Today is Saturday... Shabbat... I did not go to services - in person or online. Online has failed me too much recently and my face hurts and looks wierd because of blue light treatment.
Watched a movie this morning... odd, depressing, maybe hopeful? - 2036 Origin Unknown.... sci fi ... on prime.
Now, this afternoon... maybe I'll get up and cleanup junk room... a bit..
It is not so great weather... cloudy, rainy... windy... cool... Might light a fire in fireplace..!!!
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Anti-semitism and/or anti-Judaism has been a serious problem for over two thousand years!!!! We who are Jewish either have been hated for our religion or our poeplehood... for our poverty or our wealth... for our power or our impotence... CLEARLY we have never been able to win the war on reality. We are regular folks living in a variety of ways and places with differing means yetSIMP no matter what - we get oppressed, hated, blamed... And we DEFEND ourselves about all this... without, generally, taking the OFFENSIVE. Today, 2026. is a year following out of the Oct. 7th, 2023 event, when we are On The Offensive... and maybe --- this is the ticket!!!! And maybe we should really go all the way! Be a nation of priests.. to all. Be a light unto the nations. Be The Chosen People... once and for ALL!!!!!
How might this develop?? Would there be a need for weapons? Weapons not yet developed but which might work on eight billion people world-wide. I know this sounds wildly impossible and unrealistic but the supposedly possible and realistic ways have not worked. We must stop trying to do the same thing and expecting a different outcome. THAT is INSANE.
THE THING IS ... G-d is one and only and alone... and other variations on the Hebrewe word ECHAD. G-d represents .... UNITY... which is in great contrast to the wonderful and infinite diversity of humanity, humans, people.... and more. SO we could consider the great BALANCE between G-d and the domain of G-d to be One and Many. And to teach people to recognize The One and The Many is The WAY!!!! Alternatively we could have many gods for many different people... and that might work, too... but there seems to be a need for/by all of us to find some Essential Single... a SINGULARITY on which to focus and SIMPLIFY... Yes - there is a need for the Simple... as well as the Complex.. BALANCE IS MOST IMPORTANT!!!! It is important because who really knows... what???!!!
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Just read the R. Nachman stuff on PEACE.... How avoiding conflict is key to peace... for all... SO - what about Israel???
What about Standing, so to speak, as noted above .. and LEADING for GOOD... I can imagine it would not be peaceful at some point or ever?
Do we Jews return to a life of being marginal and weak and having to keep our heads down so as to survive? SURVIVAL is viewed as one of our great traits!! We alone have survived in comparison to Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and many others..Or were there so many others beyond the Romans and Greeks and ???
I once thought all Jews, Israelis should leave Israel at the 50 year JUBALEE point... and thus allow peace to come to the region... and to be an example to the world!!!
HOWEVER - facts on the ground are what they are. The people of Israel want to remain! That is THE FACT!!!!
Consider - The Holocaust -- did it speed up the establishment of The State of Israel? The Holocaust and the preceeding animosity of the Arabs in the 20's and 30's in "palestine". IF there had not been WW2 and the Holocaust would Israel have become a nation later in history in some peaceful manner? What might have been?
ALTERNATE HISTORIES!!!
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