B"H
This week, instead of writing an inspiring or intellectually stimulating email, I came to the realization that a picture can sometimes portray much more. This past Tuesday, some friends of mine & I headed 20 minutes eastward to the Western Wall,
to help wrap Tefillin with visitors from the trip March of the Living.
Around 500 kids & adults, 1st time teenagers and holocaust survivors, came to wrap with us. It was incredible.
To be together helping fellow Jews experience the holiest act (a mitzvah) at the holiest site in the world was awesome.
A man once asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe: "There's no more tzaddikim (truly righteous people) in the world today! They've all been wiped out in the war!" The Rebbe answered: "If you see a man wearing Tefillin and he has numbers tattooed on his arm, you've met a tzaddik."
"The Jewish body may be beaten and exiled, but the soul can never be touched." (5th Lubavitcher Rebbe before imprisonment by the Russians)
What more apparent testament to this quote is there than this above picture?
The Jewish soul is undefinable and untouchable.
Through every mitzvah we do, we show all those who tried to defeat the Jewish soul that they lost.
They never stood a chance.
Shabbat Shalom!
-Daniel
Jerusalem
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