With God’s help, eve of the Sabbath, Shoftim, 5782

To Rabbi Michael Abraham — greetings,

Only “Burning Youth,” full of passion for change and who haven’t yet despaired and made peace with the situation, may be able to bring change — especially when they focus on one issue, in the spirit of “a master of one trade.”

Of course, high motivation can succeed only if these fiery young people find themselves a serious professional in the field of economics who can formulate a proper economic plan. Then the economy will rejoice in the dance — professors and young people together 🙂

Regards,, A Settled Grandfather (who will keep voting Tet-Bet 🙂

“a group of fiery young people declaring that they’ll lower the cost of living is the last thing I’d vote for” — why exactly???

I’d be glad to hear an explanation.

To Hazab, greetings,

Indeed, according to Kaht’s “categorical command,” every owner of a “nickname” should want everyone to use that same “nickname,” until it is fulfilled: “the owner of the nickname no longer recognizes his own nickname” 🙂

With Sabbath-eve blessings, Ihkt

I’m surprised this even needs explaining.
“Burning Youth” is the name of a protest movement, and naturally they’ll declare that prices must be lowered, but I assume they haven’t really thought through or explained where the money will come from and what the broader implications of various measures are.
It’s exactly like how we’re all in favor of peace, and the argument is only about the price and the way to get there. We’re all in favor of lowering the cost of living; the question is at what price and by what path. So someone who declares that they’ll lower prices is like someone who declares that he is the movement for peace and brotherhood, justice and security. Or as the late Ariel Sharon, of blessed memory, put it: “Who’s in favor of eliminating terror?”
This is a good illustration of why the law is right not to allow election at such a young age.

There is deep significance in the connection between the specific question raised above and the nickname that was chosen (Emanuel Hai Kliningradsky, Tur-Malka), so this was not just random copying but a deliberate intention, matching the name to the topic.
The connection can be explained on the levels of plain meaning, hint, exposition, and secret.
But in order not to weary the readers and burden them, I did not elaborate, and “the glory of God is to conceal a matter.”

With blessings for a good week,
Shealtiel Haim Blau-Weiss HaKachloni

With God’s help, 8 Elul 5782

The idea of a dedicated party to promote the economy is not simple, as Rabbi Michael Abraham noted, since the methods proposed could be radically different. Some would propose greater exposure to competition, while others would propose the opposite — subsidizing local produce and price controls — and some would use the momentum to go after certain sectors. Hadar Muchtar talks about full implementation of the Trajtenberg Committee recommendations. That’s a subject worth discussing. But it is not my area of expertise.

What energetic young people can do to lower prices is establish cheap retail chains, based on cooperative work by the founders, which would eliminate the huge expenses for investors and CEOs aspiring to large profits and creating high profit margins, in which the buyer pays a lot, the workers and suppliers receive little, and most of the income flows to investors and managers.

In a similar way to my proposal — cooperative consumer stores to lower prices — the Histadrut acted in its day, generally encouraging workers’ cooperatives that would run the business themselves while saving on the salaries of senior executives. And so groups of “Burning Youth” could arise who would establish cooperative consumer stores in every village and town, serving as both clerks and managers together.

The chain could be called “Young Marketing” or “Burning Ltd.” 🙂

Regards, Ofer Badan Melvav-Muskroner (UFO)

The ‘nickname’ Hazab suggested — Shealtiel Haim Blau-Weiss HaKachloni — is really fitting here, since every “Blau-Weiss” was a youth movement active in Austria and Germany between the wars, and “Kachlon” founded a party that made improving the economy and lowering prices its banner

To Hazab — greetings,

The new nickname “Ofer Badan Melvav-Muskroner” (UFO) is a synonym for “Samson (= Badan) Zvi (= Ofer) Levinger (= Muskroner, since the village of ‘Levingen’ in northwestern Belgium became a suburb of the city of ‘Mouscron’). ‘Melvav’ simply completes to 1148 (and hints to the Song of the Levite).

Regards, Ofer Badan Melvav-Muskroner (UFO)