My dear movement, 

We stand at a crossroads now. Our movement has been through a 4 year long stabilizing process as we pull through covid and infighting. We are not the same movement now, and you are not children anymore. 

Where does the word “hagshama” come from? Let’s look at the hebrew! Hagshama shares the same shoresh (root) גשם as geshem (rain). 

What does rain have to do with hagshama? Imagine you and your values are a rain cloud. When we hagshamize (actualize) on our values, we take our beliefs that make up the clouds and transmit them to the Earth in the form of rain. Only once the rain falls can the Earth grow lush, green, and beautiful.