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Different Zionisms. There were three solutions to the Jewish problem (antisemitism) 1. Assimilation - All the Jews should leave Judaism. 2. Dependence on "God" - All Jews should pray and keep the commandments. 3. Zionism - To create a Jewish State where Jews could come. I differentiate between negative Zionism and positive Zionism. This is not a separation from good and bad, but the reason for the Zionism: Negative Zionism is the escape from the persecution that has been the lot of Jews everywhere. This basis for Judaism is the main one and is shared with the proponents of positive Zionism as well. 1. Bu...

Problems(4) Individual and summary Here are the individual's problems: 1. Income. 2. Health - Physical and mental. 3. World view - Religion, politics, attitude towards life. 4. Status and power - It is common that the status and power achieved is less than what is desired. 5. Studies - Everything that we learn and our efforts to obtain knowledge. 6. Intimate relations - It is necessary to differentiate between love, sex, and marriage. 7. Friends and relatives - The extended families of the past provided more companionship than today. 8. Free time. 9, Creativity - The job that we have may not provide the opportunity for creativity and origniality. 10. Beauty - Personal and close environment. Summary Bertrand Russel in "Marriage and Morals" says "It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ide...

Problems(3) The universe. A. Knowledge Today it is even possible to doubt the basic assumptions of science. 1. There is an objective reality even if there is no observer. a. We learned that reality changes when it is observed. See the two slits experiment when particles are passed through them. b. It is accepted by scientists that we live in a hologram, and what we see is not really there. 2. We can learn something about the processes that exist in this objective reality. Much of what we thought that we knew in the past is now seem to be mistaken. Which knowledge that we have today will be seen in the future to be mistaken ? 3. Sometimes the known "laws of nature" are correct only in certain circumstances - Newton's laws are correct as long as we are not traveling fast. 4. It is not easy to relate to different ideas about the universe. The rul...