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Miriam Engel from A ngela Dance Company in Jerusalem. Photo credit . Danielle Lamensdorf
Judaism teaches an important life principle that we descend in order to ascend. Down preceding the up, we discover inner muscle we wouldn’t have without the hardship and actualize through tailored made tests. Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz writes “There is an idea that a test forces one to discover levels of one’s own inner strength which were previously hidden. The difficulty of the test brings out that which would have remained dormant without it. Before the test there was a level of power in the personality that was potential only, after the test that power has become actual, realized in the pers
I suppose this story is my plea to the world: Don’t let this happen. To anyone. Anywhere. Anytime
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were homeless people on my walk home from school. A drunk man, thin, with a red shirt. A man who I’d see on my way to the local library. He had a full white beard and a carefully reinforced cardboard box to sleep in. The red-shirt man was scary and I’d say Tehillim as I walked past. The white-haired man was sweet but sad.
And I’d wonder: If I were homeless, where would I find shelter? What’s it like to have no home? What’s it like to be displaced in spirit, pushed this way and that, never quite knowing who you are or to whom you belong?