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All our nationalisms, not just the militant or casual extremes of Zionism. It’s a problem in Satmar. It’s a problem in Chabad. It’s a problem in Breslov, and all the Eidot Hamizrach, as well as any of the localized secular nationalisms: knowing we’re entitled to do what we want, because of who we are. On the one hand, awful to face. But on the other hand, tremendously empowering and fundamental to shared identification, and power through crowd. אלה אלוהך ישראל This is and was the way of the bull, Taur and שור face on the chariot, the self that is identified with the nation, the people. This is a redemptive thing, a crowd that can be identified with and a land