Comments on: Home again: some preliminary reflections on Israel

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:33:06 +0000

Great post. You may be interested in this too: http://www.americansforisrael.com/

By: JennyFields

JennyFields — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:53:38 +0000

I’m glad you’re back Hugo. I always look forward to your blog every day on my net rounds. You don’t know what it means to me for a man to be saying the things you are saying. I maintain a smoldering warm coal of hope and contentment in my heart while following your thoughts. It makes me wish I knew you in RL. You’re a wonderful man. I wish there were more like you. I’m glad I’ll get to read again. I’m going to wait for this to show up because the posts I’d been making before you left weren’t showing up on the blog. If this one doesn’t I’ll message you.

By: catty

catty — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:44:01 +0000

Welcome back!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:43:39 +0000

My mom is Israeli, from Tel Aviv. As a kid I loved her childhood stories about Israel, but they’re all pretty different from what you’ve written here of your experience. All I heard about were orchards and chameleons.

Anyway, welcome back to the States.

By: Jendi

Jendi — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:27:01 +0000

Welcome home, Hugo. If you’re interested in exploring the mystical side of Judaism, I think you’ll enjoy the articles on the Chabad.org website (the Lubavicher Orthodox organization). I often see connections to Christian themes as well as points of commonality with my husband’s Buddhist faith, specifically in the concept of oneness underlying the diversity of the world’s phenomena.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:47:49 +0000

It’s eerie how you come back from your trip and write about Kabbalah and how you ARE able to bridge Jewish tradition from your Christian faith. The thing is, my best friend is Jewish and we have been having lively discussions lately, most recently last night, when I agreed to meet his Rabbi on Thursday. I don’t feel insecure about wanting to get in touch with the foundation of my Christian faith, yet my friend seems to be reluctant to try to ‘convert’ me, as if by studying these things it will upset my life balance. I am of the mind that any more truth that exists cannot hurt me; it only can help.

What really got me intrigued was his knowledge from Herbew, that the first letters of ‘Mind, Heart, Body’ spell the word ‘King’, but the inverted order, ‘Body, Heart, Mind’ spell ‘Nothingness’. And my friend says there are a million more pearls like that, one only has to study the wisdom of the sages to know them.

I can’t remember what led me to your blog Hugo, but reading what you have to say is very important to me at this point in my life.

By: Mermade

Mermade — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:14:39 +0000

I am glad you had such a wonderful time!