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Over the long exile of the Jewish people and our complete dispersion over the face of the globe we have stopped at many localities. Sometimes the stop was a relatively short one but most times it was for many centuries duration. Babylonia (present day Iraq) was a home for millennia, while Iberia, North Africa, Poland, Germany and many other European countries housed us for eight hundred years. But somehow no matter how long we stayed in a certain place and how productive and secure we may have felt regarding our situation, all of our way stops proved to be temporary and impermanent ones. The journeys of the Jewish people proved to be in a manner of speaking an endless trek. But it always seemingly had a goal. The great Rabbi Nachman of Breslov stated that "every step I take on this earth leads me towards Jerusalem." All of the stops, no matter how long their duration in the Exile of Israel, were eventually nothing more than way stops. Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk summarized it succinctly in his ringing assessment of Jewish exile: "Woe to the ones who imagine that Berlin is Jerusalem." Well, we now all know that Berlin was far from being Jerusalem but there are names of other current cities in the Jewish Diaspora that can easily be substituted for Berlin in his prescient statement. We pray that our travels are finally coming to an end and we strengthen ourselves on this Shabat of chazak in that hope and wish.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
