To be As Dreamers - K'Cholmim, is to recognize that our goal and

mission is not a fanciful dream, but rather the aim to realize a potentially better reality. More! That our Dream, is a truer reality, and that

what others would have us believe is reality, what others would convince us is the "real world" and that we must recognize as the practical

realities that we live in, is nothing more than a world of sheker, of lies, of deception.

It is the great difficulty that the creator

of western liberal philosophy Socrates and the great Jewish Mediaeval poet and theologian Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi both remarked on and spent their

entire lives fighting. Namely, that we live our lives in a slumber, blind, refusing to see the True Reality. To be willing to have the clarity

to see that Israel is the home of the Jewish People, and that aliyah is among the essential actions necessary to the restoration of a healthy

Jewish Nation is to be willing to stand up against the tide of popular opinion and self deception and say, "No! That is not what I choose. I

choose life!" It is to stand up against a life of contentment, of non-fulfillment, of lies and sleepiness and to say, "Yes!" to a life of

truth, of blessing, as revealed to us by HaShem and as we are guided and taught by both the Alimghty and our Sages, zt"l. To say yes to life

for a Jew is to accept ones chosen status and mission, to partake in the Jewish Nation, to cherish the Jewish Land and of course to be guided

by Torah. It is this that we members of K'Cholmim will always strive for. And the realization of our Aliyah, (for those of us who live in

Exile, for many of us already had the blessing to have been born in Israel or to have moved home) is a major action and step towards our

fulfillment of a life As Dreamers of K'Cholmim.

For as the psalmist says, it is when we RETURN to Eretz Yisrael that we shall be As

Dreamers-as K'Cholmim. Before we even finish the rest of our mission, before we even finish realizing the rest of a life of truth, of a truer

reality, before we fulfill the rest of the Torah and commandments thereby realizing our mission and goal, our 'mere' return to Eretz Yisrael,

the incredible difficulty inherent in moving to Israel, and the choices involved, are indications of a person who is living a life As a

Dreamer, as a member of K'Cholmim. A person who "chooses life!" who chooses the difficult and sometimes lonely path of the True Reality. May

HaShem give all of us the strength to realize this reality, this dream. Amen, ken yehi razon.