afstand van troon & acceptatie van kroon dialectic




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THE
Rabbis
produced
their cultural formation
within conditions
of Diaspora
- that is,
in a situation within which
Jews did not hold power
over others -,
and
I would argue
that their particular discourse
of ethnocentricity
is ethically appropriate
only
when the cultural identity
is that of a minority,
embattled
or,
at any rate,
non-hegemonic.



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THE
point
is not that the Land
was devalued by the Rabbis
but that they renounced it
until
the final Redemption,
because in an unredeemed world,
temporal dominion
and ethnic particularity are,
as we have argued
before,
impossibly
compromised!



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I think
Davies phrases the position
just right
when he says,
"IT WAS its ability
to detach its loyalty
from 'place,'
while nonetheless
retaining "place,"
in its memory,
that enabled Pharisaism
to transcend
the loss of
its Land."



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My only addition
would be to argue
that this displacement
of loyalty from place to memory of place
was a necessary one,
not only to transcend the loss of the Land
but to enable the loss
of the Land.



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It was
political possession
of the Land
which most threatened
the possibility of continued
Jewish cultural practice
and
difference.



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Given
the choice
between ethnocentricity
which would not seel domination over others
or
a seeking of political domination
that would necessarily have led either to
a dilution of distinctiveness,
tribal warfare,
or fascism,
the Rabbis
de facto chose
the former!



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Secular Zionism
has unsuccessfully sought the first choice,
dilution of distinctiveness;
religious Zionism has unfortunately
[but almost inevitably]
led to the second and third
choices.



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Either way,
Zionism
leads to the ruination
of rabbinic
Judaism,
founded on
intense,
concrete
"tribal" intimacy,
and
it is no wonder
that
until World War II
Zionism
was a secular movement
claiming
very few adherents
among
religious Jews,
who saw it
as a human arrogation
of a work
that only G D
should or
could
perform?



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This is,
moreover,
the basis for the anti-Zionist ideology
of such groups as Natorei Karta
until this very
day!



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It was
the renunciation
of sovereignty over the Land
that allowed Jewish memory
to persist.

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~cool!~

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