[It is] like a stone you throw into water. The first circle is small, but the second is larger, until infinity. By using this image I'm saying, "We began this group, we've had our doubts but we're the small circle." I'm making this small circle larger, so that it grows and grows and becomes much bigger. Its ripples will change the discourse within my society.
Rabbi Nava Hefetz
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Civil Society
Vision
Why are follow-up meetings important?
Yehuda Amichai1 wrote a lovely poem called "The Diameter of the Bomb".2 The diameter of the bomb was what it was, but it impacted different circles in its range, like a stone you throw into water. The first circle is small, but the second is larger, until infinity. By using this image I'm saying, "We began this group, we've had our doubts but we're the small circle." I'm making this small circle larger, so that it grows and grows and becomes much bigger. Its ripples will change the discourse within my society.- 1Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), born in Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1936, was a Jewish Israeli poet. He was among the first poets to write in colloquial Hebrew and is seen as one of the major influences on modern Israeli poetry. See "Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)." Jewish Virtual Library. 28 July 2011. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/amichai.html.
- 2For an English translation of "The Diameter of the Bomb", see Amichai, Yehuda. "The Diameter Of The Bomb." AllPoetry.com. 28 July 2011. http://allpoetry.com/poem/8513183-The_Diameter_Of_The_Bomb-by-Yehuda_Amichai.