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Rachel A Listener's avatar

It was chasidic of you to explain this. I have been hoping for the best, and when you criticize your friends, it helps them. There is a poem I like,

“I was angry with my foe;

—I told it not; my wrath did grow.

“I was angry with my friend;

—I told my friend; my wrath did end.”

Beautiful!

Rachel A Listener's avatar

Just thank you for this perspective.

Dean Maughvet's avatar

Just wondering if you've ever opened Rav Kahane's Perush HaMaccabi, or read The Jewish Idea.

Ariel Yaari's avatar

Can’t say I have. It’s on the eventual list to read, but I have other stuff to start with.

Dean Maughvet's avatar

So you have no idea regarding the contents of his two seminal works…

But you're opposed.

Ariel Yaari's avatar

I’m opposed because regardless of what Kahane says in his books, we have his public works, and we have his movement. Kahanism is a failed movement

Dean Maughvet's avatar

Good luck.

Failure to know of what one speaks may be the ultimate failure.

Ariel Yaari's avatar

I feel like haven’t actually read the article because my larger problem with their movement is the absolute rake stepping that they do and failure to actually capture any of the institutions.

Oh well… sacred cows will be sacred cows

True Settler's avatar

Where are the Kahanist scientists? I know quite a few at Ariel biology department.

Diana Murray's avatar

Maybe what you should start thinking about is separating religion from state, as in the US.

Baruch Hasofer's avatar

The result in the US is a godless state religion which calls itself something else

Diana Murray's avatar

It's better than what Israel has.