Pashtoons and Jews | Podcast # 109

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LOUD THINKING #PeerTalks with Dr. Eyal Be'eri about Pashtoons and Jews Born on 15 August 1962, married. Father of six and grandfather of ten. His home for many years was in the village of Beit El, north of the city of Jerusalem. For most of his life, he has worked as an educational consultant in various settings with at-risk adolescents. About 20 years ago he discovered and fell in love with the Indian subcontinent. He made and guided long Journeys there and About 15 years ago he first met on the issue of Pathans-Pashtuns. In 2012 he completed an excellent thesis on the Pathan communities in India and their possible connection to Jewish traditions, and in 2019 he completed a doctoral dissertation dealing with the ancient genealogies of the Pathans. At the same time, he was involved in building a bridge between the people of Israel and the Pathans. In an email to Peer Syed Mudassir, He wrote "As you probably know, the sages of Israel for generations had a lot of positive communication with Sufis: Rabbi Baha'i - in the book "Duties of the Hearts" (12th century), Abraham son of Moshe Ben Maimon (Rambam), Abraham Abulafia and even the Kabbalists in the Galilee city of Safed in Israel (16 cen) - Adopt a lot of Sufi practices. In the 20th century, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was an interesting man who combined Hasidic poetry, Hippism, and Sufi practices, today there is a large Sufi academic center in Israel and many small centers trying in the New Age to combine Sufism, Kabbalah, and Judaism. I suppose you probably know all this, and I too have been drawn there for many years as a magnet, wanting to believe that this is the "next thing", and as Karl-Heinrich Marx, the German-Jew, read in his manifesto "The workers of the world have united," I the little one reads without a manifesto: "Religious people from all over the world - come and unite." I know that Emperor Akhabar already tried to shaut this in the 16th century and failed, and I know that the Jewish-Sufi poet Saramad, in New Delhi, tried to shout this together wi