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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Gorgeous views

Living the life you're meant to be in the land that you belong.

What critters do you see of a wild nature? I saw oryx near the Dead Sea and remember wild pigs running in Tzfat in the mid-90s and mentioned them to my daughter who has friends there who had never heard of them and she was there last weekend.

I follow the biblical zoo guy here and found you from your response to the anti Kahanist who never read him 😵‍💫

20 years ago late into a drunken Purim the rabbi at our Chabad sat me down to talk me out of my Kahanist ways of which I had mentioned a handful of times to punctuate a truth.

I met his mother in Jerusalem who was friends with my friend's grandmother when I visited in 1988.

His last American speech was in Minneapolis before New York where the FBI sat on his belongings for 5 years so as to facilitate the first world trade center bombings.

As much as I admire his teachings I can point goodness of the Zionist idea and cause and to the inherent utility of the Israeli Arab and their life-saving potential when they are not on Islamist autopilot.

From the Arab who saved girls at the seminary fire in Jerusalem which somehow doesn't seem to have a functional fire department or rescue team, to the Bedouin / Arabs who rescued those around the perimeter of Gaza after the attack and many other variations on Arab residents of Israel who are complimentary hold off the ultimate vision of the Rav unless he had an openness to a compliant non-jewish noahide type, Druse, Samaritan Maronite or non-evangelizing Christians?

I was struck by a George Lincoln Rockwell speech I recently saw that he stated that the good Jews would be allowed to stay in his racist America and was left ein milim as to how that would translate. Would Steven Miller or Mark Levin be tolerated?

The article I found you on pointed to the challenging reality of integrating the non-religious into his worldview of Israel which brings the discussion forward into a observant Judea and non-observant Israel separation occurring.

At the same time his ideas haven't been discussed in public for decades and that author loling you was farcical in his dismissal after admitting he never read it...

ShalomAloha achi!

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Dean Maughvet's avatar

Great to here from you, Alan.

Killed many wild pigs; wild dogs also a menace. Regularly see foxes, deer, the odd shafan.

Great big birds are also local, tho i don't know names.

And, of course, Arabs.

Very sorry to hear about your Chabad rabbi. It happens.

No Arabs, no fires in Jerusalem.

No Arabs, no saving anyone from perimeters.

G-d does many things to keep us evened up on the freewill scales, i.e., good arabs/bad arabs.

But that misses the point.

Halacha says there's no place for false gawds in Eretz Yisrael.

Hashem should keep you healthy, give you parnassa, save you from confusion and bring you home.

Soon.

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