My Chanukah: MK Oded Forer

Walla! Judaism in a special Chanukah project - a selection of political figures with a few personal words about their Chanukah

Jewish Home (Photo: Courtesy of the photographers)

Oded Forer lights candles (Photo: Courtesy of the photographers)

The light emitted by the menorah is unimaginably important to the Jewish people these days.

This is an opportunity to return to Shaul Tchernichovsky's song - "They Say There's a Country." A poem written in the 1920s about the Land of Israel with cautious pessimism, with the poet not knowing at all what the Jewish state would look like and if at all:

As far as this is concerned?
Was it assumed?
Either of us,
It's not ours.
Oli ... apparently inauguration?
You must have been identified!
It was ours
My lord ...

Shortly thereafter, ahead of the pioneer conference, Tchernichovsky returned to the same song and decides to update the song and put hope and faith in it:

"Peace be to you, Akiva!
Hello to you, Rabbi!
Where are the holy ones,
Where's the Maccabee? "
Torture him,
To the rabbi:
"All of Israel is holy,
You guys in the car

This song, in its updated words, reminds us that after more than 2,000 years of exile, we are experiencing the return of Zion and the Israelites are returning to their land of all Diaspora and it is important to remember that all of Israel is holy. Chanukah is a great opportunity to return to this song, to look left and right and to remember that all of Israel is holy, to look inside and decide that this new Maccabean generation requires us to fight, believe and rebuild the people of Israel in the Land of Israel.

Happy Hanukkah.

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