tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post1132869583356458994..comments2014-01-03T11:49:30.084-08:00Comments on All the Questions to my Answers: Why BlogAyla Adlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16495747342876802328noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-1932817845473687312010-12-03T04:49:25.719-08:002010-12-03T04:49:25.719-08:00Joseph, Yes! Tresa, thank you. Shabbat Shalom.Joseph, Yes! Tresa, thank you. Shabbat Shalom.Ayla Adlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16495747342876802328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-62425308408778171622010-12-02T19:14:58.404-08:002010-12-02T19:14:58.404-08:00So glad to see this, Peggy. It's beautifully ...So glad to see this, Peggy. It's beautifully written, and right on target, I think. Voices of sanity are always necessary. I love the advice you were given, and admire the way you've taken it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927060094557261706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-26462733932416362812010-12-02T16:04:20.445-08:002010-12-02T16:04:20.445-08:00Ayla, Eliezer directed me to your blog, so now you...Ayla, Eliezer directed me to your blog, so now you have another audience member. I just made Aliyah to Be'er Sheva in July, but my new employer has me in Chicago at the moment. When I get back, I would be interested in helping organize something. I haven't seen any good protests in the Negev.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-61026609462815128412010-12-02T14:55:16.071-08:002010-12-02T14:55:16.071-08:00thank you all so much for reading with open hearts...thank you all so much for reading with open hearts, and for your support; it means a lot. Eliezer -- the challenge of empaths (of which you are a beauty) is to feel enough to know our hearts, and at the same time, not to feel so much that we can't get out of bed. Then we must act on our heart's knowledge. <br /><br />Israel is very small. She is on fire right now (literally--there's a raging wildfire just south of Haifa: Kibbutz Oren burned down today, the fire has jumped highway 4, and there's no end in sight), and everyone feels this. Everyone will go to sleep tonight, concerned about this fire and the people they know on whom the fire is having a personal effect. <br /><br />Likewise, if each person acts according to his/her integrity vs. fear, small, personal actions can make big waves. Employers in Tel Aviv, for example, have agency. As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his Letter From Birmingham Jail, some laws are unjust. If Tel Aviv employers answer to a higher law--let's say the law of their own integrity and knowing-joining together to protect their longtime employees' rights to support their families, then what? If they all refuse to pay their fines; what then? If one haredi resident in Bnai Brak sees that even though their Rabbi says it's halekhic law for them to stop renting to someone outside their community, the Torah they know, the God they know would never ask this of them, and this one resident refuses to evict his one tenant, then what? We always have more agency than we believe we have, and when we take action from a quiet place of clarity, the voices that tell us we can't become distant and faint. Even if that voice is your Prime Minister's, it means nothing to you. Why should it? It isn't true.Ayla Adlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16495747342876802328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-73552748430975676412010-12-02T09:38:07.111-08:002010-12-02T09:38:07.111-08:00wow peggy, yashar coach! keep it coming.wow peggy, yashar coach! keep it coming.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684963166176610503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-42542341319526775932010-12-02T06:22:42.586-08:002010-12-02T06:22:42.586-08:00oy Ayla, the inhumane forces of the world always ...oy Ayla, the inhumane forces of the world always seem insurmountable and have too much momentum for us to truly do anything, unless there is a big enough outcry akin to the Vietnam anti-war movement on a mass public scale that becomes impossible to ignore by the powers that be...<br />thanks for doing your part, but I just feel so resigned to the horror show.Eliezer Sobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109131078976789684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-88270457441556928032010-12-01T23:42:17.021-08:002010-12-01T23:42:17.021-08:00Thanks Ayla, for connecting me back to that comple...Thanks Ayla, for connecting me back to that complex, messy place, and to your inspiring views on it. You have a huge heart for people and I love reading your thoughts! blessings from the big island.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352451921558250863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-13001170512543451192010-12-01T19:02:41.857-08:002010-12-01T19:02:41.857-08:00Really beautiful and thought provoking, Peggy. You...Really beautiful and thought provoking, Peggy. You keep writing and I'll keep reading!Seetha Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487119414324709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-24530780780508181012010-12-01T18:50:04.636-08:002010-12-01T18:50:04.636-08:00Thank you, Ayla for these brave words!Thank you, Ayla for these brave words!Rebekah Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11997186899305437947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839508173909746388.post-31365857207664128682010-12-01T17:35:36.052-08:002010-12-01T17:35:36.052-08:00the political is personal, the personal is politic...the political is personal, the personal is political and you are one hell of a writer. mazel tov.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16643744003358434104noreply@blogger.com