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How do you write the Hebrew battle cry "rak chazak" in Hebrew? | Yahoo Answers

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"rak chazak" doesn't mean "be strong and courageous". It means "just be strong". (spoken to a male).

It is spelled רק חזק.

"be strong and courageous" is "chazak va'emats" - חזק ואמץ, again, spoken to a male. For a female it's חזקי ואמצי, for plural males (or a mixed group) it is חזקו ואמצו and for plural females it's חזקנה ואמצנה.

The original biblical sentence (Joshua 1,7) was "rak chazak va'emats" - just be strong and courageous.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130112205402AAobGVX
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Learn Joshua 1:9 in Hebrew - YouTube

Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zoAQrEE-vc

Note: Although "chazak" is spelled with a "ch" in English transliteration, it's pronounced as a rough consonant similar to pronouncing "loch" in Scottish. Listen carefully to the verse recited in Hebrew.
More information here:

https://thewordinhebrew.com/
God is sending His children to America.
An interesting concept: Devolution

That is, the opposite of centralized control, e.g., rule from Washington DC, the feds, and those puppet masters of the visible "leaders".

Think of the heads of local communities really answerable to the "folk" in an old fashioned Town Hall fashion.

Another thought:

It's true most people pay attention to just those matters that affect them directly: the price of gasoline to fill the tank of their vehicle, the tab they must pay to exit the grocery store with food.

So long as daily life rolls along relatively smoothly, the far away masters are left to do as they like. MSM broadcasts the approved "party line". Dissenters are censored or silenced.

The masses must be SHOWN the corruption, not simply TOLD about it.

There is still common decency. There is still a reaction of horror at revelations of abuse, cheating and all the other evils of this world.

It's a rough way to wake up, but it seems a bucket of cold water in the face is required to get the drunk to sober up and become useful!

FMcK
10 March 2021

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/devolution

Definition of devolution

1: transference (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another

especially : the surrender of powers to local authorities by a central government

2: retrograde (see RETROGRADE entry 1 sense 2) evolution : DEGENERATION
Communist Tactics to Force Self-Censorship Sweeping America

By Petr Svab
March 9, 2021
Updated: March 9, 2021

Vague Rules

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the world’s most notorious censor of free speech, has for decades used the method of making its policies intentionally vague. During its past political campaigns, for example, the central leadership would issue a decree that “rightists” and “counterrevolutionaries” were to be punished. The next lower rung of Party officials wouldn’t be told what exactly makes one a “rightist” or a “counterrevolutionary” and perhaps not even what the punishment should be. No official, however, would want to be seen as too lenient—that would carry the risk of being labeled oneself. As such, each successive level of bureaucracy would intensify its interpretation of the policy, leading to ever more extreme results. In some periods, the hysteria went far beyond self-censorship, as even refraining from political speech wasn’t enough.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/communist-tactics-to-force-self-censorship-sweep-america_3724784.html
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The Bureaucracy of the Absurd - Law & Liberty

BOOK REVIEW
MAY 22, 2020
Henry T. Edmondson III

Robert Menasse’s The Capital opens up a new genre that might be called “Novels About the European Commission.” Some wit will protest: “But the European Union has been producing fiction for decades!” Be that as it may, if the category is widened to “Novels About Bureaucracy,” then The Capital joins a venerable genre indeed, including, but by no means limited to, The Castle and The Trial by Kafka, 1984 by Orwell, Brave New World by Huxley, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Organization Man by William Whyte, and The Bureaucrats by Balzac. More recent possibilities include The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004), and (in English translation) The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (2001).

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-bureaucracy-of-the-absurd/
The Capital: A Novel: Menasse, Robert, Bulloch, Jamie: 9781631495717: Amazon.com: Books

"[A] stinging office satire… A Joseph Heller-like funhouse of bureaucratic cul-de-sacs, interdepartmental squabbling, nonsensical regulations and embarrassing acronyms… Jamie Bulloch provides the excellent translation."
- Sam Sachs, Wall Street Journal


https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Novel-Robert-Menasse/dp/1631495712/
Bureaucracy: Definition, Examples, Pros and Cons

By Robert Longley
Updated February 03, 2021

Considered the architect of modern sociology, German sociologist Max Weber recommended bureaucracy as the best way for large organizations to maintain order and maximize efficiency. In his 1922 book “Economy and Society,” Weber argued that bureaucracy’s hierarchal structure and consistent processes represented the ideal way to organize all human activity. Weber also defined the essential characteristics of modern bureaucracy as follows:

A hierarchical chain of command in which the top bureaucrat has ultimate authority.

A distinct division of labor with each worker doing a specific job.

A clearly defined and understood set of organizational goals.

A clearly-written set of formal rules, which all employees agree to follow.

Job performance is judged by worker productivity.

Promotion is merit-based.

Weber warned that, if not properly controlled, bureaucracy could threaten individual freedom, locking people in a rules-based “iron cage” of control.

Parkinson’s Law is the semi-satirical adage that all “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Often applied to the expansion of an organization’s bureaucracy, the “law” is based on chemistry’s Ideal Gas Law, which states that gas will expand to fill the volume available.

https://www.thoughtco.com/bureaucracy-definition-examples-pros-cons-4580229
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Bureaucracy has been with us for a long, long time.
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