3: A People for a Land or a Land for a People?

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

• The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies Mahloket Matters Methodology
• Shaye J. D. Cohen - From the Maccabees to the Mishnah 
• The Sabbath - Abraham Joshua Heschel
• History of Jews in Israel and North Africa
• Extend Tours / Perspectives Israel / "Resilient listening" credited to Encounter
• Native American Oral Traditions course, Lisa Brooks
• Wisdom Sits in Places - Keith Basso (Note: American English speakers generally say ah-PATCH-ee (or plug this /əˈpɑːʃ/ into an ipa reader). The Apache call themselves Indé, which means “the people.” Source here.)
• The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker
• Sources quoted from the Pardes Mahloket Matters Fellowship source sheet:

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

Other voices to listen to: 

• Rashid Khalidi
• Bassam Abun-Nadi: PreOccupation: A Not-So-Brief History of Palestine
• Amira Mohammed, Ibrahim Abu Ahmad: Unapologetic: The Third Narrative

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