scryingthestars:first week of classes and I’m already feeling overwhelmed and imposter syndrom

scryingthestars:first week of classes and I’m already feeling overwhelmed and imposter syndrome is creeping up on me.so made my first sigils ever to try to help me have a better semester.*author note:As a jewish conversion student who is finding my jewish studies so absolutely wonderful and finding judaism to be so absolutely helpful I am as well looking for a bracha about studying / learning in general education to add to this so I can have just that extra touch of ‘universe, please help me out on this.’@esoteriqueer @queerkeitcoven (for sharing jewish fun with friends. :D)@duckievamp(for sharing magic endeavors with friends)((since both of you are likely confused, this is Fatespectrum))Nice!And there is a brakha for studying — several, in fact!The traditional blessing for studying Torah is: “Barukh ata etc… la‘asoq bedivrei Torah” — “Blessed are you, G!d, Ruler of the Universe, who made us holy with commandments, and commanded us to study words of Torah.” You can certainly interpret Torah here broadly to include all kinds of spiritual education.The Talmud also has a number of prayers and meditations to say before entering a classroom. One such prayer, attributed to Rabbi Nehunia ben haQaneh, is in BT Berakhot 28b:“May it be your will, O L!RD my G!d, that no mistake should occur on my account, and that I may not err in a matter, that my colleagues may rejoice in me, and I should not declare something impure to be pure, or vice versa; and that my colleagues should not err in a matter that I should rejoice in them.”A similar prayer for entering the classroom is found in the Jerusalem/Palestinian Talmud, PT Berakhot 4:2:[Upon entering the house of study,] R. Tanhum b. Scholasticus would pray: May it be Your will, L!RD my G!d, and G!d of my fathers, that you break and vanquish the yoke of the evil desire [yetzer hara‘] from our hearts. For You created us to do Your will, and we are obligated to do Your will. You desire, and we desire, so what prevents us? The leaven that makes the dough rise. It is obvious to you that we do not have the strength to resist it. So let it be Your will, L!RD my G!d, and G!d of my fathers, that you vanquish it from before us and subdue it, so that we may do Your will as our own, with a whole heart.In the medieval tradition, a number of Biblical verses were seen as effective to guard against forgetting one’s learning, including Leviticus 1:1; Deuteronomy 33:4; Psalm 19; Psalm 111:4; Psalm 119:9-12, 18, 34, 97-105, 130, and 140; and Psalm 134. These actually formed part of a larger body of textual traditions related to an angelic figure called Sar haTorah, “the Prince of Torah,” who was responsible for ensuring that scholars remembered their learning. For more on this see Michael Swartz’s book Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism and Ivan Marcus’ book Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe. Part of the tradition was actually to write these verses on eggs and cakes and eat them — literally ingesting and internalizing the words of Torah. But I’m sure that reciting them would be equally effective. :)So @scryingthestars​ that is probably way more than you wanted to know but I hope that some of that is helpful! You obviously shouldn’t try and take this all on at once, but if there’s a particular verse or phrase here that jumps out at you, go with it! And good luck with school! -- source link

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