| I am not sure what the exact disagreement is, but it is quite clear that they agree on one thing: "sitting and learning" without "doing" is not a Good Thing.
-rz | ...לרשב"י: הלמד על מנת לעשות, ולא הלמד שלא לעשות; שהלמד שלא לעשות, נוח לו שלא נברא. וא"ר יוחנן: הלמד שלא לעשות, נוח לו אילו נהפכה שילייתו על פניו ולא יצא לעולם. ברכות פ"א ה"ב |
A survey conducted by the Panels Insitute revealed that 64 % of the Israeli public , and half of secular Israelis, want the Temple rebuilt. 97% of respondents know that the Temple was destroyed on Tisha B'Av ( Ninth of Av).
The survey's second question queried the public’s desire to rebuild the Temple. Sixty-four percent responded favorably and 36 percent said no. Analysis of the answers revealed that not only hareidi-religious and other religious Jews want to rebuild the Temple, (100 percent and 97 percent respectively), but also the traditional public (91 percent) and many secular Jews (47 percent) do as well.
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| "Sof Maaseh, B'Machshavah Techilah" סוף מעשה, במחשבה תחילה ("The final outcome has been conceived of at the outset") | ||
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing, because he could only do a little.""When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke
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