About 200 younger women and men from the area and from across the nation participated within the Shavuot night time celebration in Sderot. Shuttles from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva arrived on the occasion of the Maboa Group – an Israeli Beit Midrash, held this yr collectively with the Hosan Sderot Middle, on the complete college within the metropolis.
“Right this moment we’ll discuss just a few phrases: in regards to the phrase I’m, in regards to the phrase redemption, in regards to the phrase tikkun which has quite a lot of that means” started Rabbi Dani Segal, head of the Beit Midrash, in a delicate voice and with a broad smile. “There are numerous methods to like, and certainly one of them is just presence. To come back and be. That is why I am glad we arrived right here in the present day.”
Rabbi Danny Segal. “Hope is created when everybody gathers collectively” (Photograph: Nitzan Zvi Cohen)
Segal distributes Midrash pages, which embody the Megillat Ruth alongside poems written by troopers following October seventh. “It isn’t that we shrunk on pages, we thought it might be solidifying to learn collectively” he jokes, inviting everybody to ask whoever is subsequent to them who they’re and the place they’re from.
The viewers consists largely of graduates of the Beit Midrash applications of Maboa (previously Ein Perat), applications the place younger folks following shade meet world wide of Jewish content material. They had been joined by a number of dozen younger women and men from Sderot and the encompassing space, for an evening of Torah research and studying in sources in regards to the idea of correction.
The title chosen for the night, ‘Drush: Tikkun’, performs on the doubling of that means between a requirement and a Midrash. “Tikkun is absolutely wanted. We’re in a damaged and painful actuality,” stated Rabbi Segal, “We’re transferring between the return of the kidnapped on Shabbat and Arnon’s funeral. Between hope and pleasure and ache and sorrow.
“The phrase hope seems for the primary time within the Bible within the e-book of Genesis – ‘The water flows beneath the sky.’ Hope is created the place everybody comes collectively. There may be hope in believing in a greater tomorrow, in elevating your head.”
“A part of our story is peeling off just like the pores and skin of a snake”
Hila Gonen-Barzilai, director of the Resilience Middle in Sderot, talks in regards to the division of the town’s residents: towards the state management, towards the IDF, towards the world itself as a secure place. However she additionally talks in regards to the correction. “Life presents us with difficulties, but in addition the concept that we are able to cope with them. I would like this research to be devoted to the victory of the IDF, to the return of all of the abductees, to the therapy of the wounded and, with God’s assist, additionally to the unity of all of us, the complete nation of Israel.”
Hila Gonen-Barzilai is talking on the occasion. “Within the Ark of the Covenant, tablets and fragments of tablets are positioned collectively, fragments and entire collectively – that is the energy” (Photograph: Nitzan Zvi Cohen)
She speaks passionately regarding resilience and development, acceptance and selection. “Resilience is an individual’s potential to cope with a disaster state of affairs, with a state of affairs of stress and alter. However we additionally want to speak in regards to the subsequent stage, which is development from trauma and ache. By way of characters and occasions within the historical past of the Jewish folks, I learn to construct resilience.
“Jacob, our father, acquired the title Israel as a result of ‘serve with God and with males and it is possible for you to’ (Genesis 32:29) – not within the title of victory, however within the title of battle. To ‘serve’ is to battle – but in addition to ‘be’. And to appropriate The damaged coronary heart, you must know settle for the truth as it’s. That is additionally referred to as the Jewish occult concept: ‘That is how it’s now’, and therefore I can and may resolve how I need to act, within the ark of the covenant, fragments are positioned collectively And full collectively – that is resilience.”
Arriving at this Beit Midrash isn’t restricted to listening. Individuals are divided between a writing workshop with the poet Noa Sorek and an illustration workshop with the illustrator Racheli Shalu. Others be part of the Midrash on the idea of correction by Shay Gillis, a instructor, educator and lecturer on the Beit Midrash.
Gillis spoke along with his eyes closed, as if praying, lingering on the phrases, in a steady and typically amused dialogue with the viewers that sat densely in entrance of him on the mat. “Within the final yr and a half, now we have been in a giant break – a break in our story. We had a deep and true story that held us collectively for a few years, and a part of it has light and flaked off just like the pores and skin of a snake. We have now grown up a bit, and we have to formulate different elementary truths. These yr and a half emphasize how elementary issues are, solidarity and a shared story That is why the modification is so essential.”
Gillis selected to interact within the midrash particularly with the mitzvot of remembering Amalek. A kind of current was fast to ask how ultimately the matter is related to the modification. “The Amalekites had been a nation of robbers and looters,” stated Gillis, “the reality is, the nation of Israel, with what occurred in Egypt, had all the explanations on the earth to develop into such a nation as nicely.”
He tells in regards to the revenge motion following the Holocaust, and regarding Abba Kovner’s astonishment that the folks invested all their energies following the Holocaust within the constructing of a state, and refused to cooperate with plans to take revenge on the Germans. “The ending ‘since you lived within the land of Egypt’ may need been an excuse to deceive, stress and hate. However the Torah, with infinite religion, seeks to method the damaged world and suggest a legislation, a grid of coordinates for repairing the world and constructing it.”
A chunk of music on the night time of correction (picture: Nitzan Zvi Cohen)
“Arguing within the Jewish sense, the place there’s additionally Halacha on the finish”
Avi Dabush, CEO of the Rabbinic Voice for Human Rights, a rabbinical pupil on the Hartman Institute’s Israeli rabbinical challenge and the seminary in Oranim and a resident of Kibbutz Nirim within the Gaza Strip, wears on his chest the CD calling for the discharge of the abductees and the yellow ribbon pin.
“In Eilat, I led the abductees’ rallies,” stated Dabush, “when the Nirim neighborhood moved to Be’er Sheva, I needed to proceed protesting calling for his or her launch. Right this moment, this protest seems extra prefer it did earlier than October 7, and I have to admit that I’ve a tough time with it. It is rather laborious for me that we’re returning to the identical slogans which appear superficial to me in the present day.”
Based on him, the disaster didn’t begin with the Hamas assault, nor even with the authorized reform. “To me, each disaster is to begin with an identification disaster. A disaster of society, not solely of the state. Within the military they are saying – if you brag, go to the final level the place you knew the place you had been. That is why I selected to deliver right here in the present day a bit from the Declaration of Independence.”
The passage chosen by Debosh is definitely the final and least recognized part of the scroll, through which there are 4 appeals: to the United Nations, to the Arabs who stay within the State of Israel, to the neighboring Arab nations and to Diaspora Jewry. He sends the listeners to review in small teams, two to 4, with a Midrash web page, following which they collect once more for an additional dialogue collectively. The decision to the Arab residents of the nation and the laying of palms for peace to the neighboring nations occupy the middle of the discourse, evoking feelings and battle, encountering ambivalence.
Avi Dabush “It’s tough for me that we’re returning to the identical slogans, which appear superficial to me in the present day” (Photograph: Nitzan Zvi Cohen)
“The primary curiosity on this a part of the scroll that opens with the phrases ‘we learn’. That is the ‘we’. So as to have the ability to learn such readings, we have to have some ‘we’ that represents nearly all of Israeli society,” concludes Dabush. “I believe that we have to maintain two very various things which are tough to carry collectively. I’ve a sentiment that very a lot desires to carry on to unity – and then once more, I believe that the quarrel also needs to be performed.
“It is like in a marital or household relationship. There’s a level the place you must argue and speak in regards to the tough issues, and I believe we skip {that a} bit. Quarrel within the good sense of the phrase, within the Jewish sense, the place there’s additionally a Halacha on the finish.”
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