Alevism

Heval Mamoste.

I'm Alevi and Kurdish.

I'm from Dersim, and I've been living in US for a while, and I studied, like, mainly, like, political science.

That's the, my main, you know, major.

But also, when we look at the, like, how the Kurdish community describe themself, it's mainly based on, based on their language.

Like, they say, "We are Kurmanj," or, "We are Zazaki," or, "We are Sorani." You know, like, they speak Kurmanj, the other languages, or, like, some religious origin.

Like, let's say, like, some people, like, say, "We are, like, Shafi," or, like, "We are Alevi," or, "We are Sunni," or, "Yazidi," or, you know, like, other minorities that way.

Because the Kurdish people didn't have the, like, this national unity yet to describe themself as a, like a uni- united nation, like a, with the, like, a one solid description.

And you also didn't have to do anything.

It just happened, meaning it's just, oh, okay, because Alevi has a seh, that covers it.

There was nothing that had to actually be done.

I'll bring you a raya that in the Midbar, one seh of Alevi could patter, Very simply, the Pasuk tells us about the discrepancy when it comes to people.

It never told us about the discrepancy when it comes to animals.

There must have been a discrepancy, right? There must have been some pitre chamar that belonged to Israel and that were not covered by says of Leviim.

The makar for Rabbi Hanina, that in the Midbar, one seh of a levi will be mafkiah, Kama Pitre Hamor of Yisrael, is because Amar Krav, the Apostle, says that So Behemas Halavim sounds like Behema Achas, Tachas Behem Tam sounds like Tachas Behemos Harbe.

So it's singular versus plural.

This particular consultation session is being held in the office of Ferhat Kocak.

The 47-year-old politician with Kurdish Alevi roots was elected to the German Bundestag last year, winning a direct mandate in the melting pot Neukölln constituency.

Everywhere garbage.

On social media, Kocak talks a lot about anti-racism, anti-fascism or why there's so much trash in the streets.

Um, and then you look at the camps sort of, um, uh, you know, the things that supposedly define one camp or another, and you realize that they themselves are coalitions with very different viewpoints, um, about, you know, what the appropriate role in the case of the Islam versus secularism binary, about what the role of religion is in society, and some people are a little bit more comfortable with public expressions of religiosity, and some people, you know, want, um, or at different points in time, some people have wanted, you know, very specific performances of secularity, um, to be played.

So you, you k- you kind of want to capture that messiness, right? Um, but the, the book, so while it takes on the Islam or Islamism versus secularism binary directly, I also then implicitly take on other binaries, um, that characterize, um, the way that folks, um, uh, think about Turkey, write about Turkey and act about Turkey from a policy perspective, um, that has to do also with assumptions, for example, that it's, um, Turks versus Kurd or that you have, you know, Christian versus Muslim or Sunni Muslims versus, you know, uh, Alevi, um, uh, Muslims or, um, or, you know, Greeks versus Turks, Armenians versus Turks and so forth.

And the, um, the argument again, um, is that while there may be general trends and all those trends have been, you know, and, and, and there are real clea-cleavages for sure, um, and while those cleavages may have some element of causal force, they're never in and of themselves enough to explain, you know, why, for example, right now you have a peace process in Turkey, um, that is unfolding between a, a right-wing secular nationalist party, um, a religious nationalist, right-wing religious nationalist party that used to be a, a religious liberal party, um, and, uh, secular nationalist Kurds.

They are actively driving, um, a peace process right now that is completely counterintuitive and you simply cannot account for, um, uh, using Turk versus Kurd or, um, uh, Islam versus, uh, secularism, uh, to explain.

But you should say...

What's going to be the halacha by Alevi? Potter.

Then the mission should have listed it.

And also we have a befarrish of Bryson that says, But, This is for sure a kasha on Rav.

You see, Alevi is going to be Chayiv.

You know what Rav would say? The whole thing is Machleg is Tanayim.

Those are all going to deal with the kapar of those respective Haveras.