tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017927177231080668.post4918291469368928783..comments2024-02-06T11:57:25.334-05:00Comments on The Frumanista: Tisha B'Av Princess Leahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217157534383672867noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017927177231080668.post-13404872884728511602014-08-06T14:12:23.855-04:002014-08-06T14:12:23.855-04:00DS: Fabulously said.
Yocheved: May I remember my...DS: Fabulously said. <br /><br />Yocheved: May I remember my own words.Princess Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17217157534383672867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017927177231080668.post-939223768099695712014-08-06T05:01:22.324-04:002014-08-06T05:01:22.324-04:00Such an intense post! This line "We are supp...Such an intense post! This line "We are supposed to feel for the ones living, no matter their choices, not be content to deify them in death. " gave me the shivers. You are so, so very right.Yochevedhttp://www.rivkasmom.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017927177231080668.post-6412371272736914122014-08-05T12:49:17.867-04:002014-08-05T12:49:17.867-04:00I also find it hard sometimes to engage fully with...I also find it hard sometimes to engage fully with our history, particularly the Holocaust. All my grandparents and some of my great-grandparents were born in the UK and while most of my maternal grandfather's aunts, uncles and cousins died in the Holocaust, the amusing war stories my grandfathers would sometimes tell were very different from standard Jewish stories of World War II.<br /><br />Today I've been reading Elie Wiesel's <i>Night</i>, really trying to imagine what it must have been like to be in Auschwitz, yet the imagination necessarily falls short of the sheer horror of the reality. Likewise during <i>Eichah</i> and <i>kinnot</i> I tried to make the imaginative leap, but it was hard. I know that tonight I will go to sleep in a comfortable bed after a good meal and that, barring some freak accident, I can plan my life for the immediate future without risk of death or bereavement. It becomes almost impossible to imagine not being able to take that for granted. I can imagine the suffering, but it seems distant, like a horror film.<br /><br />You are right to emphasise the inter-relationships of the Jewish people at this time, and, if nothing else, the war has produced greater unity. I have thought in the past that if there are six degrees of separation between people in the world, between Jews it is only three. Perhaps I exaggerated, but I discovered there are only four degrees of separation between me and Hadar Goldin, while I know there were only three degrees of separation between me and one of the casualties of the Second Lebanon War. This brings the conflict home almost as much as the thought of my aunt, uncle and cousins in the bomb shelter or the risk of my eldest cousin being called up again.<br /><br />As Jews our limited numbers and many enemies should encourage us to stick together, yet we waste our energies on petty hatreds until the next crisis comes. If nothing else, we need to learn to love each other unconditionally (and I include myself in that).Daniel Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087956908558706584noreply@blogger.com