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Purim
Sources & Philosophy
Between Identity and Alienness – Four Models
A Clerical Holiday
Abridged Book of Esther
Alphabet of Purim Concepts
Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 13, 14
Book of Exile
Cancellation of the Purim Holiday
Kindergarten Teacher, Tell the Kids about Vashti
Exile
Exile and Monarchy in the Book of Esther
Exile, Brenner and Alterman
For the farmers among us (if such still exist)
Haman’s Informants and Achashverosh
How Could I Have Been So Blind! 
How Does Redemption Come?
Inability to Exist in Exile 
Instituting Purim, and Fear of Angering Nations 
Is This A Jewish Holiday?
Nature Adorns Itself
Not Every Day is Purim
On Hatred of Amalek
On Joy – According to Rambam and Hazal 
Origins of the Adloyada 
Purim from a Bird’s-Eye View 
Purim in nature
Purim is a Secular Holiday
Reading the Book of Esther
Recommendation from Breslov – On Joy
Regard for the Weak in Jewish Society
Repentance and redemption
Serious Members Claimed That
Sanctioning or Rejecting the Diaspora
The Book of Esther as the Story of Exile
The Book of Hitler Y.S.
The Book of Zavola
The Chassidic Appetite – Chassidic Humor
The Drunkards’ Haggadah for Drunkards’ Eve 
The First Adloyada in Tel Aviv
The Story of Purim
The Influence of the Farsi Language on Hebrew
These Dances Oppose the Kibbutz Society
Types That Dress Up

Arela

These Dances Oppose the Kibbutz Society

Yiron, 1964

On “way of life”

I agree with what Harshe said - that once in a while we should examine our way of life, in the aim of preserving the character of our kibbutz society. It appears that so far so good.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that Harshe is preoccupied with things of secondary importance, devoid of what matters in life; hence, he does a disservice to the issue. I am a lover of dancing; dancing is a release and relief from life’s stress [...]. I see nothing wrong if among the dozens of folk dances we dance, there are 2-3 ballroom dances such as the Latin style cha cha dance, etc. It would be ridiculous and childish to say that these dances in a society such as ours express opposition to kibbutz society. I am not of course making any comparison to urban society, where these dances are the sole expression of social connection with people, and sometimes even the only connection with what may be called culture.

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