Those who want to understand why and why we are going to the fifth election, are welcome to take a look at the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayer words.
It turns out that the holidays are not just an opportunity for a meeting and a family meal.
They are not even just a holiday of repentance and forgiveness.
Prayers have completely different ideas.
The central motif of Rosh Hashanah is the queen of the world.
Apropos coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth, the leading theme in the prayer is not the individual but "the correction of the world", a concept that recurs many times in the holiday prayers.
This idea of God's queen and the world's correction is key to understanding our politics.
On one side stands the traditional camp, the "believers", as they call it.
The people of this camp mostly come to the synagogue, and blew the shofar as an act of the Queen of God.
The worshipers ask to repent, but the personal repentance is only part of a larger repentance, the main purpose of which is to remove evil from the face of the earth.
Many worshipers do not always pay attention to the dramatic meaning of the words they say, but ideas tend to seep in.
The worshiper asks in his prayer that the religious values, symbols and ideas be present in the public space.
That is why he opposes the common secular thesis, which advocates a strict separation between religion and state.
He believes that the way to fix the world is through the public presence of religion and its values.
It is interesting to discover that the idea of "fixing the world" does not remain within the boundaries of the religious camp.
The drive for social reform is in the Jewish DNA, both religious and secular. Throughout history, Jews have taken part in almost every significant revolution. Jews star at the top of the main thinkers and activists in science, politics, economics, psychology, and more. Furthermore, the political use of the concept of "world reform" grew in the camp The liberal American Jewish left. Liberal Jews have taken the words of the prayer and turned them into a struggle for social justice, the climate crisis and aid to the needy in remote places. For them,
Before us is a deep war of ideas on how to fix the world: national versus universal, conservative versus liberal.
At stake is the correction of the world, no less.
Therefore, in this war of ideas each camp looks down on the other camp, convinced that only it must win.
Apparently this is a zero sum game.
And yet, there is also an opening here for a chance and a correction.
The prayer for the kingdom of God requires modesty and joint mobilization.
A person can be a stickler for his positions and disagree vehemently with his opponents, but still understand that not everything depends only on him.
It is easiest to find the faction, especially during an election period, but no one can fix the world alone.
Assuming that the other party is also motivated by positive motivation, we must try to work together.
You and I will change the world.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us
