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IllumniNations — Va'eira 5781

Выпуск: IllumniNations — Va'eira 5781. Темы: kashrut, family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. After 11 years here, you or New York I don’t think I ever can bet there are stories… imagined that one day my family and I would be busy traveling ∑ the country’s 19th largest state, One night I was coming home from work at the meat packing plant in a taxi, and bringing Torah to North Dakota’s of course, my driver Bob and I were 1,000 Jewish residents. I told Bob I was a rab- B ut life is full of surprises and I have spiritual wilderness as far as yiddishkeit bi and I was speechless when he told me definitely encountered more than was concerned, it actually had a Jewish that he hadn’t kept kosher since he left my fair share since I arrived in Fargo history dating back well over 100 years. Jews were among the many settlers who my mind that Bob even knew what a Jew planted roots squarely in the middle of was, let alone was Jewish himself, and The seeds for my life here were actually the United States under the Homestead while I never thought I would be happy sown two years earlier. Rabbi Binyamin Papermaster to hear someone say that they stopped shluchim Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holz- was renowned for devoting 45 years of keeping kosher, I was thrilled to find a yid berg were murdered in a horrific terror his life to serving North Dakota’s limited out in North Dakota. touch and he told me that he used to be time, and I couldn’t help but wonder But as time went by, any sparks of reli- a contractor, but gave it up due to injuries what that terrible turn of events meant to gious observance faded away, and while to his arms that dated back to his army me on a personal level and how it should Chabad in New York had been sending days that made it too hard to do that kind impact my life. I made it clear when I was But then one day, Bob surprised me yet sounding names, the only way to meet again, calling me to ask how to put on his dating that my dream was to bring Jews yidden was to come out and ask “Excuse in remote areas closer to yiddishkeit. We started our mar- ed change and he explained that he was ried life living in New York, but when I got Right now, school for my five kids means going back to work

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IllumniNations

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8 августа 2022 г.

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2

Темы: kashrut, family_education, parsha_commentary