According to what Israel’s minister of education says in here, all of the Jews that married non-Jewish are considered “lost” to Judaism/Jewish nation. This is how the Jewish leaders view it. Basically Jewish leaders look at the 6 million Jews that married non-Jews as no longer part of Jewish nation. He even compares it to second holocaust, meaning they view 6 million Jews that married non-Jews as dead to them. That’s how serious they are about preserving their Jewishness, their ethnic identity and faith. Unfortunately these people do not allow the same rights and freedom to other ethnic groups/nations. Maybe the Jewish leaders didn’t count on multiculturalism to hurt their own Jewish nation to such as degree that it lost them 6 million of their own people who decided to go out and marry non-Jews.
And when non-Jews convert to Judaism in order to marry Jews, they are required to completely stop participating in any of their old non-Jewish traditions, customs, holidays, etc ... They can’t even celebrate Christmas. That’s the strict rules of Judaism. I feel that as pagans, we should also be strict about our paganism, and set aside our old Christian traditions and holidays. Thankfully, Christianity had absorbed many of the pagan elements, and so holidays such as Christmas & Easter can be celebrated a pagan way. In Slavic pagan tradition, a Santa Claus character came not during Christmas, but during New Year’s Eve. Till this day Russians don’t celebrate on Christmas, and do not exchange gifts or have Russian/Slavic Santa Claus on Christmas but on New Years Eve. Every pagan should do research on their own ethnic pagan holidays, traditions, customs, rites, and follow it
I love these kinds of organizations that help animals. Animals are precious. They are as innocent, and as pure as little children. Domesticated pets are at our human mercy . Wild, untamed animals are self-reliant, self-sufficient. Wild animals have a strong immune system, and know how to survive. Domesticated pets rely on us humans.
Traditional Russian pickled cabbage & cucumbers/pickles
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Tradition of russian cuisine
The restaurant «Podvorie» in Pavlovsk is often called the most Russian restaurant. It's famous not only with Saint-Petersburg citizens, but those who live far outside its limits. Menu is thought out punctiliously. One can get acquainted with the most ancient…
I believe this may be connected to Slavic Goddess of death Morana
Banya is originally an Eastern Slavic steam bath with a wooden stove. It’s an important part of Russian culture with ancient Slavic pagan roots. This steam bath tradition is even part of ancient eastern Slavic mythology.
The bath takes place in a small room or building designed for dry or wet heat sessions. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire.
Traditionally, Eastern Slavs used a banya broom, which is a besom, or broom, used for bathing. A bath broom is typically made with the branches and leaves of a tree or shrub which secretes aromatic oils. The branches and leaves are then dried and tied around a wooden handle. The broom is used to massage a bather's skin and generate heat. It’s used for therapeutic, healing purposes.
Traditional Slavic banya/steam is accompanied with ice water baths, or getting snow on your body.
The bath takes place in a small room or building designed for dry or wet heat sessions. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire.
Traditionally, Eastern Slavs used a banya broom, which is a besom, or broom, used for bathing. A bath broom is typically made with the branches and leaves of a tree or shrub which secretes aromatic oils. The branches and leaves are then dried and tied around a wooden handle. The broom is used to massage a bather's skin and generate heat. It’s used for therapeutic, healing purposes.
Traditional Slavic banya/steam is accompanied with ice water baths, or getting snow on your body.
Slavic tradition of banya is almost a shamanic practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPtIpDQfZw&feature=share
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Beat to the Balance
'Beat to the Balance' involves having a sauna (usually build on spot with found materials) and tree healing; a tradition of using whisks – branch bundle of different tree species. It is a treatment that combines the psychosomatic experience of sauna, tree…
Whatever the official sources claim, Slavic banya is an ancient tradition going back to ancient pagan Slavic era. That’s why it shows up in Slavic mythology. Official history claims that pagan Slavs were primitive, ignorant and dirty before the enlightened wise civilized Christians came and taught the primitive dirty pagan Slavs how to live as civilised people. Slavic pagans were not ignorant, but very intelligent people, and they were not uncivilized or dirty. Every single Slavic household had a banya on their property. Even the most remote villages
Someone opened a sweat lodge based on traditional Slavic/Russian banya.