To Inspire OUR Instant National, Political, Social, and Cultural Maturation – Recall: Yosef, Moshe, and Esther → each in their historic moment ⇒ saved ALL Israel. So what did these National Saviors have in common? [1] They each had very traumatic childhoods: Yosef was hated by his jealous brothers and thus sold into slavery, Moshe literally was the baby thrown out with the bath water, and young Esther was already an orphan of both parents (Esther 2:7). [2] Each had non-Jewish names: Yosef was called Zaphnath-Paaneah (Bereshis 41:45), Moshe was the Egyptian name given to him by Pharaoh’s daughter (some of his Hebrew names were Jekuthiel – by his mother, and Heber – by his father), and Esther’s name was Hadassah (“Esther” is a cognate of Persian GxD-name Ishtar). [3] They each dressed in non-Jewish clothes: Yosef was shaved & clothed appropriately to go before Pharaoh (Bereshis 41:14), Moshe was identified as an Egyptian by his clothing when he came to Midian, and Esther was dressed in Persian royal-robes to come before Ahasuerus (Xerxes). Of course, [4] each also spoke the ‘national’ language of their respective exile. So what is there to learn & understand from The Commonality of these three Saviors of Israel?

OBSERVE: Jews, today & always, experience assorted childhood ‘traumas’, come by many names, dress in many styles, and communicate using many languages. We do not know -and- Can Not Know who among us will be tasked with a life saving mission (opportunity) for saving individuals, families, communities, and even for saving All Israel. How individual Jews survive/survived – when circumstances from childhood cast us amongst alien customs, habits, and patterns of thinking – is not for us to judge; for we have no idea who anyone is on the inside, nor how anyone will act when circumstances give them/us an opportunity to help others. Our history tells us that our greatest saviors were individuals whom we would never have identified as capable of rising to the great challenges before them; nor of accomplishing the heroic deeds for which we remember them!

TODAY, Nation Israel is divided into many physical camps: some living within the State of Israel, others residing abroad, and many migrating back & forth. All of us recognise, deeply within our own hearts, that Unity is our greatest strength. Unity, by which we help each other. Unity, by which we share a common identity. Unity, by which we were part of the “All Israel” that was saved by Yosef, by Moshe, and by Esther.

In order to continue, recognise ⇒ We are ALL in The Same Generation: regardless of our variations of backgrounds, names, costumes, & languages; independent of financial status, nepotism benefits, & outward ‘spiritual’ auras; and – notwithstanding our protexia access, trauma​​ tolerance, & ideological alignments. In recognition of deeper common factors – that we share with Yosef, Moshe, & Esther – the following paragraphs are addressed; specifically to awaken OUR inherent sparks of Altruism:

NOW – Looking at (some) Social Turbulence within The State of Israel, and ‘oblique’ opinions being expressed from afar – by both Jews & non-Jews, hereinafter are comments on simultaneous social modifications that seem to constitute a more-properly balanced – rational – next-step program for Amicable social progress, and an appropriate-for-us Unity of Diversity Paradigm; specifically, an ‘adiabatic’ package of stabilizing changes – more comprehensive than various (debated & protested) instant “Reforms”. These include peculiar........

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