Part a.
I would like to open in nature
Nature is more a land of strife than nature.
With the exception of St. Hari and his students, all of their studies were done in nature – most of the studies were done in midrash schools.
And in exile he was cut off from the local nature and concentrated in closed communities
mostly cut off from nature.
But upon returning here, a renewed connection with the land and agriculture began. And it is clear that again they become connected to this country
The first pioneers were A. d. Gordon https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9F_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9F
The pioneers formed a deep and intimate relationship with nature. Until industry came and destroyed the kibbutz and agriculture and the pioneers and the connection to nature.
Although people like to go out to nature on weekends, it is already a civilized and artificial nature. Nature reserve.
Most people treat a visit to nature as a visit to a foreign place, a vacation.
. They no longer feel any affinity with nature as nature. We broke up.
We are already strangers to nature.
In exile we fled to a land and nature that are not ours. Ghettos that are hotbeds of hatred for the foreigner.
There is nothing further from nature than the ghettos.
And the ghettos became not only an escape from nature, but became areas of a kind of small postcards of the density of a suffocating and steamy togetherness.
To be in a prison, surrounded by hatred and cut off from the countryside and countryside.
There were indeed Hasidic who put nature first even in the Gula, the most prominent among them were Rabbi Nachman and Bashet. spent a long time in forests and nature.
And on every occasion they disappeared into the fields and forests, mainly for the sake of solitude, prayer and the pouring out of God’s face.
But apart from them, the ghettos were a terrible place of refuge..
And then we returned to Israel with dreams of the blossoming of the desert.
Part II.
But the foreignness and distancing from the idea of working the land as a value is not related to working the land or living in nature.
It is deeply connected with our inability to live together.
The mutual hostility in the kibbutz crumbles the delicate tissues that bring each other closer.
And so today the bond between the Israeli and his land has been broken.
A new child has come into our lives and the new child’s name is: Engulfment in a huge volume.
And this is the great enemy of the vision of returning to a place without hatred
Until the enormous power of the collective over the agricultural vision won.
There have been attempts at collective association in Israel. The kibbutz was the flagship in this. But it didn’t work. Because everything crashed due to bad human relations. Good intentions on the outside but hostility under the surface that torpedoed everything.
Then urban alienation replaced the agricultural vision. And industry and economic success replaced the return to nature and agriculture.
The collective religion of the crowded herd has buried and corrupted the whole delicate fabric between man and his fellow man.
A person is not meant to be part of a herd collective. to be part of the rule of the law of the face. More damage is caused to individuals by the collective than vice versa.
The collective destroys the mental uniqueness of the togetherness. And turns us into a conformist herd.
We have distanced ourselves from nature from the connection with the soul.
But the influence of human collectivity and submission to conformity is so dominant that it also overshadows the connection with the soul and with others. Belonging to the collective herd as a criterion is a sin for the relationship between a person and another and himself and another. Especially when you belong to a huge group of people who obey one law and behave like everyone else – it always comes at the expense of the relationship between man and man and between man and God.
When togetherness overshadows everything – everything that remains very much shadowed by fire is obedience to the rule. And after we pay our so-called duty to the collective, there is nothing left for us and our relatives and our souls.
The collective gives us the feeling that with the help of the middle majority we are protected. Belonging to the collective and the victory of mediocrity over conformity are what won in the end.
Gabriel