tum'ah- WTF W2T?!

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i bought some things from white2tea recently. people online like them so i felt i should give it a try. their prices seem pretty high and their design style looks like they are marketed for a boujee-er audience. but i wanted to check out the cheaper end of their catalogue and see if their more affordable options were still decent. i bought some 2020 sheng and some dan congs. 

after my purchase i came across an unsettling eye sore. a white tea cake with a picture of a kohen gadol, a jewish high priest. what?! not only that, but the kohen gadol looks like it was drawn by a someone who is a New Age Esotericist illustrating a Tarot card after reading a book about “Q”abbalah.

 

why is this on a tea cake? what does a kohen gadol have to do with this white2tea cake from Yunnan? did they ask anyone jewish whom they know? i very much doubt it was picked or processed by a jew. i also doubt that it was given a heksher. 

 

the cake is named “Censer” for the described camphor and incense aromas it gives off. fine. but why is there an olde timey kohen on there? you can find other kitschy art with censers on them.

 

thanks to the powers of the webernet, i learned the picture is from a lithograph by Augustus Kollner. cant find anything that says he’s jewish.

 

i emailed white2tea asking why they chose this cover. i wrote in early January and still havent heard back.

my fingers are crossed that they will reply “you bring up a good point. that does not seem fitting. thank you for bringing this to our attention. we will add a note on the webpage and we will use different cover art in the future.” 

 

from your lips to god’s ears.

blech boo ick