First ; Attitude, subjectivity and intention The following saying, which is one of my favourite phrases in the Hebrew language, guides me through the research process. This way of perceiving the world gravitates the responsibility to me and the present moment. It is a call for action and emancipation.
?אם אין אני לי מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו אימתי Im ein ani li, mi li? U'kh'she'ani le'atzmi, mah ani? V'im lo 'akhshav, eimatai? If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when? I have found this sentence to be a good trajectory guide; it helps me shift my responsibility from the outside world back into my hands." (First critical review)
It is important to trace and contextualize how this Hebrew sentence set me free. To understand it, I'll take you back to the moment when I finished high school in Israel at the age of seventeen. Refusing to be drafted for military service, I decided to follow a childhood idea. When I was twelve years old, somewhere at the beginning of the nineties, I read an article about the best prison in the world. At that time it was the “Bijlmerbajes” in Amsterdam. The inmates had their own cell, they could bring their pet and they even had their own TV.
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