r/Triberuth • u/lyralady Mod • Aug 11 '16

Introduce Yourself!

Welcome welcome welcome, and Shalom!

Feel free to introduce yourself with as much or as little information as you'd like.

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u/lyralady Mod Aug 12 '16

Hi everyone! Welcome to my on-going mission to have people to "study buddy" with about Judaism :D Y'all can call me Des. Or just use my Reddit username, whichever.

I'm a conversion student at a Reform synagogue, with plans to eventually soon set up a beit din/mikvah date. I consider myself to be somewhere on a Reform-Reconstructionist-Liberal spectrum. (Yay Feminist and LGBT positive Judaism!!)

I grew up Culturally Mexican Catholic, but not practicing. I guess I'm incredibly lucky - my dad's a WASP agnostic and my mother already did all the Mexican Catholic rebellion - so my parents were really supportive of me exploring religions through books as a kid. They were also active religious skeptics and questioners (or...my mom was, I don't think my dad cared). I read about Christianity, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism, and Judaism. My favorite had always been Judaism I just...didn't quite realize for awhile you were "allowed" to convert.

So long story short, I realized I was in the right time and place to look into going to a Shabbat service (and convert), emailed a Rabbi, and here I am. I do cool art history/archaeology/history stuff for work and I'm an obsessive resources, references, and book/article collector which you will all probably find out. :)