Kfar Saba Park
IsraelSeen Is Taking a Vacation
We have been sharing stories about Israel non-stop for over 16 years. Finally, I am taking a break and going on vacation to northern Italy with my family for ten days. It became clear to me that I need a social media time out and just breathe and enjoy the time just BEING.
Since my dear Elisheva (Liz) passed just over two years now and with years before of constant care as she amazingly held on with a serious Parkinson’s diagnosis, I feel it is time to take a break and see the beautiful Lake Garda and Verona regions.
I will take some photos of the area that move me and share them when I return.
During this time in our lives where havoc reigns around the world with threats from tyrants that have enslaved an endless number of human beings for the sake of their power and exploits calling a “time-out” is finally in order.
Thank You all for your support throughout all these years as we have made an effort to share an array of views and interesting articles on the incredible country, we live in. We still have much to FIX and Repair, but if we can reach deep within ourselves and realize how we all share that inner experience called LOVE we can change ourselves and the world in JOY (Simcha) and blessings.
To quote one of my dearest teachers, the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l from his book of commentaries on Deuteronomy where the current weekly readings reside.
“Deuteronomy is the last act of the Jewish people’s drama before becoming a nation in its own land, and it forms the context of all that follows. It is the deepest and most remarkable statement of what Judaism is about, and it is no less relevant today than it was then. If anything, it is more so.
Deuteronomy is in essence a programme for the creation of a moral society in which righteousness is the responsibility of all. The good society was to be, within the limits of the world as it was thirty-three centuries ago, an inclusive if not an entirely egalitarian one. Time and again we are told that social joy must embrace the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the Levite, people without independent status or means. It is to be One nation under God.
How can we create structures of cooperation in a world of conflicting human wills?… Get individuals to come together in a pledge, a bond, of mutual fidelity and collective responsibility. This is no longer a world of separate “I”s in pursuit of self-interest. It is a world of collective “We,” in which we agreed to merge our identity into something larger than us, which defines who we are and which obligates us to a set of undertakings by which we freely choose to be bound. This is the world of covenant, and it is what the Torah is about.”
