Fasting Made EZ, 1-2-3!

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11 Tishrei, 5779

I'm grateful that the numerous attempts at terror attacks - like this one - conducted throughout Israel during Yom Kipur, did not succeed.

My fast went easily. I am prone to telling curious people that someone who eats whole foods/organic meals tends to do quite well with a fast. Our bodies are packed with nutrients that prevent us from feeling poorly. It's the folks filled with commercially processed junk who sicken or faint during Yom Kipur.

I have a lot of work to catch up with today, as a journalist, so I'll make today's blogpost a bit easy on myself with a copy of this recent facebook message:

Yocheved Golani shared a memory.

September 18 at 8:15 AM · 

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17 Av, 5778

The other day I enjoyed lunch with several new acquaintances. Someone in the crowd asked me to briefly explain why people read my book.

I replied that they find information that they need for surviving medical and/or mental health crises. I learned that information while working as a Health Information Management professional over the years, finding out about charitable and medical organizations that pay some or all of a patient's expenses . "I also teach coping skills, and know far more about psychology than the average layman," I added.

Then I paraphrased a brief author's biography that I share with editors of my journalistic work:

Survivor of a deadly brain tumor that had blinded her, Yocheved Golani relied on her Health Information Management background, her ever-evolving optimism and belief in a benevolent GOD plus a sense of humor to recover from severe setbacks. She teaches readers and listeners how to calm down and to simplify complex issues step-by-step with her highly acclaimed book  It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

That someone in the crowd then bought the book and asked me to sign her copy.

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17 Sivan, 5778

Have you followed the news in Israel lately? Neighbors and I have been dodging Molotov kites loaded with incendiary devices that have been setting Israeli's agricultural fields afire, machine gun fire, missiles, hand-to-hand combat and/or stabbings as we try to go about our benign daily business. It hasn't been easy in the face of all that hatred.

Did you hear about the wedding disrupted by sirens that warned party goers and everyone in the vicinity to reach a bomb shelter in less than a minute, or of the effort to breach Israel's naval blockade which protects Jewish lives? 

The commotion was all because of the efforts to separate Jews from the land that GOD gave to us, and to annihilate us. Again.

Jewish history is full of the phenomena. Mainstream media tends to overlook that, plus the fact that Jews have been routed from our homeland many times. 

All we want to do is to live according to Jewish law, to mind our business, and to help the world at large. 

Some people perceive that as criminal behavior.

Many journalists do, 

as evidenced in their slanted reporting.

People sometimes wonder how Jews survive the onslaught of hatred. The answer, of course, is in our sense of purpose. 

GOD commanded to be a nation like no other, to serve as a light, a shining example of moral behavior and choices based on GOD's agenda for the world: Kindness, decency, and sharing. Our two holy temples, which radiated heavenly blessings upon the wider world, were destroyed by foreigners who resented the "intrusion" of holiness, i.e., restraint from vicious personal agendas, into their lives.

Jews have remained focused on the goal of being good, moral people according to GOD's rules, even as we hardly know how to overcome the visceral hatred for our existence and mandate.

Last week, I joined friends for a trip to the holy city of Jerusalem, a healing experience for the soul and a treat for the body. We enjoyed the thrilling view of the restored Hurva synagogue

as we headed to the Plugat HaKotel museum.

We reached our destination, and experienced a movie about a bit of Jewish history that none of us had known: The heroism of a specific Betar Youth member who defied the Jew-hating enforcers of the British Mandate. A young man with little experience in life let alone warfare, he was one of the people who escorted Jews to the Western/Wailing Wall for time with the Creator when protecting lives from muslim murderers was illegal.

The young man accepted a new assignment, to blow shofar at the Kotel (Western/Wailing Wall) following the end of Yom Kipur services. The act of sounding the instrument of Jewish spiritual freedom was a defiance of British Mandate law, and the fulfillment of Jewish law which requires the use of a shofar at such a time. It's purpose is to make a Jew remember, and thrill, to the sense of purpose bestowed upon us by Heaven. The three distinct sounds made upon a shofar (made during Rosh HaShana/Jewish new year and Yom Kipur/Day of Atonement) remind us of the pain, weeping and suffering we've experienced during Jewish history, and the exultant cries of joy when we know that we've lived up to our heavenly mandate to be holy.

Here's a poster from the Plugat HaKotel museum, showing the faces of heroes who sounded the shofar of Jewish physical and spiritual freedom when that was an illegal act in our homeland.

I won't ruin the movie for you by revealing how it ends, but I will let you know that I left the theater unable to speak. 

I was crying at the joy of overcoming capricious hatred, the courage that an individual can muster up in one defining moment, the necessity to do so, and the overall tug of life.





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10 Nisan, 5778

Passover aka Pesakh/Pesach begins Friday night. Jews worldwide are praying for our eternal freedom from hatred, violence, spiritual derailment, and other nasty problems so that we can pursue our spiritual destiny without distraction.

Meanwhile, I want to focus on something else, too. Last week I indicated that I'd helped to prepare a fund raising effort. That  happened after I'd advised the woman involved of the healing efforts that she needed to make.

Here's the link to the page, presented by the patient's husband: Restoring Talent Buried by Pain. 


Here's a look at the healing in progress. You can help it along with a donation to the cause.

Sarah Kashin Klein

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Sitting in the beautiful sun for the first time in many months, having walked to this park on my own two feet with very minimal pain, basking in gratitude to Hashem for bringing me to this moment in life, where I feel that I Will Be Able to HEAL. My retreat in Jerusalem at the house of a talented doctor, a Chinese medicine practitioner, is the right thing at the right time. I think I'll heal. I'm beginning to believe it. It's happening. <3 span="">

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Please don't ask me to feature YOUR fundraising effort. I have been very involved in this one as a friend of the woman involved. I can vouch for the accuracy of her predicament.

It's been fun to witness Sarah's improving health. May she be blessed for a full, pleasant recovery.

You can share the joy in her recovery with a donation via the Restoring Talent Buried by Pain link.

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