom he studied, and he laid his problem before them, and they tore into it together like an academic argument, turning it and twisting it one way and the other, and at the end they fell of silence, and one turned to him and said “It can only be that the flaw in you is the flaw in me, and in us all, for we cannot see it.“  Next he went to those with whom he did business, then to the leaders of his community, and finally he even humbled himself before his greatest rival, who laughed in his face and said to him, “Don’t you think I have spent years trying to discover your flaws and failings? I disagree with you, I dislike you, sometimes I detest you, but I have never been able to dismiss you precisely because you are a man of honesty and honor. Kabbalah is nonsense and HaAri is a fool.”

So at last, the man had no choice but to drag himself back to HaAri, and to spell out that he had found himself truly unable to find his own flaw, and that now, even more than he burned for Kabbalah, he was desperate to find this failing in his life and fix it.  He was willing to give up all his chance to study more if only he could have spelled out to him, where was he failing, and how could he fix it?

HaAri asked him, “When you get up in the morning, what is the first thing that you do?”

The man replied, “The first thing I do when I get up, I rush to gather the morning minyan to the beit midrash and raise my voice with them in prayer.”

And HaAri said, “And what is your livelihood?“

The man said, “I’m a chicken farmer.”

HaAri said, “When you wake up in the morning, the first thing you need to do is feed your chickens. Go do that for a year, and then, return to me.“

I got my feet under me this morning, right away went to the kitchen and started cleaning, and I realized— I feel like all I am doing with my life is just trying to feed my chickens. And it never gets done. And there’s never anything left over for prayer.

livori:

straight person: but how do you Know when someone around you is gay?

me: today in yoga class our instructor said “this exercise is about being straight” and i immediately said “i’ve never been good at that” and only one (1) woman laughed. she had four piercings in her ears. what else do you need me to tell you

ratguzzler:

ratguzzler:

ratguzzler:

i just realized how absolutely earth shatteringly horny the internet at large would be for darth vader if the original trilogy came out right now

my god, every facet of his character, the mask, he’s tall, he chokes people, he’s evil, good god it would be apocalyptic, this website would be fucking unusable

people are horny for kylo ren and he’s just an intentionally infinitely shittier version of darth vader who sucks fucking shit comparatively just imagine

fictional kiss things that end me

jaelybean:

tklivory:

andrastesass:

  • being unable to open their eyes for a few moments afterward
  • one small kiss, pulling away for an instant, then devouring each other
  • pressing their foreheads together while kissing
  • speaking normally, then after the kiss their voice is hoarse
  • guys furrowing their brow when kissing passionately
  • staring at the other’s lips, trying not to kiss them, before giving in
  • running their thumb over the other’s lips
  • when they lean forward a fraction as if to kiss the other person, then realize they shouldn’t and pull back to stop themselves
  • ripping the other away – “no we shouldn’t” – but when they kiss them again they moan and hold them close
  • one sliding their hand into the other’s hair slowly
  • their entire body freezing for a second when their love kisses them
  • accidentally being forced inches apart from each other, staring at each other’s lips, and just before they kiss someone pulls them back apart
  • when one stops the kiss to whisper “I’m sorry, are you sure you-” and they answer by kissing them more
  • a hoarse whisper “kiss me”
  • then licks their lips and says “please

Also:

  • following the kiss with a series of kisses up to suckle an earlobe
  • following the kiss with a series of kisses down the neck
  • lightly running the very tip of the tongue around the outline of the lips with darting touches before actually kissing
  • raking a hand through the hair and getting a good handful to pull the other person closer (before or during the kiss)
  • starting with a kiss meant to be gentle, ending up in devout passion
  • softly moaning into the kiss
  • smiling just before or during the kiss
  • kissing tears away
  • kissing at laughlines/crow’s feet/frownlines
  • kissing pouty lips
  • lightly running fingers up along the neck while kissing
  • bringing up the hands to cup the other person’s face while kissing
  • slowly letting their fingers twine together while kissing softly
  • a huge smile on face(s) when the kiss ends
  • a gentle “i love you” whispered after a soft kiss, followed immediately by a stronger kiss

…. I like fictional kisses, mk?

also:
•jawline kisses
•Eskimo kisses
•when someone kisses the other person’s hand(s)
•shoulder kisses
•cheek kisses
•when one person’s face is scrunched up, and the other one kisses their lips/nose/forehead
•that thing where someone turns into an unexpected kiss, like there were turning around and the other person was just super close
•accidental kisses that turn into a giggling fit
•kissing eyelids to show reverence
•top of head kisses
•when one person says “move away if you don’t want this” and the other person moves in for the kiss
•height difference kisses where one person has to bend do wn and the other is on their tippy toes
•kisses where one person is sitting in the other’s lap
•awkward fumbling kisses where their both so excited that it’s sloppy and teeth clash
•kisses where a person punctuates every word with a chaste kiss
•kisses meant to distract the other person from whatever they were intently doing
•KISSES