The Besht

Etkes, Immanuel

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“…For the Palestinians, [Israel] paved a road that is pretty hard to access. 7 So while much of the land in the nature reserve is privately owned by Palestinians, they must now pass a security gate to access it. Etkes described:…”

Section: The Spring As a Site Of Nature Protectionmentioning

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“…It's something that has been happening, systematically, in the last decade. 13 But while one would expect to find that the physical exploitation of water is behind such acts of ''spring grabbing,'' the springs in fact do not seem to be configured in such a way by the settlers themselves, who instead portray them as sites for recreation, leisure, and spiritual practices of purification.…”

Section: The Spring As a Nature Recreation Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

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Silent springs: The nature of water and Israel’s military occupation

Braverman

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Drawing on interviews with, and observations of, officials from Israel’s Nature and Park Authority, fieldworkers from environmental and human rights nonprofits, and local Palestinian farmers, this article tells stories about springs in the occupied West Bank. Entangled with the physical decline of the springs’ water supply and quality, it examines this waterworld also in a broader sense, which includes cultural, political, and religious—with a specific focus on legal—spring-related practices. After discussing the relevant water and land regimes within which springs exist, and their socio-geological uniqueness, I pause to tell the story of Ein Kelt—a desert spring on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Next, I move to discuss a variety of colonial dispossession tactics at work in the West Bank springs. In many cases, such tactics are performed by Jewish settlers with the tacit support of Israeli authorities. Inspired by legal geography scholarship on the coproduction of law and matter, I examine Israel’s seemingly paradoxical preoccupation with the rule of law in the administration of springs in the occupied territories, what I refer to here as a hyperlegality, on the one hand, and its disregard of formal law in the face of settler misconduct at these sites, on the other hand. Complicating the story, I also describe recent spring-based practices of purification carried out by Jewish Hasidic groups. The springs newly emerge in this context as sites of recreation, pilgrimage, and purity. Simultaneously, they are becoming places of danger for the Palestinians and are increasingly figuring in the mobilization of Palestinian protest. After all is said and done, one is left wondering whether water is actually different from land and soil. Could springs possibly serve as an alternative socio-material foundation that moves away from traditional colonial regimes?

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Section: The Spring As a Site Of Nature Protectionmentioning

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Section: The Spring As a Nature Recreation Sitementioning

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Silent springs: The nature of water and Israel’s military occupation

Braverman

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism

Moseson

2022

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This study explores the Hasidic psychologization of Jewish mysticism by focusing on the problem of distracting thoughts that arise during prayer, and the attitudes and responses to them that can be found in Hasidic literature. Two different theories of the origins of such thoughts, both attributed to Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, along with various techniques for engaging with them, are described. It is argued that these theories reflect two distinct paradigms, both of which exhibit significant similarities to the dynamic unconscious of psychoanalysis. In addition to tracing the reception of Israel’s ideas on distracting thoughts within the Hasidic movement and without, the study connects them to his activities as a folk healer with a particular concern with treating mental illness.

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The Besht

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Silent springs: The nature of water and Israel’s military occupation

Silent springs: The nature of water and Israel’s military occupation

“We Were as Dreamers:” Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism

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