There is a hole in the bucket.. The death of the beloved politician Fuad Ben Eliezer succeeded in uniting all of his enemies around him.
MKs and figures from all ends of the public spectrum in Israel praised the man and his contributions to Israel, and everyone seemed to remember the man who always inspired a good and positive atmosphere around him and who rarely attacked others personally.
We all said yes, except for one.
Former Minister Yossi Beilin was interviewed by Channel One, and in a text that cannot be given any other title than 'Insults to the Dead,' he explained how powerful, predatory, unholy, and generally not a positive person Fuad was. Beilin's words angered many, and quite a few drew conclusions from the words, mainly towards the speaker, and towards his ruthless personality that failed to find a moment of compassion while the warm body of the deceased was cooling down.
However, looking deeper, I would like to propose a theory in the piece, according to which this is simply a brilliant display of frustration.
Fuad, without our knowledge and perhaps without Ben Eliezer himself knowing, played a distinguished and unsuccessful role in the life of Yossi Beilin, who for years apparently felt hatred and disgust towards the man who had reached the highest position in the party from him. horseman He, after being elected to a seat that was considered unrealistic in the elections for the 16th Knesset.
Why did he feel that way? I don't know. It's possible that he sincerely believed that Ben-Eliezer was not suitable for the honorable position, or it's also possible that he was simply jealous of the Iraqi scoundrel who had won the hearts of Arab and Jewish functionaries, while he, an Ashkenazi, Shimon Peres' protégé and architect of the Oslo Accords, was thrown out of the party without grace.
The contempt, hostility, and enmity that Beilin had carried for many years reached its peak with the presentation of Fuad as the Labor Party's candidate for president, and the former Knesset member felt his bitterness bursting. Not only has Fuad always remained in the upper echelons of Israeli politics and government, he is also a realistic candidate for the position of citizen number one.
But then luck played into his favor and Ben-Eliezer was suspected of corruption offenses, in which he became embroiled and entangled. Beilin felt that justice had been done.
The familiar psychosocial theory that we humans strive for 'cognitive balance' and a 'just world' had never been more relevant to him. The man he had learned to despise was about to sit in the dock, pass judgment, and serve his sentence in prison as the last of the criminals. Everything worked out, and the world became balanced again.
Then Fuad, as an experienced politician, began to upset the balance. He suddenly announced that he was ill and the medical documents confirmed it, he did not show up for the hearings, and finally he ate up the cards and died before the trial even began. Everything collapsed. The politicians went out of their way to flatter the man who had defended the country, and held such senior positions during his years, and Beilin felt that he was exploding.
This was not supposed to happen. Fuad should have stood before a judge, been given the status of a criminal, and been denounced by Israeli society. His 'just world theory' collapsed again, and the disappointed Beilin was left with no choice but to act in the only way he had left.
He went on Channel One, and without declaring it earlier, as news anchor Ayalon recounted, he began to slander the dead politician.
Did it help? Apparently not. Beilin is seen as a bitter and antipathetic person, insensitive and unlucky.
But it doesn't matter. In any case, the interview gave him a sense of liberation.
The fools. Dear Sir/Madam.
You converted eleven months ago, and the hopeful spiritual 'lights' have not yet appeared. You don't feel, as you put it, "that something has changed, that you have become a different person," and you wonder, self-deprecatingly, whether it was worth it, and, in your words, whether you 'didn't come back for nothing'?
Well, no. There is no positive causal connection between spiritual consciousness, or the feeling of attachment to God, and being a kosher Jew, and see in this regard the harsh words of the author of the Tanya, "But it is known that each and every one in general and in particular wants to hunt and attach to the Creator, the Blessed One, and strives in every way possible and achieves nothing, and there are fools who fall for this.".
Are you a New Age artist who has converted and does not feel that your search has reached its conclusion, that your devotion is complete? Relax. Do not create a foolish correlation between your faith and your duty, and the spiritual goods that you tried to achieve, and which you were convinced you would reach a week after your return.
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