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  • If you can make it here--
  • My sabbath is the weekend
    • phylliprezzel October 31, 2010 at 2:06 pm with 1 replies

      This program was on when I awoke to my clock radio this morning. This is the part which I found to be an 'aha' moment:

      "Lord Sacks: There's a line to me — in the 23rd chapter of Deuteronomy — so unexpected. I think we all have to hear it. Here it is: Moses is talking about the experience of the Israelites in Egypt. We read about it in the Book of Exodus, an age of oppression, of slavery, of almost genocide, attempted genocide. And eventually the Israelites leave. They go through the desert, and as they're about to cross the Jordan and enter the land, Moses says these words: "Do not hate an Egyptian for you are a stranger in his land." Now that language is very odd. You're a stranger in his land sounds as if the Egyptians gave them hospitality, as if they put up the Israelites in the Cairo Hilton [laugh], and it wasn't like that.

      So what is Moses saying, "Do not hate an Egyptian for you are strangers in your land"? He is telling the Israelites that you have left the physical Egypt. Now you must leave the mental experience of Egypt. You have to let go of hate. Because if you do not let go of hate, you will never be free. If the Israelites had continued to hate their enemies, Moses would have taken the Israelites out of Egypt, but he would not have taken Egypt out of the Israelites. They would be slaves to their past, slaves to their feeling of pain and injustice and grievance. This is the line he taught them and the line we have to repeat day after day in this difficult and dangerous 21st century. You have to let go of hate if you want to be free."

      Replace the story of the physical exodus from Egypt with the physical exodus from the Holocaust and we gain a deeper understanding of the I/P situation.

  • 'Rachel' doc'y to launch in NY in October
    • phylliprezzel September 27, 2010 at 12:38 pm

      Or, when will it be available to play at my local independent theatre?
      Or, when will a DVD be available? I'll purchase one to place in my local library for anyone to check out and view.

  • CARE USA drops board member over ties to Lev Leviev's settlement building empire
    • phylliprezzel September 8, 2010 at 8:18 pm with 1 replies

      In answer to American's question: The British website: inminds.co.uk has an exhaustive list of USA companies and their products which participate in the Israeli economy and/or whose owner/CEO is a heavy contributor to Israel.

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