Monday, March 11, 2019
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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.
"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
2 comments:
I'm listening to the video. The more I listen, the more I wonder whether it's not too late already. With every day the more the pesticides that go on our food get into the ground, the less possibility there is to mitigate their effects on the environment and on our bodies, especially in a rainy or snowy winter such as we've had this year (b"H).
Some posts ago you told us that Israel is involved heavily in spraying pesticides. Where is the hope, then? How can we show the world a better way, and how do we get out from under the nations - whether it's their governance or their farming methodology?
And where is the food that is truly free of all the nasty things this series talks about? Does it exist anymore anywhere?
Very good comment, Anonymous! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
The way I see it - and one of the videos of the series actually shows a Jew who lives in Hawaii, a David Wolfe, who actualizes, in a strange way, what we should all be doing: he is a very weird guy: on one hand a real Jewish Neshamah with Jewish understanding of God, of nature, of what's important; on the other hand totally Tumedig because he focused his attention on the wrong place and the wrong teachers. A shame, yet in his own, graphic way, he shows us what CAN be done. Actually that is exactly what I have doing in Eretz Yisrael, he is like a carbon copy of my understanding, except mine is in the REAL Gan Eden, which is Hevron, PETACH GAN EDEN.
We need to create our own gardens, free of pesticides. It's very hard, though: for instance I found my neighbor's gardener spraying Round-up on his portion. I protested, saying I absolutely didn't want this poison on my land. I had to teach him about the dangers of Round-up - which is unfortunately so common in Israel . He is putting his own life and danger, and at the same time poisoning my plants. Now I understand why the trees on the side of that neighbor just don't do well. They are all sickly. It spreads, even if you don't want it. Terrible. We have to all protest in the strongest way against this poisoning of our lives. And share the info far and wide! We also need to focus on the water, making sure we only drink pure water, and give clean water to our plants too -but that becomes a very expensive proposition: who has money to give spring water to our trees???
Another thing: in a big city it is practically impossible to live the pure way. Yehudah and Shomron! The Galil! We need to reclaim and INSIST in every way possible that ERETZ YISRAEL HASHELEMAH is where we belong, nowhere else!
Hatzlachah to all this Adar.
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