Abba Gordin: A portrait of a Jewish anarchist

This is not a picture of Abba Gordin. This is a picture of Abba Achimeir, who was an activist associated with the Revisionist movement

Hmmm it’s not actually a biography either.

Oh hold on, there appears to be PDF here

https://files.libcom.org/files/abba-gordin-a-portait-of-a-jewish-anarchist.pdf

I've reuploaded that and linked it to this post.

Abba Gordin: I once said to my father "Why are you Rabbis, who are so meticulous about the word of God, proud of the world of Israel which is not yours. If you were at least to bring the Messiah then I would admit that you possess greater power than we seculars. But you have not brought the Messiah, and not to bring him, we can
do just as well as you." To which my father answered me : "But are you capable of waiting for him day in day out as we do? This is the question."

Good read. This thought provoked by it:

Secular and Rabbinical Judaism's denial of Masiah is like self-defeating prophesy. Who else but Masiah could have spoken these words?

"No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of humanity and of money.

Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Great Nature feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single minute to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or labour; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these."

Why worry?