Adne Sadeh
@adnesadeh.bsky.social
Apprentice Jewish monster hunter, podcaster, storyteller, teacher (occasionally), blogger (and AI researcher by day). He/him. https://linktr.ee/adnesadeh
New book! “The Writer” by Josh Gad, the Berkowitz Bros, Ariel Olivetti and Frank Cvetkovic. A comic book about a Jewish comic book writer loaded with Jewish monsters and magic. It’s wild. I don’t love it, it’s a bit to chaotic for me. But it’s fun and with checking out.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New book! “The Writer” by Josh Gad, the Berkowitz Bros, Ariel Olivetti and Frank Cvetkovic. A comic book about a Jewish comic book writer loaded with Jewish monsters and magic. It’s wild. I don’t love it, it’s a bit to chaotic for me. But it’s fun and with checking out.
Bought a Hanukkah Latke golem sweater from @martifuerst.bsky.social. Am very excited.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bought a Hanukkah Latke golem sweater from @martifuerst.bsky.social. Am very excited.
New book! Josephson-Storm’s “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences.” It focuses on western philosophy with passing reference to Kabbalah. It’ll be a great companion for Gideon Bohak’s article “How Jewish Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New book! Josephson-Storm’s “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences.” It focuses on western philosophy with passing reference to Kabbalah. It’ll be a great companion for Gideon Bohak’s article “How Jewish Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”
I love this illustration by Yosl Kottler. Looking for inspiration for my “Water Shedim” card and found Kottler, who was a Yiddish speaking Jewish American poet, artist, puppeteer and composer at the beginning of the 1900’s
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I love this illustration by Yosl Kottler. Looking for inspiration for my “Water Shedim” card and found Kottler, who was a Yiddish speaking Jewish American poet, artist, puppeteer and composer at the beginning of the 1900’s
Fascinating 1891 anthropological description of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Very judgmental at times, but paints a fascinating picture. I originally ran across it looking at Jewish burial practices, like this one....
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Fascinating 1891 anthropological description of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Very judgmental at times, but paints a fascinating picture. I originally ran across it looking at Jewish burial practices, like this one....
One of my buddies took a cool shot of me telling stories at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Very dramatic. Lol. And yeah, I’m sporting a Marti Fuerst giant frog shirt. 🤩🐸
www.martifuerst.com
www.martifuerst.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
One of my buddies took a cool shot of me telling stories at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Very dramatic. Lol. And yeah, I’m sporting a Marti Fuerst giant frog shirt. 🤩🐸
www.martifuerst.com
www.martifuerst.com
And here's the first cut on card 137, "Orpah."
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
And here's the first cut on card 137, "Orpah."
I started working on decks gimmel and daled of Jewish Monster and Magic Trading Cards. I've got 6 done (out of 108). Gonna be at this a while :) Here's a first cut on card 149. "Satan"
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I started working on decks gimmel and daled of Jewish Monster and Magic Trading Cards. I've got 6 done (out of 108). Gonna be at this a while :) Here's a first cut on card 149. "Satan"
Guess who guested on the latest @pjlibrary.org "Beyond the Bookcase" podcast? :)
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Guess who guested on the latest @pjlibrary.org "Beyond the Bookcase" podcast? :)
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
If you're local to Southeast Michigan, come to my Jewish monsters story telling at Temple Beth Emeth on Nov 1. I'll be telling stories supported by other storytellers from the congregation. Last year was a blast.
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If you're local to Southeast Michigan, come to my Jewish monsters story telling at Temple Beth Emeth on Nov 1. I'll be telling stories supported by other storytellers from the congregation. Last year was a blast.
Hey Chabad folks, anyone have any connection to the “Lubavitch Archive” referred to in this photo of Rabbi Menachem Tzvi Rivkin? I’d like talk to them about permission to use the photo in a trading card that tells the story of his earring.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey Chabad folks, anyone have any connection to the “Lubavitch Archive” referred to in this photo of Rabbi Menachem Tzvi Rivkin? I’d like talk to them about permission to use the photo in a trading card that tells the story of his earring.
collive.com/the-top-hat-...
collive.com/the-top-hat-...
G'mar chatima tovah!
Kapparot is a Yom Kippur atonement ritual where a chicken is passed over one’s head three times while reciting the appropriate text. The chicken (or it's value in $) is later donated to charity.
Lithography from Yeshiva University Museum. Late 19th / early 20th century
Kapparot is a Yom Kippur atonement ritual where a chicken is passed over one’s head three times while reciting the appropriate text. The chicken (or it's value in $) is later donated to charity.
Lithography from Yeshiva University Museum. Late 19th / early 20th century
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
G'mar chatima tovah!
Kapparot is a Yom Kippur atonement ritual where a chicken is passed over one’s head three times while reciting the appropriate text. The chicken (or it's value in $) is later donated to charity.
Lithography from Yeshiva University Museum. Late 19th / early 20th century
Kapparot is a Yom Kippur atonement ritual where a chicken is passed over one’s head three times while reciting the appropriate text. The chicken (or it's value in $) is later donated to charity.
Lithography from Yeshiva University Museum. Late 19th / early 20th century
My Jewish Monster and Magic trading cards in the wild at Congregation Neveh Shalom in Portland OR. My buddy Meg is a rad teacher and introduced the students to the cards. They loved them! Woot!
September 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My Jewish Monster and Magic trading cards in the wild at Congregation Neveh Shalom in Portland OR. My buddy Meg is a rad teacher and introduced the students to the cards. They loved them! Woot!
"The illustration is of the angel of death, flanked by a skull and an hourglass. The large, decorated Hebrew letters state: "The end of man is to die"
The illustration is done using micrography, e.g. depicting lines using small Hebrew characters. (1/2)
The illustration is done using micrography, e.g. depicting lines using small Hebrew characters. (1/2)
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"The illustration is of the angel of death, flanked by a skull and an hourglass. The large, decorated Hebrew letters state: "The end of man is to die"
The illustration is done using micrography, e.g. depicting lines using small Hebrew characters. (1/2)
The illustration is done using micrography, e.g. depicting lines using small Hebrew characters. (1/2)
Shanah Tovah and Gut Yontif, everyone!
h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.
h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Shanah Tovah and Gut Yontif, everyone!
h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.
h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.
I'm working Jewish Monster & Magic Trading Cards decks Gimmel and Daled. I've done first drafts on 3 cards, only 105 to go :) Here's 109 - Sherblekh!
September 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm working Jewish Monster & Magic Trading Cards decks Gimmel and Daled. I've done first drafts on 3 cards, only 105 to go :) Here's 109 - Sherblekh!
Love this.
Found it in Harold Schwartz collection “Gates to the New City: A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales”. I think it’s from Langer’s 1937 book “9 Gates to the Chasidic Mysteries”
Found it in Harold Schwartz collection “Gates to the New City: A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales”. I think it’s from Langer’s 1937 book “9 Gates to the Chasidic Mysteries”
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Love this.
Found it in Harold Schwartz collection “Gates to the New City: A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales”. I think it’s from Langer’s 1937 book “9 Gates to the Chasidic Mysteries”
Found it in Harold Schwartz collection “Gates to the New City: A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales”. I think it’s from Langer’s 1937 book “9 Gates to the Chasidic Mysteries”
Memunim are angels, "celestial deputies" "Houses and cities, winds and seasons, months and hours and days, each star above, each speck of dust underfoot, no thing in nature or in fancy exists independently of its memuneh, its heavenly "deputy" (Check out the cute memunim stickers by @devotaj.com )
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Memunim are angels, "celestial deputies" "Houses and cities, winds and seasons, months and hours and days, each star above, each speck of dust underfoot, no thing in nature or in fancy exists independently of its memuneh, its heavenly "deputy" (Check out the cute memunim stickers by @devotaj.com )
Setting up for my for first table sale at the Ann Arbor JCC Apples and Honey event. 2 to 5.
September 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Setting up for my for first table sale at the Ann Arbor JCC Apples and Honey event. 2 to 5.
Repacking Jewish Monster Hunting kits for my table sale tomorrow at the Ann Arbor JCC. Edith is helping.
September 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Repacking Jewish Monster Hunting kits for my table sale tomorrow at the Ann Arbor JCC. Edith is helping.
New Books! Carmen Caballero-Navas' "The Book of Women's Love & JewIsh MedievaL Medical Literature on Women (Sefer Ahavat Nashm)" and Jon Levenson's "Creation & the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence"
September 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New Books! Carmen Caballero-Navas' "The Book of Women's Love & JewIsh MedievaL Medical Literature on Women (Sefer Ahavat Nashm)" and Jon Levenson's "Creation & the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence"
More Talmud trash talk!
In Genesis Rabbah, the angels get feisty and argue over whether or not humankind should be created … because they know we're going to suck.
God's clap back is epic.
In Genesis Rabbah, the angels get feisty and argue over whether or not humankind should be created … because they know we're going to suck.
God's clap back is epic.
![Rabbi Simon said: When the Holy One blessed be He came to create Adam the first man, the ministering angels divided into various factions and various groups. Some of them were saying: ‘Let him not be created,’ and some of them were saying: ‘Let him be created.’ That is what is written: “Kindness and truth met; righteousness and peace touched” (Psalms 85:11). Kindness said: ‘Let him be created, as he performs acts of kindness.’ Truth said: ‘Let him not be created, as he is all full of lies.’ Righteousness said: ‘Let him be created, as he performs acts of righteousness.’ Peace said: ‘Let him not be created, as he is all full of discord.’ What did the Holy One blessed be He do? He took Truth and cast it down to earth. That is what is written: “You cast truth earthward” (Daniel 8:12). The ministering angels said before the Holy One blessed be He: ‘Master of the universe, why are You demeaning Your very seal? Let Truth ascend from the earth.’ That is what is written: “Truth will spring from the earth” (Psalms 85:12).
The Rabbis say in the name of Rabbi Ḥanina bar Idi, and Rabbi Pinḥas and Rabbi Ḥilkiya said in the name of Rabbi Simon: Meod, this refers to Man [adam]. That is what is written: “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very [meod] good” (Genesis 1:31) – Man [adam] was good.
Rav Huna, the rabbi of Tzippori, said: While the ministering angels were busy deliberating with one another and engaging with one another, the Holy One blessed be He created him. He said to them: ‘Why are you deliberating? Man has already been created.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2dog7qrhd4e6ddscgleicun/bafkreigqdyzfdzkapeqawcqp2rvcr7vdek2wnx2nn6i5uvvnmjgefquvda@jpeg)
September 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
More Talmud trash talk!
In Genesis Rabbah, the angels get feisty and argue over whether or not humankind should be created … because they know we're going to suck.
God's clap back is epic.
In Genesis Rabbah, the angels get feisty and argue over whether or not humankind should be created … because they know we're going to suck.
God's clap back is epic.
So, how come our spines becoming snakes? According to the Tosafot (medieval commentators) it is connected to the Luz bone, at the base of the spine, which is the key to physical reincarnation. Turning the Luz into a snake destroys the bone & bang! no more reincarnation. yeah, that made it more weird
September 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
So, how come our spines becoming snakes? According to the Tosafot (medieval commentators) it is connected to the Luz bone, at the base of the spine, which is the key to physical reincarnation. Turning the Luz into a snake destroys the bone & bang! no more reincarnation. yeah, that made it more weird
Frickin' bats becoming frickin' demons (and frickin' spines becoming frickin' snakes) 🦇😈🦴🐍
![And it is apparent that a male hyena is distinct from a female one, as it is taught in a baraita: A male hyena after seven years metamorphoses into an insectivorous bat [atalef ]; an insectivorous bat after seven years metamorphoses into a herbivorous bat [arpad]; a herbivorous bat after seven years metamorphoses into a thistle [kimosh]; a thistle after seven years metamorphoses into a briar [ḥo’aḥ]; and a briar after seven years metamorphoses into a demon. Similarly, a person’s spine, seven years after his death, metamorphoses into a snake. The Gemara qualifies the last statement: And this matter applies only to a case where that person did not bow during the blessing of thanksgiving, the eighteenth blessing of the Amida prayer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2dog7qrhd4e6ddscgleicun/bafkreihqnj6fri3f6ryp6uqmnxctwihewhabgiahxj25imwkvmxyb4dmze@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Frickin' bats becoming frickin' demons (and frickin' spines becoming frickin' snakes) 🦇😈🦴🐍
Satan, in Ashkenazi Jewish stories, sometimes shows up in the form of a black dog (as he does in other folklores.) In one Baal Shem Tov story, he shows up as black dog in court to inform against a villager. Satan was scolded, "as one scolds a dog" and he ran away.
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September 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Satan, in Ashkenazi Jewish stories, sometimes shows up in the form of a black dog (as he does in other folklores.) In one Baal Shem Tov story, he shows up as black dog in court to inform against a villager. Satan was scolded, "as one scolds a dog" and he ran away.
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