Lifestyle

The day to day way of life, for most people on earth has changed drastically in the last 150 years. Transportation and communication has us going at high speeds. Our housing, and the way our communities are laid out, effects the way we live our lives. Most people no longer live an agricultural lifestyle. The jews specifically have been urbanites for some time.

The modern State if Israel, has been developed with these new changes. Housing and layout even of agricultural communities is according to modern western ideals.

The biggest change to life however, is education. Universal education. State dictated schooling. Whereas it used to be, that a jewish boy would go to heder, learning to read and write, and then at a young age apprentice in a trade, he now goes to school for full days until he is 18. If he is to aquire a trade or profession, he goes to college or university. No longer a few short hours of religious instruction, he now attends a full day, and does not apprentice or learn a trade from as young as 5 or 6 or 10, as he used to. This is all wrong. Boys are tied up in their abilities, and need to apply themselves to work skills from a young age. Work ethic must be developed from a young age, it is extremely difficult to develop starting after one turns 18.

Girls also learn as the boys do. Whereas they used to take on chores from a young age, working around the house, and then hiring out to work in others homes from a young age, they now study until they marry. Being as in our religious jewish faith, a young woman is destined to have her own home and children, they always used to keep home and child-mind until they married. Now a young woman marries at a much later age, and has very little experience by comparison, of keeping a home or looking after/raising children. After 13 years of school, we have students not women like we need. After the constant social life of school, it is hard for a gal to adjust to her home upon marrying. Without several years of experience cooking, baking, cleaning, and minding children, she is suddenly expected to pull it all together, and without the social life shes had until this point. Her husband cannot meet her well developed social needs.

Young men are thwarted and crippled, and without any real skills, despare of being able to provide for a family that they so want. They suffer from lack of self-worth.

In a proper and healthy environment, a boy would learn only a few hours in a day, and would have lots of play time when very young, and then would spend alot of time working with the men. Picking fruit, or sheparding animals. Working hides, or writing Holy texts. At 5 Mikra, 10 Mishnah and 15 Gemara. And all the while working and aquiring skills which would allow them to begin earning income even before they marry. In or times they could apprentice with a plumer or kablan, and be up and running their own business once they marry.

A young women can learn pretty much as much as they do now, with a few hours of shiurim in different womens houses throughout the week. Now instead of women struggling managing their houses alone, or with goyishe helpers, they coould pay a young jewish woman to help them in their homes. How many women are struggling, and a Beit Yaakov full of jewish girls is down the street keeping them from you! How happy a gilr would be to know how to sew and knit, bake like a pro and be an experienced cook. How happy they would be, to have years of cleaning experince, full work ethic once they establish their own home.

Housework has been dengrated and dealt a very negative blow thanks to femenism. While education andworking out of the home are glorified!

Marrying later as we do now, causes all manner of problems. In the face of our Sages, who counsel us about proper ages at which to marry, we marry later and later. Young men suffer sexually, and young women grow tougher, accustomed to their happy carefree singleness.

I propose we begin establishing villages in Erets Yisrael, geared towards old fashioned agricultural based economy. Cheap afforadable housing (not cement bunkers like we have), and communal facilites for baking and laundering as all time used to hold. Gals have been cut off in their own houses. Whereas they used to do their chores together, baking in communal ovens, and laundering together, each is in their own house with their machines. Communal washrooms and bath-houses will cut down on the size of ones house, and conserve space. Step away from western free-standing houses, back to mediteranean common-wall housing with courtyards. Surround the town with the orchards and vinyards, and the animals housing and pasture lands.

The kibbutsim and moshavim are not properly set up. They were better in the beggining, but modernized with everyone else. This business of almost all the labour being done by foreign workers and arabs from neighbouring towns is malarky. The kibbutsim decided to have a nice life and dodge having to work for it. Few know about the reality of how the government has to step in to cover the costs of their well lit spreads, watered lawns, sports centers and pools. Many are not paying their own electrical bills. Local moatsas are getting hit up to cover their costs. Over-education also saw to it that their kids who were not anymore going to pick fruit anyways, or trim trees, are off to a good start going off to be lawyers and doctors.

How will we be able to afford to live simpler? Smarter housing, and good old physical labour. Well be healthier and happier. Well be able to work where we live, and actually have work to busy ourselves with.

Our pedestrian villages will be pleasant places to live and work. We can work to eat, and not work to support the banks.