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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>THE VIEW FROM FAR AWAY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;text-transform:uppercase'>Ethan Bronner
on the Obama Victory<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='text-transform:uppercase'>(</span>sent on 7 November 2008<span
style='text-transform:uppercase'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Believe it or not, my cable
modem connection had been down since early on 5 November Wednesday, so I had
been cyber-constrained in expressing my joyful response to the results of our
presidential election, even despite the shameful�and problematically related�
passage of Proposition 8 in California.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>But this beautiful little piece by Ethan Bronner from the first page of
Wednesday�s</span> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>New York Times</span></i></b> <span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>is just something I have to share, even
belatedly.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It says so much of what so
many of us feel:</span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Georgia'><a
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>The Promise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:.5in;mso-outline-level:2'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:black;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>For Many Abroad, an Ideal Renewed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Arial;color:gray'>By <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/ethan_bronner/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Ethan Bronner"><span style='color:#004276'>ETHAN
BRONNER</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Arial;color:gray'>Published: November 5, 2008 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>GAZA � </span><span style='font-family:Georgia'>From far
away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions
of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of
modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth � call it <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> � where
such a thing happens. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(For
the complete article:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05global.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=ethan%20bronner&st=cse&scp=2"><span
style='color:purple'>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05global.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=ethan%20bronner&st=cse&scp=2</span></a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>I don�t know why�it is not the sort of thing that I have felt comfortable
even <em>thinking</em> about for a very long time�but I am moved to say �<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i>Hazak hazak v�nithazek</i></b><span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>�:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>�<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Be strong, be strong. And let us strengthen
one another</b>� (or, sometimes translated idiomatically as, �<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Be strong and of good courage</b>�) </span>[<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Joshua</i> 1:6]<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>It is God�s charge to Joshua</span>,
and it is what Jews say at the end of the yearly cycle of reading the Torah, as
they return to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Genesis</i> for the
beginning of the reading of the next cycle.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>There is something that has ended, and there is a hopeful new
beginning.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>Let us hope we have the
strength and courage to realize its possibilities. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><u>Some corrections (added on 16
November): <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The
source of this phrase is Rabbinic; it is not actually found in the Bible in
this form</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Nevertheless,
the repetition of the word �<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazak</i>�
most assuredly <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>is</i> a an allusion to
the first chapter of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Joshua</i>, in which
it is repeated twice�at the beginning of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�
</span>verse 6, �<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazah v�ematz</i>� (<span
lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק
ואמץ</span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>),
and again at the beginning of verse 7, �rak <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazah
v�ematz</i>�<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>� </span>(<span lang=HE dir=RTL
style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>רק חזק
ואמץ</span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>);
it is actually reprised a third time in the middle of verse 9</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The
translation �be strong and of good courage� (or, simply, �be strong and
courageous�) is of �<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazah v�ematz</i>� (<span
lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק
ואמץ</span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>)�and
it is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not</i>, as I had suggested, an
idiomatic rendering of �<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazak v�nithazek</i>�
(<span lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק
ונתחזק</span><span dir=LTR></span><span
dir=LTR></span>); and the �rak <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazah
v�ematz m�od</i>� (<span lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>מאד</span><span
dir=LTR></span><span lang=HE><span dir=LTR></span> </span><span lang=HE
dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>רק חזק
ואמץ</span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>)
of verse 7 is translated �only be strong and of very good courage�</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The
only time the phrase �<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hazak v�nithazek</i>�
(<span lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק
ונתחזק</span><span dir=LTR></span><span
dir=LTR></span>) occurs in the Bible (and, actually, the only occurrence <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>at all </i>of the verbal form �<i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>nithazek</i>� [hitpael first person plural
imperfect of <span lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק</span><span
dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>�the hitpael usually being the reflexive
form of that sort of verb, or a form that implies �making ourselves strong,� in
this case) is in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>II Samuel</i> 10:12</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The
translation I quoted, �Be strong, be strong. And let us strengthen one
another,� is of <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>�hazak v�nithazek� (<span
lang=HE dir=RTL style='mso-bidi-language:HE'>חזק
ונתחזק</span><span dir=LTR></span><span
dir=LTR></span>) </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 1.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The
phrase is said by some congregations at the completion of each of the five
books of the Torah, by some only after the completion of all five�and in some
after the completion of any book</p>
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