Mensch of Letters

This week: Exposure therapy for secondhand embarrassment, making dick jokes about angels, Dean doesn’t know how to destroy a hard drive, the return of Buffynatural, and the JJ Bittenbinder school of vampire hunting. 

References:

• Rat Park - Wikipedia
• “Prayer is no panacea, no substitute for action.” -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
• B’shem Hashem
• Ishim (angel) - Wikipedia
•  Angels as Human Byproducts - Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism
• Last rites - Wikipedia
• "What happened to all the pussy in Supernatural"
• The Winchesters and First Aid Kits [Archived Version] 
• Kashrut and bittul (nullification)
• The True Meaning of Smekday 
• Jacob as trickster figure

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: Scenes that aged like milk on a radiator, the era when they cared about demon possession victims, mid-00s homophobia that turned into real bisexuality, rescuing a kid from ghost-induced drowning...2!, and Jules’s boyfriend Special Agent Victor Henriksen.

(Supernatural Season 2, Episodes 10, 11, and 12)

References:

• Real Actors on SPN [Archived Version/Picture] 
• Dean and Sam’s Paramilitary Upbringing [Archived Version]
• Down to Agincourt
• Borscht Belt

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Many thanks to Lulavet Arnow for her help with our audio editing. She can be found on Twitter @palmliker or @spacetrucksix.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase. 

This week: Little sibling crimes of being taller, a sprinkling of daloy politsey, Sam gets snubbed by the FBI, Elijah the Prophet is playing with your dogs, and the covenant is just Eldest Daughter Disorder writ large.

(Supernatural Season 2, Episodes 7, 8, and 9)

References:

• SPN Wiki Transcript Search
• The Usual Suspects [Archived] 
• The Story Iscah Vaguely Remembers 
• The complexity of reasons people could get into hunting / [Archived Version]
• Black Dogs
• The Black Dog of Meriden, CT
• Perception of Dogs Among Ancient Jews
• The Story of King Solomon and Ashmedai 
• Demons with “Cock-like Footprints”
• Robert Johnson and the Devil Legend
• Honorifics for the dead in Judaism 
• May Their Memory Be for a Blessing
• Roanoke Colony
• Genesis 32:4 - Parsha Vayishlach

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.   

This week: The boys could both benefit from some weed, emotions are little brother nonsense, apologies to Jules' mom for ragging on philosophy, the haunted post office episode we should have gotten, and debating the merits of different hairstyles. 

References:

• The uncle who put up the headstone / [Archived Version] 
• Death and Mourning in Judaism 
• Dean's Amulet - Super-wiki 
• Why do all monsters have superstrength? / [Archived Version + Picture] 
• HH Holmes 

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

This week: A Lulav-ly guest star, worms and Worms and vurms, kings breaking necromancy prohibitions, no such thing as scars or head trauma, and the math of plane crashes vs. serial killer clowns.

References:

• 82 — Naso: Angel's on First — Kosher Queers! 
• "ben edlund...looks like a goat that got turned into a human" / [Archived + Picture]
• Smile Time
• The Others (2001 film)
• The Book of Abramelin 
• Exodus 30:36 
• Kol Nidrei 
• Samael
• Jewish Naming Practices/Can a Child Be Named After a Living Person? 
• DEATH, VIEWS AND CUSTOMS CONCERNING 
• Communication with the Dead / Ghosts, Spirits, and Jewish wanderings in the Afterlife 
• Jewish funeral in-fiction as protection from ghosts, etc
• "Sam, you go interrogate the MILF." / [Archived] 
• Freak show
• Jews and the Circus
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Rakshasa
• Pardes (Jewish exegesis)
• Sera Gamble's Anti-Black Racism [Archived]

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Special guest Lulavet Arnow can be found on Twitter @palmliker or @spacetrucksix.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.  

This week: A living fossil of mid-00’s television, all questions and no answers, ghosts as a diaspora metaphor, what if it was more like X-Men, and everything is fresh and not yet beat into the ground.

(Supernatural Season 1)

References:

• "If they grapple with the nature of monstrosity twice a season..."
• The Shema
• Making hunters more than protectors of white suburbia
• Fridging

 You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.  

This week: Clown foreshadowing, a list of impossible things, making holy water wrong, people who are unimpressed with the Winchesters, and Trivial Pursuit: Sammy’s Psychic Powers edition.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 21 and 22)

References:

• Mandaic language - Wikipedia 
• Holy water - Wikipedia
• Key of Solomon - Wikipedia
• Jewish Exorcism

 You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase. 

This week: Dean and Sam aren’t WASPs, a one-scene heist movie, Jules goes full Pepe Silvia over G-d as an author, Elijah is NOT a vampire, and it’s wildly easy to trick John Winchester.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 19 and 20)

References:

• Working Class as a Signifier of Masculinity (Web Archive)
  • (Tag Screenshot)
• Working Class as a Signifier of Masculinity (Original)
• A Swarm of Evil Bees
• Exodus 20:4 with Connections
• Nosferatu (word)
• Lilith and lilin as blood drinkers

 You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase. 

This week: Jules is probably not getting murdered by a daeva, Dean is Miette-coded, our new plastic surgeon OC, sometimes the solution is arson, and 19th century Wisconsin newspapers were totally on the cutting edge of photojournalism.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 16, 17, and 18)

References:

• Our Town: Study Guide
• Daeva
• Cross of Saint Peter
• Vintras, Eugène (1807-1875) 
• Nirmāṇakāya - Wikipedia
• Jewish Bedtime Prayers
• 20 Jewish Superstitions That Will Absolutely Ward Off the Evil Eye – Kveller
• Evil Eye in Judaism
• Bucky on Parade: Frequently Asked Questions
• Fear, Itself | Buffyverse Wiki | Fandom

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.   

This week: Keeping ghosts secret except when we yell about them in public, hearteyes for THEE Cassie Robinson, Dean is totes nailing his priest impression, where are they getting entire State Trooper uniforms, and For Sale: Chekhov's Guns, Never Fired.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 13, 14, and 15)

References:

• "The girl can't be on top."
• "Bi women are women who like men in a gay way"
• The Political and Social Partnership Between Africans and Jews in the United States [PDF]
• Parsha Shoftim, Dvarim 18:15
• Judaism and Dreams
• Judaism, Dreams, and Dream Interpretation 

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.