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Just plain Rivka's avatar

This piece is beautifully and seamlessly crafted. The ideas are enlightening. Presented so clearly. I feel like I learned something new, but it resonates like something old.

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Yaacov Lyons's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

“Understanding our own nature demands an unusual vantage - we must stand outside that which has no outside and view the viewer.”

This made me think of pirkei avos- 1:6 עשה לך רב

קנה לך חבר

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

I don’t learn very much- just Pirkei Avos in the summer. Note #1 is perek hey? I am trying to remember what is found where this past summer.

Pirkei Avos comes up so frequently.

So many times, someone has made a siyum in our home, sometimes it’s one of our boys, they read the last part of what they are being mesayem and it is something quoted in Pirkei Avos. I don’t know how statistically probable that is.

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Mark Forstater's avatar

Since the Holocaust every Jew has had this fear , hidden deep in his or her subconscious . Now this fear is emerging into awareness, since fear is really here for our people. We need to work out how to reduce it. What would Einstein do ?

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Steve S's avatar

Ponder and perhaps come up with a timeless equation.

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Mark Forstater's avatar

Einstein was very involved in politics and the future of the Jews. He gave a lot of thought to how the Jews and Arabs could live together in Palestine.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Jews have pondered coexistence with Arabs for decades while Arabs plot how they're going to get the Jews bloodied and dead in the end.

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