why Jews fast this coming Sunday (and why it matters) ✊🏼🔥🏹

Published: Thu, 07/14/22

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Danit Grady

The 17th of Tammuz

For thousands of years, Jews throughout the world have fasted on this day, refraining from food or drink until sundown. All because the Roman legions broke through the walls of Jerusalem.

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Z'Khor Y'mot Olam: Pinḥas

Pinḥas and his ideological successors were the radical minority upsetting the comfortable status quo, often at high immediate costs to themselves.

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Understanding the Zealot Movement

While the Zealots fought a class struggle alongside their national struggle for independence, it would be wrong to understand these revolts solely through the prism of historical materialism.

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Parshat Pinḥas: Legacy of a Zealot

A true pursuer of peace/completeness is one who identifies the obstacles to HaShem’s Ideal for this world and works passionately to remove them.

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For diaspora Jews: Parshat Balak

While Moav & Midian championed a separation of 'religion' & state, Israel’s mission demands that spiritual ideals be materialized on a national level so that our Torah’s values be fully expressed on earth.

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Ascent

And so I arrived,
Homeless and tired.
Is this ascent?
I went through the motions,
Swiftly in this soft landing.

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