This is a special non-fiction, the author also retreated to his Israeli collective (Kibbutz) a month as the main line of labor, interspersed with his travels in Israel around the knowledge and thinking. Israel is a place full of contradictions, both safe and dangerous, both barren and wealthy, sometimes conservative and open, Israel's mind is stubborn, but can open to the various possibilities of innovation. The book describes a group of very "unreasonable" Jews on the surface, who live in the village of labor, adhere to practice, meditation, collective life, to discuss some seemingly meaningless problems, however, these "farmers" image is refracted Out of Israel this country has repeatedly successful mystery, and their active life practice also contains the transformation of society, to create a real socialist aspirations. [Kibbutz] is a collective farm similar to our people's communes, an organization with a profound socialist brand, a utopian-style unique existence, and it is also the pride of the state of Israel, once a model for the survival of mankind. But it finally went to the end of the dead end. The book fully shows the world of kibbutz, clothing, food, starting, living, labor and meditation, is a very vivid and specific record of the life of Kibbutz. Such a different country, grief, bravery, wisdom; a wonderful journey of the spirit, the splendor of the beautiful, but eventually to the beauty of failure.
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This is a special non-fiction, the author also retreated to his Israeli collective (Kibbutz) a month as the main line of labor, interspersed with his travels in Israel around the knowledge and thinking. Israel is a place full of contradictions, both safe and dangerous, both barren and wealthy, sometimes conservative and open, Israel's mind is stubborn, but can open to the various possibilities of innovation. The book describes a group of very "unreasonable" Jews on the surface, who live in the village of labor, adhere to practice, meditation, collective life, to discuss some seemingly meaningless problems, however, these "farmers" image is refracted Out of Israel this country has repeatedly successful mystery, and their active life practice also contains the transformation of society, to create a real socialist aspirations. [Kibbutz] is a collective farm similar to our people's communes, an organization with a profound socialist brand, a utopian-style unique existence, and it is also the pride of the state of Israel, once a model for the survival of mankind. But it finally went to the end of the dead end. The book fully shows the world of kibbutz, clothing, food, starting, living, labor and meditation, is a very vivid and specific record of the life of Kibbutz. Such a different country, grief, bravery, wisdom; a wonderful journey of the spirit, the splendor of the beautiful, but eventually to the beauty of failure.