tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48465672325457934542024-03-19T10:48:41.430+02:00Tsvi SadanPersonal BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger432125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-64419183000047857392024-03-08T07:00:00.004+02:002024-03-08T07:00:00.124+02:00Necessity to Press Olives to Extract Oil from ThemI still remember being quite tired of hearing "success" almost everyone wished me on autopilot when I told my friends and acquaintances in Jerusalem that I would leave Jerusalem for some personal mission in the Diaspora. I didn't ask each one of them what they exactly meant by "success", but I have good reason to assume that "success" for many, if not all, of them, means realization of what the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-2562974178902578752024-03-01T07:00:00.022+02:002024-03-01T07:00:00.130+02:00Red Line Not to Be CrossedThere is a red line to everything not to be crossed. If someone crosses it, I have to walk away from him. This applies not only to individuals but also to social collectives.
Recently I've learned that what constitutes the ultimate red line for me. It the worst imaginable manifestation orinating from the worst illusion of the collective ego. If someone manifests this by himself, I definitely haveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-14961034371377204982024-02-23T07:00:00.005+02:002024-02-23T08:02:47.683+02:00Western Mainstream Media Outlets as Propaganda Tools of the "Empire of Lies"
"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." - Julian Assange
It's almost two years since I woke up to realize that Western mainstream media outlets are nothing but propaganda tools of the "Empire of Lies" and its "oligarchs". They tell lies after lies as if to breathe. The more lies of theirs I'm exposed to, the more disgusted I become, but the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-64439298882620543702024-02-09T07:00:00.013+02:002024-02-18T00:37:29.872+02:00Historic Interview of Tucker Carlson with President Vladimir Putin* Update (2024-02-16): Links to some commetaries were added at the end of this post as PS.
As a kind of historical record, therefore without much ado, I'd like to recommend all of you to watch a two-hour historic interview of Tucker Carlson with President Vladimir Putin, which was recorded on Tuesday, February 6 in Moscow and broadcasted on Thursday, February 8, in English and/or Russian if you Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-10545392612589418582024-02-02T07:00:00.005+02:002024-02-03T11:04:54.872+02:00Additional Educational Initiative in the New PlaceOne of my boyhood dreams was to become a polyglot. Since then I've learned 12 foreign languages and become fluent in four of them, so I can probably say that I've realized this dream of mine.
Later in my life something I hadn't even dreamed of happened. I fell in love with Hebrew, which was one of these 12 languages, and decided to dedicate my life to its study. I ended up receiving my PhD in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-72422658432806080592024-01-26T07:00:00.003+02:002024-01-26T07:00:00.132+02:00Ignorance of IgnoranceIf you don't know what you don't know, how can you become aware of your ignorance as the first step to knowing what you don't know? And if you see someone else who doesn't know what he doesn't know, how can you help him become aware of his ignorance?
It's by sheer divine grace that I woke up from my sleep state about six years ago as a result of hitting the rock bottom in my life. Until then I Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-6398967625166755922024-01-19T07:00:00.005+02:002024-01-19T07:00:00.137+02:00Dwindling Possibiliy of Returning to Jerusalem after Completing the Present Personal MissionSince I left Jerusalem at the end of September after living there for about 24 years in total, I've been asking myself if I can return there to live there after completing the present personal mission somewhere in the diaspora. I'm becoming more and more pessimistic about this possibility.
The main reason for this is a practical one - money. To be more precise, I'm afraid that the monthly pensionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-60620484588668352932024-01-12T07:00:00.028+02:002024-02-01T10:21:30.414+02:00The First Professional Lectures and the First Private Lesson in the New PlaceIt's about three months since I came to this new place for some personal mission with public implications, the most important of which is my educational initiative to transform darkness into light.
This week I finally took the first step in this direction - perhaps a small step for others in absolute terms but a big one for me in relative terms - I taught the first lecture of each of the two Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-6787223187573706022024-01-05T07:00:00.005+02:002024-01-20T14:19:40.835+02:00Pleasure of a Bath and Natural Hot SpringsBy following the recommendation by my "sponsor" here I've started to taking a bath every weekday in the evening instead of only taking a shower, probably for the first time in many years. In the past 19 years of living in Jerusalem I couldn't take a bath simply because this was technically impossible. Now I realize what I missed all these years.
In the meanwhile I've stumbled upon a couple of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-88274015511831707532023-12-22T07:00:00.004+02:002023-12-22T07:00:00.127+02:00Memoir of One Chabadnik Who Spent 20 Years in Soviet Labor CampsWhen I decided to stop resisting the Force that seemed much bigger than mine and flowing with it, I also had to make a very difficult decision about what to do with about 400 Chabad Chassidic books that had been accumulated since I first took an interest in the teachings of Chabad Chassidus as life wisdom six years ago.
For a couple of practical reasons I could take or send only up to about 80 ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-59814241453792349442023-12-08T07:00:00.006+02:002023-12-08T07:00:00.125+02:00Jewish "Ark"There are two things without which I might not have dared to leave Jerusalem two months ago for an extended period of time. The first is the fact that I was lucky enough to have studied Chabad Chassidus for three years in Jerusalem. Thanks to this study I feel I'll probably be able to live in any sociocultural environment as the life wisdom I've received from it protects me from "darkness" even Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-18495897811395612622023-12-01T07:00:00.004+02:002023-12-01T07:00:00.125+02:00Blind Love vs. True LoveHow would you react if you should suspect that someone who is dear to you is committing a morally unacceptable act? Would you check the issue until you confirm or dispel your suspicion, or would you pretend as if nothing happened and simply ignore the suspicion? And how would you react if your suspicion should be confirmed? Would you rebuke that person, or would you pretend as if nothing happenedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-89565763479255209912023-11-24T07:00:00.004+02:002023-11-24T07:00:00.129+02:00Obsession with Knowing
"To know another human being in their essence, you don't really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness." - Eckhart Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-54956693179085959562023-11-17T07:00:00.004+02:002023-11-17T07:00:00.128+02:00Third Series of AwakeningsWhen I started experiencing six years ago what I can call now my first series of awakenings, I wasn't aware that I was waking up. What did I wake up form exactly? In a nutshell, I've woken up from the prison of my egoic mind.
It was by sheer divine grace that I've been liberated from what seemed a life sentence. I've been experiencing waves of awakenings since then with each wave becoming smallerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-11570244601386048792023-11-10T07:00:00.003+02:002023-11-10T07:00:00.128+02:00Collective EgoI wonder how many of you are aware that ego can be not only individual but also collective. Just as individuals have ego, so do social collectives and even social systems. The former range from nations, stats and companies to communities and clubs. The latter include, for example, languages. Yes, languages also have collective ego, which is known as normative grammar.
The characteristic these twoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-12075508133791199552023-11-03T07:00:00.009+02:002023-11-03T07:03:23.097+02:00Visa and Educational InitiativeLast week I finally received a visa from the country of the destination of this personal mission of mine. It's about one month since I came here. The specific place where I'm conducting this mission is increadibly calm, which contributes to my inner calmness though I remain quite preoccupied with news and analyses about what's been happening in Israel since October 7.
Having received this long Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-28346945080317702222023-10-20T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:23:41.831+03:00Still Haunted by One Manifestation of the Collective Ego of Israeli Academia outside IsraelEvery social collective has its own collective ego, and academia is no exception. Outsiders may idealize academia, but since I've already left it, I'd like to confess that one of the reasons, if not the main one, for deciding to leave it, was some manifestations of its collective ego.
The most unbearable one for me was mutual instant gratifications by its members. This phenomenon called mutual Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-7766771063596123652023-10-13T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:23:29.390+03:00Arrival at the Physical Destination of Some Personal MissionHaving left Israel two weeks ago, I arrived last week at the specific physical destination of some personal mission that chose me to accomplish somewhere in the Diaspora. Since then I've been keeping myself busy, buying the minimal stuff for my daily life, preparing all the necessary documents to apply for a visa in this country.
Unlike what I imagine as a new turbulent situation in Israel this Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-84654958233279263422023-09-29T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:23:13.416+03:00"Hero's Journey"I left Jerusalem the day before yesterday and arrived at the destination of this personal mission of mine somewhere in the Diaspora yesterday.
I see some paralell between this "micro-mission" and the "macro-mission", which is the "descent" of our soul with a physical body in this world and composed of a series of "micro-missions". And I can see more clearly now one of the main purposes of this "Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-32805216346896604492023-09-22T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:22:48.731+03:00Living and "Vacuum-Packing" the NowAs the date of my leaving Israel is approaching (next Wednesday!), thus my life in Jerusalem is coming to an end this time, I've been witnessing one fundamental change inside me. I've finally starting living the now. This is something I've studied extensively and understood at least conceptually but haven't been unable to fully implement in my daily life.
This is a strange but truly amazing Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-5288574374509194402023-09-15T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:22:23.436+03:00Inner Power PlantOne of the most important fruits of my having continued to study Chassidus in the past five years is that a kind of inner power plant seems to have been built inside me before I knew it. Thanks to this inner power plant, I've become less prone to negative energy.
Every society has some negative energy. The dominant negative energy I feel, for example, in Israeli and Japanese societies, includes Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-1563114756596477402023-09-08T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:22:02.698+03:00Feeling the Power That Is Far Greater than the Force of My EgoI had been struggling in vain to evade what had seemed back then the worst choice, until I decided about a month ago to surrender and accept what the power that is far greater than the force of my ego sent me.
Until then nothing worked, but since then everything has been working unbelievably smoothly as if the universe has my back. As a result I've also been experiencing for the first time such Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-44808548209899112912023-09-01T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:21:43.526+03:00What I've Come to Realize When I've Become Aware That My Days in Jerusalem Are NumberedI feel that the less remaining days I have to live in Jerusalem, the keener my perception of reality becomes. What I used to perceive as black and white now looks full-colored.
One of the most important things that I've come to realize as a result is who and what are truly important to me and to whom I don't seem to be important enough. I have no time to waste for trifles and those who don't Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-23998407572929838162023-08-25T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:21:17.295+03:00Six Types of Reactions to My Fateful Decision to Leave IsraelIn the past few weeks I've told about 50 people - mostly friends but also some acquaitances I bumped into on the street - about my fateful decision to leave Israel, hopefully not forever, in order to undertake some personal mission somewhere in the Diaspora. Once an academic, always an academic. I've identified the following six types of reactions so far:
Apathy
Judgmentalism
Advice
SuperstitionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846567232545793454.post-44242928122113186292023-08-18T08:00:00.000+03:002023-10-24T12:20:21.932+03:00Leaving Israel, But Hopefully Not ForeverI never imagined such a day would come. I have to leave Israel after Yom Kippur at the end of September in order to undertake some personal mission somewhere in the Diaspora. The temporary contract of this mission is for six and a half years until I reach the age of 67. I'd like to return to Israel then, but this contract may be prolonged.
For the past several months I tried everything imaginableUnknownnoreply@blogger.com