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Title: | A Reality Check: Israel and the Torah, like horse and carriage | |||
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| Name: | AliciaYasmeen | | |||
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| Moses II 12:19 and 24 and 25! The meaning of these traditions is to remember the Jewish history: to remember who we are. These traditions strengthen the Jewish identity and tie it firmly to the Land of Israel. The Pesach-tradition especially emphasizes the significance of independence and freedom of the Jewish nation, which find their most beautiful expression in the Jewish homeland come true, which was but a longing for 2000 years and was included in the Pesach-greeting, "next year in Yerushalyim". Are the Israelis now to dishonour this? Those seculars, who argue for the chametz are like the "wicked son" of the Hagaddah, who asks: "what do you mean by this service"? excludng themselves from the collective body of the nation. Is it much asked to show respect to the Jewish history that molded the Jewish identity, once a year? Have we become this ungrateful and self-gratifying? |
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