ego
In a XNUMXs film called "Rebellion of Youth" with the immortal actor James Dean, there was a terrifying competition between teenagers, a car race in which the boys flew, at top speed on a rising level, with the winner being the one stopping closest to the abyss,
From such a test of courage, or a test of fear, we were the same, and it of course ended in a movie, in a tragedy, in which one of the boys wanted to prove more courage, than the other competitors, and did not stop even reaching the abyss, and crashed a few hundred meters into the valley. .
I was reminded of this game from the movie, when I see today tiny, hopeless little parties, how they run and fly towards an abyss, pull and pull the moment of decision, until the last second, right up until the election, then they will not pass the blocking percentage, and find themselves in the abyss outside For the competition, and the big party that would have benefited from their votes, both on the right and on the left, will again be forced to compromise (because it will not have significant power to really control) will have to join small parties that have been passed, and will unjustly become as powerful as Libra.
In these good games for the film, and not for the rule of a country, the competitor takes a risk, assuming the other will stop first,
It also happens sometimes, and unfortunately in a war, in which an extreme action is initiated, threatening that we will not need it at all, and here a war breaks out that we did not really want, and all in all we wanted to scare the opponent, without intending to open fire. Start shooting. And drags us after him to the fire…
This is how it is in a card game, you bet a lot of money, without having cards, and believe that the competitor in front of you will be afraid of being beaten, but if he continues to play, you lose all your money.
Let us return to the small parties, which are anxiously awaiting the fact that as the election days draw to a close their power may increase, and in the future bargaining with the big party, they will have more influence.
And I ask, why play this game of fear? That no one knows its end clearly? Why wait until the last minute? Why not connect now? Or join now? Why wait for the fall into the abyss ,,,,
Say a different ideology, understand things differently, say a way, say a platform that the big parties do not have, so on the contrary it is the giver ,,,
Enter now, into the big party, close to your views, join now, and try from within to change, give it power to change, because then it will be too late,
And it is said that Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai, even though these are Osrin and those are permits, these are Foslin and those are instruments, Beit Shamai did not refrain from marrying women from Beit Hillel, nor Beit Hillel from Beit Shamai. Yes they did not refrain from connecting with each other because their disagreement was for heaven's sake
In the Mishnah, in Tractate Avot, it is said that every dispute that is for heaven's sake, ends in existence. And that is not for heaven's sake, there is no storm to exist.
A controversy for heaven's sake is a matter-of-fact controversy, the practitioners of which strive to arrive at the study of the truth, which is concerned (if we speak today) with the welfare of the people, their security, their health, their education.
And therefore a storm to exist, i.e. software will continue to be relevant even after it is decided, and it will not be possible to prevent it from existing.
A non-heavenly controversy is a personal controversy, reflecting power struggles and only a desire for power, so software will cease to be relevant once it is decided, and forgotten from the heart.
Small parties that insist on running alone, your disagreement with the big party, if it is for heaven's sake, you can marry it, and from it act to change and fight ,,, if it is a matter of ego, it is a dispute of Korach and his committee, which gathered two hundred and fifty leaders from Israel, to challenge About the leadership of Moses and Aaron, and since this was a war of ego only, and not a war over an idea, and a way of life did not succeed, and in Jewish history there became a thing of war that is entirely ego.
Please, it's time to join the big bloc, you will benefit from it, and so will all of us.
Jewish Democratic
A survey by the Department of Activities in the Diaspora (at the World Zionist Organization) indicates the lack of connection of many young people to the country: two-thirds of secular young people believe that they do not have to live in Israel to be Zionists,
Ninety-three percent of the secular young people in Israel do not oppose leaving the country.
A survey conducted at the initiative of the Department of Activities in the Diaspora (at the World Zionist Organization), and presented at the "On a Thin Rope" conference, at Ben-Gurion University,
Disturbing findings regarding the willingness of young Israelis to link their fate with the State of Israel.
The survey conducted by a geocartography company among young people aged eighteen and twenty-five,
Indicates a positive attitude to descent from the land. Yes yes Positive attitude to the descent from the land, (Hello Benjamin Wolf? Do you hear?)
According to the survey, eighty-two percent of young Israelis do not oppose leaving the country.
Among secular young people, the picture is even gloomier - ninety-three percent do not oppose leaving the country, seventy percent do not deny leaving the country, compared to twenty-five percent among Orthodox Jewish youth,
Scary data that until you read it in black and white, as survey data by a reputable surveying company, you do not believe it is possible,
But that's a fact !!! Ninety-three percent of the secular young people in the country do not rule out a decline from it.
And this is only about seventy years after a state has been established for us, only about one hundred and fifty years, about the time we began to return to Zion, our coveted Zion died, out of the longing in the prayer book, and we returned home from a XNUMX-year exile,
The truth was given to Hammer that very soon we cease to see the Zionist idea as sacred.
And given that we insist on calling ourselves a democratic Jewish state,
Think of the opposite possibility that ninety percent of our secular youth would have lived in peace with the possibility of an undemocratic state, and I see the foreheads of the thresholds crashing into the country with a great noise, the voice of the reader and the house will be filled with smoke. "
And how do you explain this, that the great debate today in the land to remind you, is that our society is actually becoming more nationalistic, more religious, and that there is a great danger to democracy in the land of the Jews,
And here we have a reliable survey that indicates that democracy has peace and there is no fear of its strong existence,
And what is in danger, in fact, is the Jewish definition in the original name of the state, and it is quite the opposite of what we are warned about in the morning news,
Here we have now, the visible danger, with survey documents, that the State of Israel as a nation-state is in danger,
The Jewish side of the state and the element of nationality among our young people, they are in danger,
That is where attention, teaching, and guidance should be directed, because the democracy of the Land of the Jews has nothing to worry about, it is here one hundred percent, without cracks in its wall.
The democracy here has never been stronger and clearer,
But the Jewish nation and the connection between the Land of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants and their ancestors and their ancient land, is what is infinitely loose, among the secular youth according to the survey, of course.
The nationality of the country according to the survey is subject to restraint, and it is good that there are such surveys that present us with the real and disturbing truth, and not with false dangers, which are useful monitors for the time being.
The plot of Damascus
This week about one hundred and eighty years ago, there was a blood libel in Damascus that caused a great shock among world Jewry. This was due to the disappearance of a Christian monk and his Muslim servant, and key figures in the Jewish community in Damascus were accused of kidnapping and murdering (for the purpose of using their blood) to bake matzah. In a brutal investigation conducted by the Syrian governor and fueled by the French consul, a number of suspects were found dead.
In the early nineteenth century, there were very large Christian communities in the Middle East, and they were the source of accusations of ritual murder that became more frequent in the first half of the century. The Jews were charged with murder for the purpose of performing an ancient blood worship,
In XNUMX, Damascus was occupied by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali, a friend of the French, and the background to the plot was the disappearance of a monk named Thomaso, along with his Muslim servant, Ibrahim Amara,
The French consul in Damascus has launched a vigorous investigation against the dignitaries of the Jewish community.
The investigation was based on the accusation that the Jews needed the blood of a Christian, for the purpose of a secret ceremony while baking the matzah for Passover. The Prime Minister of France openly supported his representative in Damascus, and in a conversation with James Meir Rothschild said: "If the Jews of the Middle Ages did indeed reach out, as it turns out, in a ritual murder, why should not the dark Jews of Damascus do as they do today?
A Jewish narrator named Shlomo Halek, suspected and brought in for questioning, was severely tortured and pleaded guilty to naming seven of the community's dignitaries who were allegedly on hand: some were arrested immediately, some tortured to death, and others confessed.
Moshe Abuelafia who was a victim of the greatest acts of cruelty. He finally claimed, after severe torture, that he handed the bottle of Thomaso's blood to the Chief Rabbi of Damascus, Yaakov Antebi
The British ambassador wrote: "The quotations from the Talmud, which were collected from the rabbinical detainees, have been translated, and these confirm the abominations, and the secret is now revealed to the public."
His memoirs also reflected the atmosphere in Damascus at the time: and so it was said and written: "The common opinion promotes DNA among the Christian population throughout Turkey… is that the Jews… secretly sacrificed Christians to sacrifice their blood and use it for worship during their holidays… and this fact is proved here.
The rumor reached world Jewry, but her hand was short of salvation.
Many, both among the people of Israel and among the nations, have done much to save the hostages: and in the efforts of Moshe Montefiore, the Ottoman sultan also agreed to take action and declare that the distribution of the blood libel was strictly forbidden.
Ten years later, the New York Herald dealt with the front-page affair, claiming that the Jews had committed murder "according to Talmudic instructions," and that the charges against them had been "dismissed because of dubious Rothschild interventions."
As it is in the well-known children's song, the days go by and a year passes but the melody never stays the same.
The doctor who fell on his shift
Storm among interns: Due to an abusive demand from the Ministry of Health that provoked outrage, when interns at government hospitals were required to report on the hours form whether or not they slept during shifts, as a condition of receiving their pay.
And one doctor says: "During night shifts, I respond to every case in the hospital wards and in the emergency room.
I rarely manage to sleep two hours on shift. And now I am required to remember if I slept for an hour, as a condition of receiving a salary? It's a humiliating feeling. "
Let them come and examine how we suffer and erode. Only now have two doctors died during shifts. "End of quote.
Indeed, I read last week that the medical community is shocked and hurt by the untimely death of Dr. Oren Sussman, thirty-eight years old.
Specialist in internal medicine and specializes in cardiology at Beilinson Hospital, who died of a heart attack he experienced during a shift. Yes during a shift, which was supposed to be reported a few hours old…
Dr. Sussman, married and a father of three, lived in Tel Aviv and shared with his acquaintances through Facebook, his insights and reflections, from the routine of his life as a physician in the health care system in which he worked.
"'Good news. He wrote in a message to the patient: I came to tell you that a heart will probably be found for you'", "
We will complete some tests soon. Now they are preparing to prepare the donated heart, and if all goes well, the transplant will take place tonight. '
I, in the role of Erella from the Lottery, to a forty-two-year-old man with terminal heart failure, "he wrote to his readers.
And this is exactly the doctor we would like to meet when we are stressed about our health, a caring doctor, who looks into our eyes, with heart and soul, who takes to heart the plight of his patients, and without knowing him at all just from what he wrote, I understand he was.
I know that a physician is like all man, and his days are written from above, like all of us, and even so ,,, there is a halo in a physician's head, what a false magic, that he who treats patients on the basis of his knowledge of mind and body mechanics, cannot be ill,
We all have such a thought, that a doctor is always healthy,
After all, he knows everything about us, (with him all the secrets ,,,) and more than we know about ourselves he knows,
And he knows the path of the arteries, and the veins in our body, and he knows its contents, as if they were an open book before him, he heals us, and gives us life as if he were second in his almighty human rank,
Who has not seen in photography or in life, a doctor in an operating room, and seen the Goddess in her most beautiful moments of grace.
That's why it's so painful to read about a life-saving cardiologist, a cardiologist who is concerned with the well-being of the heartbeat, and here he is like any other person, (and sadly) his heart can also fall asleep and so young,
And it hurts that he is not, and it hurts all the people he could have saved.
And maybe it's also a place to direct a call or a cry, to an issue that will not be discussed in the next elections, the health system,
For here we have a clear cry to heaven, a physician falls while fulfilling his duty,
He may have been ill in his youth, and perhaps his heart was weak before,
But may have died of stress, forcing angel doctors to work around the clock, lacking resources, lack of sleep, lack of time, helplessness wanting to heal everyone, with frustration of inability, and inadequate response and perhaps he died of terrible fatigue, which weighed on his merciful heart Perhaps he died of a heart attack, which could have been prevented with attention and other allocation of resources, in the right places that really deserved it.
Of blessed memory.
Madrasia of Ovadia Hamama
At the center of the midrash for the "donation" affair is the matter of building the Mishkan. And the question arises in us as to the modern spiritual relevance, of all the details of the details that were necessary in the past for the erection of the tabernacle and the altar, saying, "Make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in them" (Exodus XNUMX).
The Creator of the world really wants to dwell within us, to shine and enlighten us. He promises that if only a dwelling is built, which will have the proper dimensions, he will find in us and be found in us as in an apartment for rent!
So here we are as an apartment to rent
On the dark side or on the illuminating side,
"And make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in it,"
Creator of the world from time to time for every man and man.
So build me a tabernacle with light and joy,
Son of me, sons of light, in your heart a kingdom,
Build me a tabernacle, I will dwell among you,
A small temple within your hearts.
Build me a tabernacle with light and joy,
Son of me, sons of light, in your heart a kingdom,
Build me a tabernacle, I will be a citizen for you,
A small temple within your hearts.
Apartment for Rent
Lyrics and melody: Ovadia Hamama
