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"We Shall Outlive Them!"

Sunday, July 19, 2009

By Chana Weisberg

Throughout the centuries, we have had many oppressors and tormentors. Nations who sought to destroy us rose to prominence and fell into oblivion.

But by you and I being here today, by each of us living our lives as Jews, as the Jewish people, we defy all those who seek to destroy us.

Our being here today is a living testimony to the song of our exile and, ultimately, the song of our redemption, “We shall outlive them!”

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Posted: Aug 5, 2009

To Ms. Amitai

I wish to G-d Almighty that I had not married a non-Jew, but I did. He drank and smoked and taught the kids to do the same. I'm fighting EVERY DAY to get my kids back on track, and I pray EVERY DAY that they quit smoking and drinking. I've taken it upon myself to say 50 chapters of Psalm each day. Psalm, and getting the heck out of that house are your only means of survival.
My non-Jewish husband died 7 1/2 years after I won a legal separation from him.
You need to learn to love your father, but from a distance. My dad was Jewish and wasn't thrilled when I started keeping Shabbos and covering my hair, but he eventually got over it. YOU have to get over the fact that your dad may never be the dad you want or need. Make a life for yourself, but don't forget to love your dad all the same.

Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Aug 5, 2009

Ani Maamin

When will there be a time when the oppressors fall away completely?

My father is Non-Jewish, and the more observant I become, the more hateful his actions towards me. It is very frightening and bereaving when the oppressor is one of your own family. How I wish my mother had married Jewish; EVERYTHING would have turned out differently. My father hates my mother and me so much, because our lives are devoted to G-d. Must the price of serving and loving Him always be so high?

G-d bless all the souls who have paid with suffering, and with their very lives, to bring G-d's beautiful wisdom safely through time to us now, thank G-d.

We shall outlive them. We have Torah! We have G-d!

Posted By Ms. Ezza Amitai

Posted: July 22, 2009

I chose to become a Jew. One of the reasons was because I felt compelled to be part of a people who refused to be extinguished. We HAVE outlived them, and that has made "them" furious for 3000 years.

Posted By Kevin Gilad Benyamin Smith, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA

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Chana Weisberg is on the editorial staff of chabad.org. She is the author of Tending the Garden: The Unique Gifts of the Jewish Woman and Divine Whispers: Stories that Speak to the Heart and Soul and lectures worldwide on issues relating to women, faith, relationships and the Jewish soul.

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