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I am adding myself to a long line of israelis who are having definitional problems.
In a sense it is extremely strange that I am debating this issue. The answer for me should have been straightforward. No mezuza. Not even the amazingly pretty one we got for our wedding.
What was right in TLV should be right in SF, no?
Well, I don't know. Some ground data is necessary: I am intensely secular. In fact, I am decidedly secular. I think of being secular as my culture but am having a little difficulty in ascertaining the extent to which I can allow judaism to permeate my secularism.
In other words, I am not sure that judaism can be separated from its religious elements if it hasn't yet already, and secondly I am not sure that even if it can, that I want to allow my secularism to contain those elements. With the latter I have a political qualms which have to do with the fact that I want my cultural group to include israeli arabs.
And so, I can't understand the urge I am experiencing to place the mezuza on the wall. I adamantly rejected this option in TLV when Yoav suggested it. So what's going on?
Well... soul searching has produced the only possible analysis: that my secularism is already strongly influenced by americanism. In other words: the mezuza is really pretty and golden and it's mine and I want it on MY door stand.
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