HasidiCult

Shabbos, the weekly Jewish holiday, should be a day of rest. But for survivors, it can be just the opposite. I was going to write this as an inspiration piece, full of encouragement of how you can keep going and keep Shabbos even when the going is really rough. (Haha, as if.) But then, I thought, to hell with that. Let's be real.  Keeping Shabbos as a trauma survivor is hell. Plain and simple. Majority of my coping mechanisms are melacha ( which is the term for forbidden work on Shabbos), so I can't cope with the tremendous amount of anxiety I feel. Listening to music? Nope. Putting on lotion? Nada. Calling a friend? Can't do that either. Cutting myself? Just kidding. Don't do that anymore. Plus, all of my major traumas happened on Shabbos, so that doesn't help things much. Even just thinking of the day gets me jittery. As a child, I was molested by a predator in the neighborhood who attended the same Shul (synagogue) as my family. He also happens to be a huge donor

I promised my friends that my first post would be Hasidic and Jewish pick up lines, so here I am. These may be hilarious and maybe even a little hot, but please don't ever use these in real life! If you want to take things up a notch with your basherte, tell it to them straight. You wouldn't want to throw them off with a kichel reference when they're more of a kishke kind of person. Enjoy these lines designed to make your zivug blush, or at least spit out their p'tcha. 1 . Are you an esrog? Cuz I can't stop examining you. 2 . You must be David and I Goliath, because you seem to have swept me off my feet. 3 . You remind me of a mezuzah... I'm supposed to kiss you, right? 4. On a scale of 1-10, you're hotter than the number of nights of Chanukah! 5 . Have you seen a desert anywhere? Cuz I've been lost in your eyes for what seems like 40 years... 6 . I like you so much, I don't even care if you stack your plates. 7 . I thought apples and honey were swe