Today's update

Hello All!
Today is another interesting day on Kibbutz Tzuba. This morning (actually, it might have been last night, but that's beside the point) I was discussing kibbutzim with a few other people on the trip. Or rather, someone brought up something they didn't like and my mind went into overdrive doing comparisons. In this case, the person said they thought that the dining hall served way too many carbs and not enough protein or other types of foods. I personally think that's BS - whoops, sorry, I mean that I don't think that's right. There's plenty there, if you know where to look and are willing to keep an open mind about foreign foods. When I walked in to the cafeteria this morning for breakfast, I found a table full of fresh vegetables, hummus, and tachina, several cereal options, several drink options, and several main course options. Comparatively, at the kibbutz (that shall go unnamed) that I visited last time, they served us literally only white bread and rice. And hot chocolate. So I think we're doing pretty well, don't you?

I think I figured out how this works now...

Well it's still rather confusing, but I think I have at least some idea of how this is supposed to work now. For example, I found a title! I added a view counter! I still don't know how to add a list of blogs though... If someone could tell me that would be lovely.

First post

Today in Jewish History we discussed the truth behind the Tanakh. Most of us agreed that it should not be taken literally, but everyone had differing opinions on how much of it was true. I personally think that none of it can be taken literally, and that probably none of it actually happened exactly as it says in the Tanakh. After all, so many of the stories appear to be so carefully constructed, and their structures follow the structure of a good fictional story, one that's purpose is to deliver a moral. How many of real world stories come with a convenient beginning, middle, end, plot arc, and moral? Certainly not enough to fill the entire Tanakh. Therefore, I believe that the Tanakh was written by leaders of the Jewish people who hoped to be able to send a message to their people and teach them through intelligently crafted stories based upon their own history.