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I walked home one night after a difficult evening along Hayarkon river as it glowed in the lamplight. I felt utterly alone and atomized as I came upon the river—feeling that I should be witnessing the scene of beauty with someone else, to comment on it, to discuss it, to enjoy it. But then something came over me. My eyes nearly filled with tears. My heart swelled as I looked around at the land, at the lamp posts, at the sky, at the river itself and the loneliness evaporated and I knew myself to be a complete part of a complete and nearly perfect being. And I realized that this being was Israel—not..