The olim are coming.. the olim are coming…
July 9, 2006The olim are coming.. the olim are coming…
Yup its that time of the year… Moving trucks… boxes… bewildered looks on peoples faces as they struggle to comprehend the fact that they have to bag their own groceries… even though they lived in fancy five towns…
Nefesh b’nefesh brought some new families. I just met one a few days ago, Shmuel Katz from Woodmere. He is living across the street for the summer until his place is ready. He was surprised that his landlord told him it was almost ready and how when he looked at the place it wasn’t close to being ready.
Welcome to Israel! That is EVERYONE’s story. A neighbor of ours.. same thing… we listen anyway as it is cathartic for them but we all wink at each other. When the landlord is in NY the house is fantastic but when you see there is no sink… or stairs… different ballgame. Just try to take it all in stride. Smile. Take a deep breath and savor every minute because looking back it is an experience. The flight. The new streets. New shuls.
In Holy smokes on shabbos we had 2 shavu banims as 2 olim got aliyos this week. Its a great feeling because in our shul everyone is an oleh from the past few years… and everyone DOES add a bit to the ruchniyos to the shul. It gives you a chance to be friendly and give a bit of advice to the new folks. i.e. It will take you months to get your license…. or a slice of pizza to be delivered.etc…
We had special guests this shabbos. Dovid pretter, Dr; Moskwitz’s son and a young fella whos brother was a student of mine when I taught in MTJ on the lower east side many.. MANY…years ago…This guy towered over Dovid pretter who is huge. SO Its was little ol me.. and these big dudes all shabbos. On the bright side, they took all the leftovers so we’ll be eating fresh and they will be eating food this week instead of yeshiva food.
Gotta run, Heading to the holy city in a few…
U.D.
