When the Kotel is your ballot box....
A discussion with the creator of the Misaviv Hebrew Circle Calendar.
You went off to some island. You spent all day speaking in tongues to a king. There was plenty of food and too many people. Now what?
The game made us laugh, debate, and venture into un-PC territory. It also showed me that I did have a community.
A poem:
"You pray for silkworms and butterflies.
Dance, and your twisting wrists chafe against shackles.
Sing, and grey moths escape your open throat."
I'm a convert who came to Judaism later in life, so I didn't have a Bat Mitzvah ceremony at all. But this month I am twelve (times six)
I'm sick of hearing people I agree with ask why. You know why. You know why Sweden, and England, and France, and "the academy", and the whole universe wants us to die.
For thousands of years, we have been exiled and forced out of our land. When we had no alternative or options, lacked the power and organization to enforce the rule of law we had no choice but to live as strangers in Exile. Now we have a country, laws, an army, and independence. We must use the rule of law to regain what is ours, our lands, our cultures, our basic human rights.