happiness

I think I've found out where all the hippies have gone. They all moved to Paduel, in the West Bank. It's a very...odd...place. First of all, it is supposed to be a very rightwing place. These are settlers in the West Bank, one would generally they'd be to the right of Kahana, wanting the Arabs cut up into itty bitty pieces for easier handling, ^the kind of people you just love to talk to, and are so open to reason.^

(No "un" here.) Fortunately, this is not the case. That does not mean that these people were not radicals; however. With few exception, these were the biggest peaceniks I'd ever seen, but that was only the beginning to the whole hippy thing.

First of all, the head Rabbi went around the place, the whole time, telling us in his broken English, "Be Happy! Be happy!" That's seems to be a general consensus. Most of the "lessons" that we had, were on the importance of feeling good, being yourself, following what you really believe, and of course, being happy.

Everybody has a nargilla, and I KNOW that they all aren't using tobacco. You can see five year olds puffing away on these things. It's like I stepped back in time. People are so lax, it's unbelievable. The Rabbi walks into the room. In an extremely calm voice, "OK, guys, boker tov (good morning), it's 11 in the morning. There's a class now, if you want to go to it, ok. It's up to you. I brought you guys some brunch. Be Happy!"

I suppose that it's an important thing to learn. I would have been eternally grateful if I would have been taught to make myself want to go to classes, which, I believe, was the point. It's a nice idea. But, my God, the whole thing was freaky. Every two minutes I would hear "Be happy!!! Be happy!!!"

They actually enforced it though.

Get me outa here!!!

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Michael Kadish

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