When I was young, I said to G-d, ‘G-d, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But G-d answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘G-d, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then G-d said, ‘Well George, that’s more nearly your size.’ And he … [Read more]
Prophecy, Vintners and Aliyah, Part II
“Wait while my husband puts on his shoes…” Ramot Naftali is an agricultural moshav in the Upper Galilee lying two miles southeast of Israel’s border with Lebanon. Upon a breezy hilltop overlooking the Hula Valley, a scant fifteen miles from … [Read more]
Prophecy, Vintners, and Aliyah
Bottling line at Golan Winery, The Galilee Everyone in Israel has a story, usually fascinating and, at first glance, always a bit mysterious. But the seeming mysteries in each account—a persistent dream, a sequence of apparent coincidences that … [Read more]
Savlanut and the “Jewish heart”
“The heart though small embraces the whole wide world.” Yiddish saying. An IDF soldier, with semi-automatic weapon and iPhone in hand, walks past Zion Square in Jerusalem. The collective Israeli psyche, if such a thing exists, is ambiguous, … [Read more]
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