Mensch of Letters

This week: Keeping ghosts secret except when we yell about them in public, hearteyes for THEE Cassie Robinson, Dean is totes nailing his priest impression, where are they getting entire State Trooper uniforms, and For Sale: Chekhov's Guns, Never Fired.
(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 13, 14, and 15)

References:

• "The girl can't be on top."
• "Bi women are women who like men in a gay way"
• The Political and Social Partnership Between Africans and Jews in the United States [PDF]
• Parsha Shoftim, Dvarim 18:15
• Judaism and Dreams
• Judaism, Dreams, and Dream Interpretation

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.
Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!
Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: Little sibling crimes of being taller, a sprinkling of daloy politsey, Sam gets snubbed by the FBI, Elijah the Prophet is playing with your dogs, and the covenant is just Eldest Daughter Disorder writ large.

(Supernatural Season 2, Episodes 7, 8, and 9)

References:

• SPN Wiki Transcript Search
• The Usual Suspects [Archived]
• The Story Iscah Vaguely Remembers
• The complexity of reasons people could get into hunting / [Archived Version]
• Black Dogs
• The Black Dog of Meriden, CT
• Perception of Dogs Among Ancient Jews
• The Story of King Solomon and Ashmedai
• Demons with “Cock-like Footprints”
• Robert Johnson and the Devil Legend
• Honorifics for the dead in Judaism
• May Their Memory Be for a Blessing
• Roanoke Colony
• Genesis 32:4 - Parsha Vayishlach

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.
Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: Is it gay to sit on furniture?, teen girls with rock salt shotguns, we have a grand old time ragging on John Winchester, Mensch of Letters does not (wink wink) condone piracy, and a sorcerer is just a wizard who’s a dick.
(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 10, 11, and 12)
References:

• Sorcery, idolatry, and leading people astray as linked concepts
• History of the Hasidic Movement and Shabbatai Tzvi (who was proclaimed by some as a messiah a century earlier and whose movement heavily influenced the formation of Hasidism)

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.
Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: Dean has two nickels, the timelines are already a little mysterious, a Hannibal/geography tangent, tricking vampires into going to a mikveh, and the narrative is not in the CW.
(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 1, 2, and 3)
References:

• Life-energy gone awry
• Lemony Snicket interview
• Cool Guy post
• Obligation to teach one's children to swim
• “The Talmud also specifies that parents should teach their children how to swim. In the ancient world, where much travel occurred over water, swimming was a necessary survival skill. In modern parlance, this commandment means that parents are required to teach their children whatever self-defense skills are necessary for survival. In her book How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, writer Blu Greenberg recalls an ugly incident in her neighborhood in which a number of antisemitic teenagers attacked and beat a group of Jewish teenagers. The local rabbi's response was a sensible one, and entirely consistent with the Talmud's ruling. "The time has come," he in effect told the parents, "to teach Jewish kids karate."”
  • -- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pg 538, 1st ed.

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com.
Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: A Lulav-ly guest star, worms and Worms and vurms, kings breaking necromancy prohibitions, no such thing as scars or head trauma, and the math of plane crashes vs. serial killer clowns.

References:

• 82 — Naso: Angel's on First — Kosher Queers!
• "ben edlund...looks like a goat that got turned into a human" / [Archived + Picture]
• Smile Time
• The Others (2001 film)
• The Book of Abramelin
• Exodus 30:36
• Kol Nidrei
• Samael
• Jewish Naming Practices/Can a Child Be Named After a Living Person?
• DEATH, VIEWS AND CUSTOMS CONCERNING
• Communication with the Dead / Ghosts, Spirits, and Jewish wanderings in the Afterlife
• Jewish funeral in-fiction as protection from ghosts, etc
• "Sam, you go interrogate the MILF." / [Archived]
• Freak show
• Jews and the Circus
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Rakshasa
• Pardes (Jewish exegesis)
• Sera Gamble's Anti-Black Racism [Archived]

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.
Special guest Lulavet Arnow can be found on Twitter @palmliker or @spacetrucksix.
Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.