Jewish Ceremonial Art Puns

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All those Hanukkah tiktoks are now confirmed as mocking the realign and appropriating it for money.

I just hope we are done with the Jewish cosplay fase and those 2 weirdos will stop bothering the Jewish people!

Hello. What follows is a rant about Japanese tea.

Edit: I don't know why this bugs me so much, it just does. And I'm sorry to be a snobby teasplainer.

But anyway:

There is no such thing as ‘ceremonial grade’ matcha.

It does not exist. It is a Western marketing term. The term is not used in Japan.

Tea producers make matcha for drinking and matcha for making biscuits and whatever. The producers and the tea shops name these matchas (edit: and sell them for their characteristics). Western sellers invented 'Ceremonial grade' to sell matcha.

If a matcha's good enough to make koicha (濃茶/ thick), it’s good enough for a full-on tea ceremony. But some amazing matchas are specifically intended to be made as usucha (薄茶/ thin), and are completely delicious and extremely good and expensive.

Voila.

Also, while I’m at it, you don’t make ‘gongfu’ tea with Japanese tea. It's just making tea. You do not need a Chinese term to describe what you are doing: you are doing what is called 'making sencha properly,' like it was designed to be made, and like millions of Japanese people make it every day. EDIT: or, more properly, when they can be bothered to break out the good shit.

Thank you for indulging my rant.

Would the wedding be performed by a priest (kohen)? The community's elders? The couple's parents? Perhaps nobody would have officiated it and the couple would just publicly agree to be married?

What would the ceremony be like? I would guess the wedding ring is just Raphael projecting back wedding practices from his own era.

Also, who would a 16th century Italian painter think would have officiated the wedding of Mary? Does Raphael think he's painting a Jewish priest? A rabbi?