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In this third episode, based on a learning session from Pardes' Makhloket Matters Fellowship, we focus in on two Jewish perspectives on our relationship to the land of Israel-Palestine. Is the land an essential part of who we are as Jews? Or is it simply functional, and we could be happy anywhere we're safe and can study Torah? Turns out (spoiler alert!), both of these perspectives are embodied in our textual tradition and lived experience - and have been for a long time.

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Transcript here.


Notes

  1. Letter from a Cherokee named Aitooweyah to the Principal Chief of the Cherokees, John Ross
  2. Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008), a Native American poet of Laguna Pueblo and literacy critic, activist, professor, and novelist
  3. Rav Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook - The Lights of the Land of Israel, Chapter 1
  4. Tosefta Avoda Zara, 4:3
  5. Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 29a
  6. Leo Pinsker - Excerpt from Auto-Emancipation, 1916


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