{"id":45999,"date":"2018-12-18T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45999"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:35:46","slug":"ownership-and-its-discontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ownership-and-its-discontents\/","title":{"rendered":"Ownership And Its Discontents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[779],"acf":{"old_id":"45999","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"115","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Reflecting upon when we need to unclench our fists and let some things go","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ownership is a complicated matter. For a Marxist, it is the root of all evil, or at least a particularly hardy one. To say this is mine is to assert that it isn\u2019t yours, and there is no way that claim can be made without at least a hint of aggression. The law understands a title to property as a matter of defense against all the world. It is this very friction that gives ownership its sense of dignity; in a world of rootless wandering and ephemeral sojourning, to own something allows us to say with the speaker of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Wasteland<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cthese fragments I have shored against my ruin.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do not own the people or places we love, but we do own the gifts we give them, the houses we build for them, the food we feed them, and the plane tickets that allow us to reach them. In an extra-legal sense, we own the texture of our experience, the force of our writing, the good we do for and with others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s chapter reflects ambivalence about the virtues of ownership. It deals with real property, the land beneath your feet, the most basic and foundational thing to which you can lay claim. It both affirms the possibility of such ownership and articulates the terms for its regular relinquishment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In affirming both the norm of private property and the circumstances under which that regime is suspended, the Torah offers a vision of property that is neither revolutionary nor reactionary, but merely cyclical. 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