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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:

	This autobiography was written in longhand in spiral notebooksduring the summer of 1986, while the mosquitos and heat kept me awakeat night, when I stayed in a straw bungalow at the Ein Hemed campgroundin the Jerusalem Hills.  I am grateful to the managers of thecampground for letting me stay there in effect for free.
	I barely remember their names -- there was Sarah, and her husband,a bear of man from the adjacent Christian Arab village of Bet Nekufa,and their charming infant daughter Sima (meaning star), and Carol (whoclearly showed her Litvak (Jewish) background, and Ben, a mastercarpenter and cabinet maker, and his fiance Esther, who looked andtalked like a Vogue model.
	They were informal members of a movement that's been essentiallyinactive for the past 17 or 18 centuries, Jewish-Christians, ie thosewho wish both retain the traditions of Judaism, and to accept theteachings and attune to the spiritual being of Jesus.  Although theywould vehemently deny being Christians, they, like a number of otherquietly exceptional people I've met, embodied and practiced the best ofChristianity.  I am grateful also to them for directing my attention tothe Nestle bilingual New Testament, though I've not yet read it.
	
	It was not until the Spring of 1990 that I typed those notebooksinto disc, making numerous additions as I went along, 
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often finding that I had restated something I'd said in almostidentical words 4 years earlier 
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(I've always found it easier to write than read, and thatapplies even more to my own writing)sitting 
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in a rented house at Moshav Mevo Modiin.  Though the members woulddoubtless not approve of what is written herein, I am grateful to themfor their constant kindness and consideration to me while I was there.

	I have put the material into this more polished form -- this willbe the 5th draft, counting the Spring 1990 input as Draft 1 -- in tworather intense weeks from the end of January to the middle of February,1991, as a house-guest in Hamburg.  Dismayed at Bush's plunging themid-east into war, I found myself with a  choice of going back toIsrael, occupying my mind with writing for about 12 hours a day, orgoing crazy.  I am grateful to the housemates here -- Ernst, Susanah,Christopher, and of course Claudia -- for their patience and kindnessduring my stay here; I am not (as I am not infrequently reminded) thetidiest brown bear ever to butter toast, nor most sociable ofgrizzlies.
	I am especially grateful to Christopher Naudiert for letting meuse his 20 Hz 40 Mb AT system, remonstrating only when my keyboardtechnique began to resemble that of one of the less subtle Russianpianists.  As I got into multiple drafts, and shuffling material into anew file structure, I would have found it very cumbersome anddiscouraging to work on my constantly glitiching 720K disc laptop.

	I am also most grateful to the designers of EinsteinWriter forcreating a quite adequate, entirely accessible, and most importantlycopiable word-processing package.  
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Although outlining, indexing, and a block-and-color feature wouldhave enhanced the final product, their layout system is optimalfor the way I write, since it not merely provides block indents,but calls them with a dot-letter-number command that will surviveconversion.


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