Comments for Unpacked: A Walker Returns Home http://www.theunpackedblog.com Back from the Wilderness: Civilization- Take2, by Yannai Kranzler Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:11:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Age of Entitlement. Thanks! by cyberdov http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/23/age-of-entitlement-thanks/#comment-110 cyberdov Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:49:15 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/23/age-of-entitlement-thanks/#comment-110 The extremes in both directions are potentially negative. The trick is to teach your children that they are loved unconditionally just for who they are - within the home/family. Once they walk out the door into the wider world, they must know that they need to prove their worth every day - to the world and to themselves. The extremes in both directions are potentially negative. The trick is to teach your children that they are loved unconditionally just for who they are - within the home/family. Once they walk out the door into the wider world, they must know that they need to prove their worth every day - to the world and to themselves.

]]> Comment on Best Actor- The Guy in the Street. Best Film- Us- Part Three by naftali abramson http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/29/best-actor-the-guy-in-the-street-best-film-us-part-three/#comment-109 naftali abramson Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:32:22 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/29/best-actor-the-guy-in-the-street-best-film-us-part-three/#comment-109 hey yannai, very well written! it sounds nice and calm. i agree that there is a lightness of tone in your writing on this one and it's fun to read. thank you. hey yannai,
very well written! it sounds nice and calm. i agree that there is a lightness of tone in your writing on this one and it’s fun to read. thank you.

]]> Comment on Best Actor- The Guy in the Street. Best Film- Us- Part Three by Wendy Levin-Shaw http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/29/best-actor-the-guy-in-the-street-best-film-us-part-three/#comment-102 Wendy Levin-Shaw Fri, 30 May 2008 00:49:13 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/29/best-actor-the-guy-in-the-street-best-film-us-part-three/#comment-102 Hi Yannai, I enjoy your lightness of tone; it comes through so well in your writing and makes me smile. I also enjoy your optimism, such a welcome counter to so much of what is in the media. Thanks. Wendy Hi Yannai, I enjoy your lightness of tone; it comes through so well in your writing and makes me smile. I also enjoy your optimism, such a welcome counter to so much of what is in the media. Thanks. Wendy

]]> Comment on Apologizing to Stuff- I’m not the only One! by Yannai http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/26/apologizing-to-stuff-im-not-the-only-one/#comment-101 Yannai Thu, 29 May 2008 08:23:03 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/26/apologizing-to-stuff-im-not-the-only-one/#comment-101 By Udi Hammerman: Hey Yan! I've always loved the idea of apologizing to stuff, and I 've especially been enjoying it these last couple of months that you've been addressing and unpacking it for us all... I just wanted to offer a small adition to Mr. Copperthwate's (sp.?) idea. He says that it may be true that a kitchen knife has no feelings, but that the apology-to-stuff is really for the apologizer. I think that while he's right in as much as that the apology is also for the apologizer, there's more... Of course our inanimate objects may not have feelings, but I think that the true potential in the apology to stuff is our understanding what stuff is really about. Why is it that we really believe in the apology to stuff? Because we think it might be wrong for people to abuse stuff. Because we think that it may be that humanity needs to look at stuff not as 'objects' that are ours to own as much as we want of, or to use in any way we see fit (can you imagine your kitchen knife saying: 'I fell that you just treat us like objects'!). If stuff belongs to us, and we have every right to use and abuse stuff, than there truly is no need to apologize, and we can feel just like a Feudal Lord who had no idea that he might need to apologize to his surfs for their slavery. The reason that it might not be so, is that stuff is not ours (Just like we learned this morning in the Mei SHiloach about Shmitta). Stuff is a gift,directly from the Source of Stuff, Blessed be He, Himself. To treat the world as a precious gift, and all things in it as such, is to allow Stuff to be connected to its own Truth. The reason we can't sack the Rainforests, trash Oceans or abuse our kitchen knives comes fro the same place, and so does the apology to all of those things. The Apology is first and foremost to the Bestower of stuff, for if a King gave you a precious gift and you broke it, abused it or neglected it, would you not be culpable to Him? Our kitchen knife may not have feelings, but they are only the beginning of our responsibility to stuff and it's Truth. Love Udi By Udi Hammerman:

Hey Yan!
I’ve always loved the idea of apologizing to stuff, and I ‘ve especially been enjoying it these last couple of months that you’ve been addressing and unpacking it for us all… I just wanted to offer a small adition to Mr. Copperthwate’s (sp.?) idea. He says that it may be true that a kitchen knife has no feelings, but that the apology-to-stuff is really for the apologizer. I think that while he’s right in as much as that the apology is also for the apologizer, there’s more… Of course our inanimate objects may not have feelings, but I think that the true potential in the apology to stuff is our understanding what stuff is really about. Why is it that we really believe in the apology to stuff? Because we think it might be wrong for people to abuse stuff. Because we think that it may be that humanity needs to look at stuff not as ‘objects’ that are ours to own as much as we want of, or to use in any way we see fit (can you imagine your kitchen knife saying: ‘I fell that you just treat us like objects’!). If stuff belongs to us, and we have every right to use and abuse stuff, than there truly is no need to apologize, and we can feel just like a Feudal Lord who had no idea that he might need to apologize to his surfs for their slavery. The reason that it might not be so, is that stuff is not ours (Just like we learned this morning in the Mei SHiloach about Shmitta). Stuff is a gift,directly from the Source of Stuff, Blessed be He, Himself. To treat the world as a precious gift, and all things in it as such, is to allow Stuff to be connected to its own Truth. The reason we can’t sack the Rainforests, trash Oceans or abuse our kitchen knives comes fro the same place, and so does the apology to all of those things. The Apology is first and foremost to the Bestower of stuff, for if a King gave you a precious gift and you broke it, abused it or neglected it, would you not be culpable to Him? Our kitchen knife may not have feelings, but they are only the beginning of our responsibility to stuff and it’s Truth.
Love Udi

]]> Comment on Apologizing to Stuff- I’m not the only One! by Work form home http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/26/apologizing-to-stuff-im-not-the-only-one/#comment-100 Work form home Wed, 28 May 2008 08:49:01 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/26/apologizing-to-stuff-im-not-the-only-one/#comment-100 It is a wonderful article to have with good information,experience of apologizing to an inanimate object.Nice to share this one..... It is a wonderful article to have with good information,experience of apologizing to an inanimate object.Nice to share this one…..

]]> Comment on Age of Entitlement. Thanks! by naftali abramson http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/23/age-of-entitlement-thanks/#comment-99 naftali abramson Mon, 26 May 2008 20:58:33 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/23/age-of-entitlement-thanks/#comment-99 wow! yannai, this was so beautifully written and so true. it seems like you wrote this with a lot of healthy strength. i totally resonate with what you wrote and i relaly hope this gets out to whoever needs to read this. which i think, everyone should! thank you for writing this. love, naftali wow! yannai, this was so beautifully written and so true. it seems like you wrote this with a lot of healthy strength. i totally resonate with what you wrote and i relaly hope this gets out to whoever needs to read this. which i think, everyone should! thank you for writing this.
love,
naftali

]]> Comment on Don’t Fall into the Doomsday Trap by Eliyah http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/19/dont-fall-into-the-doomsday-trap/#comment-98 Eliyah Wed, 21 May 2008 13:05:44 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/19/dont-fall-into-the-doomsday-trap/#comment-98 Hey Yan (and who ever is looking at the screen right now :). I was thinking why whouldn't you agree with what you have written (as far as all the environmental arguments are correct :) and 1 thought was that amy be because it fits TOO good to the Blog it was posted in.So is does fit great,but it doesnt mean it's wrong. Stam,thanks for the stuff,i think i do agree with it (at least after a brief reading) and it's good and deep part of our life's wich has been taken from us by the Global village (kfar globali). In addition to the Jewish aspect ,we should try and feel/apretiate the fact of us being in the Holy land,at least on a spiritual level,especially on shviit. P&L Hey Yan (and who ever is looking at the screen right now :).
I was thinking why whouldn’t you agree with what you have written (as far as all the environmental arguments are correct :) and 1 thought was that amy be because it fits TOO good to the Blog it was posted in.So is does fit great,but it doesnt mean it’s wrong. Stam,thanks for the stuff,i think i do agree with it (at least after a brief reading) and it’s good and deep part of our life’s wich has been taken from us by the Global village (kfar globali).
In addition to the Jewish aspect ,we should try and feel/apretiate the fact of us being in the Holy land,at least on a spiritual level,especially on shviit.
P&L

]]> Comment on What Makes us Human by Eliyah http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/13/what-makes-us-human/#comment-95 Eliyah Sat, 17 May 2008 20:39:36 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/13/what-makes-us-human/#comment-95 Shavua to everybody.First of all it is defently a good point this whole cat's poit of view post,and i i'l share a thought wich just came to me after a special shabat. So there were a lot about Shmita in the weeks portion (who has no idea what i'm talking about can write me on my e-mail) and there's a thing (in comentaries and just in there in the psukim) about relationship between the man and the nature. On the one hand the jewish man gets kind of beyond nature by stoping working the land for a whole year and beliving that G-d will provide him enough food for 3years from crops of only 1 year. But on the other hand the whole shabbat and shmita thing is kind of a coming back to the basic nature.Cause we can see the mans activity in the world as changing and interacting with nature for good and for bad anlike the rest of creatures .and on shmita we are more like the animals go to the field and just TAKE what's there. I'm not gonna det into the whole issue of holiness of shmita and shabbes. just wanna say that the man is developing all the time in his man's beyod the nature activity and his wold becomes more and more requiring because of this development. and it is "natural" and legetimate for us to feel need in non stop upgrade and getting stuff done.But we defently need the little shmitot and shabbatot in our every day life,cause maybe the our new "requiring nature" requires more of this holy coming back to the right deep G-d's nature in order not to get farer and farer from it evn though we have shabat every week. Lot's of love7peace from Jerusalem. Shavua to everybody.First of all it is defently a good point this whole cat’s poit of view post,and i i’l share a thought wich just came to me after a special shabat.
So there were a lot about Shmita in the weeks portion (who has no idea what i’m talking about can write me on my e-mail) and there’s a thing (in comentaries and just in there in the psukim) about relationship between the man and the nature.
On the one hand the jewish man gets kind of beyond nature by stoping working the land for a whole year and beliving that G-d will provide him enough food for 3years from crops of only 1 year.
But on the other hand the whole shabbat and shmita thing is kind of a coming back to the basic nature.Cause we can see the mans activity in the world as changing and interacting with nature for good and for bad anlike the rest of creatures .and on shmita we are more like the animals go to the field and just TAKE what’s there.
I’m not gonna det into the whole issue of holiness of shmita and shabbes. just wanna say that the man is developing all the time in his man’s beyod the nature activity and his wold becomes more and more requiring because of this development. and it is “natural” and legetimate for us to feel need in non stop upgrade and getting stuff done.But we defently need the little shmitot and shabbatot in our every day life,cause maybe the our new “requiring nature” requires more of this holy coming back to the right deep G-d’s nature in order not to get farer and farer from it evn though we have shabat every week.
Lot’s of love7peace from Jerusalem.

]]> Comment on What Makes us Human by Shelby http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/13/what-makes-us-human/#comment-94 Shelby Sat, 17 May 2008 13:07:08 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/13/what-makes-us-human/#comment-94 What a funny post! I sometimes find myself reading shampoo bottles when there is nothing else to read in the bathroom. My mother has also had to threaten to take away the magazines in the bathroom if I don't hurry up. I'll have to try not reading sometime. What a funny post!

I sometimes find myself reading shampoo bottles when there is nothing else to read in the bathroom. My mother has also had to threaten to take away the magazines in the bathroom if I don’t hurry up. I’ll have to try not reading sometime.

]]> Comment on Welcome to Israel- Thoughts on Holocaust Remembrance Day by Alex http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/03/welcome-to-israel-thoughts-on-holocaust-remembrance-day/#comment-92 Alex Sun, 04 May 2008 17:06:26 +0000 http://www.theunpackedblog.com/2008/05/03/welcome-to-israel-thoughts-on-holocaust-remembrance-day/#comment-92 Hi Yannai-this is Alex, Liron's friend. She just told me about your blog and I wanted to tell you that this post was quite moving and I appreciated it (I also didn't know that all this happened on Yom Hashoah too, I thought it was just for Yom Hazikaron). Thanks for writing something inspiring! -Alex Hi Yannai-this is Alex, Liron’s friend. She just told me about your blog and I wanted to tell you that this post was quite moving and I appreciated it (I also didn’t know that all this happened on Yom Hashoah too, I thought it was just for Yom Hazikaron). Thanks for writing something inspiring!

-Alex

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