Vader/moeder/ouderschap {moet je leren} Re: 16-4/4

heshvan 5730/oct 1969/sha'aban 1389
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THERE IS
A VERY REAL DANGER
of our drifting into an attitude of contempt for humanity.
We know quite well that we have no right to do so
and that it would lead us
into the most sterile relationship
to our fellow-men.
~!~
The man
who despises another
will never be able to make anything of him.
Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves!
We often expect from others
more than we are willing to do ourselves.
WHY have we thought so intemperately about man and his frailty and
temptability?
~!~
We must learn
to regard people
less in the light of what they do or omit to do
and more in the light of
what they suffer.
~!~
The only profitable
relationship to others and especially to our weaker comrades,
is one of love
and that means the will
to hold fellowship with them:
to share with them all we have,
to treat them as
ourselves.
~!~
THE MEANING
and character of Yeroesjalajiem
are VISION,
PROTEST & REVOLT against a deceiving ruthless world!
WORLD PEACE:
a Jerusalem that is not THIS
is not Jerusalem ...
A denizen of Jerusalem senses
that something is destined to happen here
something festive
that will free the world of evil and
deadening despair ...
~!~
THERE IS
some consolation in these thoughts on folly and despair:
they in no way justify our thinking
that most people are just fools
in all circumstances?
~!~
WHAT WILL REALLY MATTER
is whether those in power expect more from people's folly
than from their wisdom
and independence
of mind!
~!~
THERE IS
no Jerusalem except when she is whole:
when she is ONE {to 'both' nations}
~!~
THIS
is Jerusalem
of the end of days tidings ~
that brought holiness to the world and whose name
has been sanctified in the world ~
Yeroesjalajiem
immured in her walls & gates
a city debased
encased in dust
piled high with ruins
recesses and tunnels arched and cooled in shadows
in concealment
dark crooked lanes and alleyways dropping ever downward
the temple mount and the western wall
scattered boulders and the Mount of Olives opposite
bold as in the times when its trees were uprooted
to build siege ramps and dykes and to crucify masses
of Jews on wooden crosses
a pall of gloom and doom over everything
a petrified gloom in every breach
in every protuberance and dent in a wall
the Wall
the western wall
which to every one is no more than a stone fence
is sacred to us
the wall of destruction and tears
that did not surrender
that was conquered ~
those stones are no idolatrous relics
they are not monuments ~
they are chapters of our history
testimony of things in our
early generations
~!~
ATHENS
saw the world from the outside
JERUSALEM from
within
~!~
Athens sought to know to grasp to understand
Jerusalem to change to improve
~!~
Athens was nature
Jerusalem spirit
~!~
ROME
began her calendar
with the list of her magistrates and consuls
while Jerusalem began hers with
the creation of the world
~!~
Jerusalem
did not succeed in fulfilling her mission
Rome succeeded:
a truncated testament
which the nations of the world cut out from the Tora of the jews
became a travesty in their hands
EVIL became more widespread
and more than any other of g*ds creatures
they inflicted evil on us
~!~
in all generations
we became an object of the worlds obloguy ~
in the crusades
in the towns of medieval germany
in the time of the inquisition
in the massacres of 1648
in the days of the petliura and denikin
in the time of the holocaust
to the era of soviet russia
~!~
two thousand years
we were cast about from place to place
yet we did not leave jerusalem
and now we have
returned
to her
~!~
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