So I was asked.
Well, is there a mitzvah to live in the Land of Israel?
Sure.
Well, you do know who first started going there, right?
Yes, Avraham Avinu.
Actually, no. It was Terach’s idea…
Friedrich Nietzsche (rumored):
“The first adherents of a creed prove nothing against it.”
I don’t think it wise to include excerpts.
Shades of the police at Meron.
We have become accustomed to the idea that a natural system like the human body or an ecosystem regulates itself. To explain the regulation, we look for feedback loops rather than a central planning and directing body. But somehow our intuitions about self-regulation without central direction do not carry over to the artificial systems of human society. I retain vivid memories of the astonishment and disbelief always expressed by the architecture students to whom I taught urban land economics many years ago when I pointed to medieval cities as marvellously patterned systems that had mostly just “grown” in response to myriads of individual decisions. To my students a pattern implied a planner in whose mind it had been conceived and by whose fiat it had been implemented. The idea that a city could acquire its pattern as “naturally” as a snowflake was foreign to them. They reacted to it as many Christian fundamentalists responded to Darwin: no design without a Designer!
Herbert A. Simon, Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice
The less said about eerie parallels to the State of Israel the better!
From the campaign page:
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Temech was founded in 2006 on one simple yet powerful belief:
Every Chareidi woman in Israel should get the chance to have a meaningful professional life and fair compensation for her work, without compromising Torah values.
It’s been 17 years.
68,000 women.
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