The HHNA Bogrim Hypersociety is an instantiation of the the second stage of the tripartite Hagshama process. From the first stage: intimacy, we proceed to the second: education. It is at this second stage that we present, discuss, and synthesize ideas to be carried out in the third stage: social action, which in turn, restarts the cycle anew.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Interesting question, Jonny!
Has living in Israel always been the essence of Zionism? Is there Zionism in a permanent Diaspora?
This is cool, I am mentioned on the hagshamania blog. Wicked.
Has living in Israel always been the essence of Zionism, you ask? This is an interesting time for me to be answering this question, as not only am I preparing to move to Israel (at least in my mind), but I am taking a course all on Zionism and Israel.
Listen, I consider myself to be more traditionalist in Zionism as opposed to modernist. What I mean by tradition is what the original Zionist thinkers not only believed but what they espoused.
The national revival in the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Not only is the simple fact of there existing a Jewish state vital to Zionism, but that Jewish state needs its decendents to be a part of it. Zionism would have never been a viable movement without the core ideas linking the New Jewish man/woman to the Land of Israel, together with the ethos of pioneering, language, and resistance.
Now, do I consider living in Israel to be the essence of Zionism? Yes I do, but that does not necessarily mean I consider someone living in the Diaspora to not be a Zionist. They just may be, albeit an arm-chair Zionist (well that's just some humour).
Living in Israel is of course the essence of Zionism, for if there is no desire to live and develop roots in the Land of Israel, then what is the point of Zionism?
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This is cool, I am mentioned on the hagshamania blog. Wicked.
Has living in Israel always been the essence of Zionism, you ask? This is an interesting time for me to be answering this question, as not only am I preparing to move to Israel (at least in my mind), but I am taking a course all on Zionism and Israel.
Listen, I consider myself to be more traditionalist in Zionism as opposed to modernist. What I mean by tradition is what the original Zionist thinkers not only believed but what they espoused.
The national revival in the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Not only is the simple fact of there existing a Jewish state vital to Zionism, but that Jewish state needs its decendents to be a part of it. Zionism would have never been a viable movement without the core ideas linking the New Jewish man/woman to the Land of Israel, together with the ethos of pioneering, language, and resistance.
Now, do I consider living in Israel to be the essence of Zionism? Yes I do, but that does not necessarily mean I consider someone living in the Diaspora to not be a Zionist. They just may be, albeit an arm-chair Zionist (well that's just some humour).
Living in Israel is of course the essence of Zionism, for if there is no desire to live and develop roots in the Land of Israel, then what is the point of Zionism?
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