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		<description><![CDATA[  Sea of Green. In solidarity of the Iranian protesters. Don&#8217;t give up. Time is with you. &#8230; Isralike Filed under: Middle East, People, Politics, Revolution Tagged: achnamidejad, art, blood, drawing, green, iran, islam, Politics, regime, revolution, sea of green, tragedy, war<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=256&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Sea of Green. In solidarity of the Iranian protesters.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t give up. Time is with you.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Isralike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[19:40 Israeli time Along the seashore, there are no waves There is the world, splitting into broken pieces At the footbridge Tell me, how to halt the tears? Tell me, where is there another world to live in? (Ofra Haza, &#8220;Le&#8217;orech haYam&#8221;)   ...And here we are, back to this certain date. Back to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=251&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong>19:40 Israeli time</strong></h2>
<blockquote><p>Along the seashore, there are no waves</p>
<p>There is the world, splitting into broken pieces</p>
<p>At the footbridge</p>
<p>Tell me, how to halt the tears?</p>
<p>Tell me, where is there another world to live in?</p>
<p><em>(Ofra Haza, &#8220;Le&#8217;orech haYam&#8221;)</em></p></blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>.<a href="http://haza.co.il/eng"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-253" title="DesertWind_Ani" src="http://isrealreflection.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/desertwind_ani.gif?w=109&#038;h=106" alt="" width="109" height="106" /></a>..And here we are, back to this certain date. Back to the date, back to the hour. I stand in awe of this hour. What is this awe about?&#8230;</p>
<p> - It&#8217;s a song of life I&#8217;m singing you, I&#8217;m singing it to the world each year anew on this very day and moment. If you look closely, you will see the paradox in that song of mine, but it&#8217;s true, it&#8217;s sincere. To be honest &#8211; it&#8217;s a song of lament over a life which you have literally left behind you. You, Ofra Haza, Jewish girl, singer, wife, woman &#8211; you went away and wherever you must be now, it is surely the right place for you to be in. That&#8217;s how it is with people who leave us. It had been your path to follow, no matter how tragic and sad it had looked like for us, friendly observers from aside.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s another question I&#8217;m asking. What is it that you have left past you, left for us to live with!?</p>
<p>My question goes further.</p>
<p>What is this that you have brought into the world, this spiritual child of yours you gave life to by the means of your mere existence? How did you manage to impress the minds of thousands? A tiny woman, exercising her powers like instruments, knowing they would find the right material to work on. Is it your intuition in music, your appearance and attitude towards the world and those who inhabit it?</p>
<p>What is it that still makes you be felt so close in people&#8217;s hearts? That the star which has stopped shining more than a decade ago, with its light it still reaches eyes and ears?</p>
<p>I sound too lofty; I can&#8217;t refrain from my metaphors.</p>
<p>But my question goes deeper.</p>
<p>What is it that makes me want to internalize every bit and piece of you, from toe to hair, from thought to sound?</p>
<p>What force does make me want to implant that seed of life you&#8217;d spread &#8211; in the souls of others?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those who had sowed with tears</p>
<p>Will harvest with joy&#8221; <em>(Psalm 126)</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Perhaps those were us who had sown the seeds I mean. Devouring eagerly with a slight trace of obsession each of your moves, words and deeds, trying hard to be surrounded by this special aura which would smell like an exquisite perfume. It would provide us with the opportunity to steal away from time to time into that &#8220;other world&#8221; which you speak of in &#8220;Along the seashore&#8221;.</p>
<p>Are you a seed, Ofra? Then today you must be a forgotten one, having endured famine and drought. And still, you haven&#8217;t vanished. You&#8217;re there, in that cracky soil of our hearts.</p>
<p>Perhaps you are also a key, the key to &#8220;this other world which is the gate to other borders&#8221;, as you&#8217;ve timelessly stated at your performance at Montreux.</p>
<p>Seeds, keys, forces. I struggle to understand and live up to my own images, to the best of my ability.</p>
<p>All the power stems from the Creator.</p>
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<p>Isralike/AyinChet</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we believe it? The Green Revolution is back again in Iran? Facebook and Twitter and all these instruments of message-spreading, the whole internet is full of &#8220;25 Bahman&#8221; and &#8220;13 Februar&#8221; . The song which had been sorrounded with mystery and fascinating magic and which was sung by countless Iranians in Europe and locally in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=245&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://isrealreflection.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/green-going-on/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/-HLL_l2rysk/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span>Can we believe it? The <a href="http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2011/feb/17/2795" target="_blank">Green Revolution</a> is back again in Iran?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=134405893292464" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/persiankiwi" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and all these instruments of message-spreading, the whole internet is full of &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWWVwGygTLo&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">25 Bahman&#8221;</a> and &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiI-P9QPFY&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">13 Februar</a>&#8221; . The song which had been sorrounded with mystery and fascinating magic and which was sung by countless Iranians in Europe and locally in Iran, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LY-HB6BkE" target="_blank">Yare Dabestani-e-man</a> (which I finally know means &#8220;My schoolmate&#8221; and has turned into a national anthem for freedom) is back again on screen and in my ears.</p>
<p>Welcome back, Iran&#8217;s <strong><span style="color:#008000;">Green Revolution</span>,</strong> and we will pay thanks to Tunisia and Egypt  if this time the <strong><em>Sea of Green</em></strong> which started in 2009 and was crushed down so bloodily, will spread again over their country and its waves will finally drown the bastions of inhumanity there. Welcome back, &#8220;my schoolmates&#8221; whose songs were ringing in my ears after school had been over in the afternoon and I was heading towards the central square to join some protest rally organized in our town.</p>
<p>What do these guys, the students and the believers in freedom, have to counter the attacks of their cruel leaders they do not want? It&#8217;s their minds, their technology, their youth, I assume. It&#8217;s their sweet humanity they show and spite into the faces of the fanatics who beat them up and detain them about a hundred at each rally. And it&#8217;s the time. Every revolution has its preparation time and its tunring point. Time, patience and determination which they hopefully are equipped with will do its best. Hey, it&#8217;s 2011 and they still care for their country!</p>
<p>Courage must have its reward. I hope not I won&#8217;t need to forget the first and only Persian words I got to know back in summer 2009 &#8211; <span style="color:#008000;"><strong>&#8220;ittihad&#8221;</strong></span> and<span style="color:#008000;"><strong> &#8220;azadeh&#8221;.</strong></span></p>
<p>And know what &#8211; I&#8217;m Jewish, Israeli and I&#8217;m behind you. This should not be a surprise for anyone.</p>
<p>Isralike</p>
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		<title>Helpless &#8211; fading flower.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isralike/AyinChet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel so heartbroken. I feel so weightened. I feel so helpless and so useless. And there is definitely nothing more than problems I can cause in each step I take on this globe. I feel I could crush the sky and all mountains around and definitely smash all glass with my prayers and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=237&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel so heartbroken. I feel so weightened. I feel so helpless and so useless. And there is definitely nothing more than problems I can cause in each step I take on this globe.</p>
<p>I feel I could crush the sky and all mountains around and definitely smash all glass with my prayers and the flames from my heart.</p>
<p>But who will listen to those prayers of mine? Who, now? From that kind of person I am &#8212; and such fervent prayers?<br />
&#8220;If I do you a favor it might be better for you not to ridicule me in response.&#8221;</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m exactly doing.<br />
How then can I approach the heavens and pray for anything else than that I might have something to eat tomorrow?</p>
<p>Yet whatever evil I might seem. I won&#8217;t stop inquiring, asking, yelling, crying till I get some response. I will take my example from Abraham oru Father who had famously implored G-d for the evil guys of Sedom.</p>
<p>I will implore and shout and cry and will not stop bothering and going on your nerves, G-d.</p>
<p>Yet, please notice this:<br />
My prayer is not to give a chance to the souls of the wicked.</p>
<p>My prayer is there to ask for mercy for the soul of a righteous.<br />
Is there any hope for mercy for the righteous in this our world of today?!</p>
<p>Believe me. I will hardly need anything more.</p>
<p>Save that little flower before it&#8217;s been wiped out from the map of evergreen, heartless grass.</p>
<p>It has already started fading.</p>
<p>isralike</p>
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		<title>Quick note</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel my dreams overwhelming me and enlarging my heart and soul, making me feel greater than life. Me and all my goals I strive for to make true. And then a moment comes, enough to wipe my dreams away. In a minute. With a tune of some emotional song and some pictures fitting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=235&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes I feel my dreams overwhelming me and enlarging my heart and soul, making me feel greater than life. Me and all my goals I strive for to make true.</p>
<p>And then a moment comes, enough to wipe my dreams away. In a minute. With a tune of some emotional song and some pictures fitting to it. And when I reminisce and realise &#8211; my G-d, what was I actually dreaming about?</p>
<p>And ideals vanish, ideas float away, every determination and logic is torn apart and makes these images of hope and wish and desire look so cold and ridiculous, simply too far away and too senseless to be reached.</p>
<p>And there had been a time when I was honestly thinking I might get to that, too.<br />
My mother quoted someone saying &#8220;Where there is desire, there are a thousand paths to it, where there is resentment, there are a thousand reasons for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, where to find that boundless desire for all my dreams!&#8230;<br />
Oh how to make those dreams and their objects of dreaming not to suffer from my lack of hope sometimes! Not to suffer from time passing by&#8230;</p>
<p>Isralike.</p>
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		<title>Israelreise &#8211; Danke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israelreise. Vorbei. Vorbei? Was so alles hängen bleibt. Ich will mir gar nicht ausmalen, was die anderen in sich alles aufbewahren müssen während der Heimreise und danach. Ist doch für die meisten das erste Mal dort. Wie haben sie es wohl aufgefasst? Was haben sie gedacht, was denken sie jetzt und wie geht es weiter? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=232&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israelreise.</p>
<p>Vorbei.</p>
<p>Vorbei?</p>
<p>Was so alles hängen bleibt.</p>
<p>Ich will mir gar nicht ausmalen, was die anderen in sich alles aufbewahren müssen während der Heimreise und danach. Ist doch für die meisten das erste Mal dort.</p>
<p>Wie haben sie es wohl aufgefasst?</p>
<p>Was haben sie gedacht, was denken sie jetzt und wie geht es weiter?</p>
<p>Nein, nicht was sie sagen. Worte, aufgeputschte Worte, tückische Sätze. Wie Luftschlangen, schön in der Packung, und wenn du sie einmal ausrollst, sind sie nicht mehr fassbar.</p>
<p>Ich will reden.</p>
<p>Die Wortschlangen im Kopf loswerden. Nein, ich habe nichts Schlimmes erlebt. Ich habe ein brennendes Bedürfnis, all das Schöne zu teilen, das ich auf dieser Reise aufsammeln konnte. Alles, was neu war und was weiterging.</p>
<p>G-tt, ist das alles viel. G-tt, ist das alles unübersichtlich und viel. Und dann so klar, so lebhaft.</p>
<p>Die Erinnerungen sind in mir so lebhaft, wie die Realität traumartig war, als ich noch dort verweilt habe. Nicht zu fassen. Wie so etwas bloß zustande kommt.</p>
<p>Ich versuche, meine Gedanken mit Musik zu begleiten. Zu untermalen, zu stärken oder zu lösen.  Wie würde es wohl Barak <em>[Oded, Chorleiter Kochav Yair]</em> machen? Sich in der Musik auflösen? Ich habe es versucht, aber der Flug ist lastend und es ist mir nicht gelungen. Was mir stattdessen passiert ist, ich bin eingeschlafen, einfach auf der Stelle im Flugsessel, und habe von meinem Abflug geträumt. Als ich aufwachte, war ich immer noch da. Das machte es etwas schwerer für mich…</p>
<p>Barak. Ein Stichwort. Ein Lichtwort. Aber bei Weitem nicht nur er. Nein. Alles war Licht. Nicht nur Funken der Schönheit, wie ich nach ihr immer suche im Galut, im Exil – außerhalb Israels. Diese eine Woche durfte ich eintauchen in Schönheit, in Fülle, in Menge von alledem was ich liebe und (ver-)ehre. Ich habe gelebt, wo ich sollte, mit denen, mit wem ich sollte.</p>
<p>Ach, ich weiß nicht, wie das nennen. Ich habe ein volles Leben geführt für eine kurze Woche. Eine Echtheit, eine Wahrheit war da, die irgendwie „nicht wahr“ sein konnte.</p>
<p>Wie beschreibt man das. Eine unglaubhafte Wahrheit. Eine geträumte Echtheit.</p>
<p> Die anderen werden zu ihrem Leben zurückkehren, sie haben es leichter, die meisten von ihnen. Das ist gut für sie. Sie waren zu Besuch. Wie schön kann Besuch sein.</p>
<p>Im Gegensatz dazu war ich gerade zuhause. Und jetzt gehe ich wieder weg, gehe wieder weit fort, gehe arbeiten, zu Besuch, in die Wartehalle, nenne es wie du willst.</p>
<p>Im Hinblick darauf ist das also nicht so gut für mich. Aber so ist es nun mal. So war es immer gewesen.</p>
<p>Gut ist, wenn man seinen Gefühlen Lauf lässt. Wenn man seine Gedanken irgendwie realisieren kann. Irgendwie in die Wirklichkeit holen. Durch Musik – wie Barak, wie Katja, wie jeder Musiker. Durch Worte – wie ein Schriftsteller, ein Reporter, ein Dichter. Gut, dass ich wieder damit angefangen habe, zu schreiben. Etwas hielt mich einfach davon ab während der ganzen Reise.</p>
<p>Das muss nicht sein.</p>
<p>Schreiben muss sein. Selbst wenn Worte Schlangen sind, einmal gelöst, nie mehr gefangen, sinnlos in der Gegend verstreut. Aber das Innere fühlt sich befreit…</p>
<p>Verstehst du, Israel ist ein Meer, es ist so voll von  Einzelheiten, dass ein einzelner Blick, eine Geste, eine Mimik, ein Windhauch in Erinnerung bleiben kann. Wenn man auf all die Einzelheiten Acht gibt, mit denen Israel übersättigt ist. Wenn man sich ihnen öffnet und sie abwartend und neugierig aufnimmt und zu ihnen eine Beziehung herstellen will. So die Dinge, so die Orte, so die Menschen. Sie überschütten dich mit Aufmerksamkeit, Hinwendung, Zuneigung, lässt du dich auf sie ein. Das ist Leben. Das ist pures Leben. Reaktion. Kreativität. Fruchtbarkeit. Richtung und Dynamik. Ein Welle, die dich mitführt. Sie zu kopieren in einer anderen Welt ist ein sinnloses Unterfangen, und ohne sie zu leben erscheint mir lebensfeindlich. Das ist doch der Mensch!</p>
<p>Das Volk Israel ist der Mensch in seinem wahrsten Sinne – und mit ihm alle, die sich auf es einlassen.</p>
<p>Danke. Wofür? Für das Kostbarste, das ich habe, das Menschsein, das Leben.</p>
<p>Für Israel.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[b&#8221;h What I&#8217;ve observed lately is, that many people surprisingly carry very similiar names. Not that I haven&#8217;t known this before, it&#8217;s just that now I pay more attention to the importance of names. And what do I see? People are being randomly named. The criteria for namig one&#8217;s babies are often quite trivial. Very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=227&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>What I&#8217;ve observed lately is, that many people surprisingly carry very similiar names. Not that I haven&#8217;t known this before, it&#8217;s just that now I pay more attention to the importance of names. And what do I see?</p>
<p>People are being <strong>randomly named</strong>. The criteria for namig one&#8217;s babies are often quite trivial. Very often the most persuading reason for a mum or a dad to name their childern XYZ is cause they themselves like the name.</p>
<p><em>Now, it&#8217;s not that one should feel uncomfortable with his child&#8217;s name, never!</em></p>
<p>The question is whether this should be the only criteria.</p>
<p>Haven&#8217;t this occured to you at least once in your life that a person&#8217;s name seemed unfitting or even senseless to you? Lately, my friend who&#8217;d been named the same as hundreds of thousands of other girls in the same city and having as at least 5 of her friends being called the same, told me that this name (Anya) is not a name but rather a <strong>collective term</strong>.</p>
<p><em>Which is a remarkable statement &#8211; remarkably sad. </em></p>
<p>I feel there is an inflation of  names taking place, hand in hand with an inflation of meaning. Names, for example in Judaism, are supposed to be reflections of a person&#8217;s being, &#8220;summarising&#8221; the personality of someone in a word. Hebrew, the Jewish language, is a very compressed and accurate language. If you name a person in Hebrew, it doesn&#8217;t go after how lovely or strong the syllables sound. The name says its meaning out loud without compromise. And since its meaning is compressed in it, you can have various persons with the same name and still they would all be individual.</p>
<p>In an &#8220;inflation of names&#8221;, the individuality and importance of the person carrying the name becomes absolete. A carelessly given name implifies the carelessness for a person&#8217;s being. </p>
<p>It happens when parents, giving names to their children, rather focus on their own taste, therefore &#8220;directing&#8221; their intentions towards themselves and not towards the child and its future being.</p>
<p>No doubt, this also happens with Hebrew names in our time when a certain name trend overthrows traditional ways of name-giving. Shortcuts,  senseless variations and unisex names all diminish the meaningfulness of a name. Yet still, in the most cases, Hebrew names more than others have retained their original meanings while names in other languages and cultures have often lost  or forgotten theirs by now.</p>
<p>Isralike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[b&#8221;h Hello my dear every-now-and-then readers, this time I would like to share with you a thought on a quality of life called vibrancy. Good friends have vibrancy. Good discussions have vibrancy. Sparkling thoughts which, after that one good discussion or two, can be heard, felt and even seen flying around in the air &#8211; all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=223&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Hello my dear every-now-and-then readers,</p>
<p>this time I would like to share with you a thought on a quality of life called <em>vibrancy</em>.</p>
<p>Good friends have vibrancy.</p>
<p>Good discussions have vibrancy.</p>
<p>Sparkling thoughts which, after that one good discussion or two, can be heard, felt and even seen flying around in the air &#8211; all have vibrancy.</p>
<p>A good ride in a car with fresh air and joyful, positive music and good friends altogether makes it all vibrant and exciting.</p>
<p>A song sung with closed eyes out of exhiliration &#8211; not alone, but together with others who also close their eyes or leave them open &#8211; this is vibrancy.</p>
<p>Good food and good sleep give you power to feel the vibrancy and to experience it fully.</p>
<p>And all this done with a clear mind, an open and loving heart freed of negative thoughts, negative deeds and a hope for the future &#8211; all they share this vibrancy of life. I believe you can experience it at no matter what age as long as you possess and make yourself want to possess this pure heart and gain a joy which comes from within of you. When you turn on the music cause it sings within you.</p>
<p>This is a holiday.</p>
<p>Feeling vibrancy tells you &#8211; you&#8217;re alive.</p>
<p><em>(Thank you Wuppertal, Rav Aharon, Yana, Basya, Yankel, Sash&#8230;)</em></p>
<p>Isralike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[b&#8221;h Gedanke zum heutigen Abend. &#8211; Gedanke zu Yom Kippur&#8230; Nicht nur ein Gedanke, sondern auch für mich selbst eine Anregung zum Weiterdenken. Es sind mir gestern Zähne gezogen worden. Weisheitszähne. Die lagen bei mir tief im Kiefer und bedurften eines operativen Eingriffs. Keine schlimme, aber auch keine schöne Angelegenheit. Weiß G-tt nichts Gefährliches, nichts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=218&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>b&#8221;h</p>
<p>Gedanke zum heutigen Abend. &#8211; Gedanke zu Yom Kippur&#8230;</p>
<p>Nicht nur ein Gedanke, sondern auch für mich selbst eine Anregung zum Weiterdenken.</p>
<p>Es sind mir gestern Zähne gezogen worden. Weisheitszähne. Die lagen bei mir tief im Kiefer und bedurften eines operativen Eingriffs. Keine schlimme, aber auch keine schöne Angelegenheit. Weiß G-tt nichts Gefährliches, nichts Neuartiges, nichts Aufsehenerregendes.</p>
<p>Ein Außenstehender würde sagen, mir ginge es gut. Es kommt auch eigentlich so rüber. Keine Körperfunktion ist dadurch beeinträchtigt. Es geht mir also offiziell gut.</p>
<p>Mein Körper und ich, wir sind da etwas anderer Meinung.</p>
<p>Zunächst einmal &#8211; Es tut weh, es drückt, schmerzt, zieht, pocht, schwillt an, blutet. Es ärgert ungemein. Es stört beim Sprechen, Kauen, Schlucken, Lachen, sogar beim Gehen. Kopf und Augen schmerzen ebenso.</p>
<p>Der Körper funktioniert, das stimmt. Aber in diesem Moment, solange die Wunde nicht verheilt ist, bin ich selbst noch &#8220;ganz Mund&#8221;. Was interessiert mich mein gesundes Bein, wenn mein Kiefer explodiert? Was kümmert mich mein gutes Gehör, wenn meine Backe schwillt? Ich kann noch so sehr über mein tolles Immunsystem nachdenken, aber eigentlich will ich nur kühlen, Tabletten schlucken und schaudere immer noch beim Gedanken an meine Wunden im Mund.</p>
<p>Es ist ist nur ein kleiner Teil von hunderten von Einzelteilen, aus denen ich bestehe, der hier angegriffen ist.</p>
<p>Und trotzdem &#8211; ich bin mir dessen mehr als bewusst.</p>
<p>Was sollte es mir, uns allen vor dem jüdischen Yom Kippur, dem Tag der Versöhnung und des Neuanfangs, sagen?</p>
<p>Yom Kippur ist ein Tag des Bewusstseins. Wir sollen Rechenschaft ablegen über das, was wir sind, wo wir stehen, wohin wir gegangen sind und wohin wir eigentlich kommen möchten.</p>
<p>So wie unser Körper aus vielen Organen besteht, so besteht unser Leben aus vielen Entscheidungen und Taten. Aus kleineren und aus größeren. Und jede dieser Taten bringt uns irgendwohin weiter.</p>
<p>So wie ich mir, wie jetzt so akut, meiner kleinsten Stellen im Körper bewusst bin; so wie ein Schmerz an nur einem von vielen gesunden Orten mich erfüllt und mir keine Ruhe lässt &#8211; so sollten uns an diesem und an allen weiteren Tagen unsere kleinsten Vergehen und Taten bewusst werden. Dass wir uns im Klaren sind, wieviel ein einzelner Schritt, ein einzelner Satz Gewicht haben kann. Wir sollen uns dessen so bewusst werden, dass eine jede unserer Nachlässigkeiten uns schmerzt und  ärgert! &#8211; Es wird uns von der Tat, was auch immer es war, reinigen und wir werden uns für die Zukunft merken, dieses Vergehen zu unterlassen. Wir werden es mit dem ganzen Herzen wollen.</p>
<p>Und das wird dann <strong>Tshuva</strong> heißen, <strong>Rückkehr, das Ziel von Jom Kippur. </strong></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Und noch ein weiterer Gedanken, verbunden mit der Idee von der Liebe des Volkes Israel (אהבת ישראל):</p>
<p>So wie ein einzelnes Körperteil uns als ganzem Menschen manchmal schmerzt und bewusster wird als alle anderen Organe zusammen, so sollte es für uns mit den einzelnen Juden des Volkes Israel sein. Davon, dass mein Zahn gezogen wurde, werde ich (hoffentlich) nicht ernstlich krank werden; davon, dass meine Klassenkameraden nicht wissen, dass sie jüdisch sind, wird mir persönlich nichts passieren. Davon, dass in Israel wieder zwei Juden im Auto erschossen wurden, spüre ich sicherlich nichts auf meiner Haut.</p>
<p>Womit man aber einen Unterschied machen kann, ist, wenn das alles einem bewusst ist &#8211; und nicht gleichgültig.</p>
<p>Wenn all das, was einem einzelnen Juden als Juden zustößt, auch mich ins Herz trifft. Wenn mir die einsame jüdische Oma im Haus nebenan oder die leeren Plätze in der Synagoge am Feiertag genauso Kopfschmerzen bereiten wie die schmerzliche Abwesenheit meines Zahns.</p>
<p>Denn wir sind alle ein Körper. Eine Einheit. Und alle ein Teil eines Ganzen &#8211; Am Israel.</p>
<p>Das sollte uns immer vor Augen sein.</p>
<p>In diesem Sinne,</p>
<p>ein besinnliches Fasten und ein besinnliches Leben danach.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Auch das ist zum Guten.&#8221;</p>
<p>גם זו לטובה</p>
<p>(Rabbi Akiva)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Ooh, ooh ooh ooh!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[b&#8221;h Dear all, hi! In a few lines a smaller than small nutshell I&#8217;d like to sum up my Am Echad Machane (&#8220;Camp&#8221;) experience until tonight: - AMERICAN. - One of the best and most integrative leaders of the camp ever. Our co-rosh. - Girl in my group has never heard of  the Holo.caust (remember, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isrealreflection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9435024&amp;post=214&amp;subd=isrealreflection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Dear all, hi!</p>
<p>In a few lines a smaller than small nutshell I&#8217;d like to sum up my Am Echad Machane (&#8220;Camp&#8221;) experience until tonight:</p>
<p>- AMERICAN.</p>
<p>- One of the best and most integrative leaders of the camp ever. Our co-rosh.</p>
<p>- Girl in my group has never heard of  the Holo.caust (remember, it&#8217;s a Jewish camp!)!! Shock!!!</p>
<p>- Breakdancing girls and mama-playing toddlers</p>
<p>- Daylong raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.i.i.i.i.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.i.i.i&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.ii.i.i.i.IIIIIIIIIIn!</p>
<p>- Big babies and little grandmums and granddads</p>
<p>- Chilling security guards with (almost) no Hebrew accent &#8211; DELIGHT!</p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;m neither American nor charedi no Am-Echadish nor loving rain and cold nor can I breakdance&#8230;.but</p>
<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s kinda nice&#8230;:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Give me freeeeedom, give me fiiiiii-re, give me REASON, take me higha&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>Singing forever young, singing songs underneath the sun</p>
<p>Lets  rejoice in the beautifull game.</p>
<p>And togheter at the end of the  day -</p>
<p>WE ALL SAY</p>
<p><strong>When I get older I will be stronger</p>
<p>They&#8217;ll call me freedom </strong></p>
<p><strong>Just  like a wavin&#8217; flag</p>
<p>And then it goes back<br />
And then it goes back<br />
And  then it goes back!!</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>!!</p>
<p>Isralike.</p>
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