One of these secrets is that we have one day off a week.
Another of these secrets is that we welcome dissenting and opposite views. We welcome Outliers.
The Zohar and Talmud are full of opposing opinions and views, even opposing legal views. I’m studying The Zohar, the Ancient Book of Kabbalah, which dissects the Tanach and shows why things have been said the way they’ve been said and why things happened the way they happened. There are many times when I read something, and I don’t agree with it. I know that if I wait then at some point I will get an opposing view, which I may or may not agree with. There are even discussions about why a word might have an extra vav, or why a word doesn’t have a vav.
Unfortunately, this internal strength in Judaism is used by our enemies to undermine us as they will find a Jew who is against Zionism or who uses words like Occupation or Genocide to say that this is how Jews feel generally. Yet if they want to, they will see that the opposing view also exists. And we should not allow people to tell us that we cannot be Nationalists for our country. There have been more than 200 Nationalist movements since the end of empires in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. And there are still lots of “separatist” and nationalist movements. The most famous recently are Brexit where Britain left the EU, and we know from our Ukrainian friends, of the Russians in Eastern Ukraine who want to be part of Russia, and the Basques in Northern Spain who want their own State. In Africa there are tens of conflicts because of lines
drawn up by empires, which don’t suit the locals.
Zionism is just Ancient Jewish or Israelite Nationalism, as ancient as the Jewish people themselves.
Jacob became Yisrael aher he fought with the Angel of God. Moses didn’t like that God wanted to kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah, so Moses negotiated with God. God wants that! God wants us to question Him. God wants us to find paths. God wants us to make our world a bemer place to live, and you know how much time I have put into that. And together with so many friends, we have made the world a better place, by this incredible community and its ruach.
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