
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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