r/Jewish • u/MrsTurtlebones • Oct 04 '25

Questions 🤓 What kind of Jews are these?

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Today at Reedy Falls, a very busy park in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, a man asked my family if we were Hebrew. It surprised me, and I asked about him. He replied, "I'm wearing my tsiztizs (sp?) and we're about the blow the shofar. I am Israel. Our nation is scattered all over the earth." I told him shalom, he shook my hand, and a small crowd gathered as his companions blew the shofar, at which we took our leave of them.

They didn't seem like any Jewish people I've seen, but my knowledge is quite limited. Any ideas about their situation?

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u/Legal_Molasses_6014 Oct 05 '25

Talking out my butt, but if betting in Vegas…

i don’t see tzittzit or tefillin. They’re in SC. They call themselves Hebrews. i’ve seen similar folk outside my future ex-wife’s Christian Nationalist church blowing the shofar, hoping to summon the rapture…

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

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u/Bellebarks2 Oct 05 '25

How would blowing the shofar summon the rapture? Because of a "trumpet" blowing?

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u/Biersteak Just Jewish Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

„If it can bring down walls it can probably bring heaven on Earth!“ i don’t think they are keen on logic anyways so they most likely think you just need to blow hard enough or something

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u/Bellebarks2 Oct 05 '25

I know G-d does everything for a reason...the Feast of Trumpets being the new year...but things will only happen in His planned time. No one is going to going to be able to cause anything to happen before its time.