tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627667.post2803045287566072076..comments2024-03-11T03:18:40.164-04:00Comments on The Happiness Warrior: Rabbi Chaim Steinmetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00927664495724913102noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627667.post-37807309919308626862010-09-05T11:06:34.150-04:002010-09-05T11:06:34.150-04:00now when we have our own state there is no sence t...now when we have our own state there is no sence to integrate to foreign societies. but jews instead of going to israel do opposit thing-they leave israel in oder to work abroad.shira@israelhttp://samsonblinded.org/newsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627667.post-5339488950354173422010-09-01T11:56:50.679-04:002010-09-01T11:56:50.679-04:00"Today’s mindset is profoundly individualisti..."Today’s mindset is profoundly individualistic. Every practice is evaluated by one simple criterion: 'what's in it for me?'. By contrast, institutional thinkers approach their institutions with a profound feeling of reverence and responsibility. Brooks quotes political scientist Hugh Heclo, who writes that 'institutionalists see themselves as debtors who owe something, not creditors to whom something is owed.' Institutionalists are extremely uncommon nowadays."<br /><br />I think that Zionism tackles that very point. By definition, Zionism recognizes that Judaism is not an individualistic religion. I think it was Rav Tzvi Yehuda who wrote that you can't be a Jew in Berlin like you can be a Jew in Jerusalem; our forgetting this in the Diaspora is the source of countless problems, the most recent of which was that marriage. This excellent video by Rav Fierman makes roughly that same point:<br /><br />http://www.machonmeir.net/english/torah-lessons-archive?view=media&layout=default&id=3853Gab Goldenberghttp://book.seoroi.comnoreply@blogger.com