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Chanukah Hashem Fights Our Wars The miracle of the oil Why do we celebrate Chanukah?

“When the Yivanim entered the Bais HaMikdash, they defiled all the oil set aside for lighting the Menorah. When the Chashmonoim were victorious, they searched and were able to find only one small jug of oil with the Kohain Gadol’s seal intact. It had sufficient oil to last only one day, but miraculously it lasted eight days. In honor of the miracle of the oil lasting eight days, Chazal inaugurated these days for Hallel and thanksgiving.”

— Gemara Shabbos 21b

Al Ha’Nisim: the miracle of the battle The Maharal states that this Gemara seems to contradict what we say in Al Ha’Nisim, a tefillah that was written by the Tanaim hundreds of years before. In the Al Ha’Nisim, we proclaim thanks to HASHEM for the miracle of the war. We thank HASHEM for delivering the Yivani armies into our hands. “You fought their battles, judged their judgments, took their revenge. You put the mighty into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few…” According to the Al Ha’Nisim, the miracle of Chanukah was that HASHEM delivered us from the armies of the Yivanim. Yet the Gemara in Shabbos says that we celebrate Chanukah because of the miracle of the oil lasting eight days. The Maharal asks, “Which one is correct?”

The miracle of the oil revealed the miracle of 4

the war.

The Maharal answers that both reasons are true, and both are consistent with each other. The actual event for which we give thanksgiving and sing Hallel is the salvation of the Jewish people. We won a war against all odds.

However, it wasn’t clear that the victory was a miracle. To people living in those times, the military success seemed to be natural. It was attributed to Jewish resilience and bravery. It didn’t appear that HASHEM had delivered us from the hands of the Yivanim; rather, it appeared as “their might, and the strength of their arms.” It was only through the miracle of the oil that they came to understand the miracle of the battle. Once people saw the oil last eight days – an overt miracle from HASHEM — they then came to see that their success on the battlefield was from HASHEM as well. The miracle of the oil revealed to them the miracle of the war.

Israel didn’t have a standing army This Maharal becomes difficult to understand when we take into account a basic historical overview.

The events of Chanukah take place around the middle of the era of the Second Bais HaMikdash. From the time that Bavel destroyed the first Bais HaMikdash up until that point, the Jewish people lived under the reign of gentile monarchies.

Our right to exist and our form of selfgovernment was decided by the ruling parties. We were a vassal state under foreign rule, and when the Yivanim entered Yerushalayim, the Jewish people did not even have a standing army.

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While the war itself lasted three years, during the entire first year of fighting, there were no formal battles.

Two armies were not squaring off against each other; there was no Jewish army. The fighting consisted of guerrilla skirmishes.

Some Jews would sneak up on a lone detail of Yivani soldiers, kill them, and take their arms. Bit by bit, more Jews would join Yehudah Ha’Macabi, but at every point during the war, the Jews were far outnumbered, outgunned, and preposterously less battle-ready than their enemies.

The leaders of the rebellion were Kohanim Even more startling is that almost all of the original fighters had no battle experience. The leaders of the rebellion were Kohanim. A Kohain is a Torah teacher, one who serves in the Bais HaMikdash, one who guides the klal Yisroel in ruchniyus (spiritual matters).

He isn’t a soldier. So this was a war led and fought not by soldiers, but by roshei yeshiva. It was akin to Reb Shmuel Kaminetsky leading the Lakewood Yeshiva in battle against the US Marine Corps.

How could anyone not see the miracle of the war?

No intelligent assessment of the situation would have predicted a Jewish victory. How then is it possible that the

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Jews at the time saw these events as anything other than the miracles that they clearly were?

This seems to be natural to the human The answer to this question seems to be that when one is many years away and far removed, he gains a historical vantage point. He is able to see an event in context and can easily recognize it as a miracle. But to those living in the day-to-day heat of the battle, it is much more difficult to see the event from that perspective.

To those involved, it seemed to be a natural course of events.

Granted the odds were slim, but the Jews won. Skirmish after skirmish, battle after battle, the Macabees came out victorious.

There is no question that they did well, which is why it seemed that their skill, their cunning, and their wisdom in battle won those wars. And as such, to people living in those times, the miracle was hidden. And then a single event focused their sight.

When the Kohanim returned to the Bais HaMikdash and took out that little bit of oil that couldn’t possibly last for eight days and watched it remain aglow night after night, everyone knew it was miraculous. When they experienced the miracle of the oil, it reshaped the previous three years in their minds.

Then they could see the battles themselves as the miracles that they were. Exactly as the Maharal said, “The miracle of the oil revealed the miracle of the battle.”

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We see the same phenomena in our times In our own times, we witness an eerie parallel to these events and to the same mistaken interpretation.

For almost two thousand years we have existed as a lone sheep amongst seventy wolves. Universally hated and oppressed, the Jewish people have survived. And now, after almost 1900 years of wandering, we find ourselves back in our own land.

Since 1948, the Jewish nation has witnessed profound miracles in the repopulation and development of the land of Israel. But it is the survival of our people that is the greatest miracle.

In 1948, the population in the Middle East numbered roughly 650,000 Jews, surrounded by some 50 million Arabs. On May 15th, 1948, one day after the State of Israel was declared, five nations attacked, each with well-trained armies and air forces, each alone capable of annihilating the small band of Holocaust survivors. At the time there was no Jewish army, navy or air force. Yet, against all odds, we won that war, and against all odds we continued to win war after war – until now, ironically, when the Jews are considered the superpower in the region.

To most people, Jew and gentile alike, it seems that this is just the way of the world. To the average witness to these events, it isn’t a demonstration of the hand of HASHEM. It is just the ebb and flow of history.

The lesson of Chanukah is to see behind the veil of nature, to tune our sight into the true cause of events, and to see that it is HASHEM Who runs the world and fights our wars – then as now.

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Seeing More with One Eye

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Luis Salazar and a new look at the miracle of Hanukkah.

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n a great article, Sight to Behold, L. Jon Wertheim tells the story of Luis Salazar. A longtime major-league infielder and minor-league coach Salazar had been out of baseball for a year, happily sitting at home in Boca Raton. But in August 2010 he got the itch to return so, with the blessing of Graciela, his wife of 33 years, Salazar sent out his résumé. The Atlanta Braves offered him a job managing their Class-A Carolina League team, the Lynchburg Hillcats.

Salazar joined the Braves for their spring training games in 2011 and was coaching third base one March afternoon.

As Wetheim tell it: Salazar was 55, a former third baseman whose reaction times were not what they once were. No matter. He had no chance.

Not with slugger Brian McCann hitting from maybe 60 feet away and the foul ball traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.

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The projectile smacked Salazar in his left eye, making a hideous sound and knocking him backward down the dugout steps. He fractured his right arm in the fall, but that was the least of it. He was unconscious, concussed, and blood poured from his nose, mouth and eye, puddling around his head as he lay face down. As a helicopter transported Salazar to an Orlando trauma center, the players struggled to keep it together, not least McCann, who left the game.

Salazar regained consciousness in the hospital that night. He says he saw a white light – ”very bright, so bright” – and fell back asleep. He woke up the next day after a surgery, the first of three.

“What happened?” he asked his wife.

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he said. “That’s when I knew how bad it was.”

Doctors first told him the good news.

He was alive. And, blessedly, he’d suffered no brain injury. Then, a few days later, the bad news: his left eye was so damaged it would need to be removed.

Six days after he was hit, Salazar’s left eye was surgically removed, his socket suddenly resembling a garage without a car. He conceded, that was “a tough day,” but he was more focused on thanking Hashem that he had come out of the ordeal relatively unscathed. The doctor told him that losing the eye meant only that he couldn’t be a fighter pilot.

Otherwise there would be no restrictions.

He put a bandage over the eye – beating others to it by making the obligatory Pittsburgh Pirates joke – and went about his business.

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Hanukkah Candles Illuminate What’s Already Around Us We take as a given that the reason we light the Hanukkah candles is to see the flames. We tend to assume that the pirsumei nisa, the publicizing of the miracle, is achieved by lighting oil and commemorating a miracle from many years ago. But perhaps we are missing the point. Maybe the real purpose is not to see the flame itself To advertise, call 718-513-9885

but to allow the flame to illuminate the darkness and reveal what is all around us. Perhaps publicizing the miracle is not accomplished through the candle, but rather when we take a moment to consider the trials and tribulations we have been through and yet allow the light to illuminate for us how fortunate and blessed we are nonetheless.

The Jewish people’s existence after all these years and systematic attempts to eliminate us… we are the miracles. Each one of us has struggled, be it with illness, financial hardship, etc. and yet we are here, we are positive and we are grateful. That is the miracle.

The mitzvah is ner ish ubeiso, for a person to light one candle per household, and perhaps we can suggest homiletically, the mitzvah is to see the candle but more importantly to see ish (person), to see ourselves and how we are here, and to see beiso (his house), how fortunate we are to have a spouse, children, a home.

Louis Salazar says he sees more with one eye than he ever saw with two. When we light that menorah, we must see beyond what our eyes can perceive and see and appreciate

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from the hospital, he drove the three hours from Orlando to Boca Raton. “I needed to do that for myself,” he said.

On April 15 he made his managerial debut in Lynchburg. By this point, his story had generated some media attention – particularly among Braves fans – and a capacity crowd turned out to welcome the new manager.

Graciela was in the stands as well.

“Just putting on the uniform, going to home plate and handing the lineup card to the umpire,” he said. “That was the best moment of my baseball career.”

During his season managing in Lynchburg, Salazar often spent the duration bus trips returning voicemails from friends. “In a way, I see more now than I did with two eyes,” he said. “I see friends, teammates I haven’t spoken to in 25 years. I notice more around the ballpark. It’s maybe crazy to say, but in some ways it’s been a blessing.”

The Jewish people’s existence after all these years and systematic attempts to eliminate us… we are the miracles.

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My Yellow Sticky Hanukkah

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moved to New York as a nonreligious Jew in the mid-80s to pursue my interest in playwriting.

Throughout a number of less than glamorous jobs, I worked sporadically on my current script, A Neurotic’s Guide to Manhattan, a comedy. It finally got to see the light of day, running for 16 weeks at an Off-Off Broadway Greenwich Village theatre. I was on my way!

One of my play’s directors worked at a company that consulted for Fortune 500 firms. Aware that the play ‘paid’ me two free seats for every performance, she made some introductions and viola! – I became a proofreader at a prestigious Manhattan firm.

My beautifully appointed office space testified to my upward move. A decent paycheck and one’s own desk can definitely inflate one’s feeling of selfworth.

I began attending a reform synagogue in my Brooklyn neighborhood on Friday nights because one of its members,

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who liked my writing, was a lyricist for musical theatre. I was making new friends, writing plays, and being assigned more challenging jobs at work. My fellow proofreaders and I were getting along well when some discordant changes began to arrive on the scene.

On December tenth, a sign on the bulletin board invited us all to the staff holiday party. Stockings filled with striped candy canes decorated the walls. Mixed in with these symbols, overwhelmed, was a small, flat cardboard menorah, with a base on the bottom.

A few days later, the traditionally decorated tree appeared, with a smiling Santa beaming at it from a nearby wall.

One morning on my way to work, someone from Chabad handed a bag to me.

“Hanukkah candles in here,” he said, “with a menorah and transliterated blessings. The holiday begins tomorrow night.”

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morning I left the candles home, but took the blessings with me. Today would be the Christmas party and it somehow seemed important to bring that piece of paper with the Hebrew words I didn’t understand.

In anticipation of the big soiree, no gainful employment by my peers was even attempted after the clock struck twelve.

When the call to party was announced, I took a yellow sticky and placed it where I was up to in my work. Two hours and two strong drinks later – and I indulged the least of my co-workers – I barely remembered that I was a proofreader.

I ate too much and basically moped through the festivities. Joy reigned supreme in that meeting room, but I was not happy. My supervisor, holding a glass of eggnog and looking somewhat plastered, came up to me.

“Some party, huh?”

“Yeah,” I responded unenthusiastically, and shocked myself by asking, “Are we doing anything for Hanukkah here?”

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called away just then.

Alone amidst a hundred ecstatic revelers, I walked out of the room, not feeling the holiday spirit. I strode up to my desk, reached into my briefcase, and took out the piece of paper with the Hanukkah blessings. Although I did not know what the words meant, they had somehow become very important to me.

I read the instructions above the transliteration.

“After sunset during Hanukkah, light the candles, one for the first night to the far right, the shames in the middle, and an additional one each succeeding night.”

Tipsy and fully aware that I had no candles and no menorah, I said a silent prayer that I could do something to acknowledge my holiday.

I suddenly spotted the small cardboard menorah and immediately knew what I wanted to do. Opening it, I stood it upon its base. From a blank yellow sticky paper, I cut two small ovals. Following the directions on the Chabad sheet, I read the transliterated blessings for the first night. After reciting them, I took the first oval and put it on the ‘candle’ top to the

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far right and a second on the ‘shames.’

It may not have been correct according to Jewish law, but it was vital for me at that moment. Far from the hubbub, I felt content.

A moment later, however, I wasn’t alone. Another worker had come to get something from her desk.

“What are you doing?”

I smiled. “Lighting the menorah in the best way I know how for the first night of Hanukkah.”

“Cool!”

The next night, a few minutes after sunset, I stood at my desk over the cardboard menorah, said the blessings, and placed two yellow ovals plus one for the shames in their places. Last night’s visitor came to watch, along with others in my department. Impressed, they even asked questions about it.

And that’s the way the rest of Hanukkah went. Every evening, after sunset, I stopped work, said the blessings, and put more yellow oval stickies on the menorah. With each night, more and more people came to watch.

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overflow, enthusiastic crowd, I said the blessings and ‘lit’ all of the candles. My supervisor was by now a regular attendee.

“Alan,” she said, “next year we’re going to get a large, beautiful menorah suitable for the occasion!”

In retrospect, I could have complained that my religious rights were not being respected. Although there is a time for open rebellion, as the Maccabees so courageously and poignantly demonstrated, this experience taught me that there is also a time for quietly, and with conviction, doing what you believe is right. And good things can come from that.

Many years have passed and today I am religiously observant. I say the blessings for my wife and myself before lighting real candles. We sing Maoz Tzur, recounting the miracles of years gone by, and bless the Almighty, ‘Who wrought miracles for our forefathers, in those days at this season.’

I think back fondly to that time when yellow sticky paper and a cardboard menorah made such a difference to me and so many others.

My Last Line of Defense

by Ross Hirschmann

How Chanukah kept me Jewish when all else failed.

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rowing up, there was not much about Judaism that I loved, or even liked for that matter. Passover was a bust (the Four Questions was the only acting gig I met that I didn’t like), and don’t get me started on Yom Kippur (can you say, “Starvation without meaning”?).

With my father making me miss high school football games and dances for something he called “Shabbos,” you can pretty much guess how I felt about Judaism by age 16. Hated it!

But there was one Jewish thing that I connected with from the time I was a kid: Chanukah. I know it sounds so cliche to say that the only Jewish holiday a secular Jewish kid from Walnut Creek like me enjoyed was the one that occurred close to Christmas, but it’s true. I’ve always

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loved Chanukah. In fact, it was Chanukah that probably saved me from giving up on Judaism all together.

As a kid, my house was not the place to be for the holidays. Any holiday. There was always so much pressure to have the “perfect holiday” that usually everyone ended up very tense and unhappy by the day’s end.

My father was always particularly tense around Rosh Hashana, but not without some justification. It was tough trying to get five little kids into the car so we could all get to temple on time to celebrate the festive New Year. But since we were always running late, (inevitably someone’s shoe was missing or hair wasn’t just right) we usually brought in the New Year in a manner that was, well, let’s just say “less than festive.” Yom Kippur was the same situation, different holiday, but To advertise, call 718-513-9885

with the added “wildcard” of a fast mixed in.

Thanksgiving did not fare much better either. The turkey always took longer than the “meat guy” at Safeway said it would (which led to us reliving the Yom Kippur fast), the yams weren’t as good as the year before and the true pain of having to sit through yet another Detroit Lions football game on TV all added up to, well, not much fun.

But Chanukah was different. Maybe it was because my dad lost steam after all the tension of the “big” holidays, or maybe it was because nobody had grand expectations of making a “Chanukah to Remember,” or maybe it was because no one particularly cared. I don’t know.

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growing up, and now my present struggle to preserve Judaism within in my family.

Growing up, I was surrounded by the world of Walnut Creek, a world that encouraged me at every corner to assimilate into the general, American, Christian culture. As a kid I thought, “Well, that sounds good to me!” I mean who wants to stand out as “odd guy out” or worse as “Jewish Guy Out”? Not me.

I was no Judah Maccabee. In fact I was just the opposite -- I was my own SyrianGreek. I encouraged myself to assimilate as much as possible.

But just like with the Maccabees, Hashem saved me from losing Judaism all together. The odds against this happening were great: all of Walnut Creek and secular culture versus Hashem saving one Jewish soul. The Almighty had to come up with something good, something powerful. And He did. He gave me a holiday I could enjoy, something Jewish that I could cling to. He gave me Chanukah.

Having that allowed me to say, “Well, maybe I won’t chuck all this Jewish stuff just yet. Maybe it’s okay to be Jewish -just a little bit.” In the end, as in the story of Chanukah, Hashem won. Judaism survived in me.

When you become religious in your 30’s, however, you also face some pretty tough battles -- against yourself, against society, even against some well-meaning family members -- in order to preserve Judaism in your life and your family’s life.

Sometimes it seems that the battles are overwhelming and the enemies too much to handle.

But even in the face of all of that I realized that the battle has to be won because my wife and I, and our two little daughters are the last strong links to Judaism in both our families. We’re the last line of defense.

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So during the tough times, I think back to that verse in Rock of Ages and remember that Hashem can help us overcome anything, that He can help us save Judaism in our lives just as he helped the Maccabees so many years ago. My eyes still well up with tears when I think of that verse or sing it.

Chanukah reminds me that Hashem is always there for us, and that if we just allow Him to help us fight our battles -whatever those battles may be -- His word will indeed break our enemy’s sword.

Maybe it’s that powerful reminder of Hashem’s love for us that makes Chanukah my favorite holiday. And maybe it’s that powerful message of Hashem’s love for us that kept me from abandoning Judaism during all those years I was so far from it.

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And it wasn’t because of the presents.

Believe me, with five kids to shop for there weren’t a lot of presents.

As a boy Chanukah had particular appeal because well -- let’s face it -Chanukah is a really good war story. It’s like D-Day for the Jews. My father was a decorated B-25 pilot during WW II and I grew up hearing his war stories. They captivated me. The battles, the heroics, beating the odds, successfully completing the “mission impossible” -- my father had done it all. But he did it as a part of the United States Army.

Chanukah told the story how the Jewish Army overcame the odds and beat the stuffing out of the Syrian Greeks. The Chanukah story had everything dad’s war stories had: battles, heroics, beating the odds and completing successfully the “mission impossible.”

But Chanukah had something more: it had Hashem. The story of Chanukah not only gave me a sense of a proud and even “tough” lineage as a kid, but it also taught me what my mom always told me: You can always rely on Hashem to take care of you.

Every night after we lit the menorah, we’d sing Rock of Ages. Even as a kid, my eyes always welled up with tears when we sang the verse, “And Thy word broke their swords, when our own strength failed us.” The thought that Hashem, with just one of His words, could break an enemy’s sword and defeat him for us was overwhelming to me. Somehow it got through to me that alone we’re helpless, vulnerable, defeatable. But with Hashem’s help we can do anything, overcome anything, accomplish anything. Even when we believe we can’t.

Now that I am a religious adult, I see even more profundity in the Chanukah story. It’s still a great war story, but now I also realize that it’s a story about my own battles: first against Judaism when I was

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Fried Fish Balls Fried Fish BallsFried foods to recall the miracle of the flask of oil and fish is a traditional Shabbat food – so it’s a perfect Shabbat Hanukkah dish.

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Kuku Sabzi Kuku SabziThis is a Persian frittata traditionally eaten on Hanukkah. Very healthy and very yummy.

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This is it. The verdict is final!

Escort him in!

My lord, the king! I am certain that Reb Moshe hadn’t meant to offend our religion.

He is a wise man, and he would never do such a thing in the presence of the king!

Woe to me! The king wants to kill the great sage Reb Moshe. I must do something about it!

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The king sentenced Reb Moshe to death!

I convinced him to suspend it for now.

However, this is subject to change at any given moment.

I understand what you’re saying. For now, desist from carrying out the verdict.

The passuk states, “Chavi k’mat rega ad yavor za’am.*” Let’s hide in a concealed attic.

I must hurry and tell him…

*Hide for a moment until his wrath passes.

(Yeshayahu, 26:20) For a long period of time, the holy Rambam secreted himself in an attic with his father. Together they learned the holy Torah. And there he began to write his holy seforim, among them the prominent “Mishneh Torah.”

After a while, the Rambam, accompanied by his father and family, fled on a ship headed to Eretz Yisroel.

Shehecheyanu v’kimanu v’higiyanu la’zman hazeh...

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Illustrated by Chana Eisenstein From Eretz Yisroel, the holy Rambam traveled to Fustat (now part of Cairo), Egypt. There he strengthened the Yidden residing there.

The foundation of a Yid is emunah, to constantly remember that Hashem created and controls the world.

My husband, the saintly Reb Moshe, could boruch Hashem learn peacefully. He serves as rav of the city and his brother, Reb Dovid, supports us, boruch Hashem.

Shalom aleichem, my brother Reb Moshe.

Ah, he arrived. Just as every week.

Aleichem shalom, Reb Dovid. How are you doing?

This week you brought me a sum considerably greater than usual.

I brought you the weekly sum of money. Boruch Hashem, the diamond business is flourishing. It was wise of you to invest your money in my business.

Now you can sit and learn Torah worry-free and reap the profits.

Hashem should continue to grant us success.

Yes, my dear brother.

I plan to travel this week on a lengthy journey to India. I’d like to purchase beautiful diamonds and fine cloth. Many of the city’s Jews have invested their money in my business venture. I hope they’ll be satisfied with my purchases.

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Illustrated by Chana Eisenstein May you travel and return safely and speedily!

Amen! I will try to write letters to you once I arrive.

The ship is strong and durable! The sailors are hardy and experienced. Why worry? Go get some rest in your quarters.

We still have another two days of traveling time until we reach our destination.

The weather is nice and balmy. We’re hoping for a smooth ride until we arrive at the next port.

Only with Hashem’s help!

For some reason, I am not calm. I cannot determine why, though.

Two days pass…

Reb Dovid embarked upon the ship.

Shema Yisroel!!

Unfurl the sails!

Turn it this way!

The mast cracked!

Help!

To be continued...

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