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Cedarhurst resident inspires Woodmere man’s Holocaust film

By Malka Eisenberg The Jewish world lost a major supporter of many worldwide Torah sustaining causes this past Monday. Zev Wolfson, z”l, a resident of Lawrence, NY, passed away after a short illness at the age of 84. His levaya was at Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva in Lawrence. He was buried in Israel.

Born in Vilna, he immigrated to America with his mother and brother at the age of 17, and, sending his brother to learn in yeshiva in a classic Yissachar-Zevulun relationship, began working in business.

By the time he was in his twenties, he had become wealthy Zev Wolfson through real estate investments.

He devoted money, time and care to Jewish education, developing and maintaining yeshivot, Bais Yaakovs, and other Torah institutions in the U.S., Israel, France, Morocco and Russia.

“He did everything in a modest way,” said Rabbi Moshe Greene, one of the rabbaim at Shor Yoshuv. “No one would see his name on the buildings. No pride. No fanfare.” Rabbi Greene said that Wolfson was close to government officials throughout the world, and that he “lobbied hard for Jewish affairs and communities throughout the world. He was business-like, straight, professional.”

Wolfson was also known for bolstering the State of Israel financially, when they were struggling in the 60s and 70s and onward. He worked to decrease interest on loans from the U.S. government and helped finance Torah and kiruv institutions in Israel.

“He was close with Rav Aharon Kotler, zt”l; he was his partner to rebuild Klal Yisrael,” said Rabbi Greene. “It was his real mission, not just living. His whole life force was to rebuild Klal Yisrael after the Holocaust and he knew that’s why he was given the money.”

“He not only funded these projects, he kept on top of them to make sure they were running efficiently,” continued Greene. “He and his sons sent people to ensure that they were doing what they were supposed to do.

He trained his sons well to continue in this legacy. They give away millions every year to Jewish causes. He is still alive through his legacy.”

Yhi Zichro Baruch.

concentration camps, weakened by starvation and countless acts of violence, were forced to go on what was called a death march. They were forced to walk to a new concentration camp, and along the way, those who could not keep up were shot to death.

Zisman, who had been walking for hours, was called over by a man who was lying on the ground. “The man raised his head and shouted, ‘You will survive the war. Tell them what they did to us,’” Zisman recalled. “Then he died in front of me. I don’t know how he knew I would survive, but he did.”

When Matt Mindell, a Woodmere resident and the executive director of the Manhattan-based Jewish Enrichment Center, heard about Zisman through a member of the JEC, he called him and was awed that Zisman had survived the concentration camps. “His spiriContinued on page 3

Ashkenazic link to high LDL levels Ann E. Friedman/Herald

Leibel Zisman survived the Holocaust and told his story of survival, in the hope that younger generations will never forget the horror. Leibel who held a photograph of his family, and his older brother, Berel, were its only survivors.

By Ann E. Friedman Cedarhurst resident Leibel Zisman, 82, came to the U.S. from Poland in 1946, at age 15, having made a promise to a stranger

during the Holocaust to tell the world what happened to the 6 million Jews who were slaughtered.

In the fall of 1944 and the spring of 1945, thousands of Jewish prisoners from several

By Malka Eisenberg Doctors are calling on Ashkenazi Jews to take precautions and be aware of a health issue with a genetic link that affects one in 60 Ashkenazi Jews as compared to one in 500 in the general population.

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disorder that causes high levels of LDL (low density lipoprotein or “bad”) cholesterol. The genetic defect that can manifest with only one gene passed down from one parent, makes it difficult for the body to remove the LDL cholesterol from the blood.

People should be concerned when they have levels of about 190 LDL in adults and 160 in children, said Dr. James A. Under-

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o now the battle is joined. Saturday morning, Mitt Romney made what is being described as a bold choice for Vice President, Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

“Paul and I are beginning on a journey that will take us to every corner of America,” Romney told thousands of supporters gathered on a muggy morning here, shortly before introducing Ryan and embracing him. “We are offering a positive governing agenda that will lead to economic growth, to widespread and shared prosperity, and that will improve the lives of our fellow citizens. Our plan to strengthen the middle class will get America back to work and get our country back on track.”

The real question is: was Paul Ryan the right choice?

From the standpoint of governing the United States, Paul Ryan is a brilliant choice. With the country on the precipice of an economic apocalypse, and the national debt threatening to drive the country into bankruptcy, this country could use someone like Ryan as part of the White House decision-making team.

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Paul Ryan is a budget geek (my son tells me a geek is a good thing). Even before he became Chairman of the House Budget Committee he was seen as someone who understands the budget backward and forward, and could explain it in a way that could be understood by the American voter.

Ryan is best known for his budget plan that includes an overhaul of Medicare. Democrats have persistently tried to vilify that plan as a scheme to “end Medicare as we know it”---a falsehood, but that really doesn’t matter in politics.

As a politician, Congressman Ryan is courageous. He attacks the issues that, while important to the future of the country, few on either side of the political aisle are willing to address.

Remember that famous scene in the movie “A Few Good Men?” The one where Jack Nicholson loses it and screams, “You want the truth?

You can’t handle the truth!” Unlike most politicians, Paul Ryan makes the assumption that Americans want its leaders to tell the honest truth about the economic situation and can deal with anything that comes out of that truth.

For years, Democrats and Republicans have refused to address our burgeoning entitlement obligations and other budget items that threaten the solvency of our Federal government. Even the deals made by the Republican Congress and the President over the past three years did not cut spending; they only cut the rate of increase.

With his choice of Ryan, Romney left the campaign open to more negative attacks from President Obama’s campaign attacks, such as last week’s “Romney gave my wife cancer,” which ignores issues and POLITICO TO GO drags the political discourse into the gutter.

Romney’s VP pick does not believe in kicking the can down the road, which leaves the door open for attacks.

When he introduced the Ryan budget plan, part of which revamps the failing Medicare system--rather than offering their own plan, Jeff Dunetz Democrats countered with a TV commercial picturing a Ryan-look-alike wheeling his grandmother off a cliff.

The attack commercials designed to scare seniors ignored the truth. Ryan’s plan doesn’t affect any current Medicare recipients or those who will be old enough for Medicare during the next ten years. When those younger than 55 are old enough for the program, they will be given a few choices (one of which will be the traditional Medicare plan). No Grandmas will be pushed off the cliff.

Romney has his own economic plan, which is different from Ryan’s. The President’s team has also attacked the Romney plan without addressing its elements. Their strategy is to create untruths such as: the plan raises taxes on the middle class to fund the rich.

Now that the rush is on, the Obama camp will rush to define Paul Ryan to the national audience before Paul Ryan can define himself and his own beliefs. The Ryan budget plan, and its Medicare provision, will likely be the new focus of Obama’s campaign as they try to get America to believe the Obama picture of the Congressman.

Get used to hearing the word “extremist”; the Democrats and their supporters in the mainstream media will use that word often. Romney and Ryan would have been foolish not to have figured a way to blunt the vicious attacks before Saturday’s announcement.

So did Mitt Romney make the right choice in picking Paul Ryan as his Vice President? In my humble opinion he did.

The Obama campaign and the mainstream media will unfairly vilify Paul Ryan, which may hurt the Romney effort initially, but the attacks will be offset by renewed enthusiasm by the conservative base of the party.

As the campaign continues, Ryan will be able to win over the electorate with his vast knowledge of where the budget “bodies” are

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buried and his positive can-do attitude. My beltway friends tell me that within the halls of Congress, Ryan is sometimes called “the happy warrior,” and his intelligence and work ethic are held in awe by colleagues of both parties.

In the overall scheme of things the selection of a running mate only really matters if the choice is a disaster--remember what Senator Eagleton did to McGovern’s candidacy?

Looking at Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan some three plus months before the election, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee is the perfect VP choice for Romney precisely because he is a budget geek. His ability to translate budget issues into “real English” will help the campaign explain their economic policy.

More importantly, should Romney win the election, Ryan will be an immensely valuable contributor to his administration in understanding the problems we face, coming up with “out of the box” solutions, and creating the policy necessary to fix the American economy and get people back to work.

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”Lion of Judah” premieres in Manhattan Continued from page 1 ell said. “I wanted to create the film from a personal story, and I felt like in order for the story to be told, it had to be told from a perspective people could relate to. Though this is a Jewish tragedy, it’s not just for Jews, it’s for everyone. Genocide hits home.”

Joe Kavitski, the cinematographer, editor and co-producer of the documentary, “The Lion of Judah,” said it was important to make the film. “It’s mind-boggling that during the 1940s, 6 million people were systematically slaughtered and people don’t know a lot about it,” Kavitski said. “Most people know the basic facts, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions, and if we don’t talk about it, in time it will be forgotten. It’s unfortunate because we think we’ve learned [from the Holocaust] and moved on, but genocide is still happening today.”

Mindell said he hopes “The Lion of Judah” motivates viewers. “I feel that, ultimately, it will inspire people to do good and change in a positive way,” he said. “I hope it will have a positive impact on them and that they see the Holocaust through different eyes, and that the more people see it, the more people will do good and help our universe.”

Though Zisman, who wrote the book “I Believe: The Story of One Jewish Life” about his experiences, has kept his promise to the stranger who told him he would survive the Holocaust, he still does not feel complete. “I had the greatest father you could think of — he was unbelievable,” he said as a tear ran down his face. “I tried to find another man to emulate him, but I couldn’t even come close.

I had a mother, father, sister, brother, aunts and uncles … and they’re not here. They perished.”

Despite his loss, Zisman was determined not only to survive, but to succeed. After he and his older brother, Berel, came to the U.S., he graduated from high school and college

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“The Lion of Judah,” a documentary by Matt Mindell, of Woodmere, left, tells the Holocaust survival story of Cedarhurst resident Leibel Zisman, right. and later became a professor and architect before meeting his wife, Myrna. The couple have three daughters, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. “G-d was good to me,” he said. “I never dreamed this would happen.”

Myrna, who has accompanied her husband on several trips to Poland to revisit

the concentration camps that now stand as memorials, said she believes it is vital for her husband to tell his story. “Before it was only a story,” she said. “[While in Poland] I was faced with the reality of what he went through, and I pray that he will continue to be well and tell his story so that people will never forget.”

“By no means was it easy, but I did what I had to do,” Zisman said. “I was determined and I fought the odds.”

“The Lion of Judah” will be released on Amazon, Netflix and iTunes in September. To learn more about the film, visit www.thelionofjudahfilm.com.

Politics aside, at Mesorah, everyone is a happy camper

By Karen C. Green Color War breakout...the yearly opportunity for the camp’s administration to stage an “April Fool’s-like “ joke on all the campers and staff. This year Avi Frier, Director of Camp Mesorah , a coed Orthodox camp in Guilford, New York, took the widely anticipated yearly spoof to a whole new level, Presidential in fact.

“Last November, I saw Reggie Brown, (the Obama-look alike), on TV and thought, brilliant idea for color war,” says Frier. Slated as a visit from a V.I.P. guest, complete with a full motorcade and entourage including fake secret service, Camp Mesorah “pulled off the greatest color war breakout ever,” said Frier.

Fully aware that children are a product of their home environment, with the overwhelming majority not in support of Obama ’12, he instructed his Jewish educational staff to work lessons into their daily Chinuch pertaining to respect of world leaders when you meet them. “We put out procedures to the campers regarding the surprise VIP guest,” explained Frier. “You may love or hate, agree or disagree with our guest. Do not heckle or do anything that wouldn’t reflect well on your character.

There is a time and a place to express your

opinion. When you’re faced with someone who is deserving of respect, even if you don’t agree with them, that may be a time to keep opinions to yourself.”

According to Frier, if you polled the campers as to who they would support in the upcoming election, it wouldn’t be Obama, but you would never know it, based upon the reception he received. It wasn’t until the last moment in “Obama’s” speech that he revealed that he was there to announce color war.

Frier, who wrote Reggie Brown’s remarks, prepared him for potential anti-Obama sentiment. “You hope for the best and prepare for the worst. There were potential pitfalls,” admitted Frier. Reggie, who had no idea of the political dynamic, even tweaked his prepared speech to make it more convincing, asking campers to have their parents vote for him. Frier even arranged for the youngest campers, of the nearly 650 present, who are not as familiar with Obama’s image, to be seated up front.

While color war breakouts don’t generally have a theme, this year’s evolved into a teachable moment. .The Obama-look alike was fake, but the display of midot by the Mesorah campers was very real.

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Opinion If G-d lived on Earth, people would break his windows As has been throughout history, when the economic times become bleak, fingers start pointing toward the Jewish people.

It will often begin anonymously, first with outbreaks of anti Jewish messaging in hurting communities, then the public rants by so-called scholars and community figures gain broader audiences, and it eventually gets mainstreamed into protected remarks and satirical comics in media offered as “legitimate” commentary. It then moves up to public protests and public leaders leading the fight for imaginary justice from the evil Jews.

This is not meant as a scare, as there is no looming menace here in the United States; not to say that there are no troubles brewing in European regions that have high and growing Moslem populations.

Yet, the other day in a Cedarhurst commuter station of the LIRR, on a billboard that read “Jump Start Your Economy”, was the word Juda Engelmayer “Jew” scrawled in graffiti. Once again, it’s not major, and it is not as bad as seeing swastikas etched into synagogue doors, but there is an element that would associate the hurting economy with some kind of Jewish involvement.

The word “Jew,” however, was not an issue for me, as it was likely the work of just one sad person. Living in New York and spending a lot of time working in the Deep South, racist comments become almost background chatter. It is not innocuous, but sometimes you need to treat it as such. What was more troubling about the scrawl at the Long Island station was what was written underneath in a different color and seemingly a different handwriting saying, “Damn Orthodox Republican S---.” Troubling to me, because that is indicative of a comment by a Jew – someone more intimately aware of the differences between the streams and the politics within.

So the scrawl was less anti-Semitic, as

it was more self hatred that we see going around. That is what is presumed to have caused the destruction of the Second Temple. Self hatred, most always baseless, infighting and disharmony within the ranks of the Jewish people is tantamount to the sinat chinam that destroyed the Second Temple.

In effect, it was worse than the three fundamental sins of idol worship, immorality, and the bloodshed that destroyed the First Temple.

To demean a whole community because it might have a proclivity for one party over another is racism. Taking it further, to presume that a connection to politics, support of domestic or foreign actions, or adherence to social policies one way or another are the driving reasons for the economic situation the country is in, is tantamount to how Adolph Hitler inspired a nation to attempt the annihilation of a whole people; left, right, practicing, agnostic and the totally assimilated alike. To see that coming from the direction of other Jewish people is a key reason why peace can never truly come between Israel and its rivals. If Jews hate one another so much, how can they expect everyone else to love them?

Before dismissing that comment, take a look in the mirror and tell yourself there is no truth to what I wrote.

When I was younger, I fell in love with Israel because it was the one place I felt I could be who I am without fear. If I wanted to wear a kippah at work, if I needed time off for the Jewish holidays, if I did not just want to eat the salad at an average restaurant with my colleagues eating everything else without concern, I could pretty much do that in Israel. In New York it’s not so hard either, but I worked in rural Georgia, traveled the Bible Belt and have seen parts of the country that have never seen a Jewish person up close. It’s not always accommodating or easy.

Israel was that place to me, but it is changing. New York was also that place, too, in many ways, but that, too, is chang-

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ing. The ultra-orthodox dislike, not merely disagree with, but dislike, those who do not see religion as the rigid and uncompromising structure it has become to them. The modern orthodox are all but disappearing as its offspring are either maker sharper turns to the right or just forgoing practice entirely; the same goes for the Conservative Jews, while the Reform and Reconstructionists are all but fading into total assimilation and disbelief in the need for any Jewish ideology at all.

The UJA’s own population survey backs this up, showing that ultra orthodoxy is growing while every other stream is bleeding. What makes it worse is that still, almost each feels a moral superiority over the other – and has no problem expressing it in ugly ways.

The eruv battles in such places like the Hamptons and Tenafly, New Jersey, where we see Jews acting with vitriol towards other Jews, is as good of an example as the rocks thrown at modern Jewish people by the haredim in Israel’s town of Bet Shemesh.

Sinat chinam is that venomous hatred that brings people far from Rabbi Akiva’s version of Jewish law, the version that advises us to love others, as we ourselves would want to be loved. It brings people to this regressive sense of self-righteousness that brings us to the brink of the way the Israelites were acting when the Second Temple fell and they were cast into exile. And in this exile they learned to rebuild and flourish to the point where we have become so comfortable that we can start hating one another again.

When the great Jewish satirist Sholom Aleichem penned the quote for Yente the Matchmaker, “if G-d lived on Earth, people would break his windows,” he knew back then what has become clearer today. Unity must come if the Jewish people are to truly thrive together among a world that is prone to distrust them.

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Letter to the editor Dunetz’s view on Mitt Romney To the Editor: It is amazing to me that anyone would trust a word of what Mitt Romney says on Jerusalem given that he’s a candidate, not President, but Jeff Dunetz seems ready to fall for the act hook, line and sinker. This week’s conservative meme is that Mitt Romney gave a speech where he said, with no consequences of course, that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel.

Of course, that is not US policy, and has not been US policy for several administrations. US policy is that the status of Jerusalem is subject to final status negotiations. That has been the policy since the Six-Day War and reflects the American understanding UN Security Resolution 242. President Reagan did not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Neither did Presidents Bush I, Clinton or Bush II, who, like Obama, would not allow Americans to list Jerusalem, Israel as their country of birth on their passports.

Jay Carney refused to answer Connie Lawn’s question because the answer is the thing Jeff Dunetz hates most - nuanced. This was a snow job.

Lawn works for a hard-right Christian radio network that features, among other things, a Jews for Jesus program, and her partner-in-crime, who tried to keep her question going, Les Kinsolving, works for the far-right website World Net Daily, a website that has frequently suggested that the President is a Muslim and was not born in the United States. It is clear that the entire episode was calibrated to embarrass the President and give conservatives a talking point. Lawn and Kinsolving should be kicked out of the White House press corp for wasting everybody’s time like this.

What these two incidents represent is not the differentiated approaches of two political candidates, but the difference between a President with actual responsibility for US foreign policy and diplomacy who must give answers that reflect long-standing US policy and an irresponsible candidate with no responsibility who will lie to us for personal gain, and then continue exactly the same policy as before, perhaps accompanied by rhetoric that is more pleasing to the ears of Jewish conservatives.

I’d rather vote for the responsible guy who tells us the truth rather than the pandering candidate who lies to us, no matter how sweetly he does it.

Michael Brenner Woodmere

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A cardiologist’s commentary collection This week’s review will focus on a very interesting anthology of rabbinic insights and practical advice for daily living. It was compiled by a Woodmere native, born and bred on the South Shore. With doctors and medical issues making front page news daily, I thought that it would be most appropriate to bring to your attention this excellent “likkut” of both classic and contemporary commentators on the Chumash, organized in the order of the parshiot and compiled by a cardiologist.

Titled “Joyous Torah Treasures” (Devora Publishing, 2008) and compiled by Dr. Samuel Friedman, this is a “heartfelt” anthology, written in a most attractive and attention gathering manner.

Alan Jay Gerber The book brings to the average layperson a vast range of comments and insights into the deeper meaning of the weekly Torah readings. Each parsha commentary consists of two essays, one dealing with numerous writings by the rabbis, and the second focusing on making the parsha more meaningful in terms of practical application and mussar.

The great rabbinic luminaries whose insights grace the two volumes, which total

488 pages, span from legendary rabbanim like Rashi and the Vilna Gaon to present day luminaries like Rav Hershel Schachter and Rav Yaakov Neuberger, altogether representing the entire range of Orthodox Jewish thought.

Dr. Friedman was educated at the Yeshiva of South Shore under the leadership of Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky. After graduating Yeshiva University High School and Yeshiva University, Dr. Friedman learned under Rav Joseph Soloveitchik, zt”l, and Rav Herschel Schachter.

Today, Dr. Friedman is an internist/cardiologist living in Teaneck, NJ, and a member of Congregation Beth Abraham in Bergenfield, under the spiritual guidance of Rav Yaakov Neuberger.

Dr. Friedman still maintains his Five Towns connections, especially with Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky and with former classmate Rav Mordechai Kamenetzky, who originally brought this learned work to my attention.

Among the commentators cited by Dr. Friedman in this work is one very distinguished communal rabbi whom I have enjoyed a particularly warm relationship with for over forty years, Rabbi Herbert W. Bomzer of Yeshiva University. The following is an example of Rav Bomzer’s Torah scholarship.

In last week’s parsha, Eikev, (my bar mitzvah parsha) Rav Bomzer is quoted extensively by Dr. Friedman concerning what defines and constitutes “the fear of G-d,” and its application to today’s world, especially as

it applies to the education and the proper parental role in the rearing of our children.

Drawing his teachings from the example of Moshe’s learning fear of the Almighty from his mother, Yocheved, and sister, Miriam, Rav Bomzer notes that Moshe learned by example. Rav Bomzer infers that any child who grows up surrounded by the fear of G-d will be sustained in his beliefs for the rest of his life. Rav Bomzer writes: “The lesson to be derived is obvious.

Fear of Heaven, reverence for the word of G-d; emulation of G-d’s attributes of graciousness, kindness, love, mercy, patience, and tolerance are character traits that must be learned at home... The important thing is to give our children the opportunity to absorb ‘yirat Hashem’ [fear of Heaven] so that the call of G-d will be easily answerable by them as it was by Moshe.”

This clear message is one that is most opportune on the cusp of the new school year and should be taken to heart by every parent in our community, for without a spiritually stable home environment, almost no amount of intensive yeshiva education will have the

immediate desired affect upon our children.

Rabbi Bomzer’s many years as a Young Israel rabbi and educator in Brooklyn is indeed reflected in these remarks. He continues his teachings to this day at Yeshiva University, and in his frequent Divrei Torah in his Shabbos visits to his children in Cedarhurst at Rav Dovid Spiegel’s Beis Medrash of Cedarhurst.

This South Shore connection, taken together with Dr. Friedman’s selection of the many other Divrei Torah, make these two volumes an excellent addition to anyone’s Torah library. This reviewer particularly appreciated Dr. Friedman’s inclusion of Rav Bomzer’s learning.

In conclusion, I would like to make special note of the role played by Devora Publishing and Five Towns native Yaakov Peterseil in making this particular work available to the Jewish reading public in so attractive a format. This effort is a true literary hiddur mitzvah. Hopefully, this effort will encourage other baaleh batim to compile similar works of literate Torah scholarship to be shared by all of us.

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nce in a while, when our kids were super stressed by school. I allowed them a “mental health day.” It sounds like playing hooky, but sleeping in and getting a little unexpected time off goes a long way in helping with focus and creativity. Similarly, we’ve all heard about “power naps”; taking 10 to 30 minutes in the midst of a work day to close your eyes and switch off. This short break has been proven to restore energy and alertness without the fuzziness associated with a longer nap. It’s difficult to justify and may even seem shameful for ever-busy New Yorkers to admit to taking a respite, but we’re only human and we really need it.

I remember the old days in Israel, when the country shut down for a few hours around noon. Businesses there and elsewhere in the Mediterranean would open for work early in the morning. They’d close at 12 or 1 so everyone could go home for the big midday meal and a leisurely rest before returning refreshed to work for the late afternoon hours.

As a visiting American, I was befuddled and inconvenienced by this weird MIRIAM’S MUSINGS practice, but have come to appreciate its wisdom.

The siesta originated in countries where the hot climate makes it ineffective to attempt productivity during the most brutal hours of the day. This, combined with the lethargy produced by conMiriam Bradman suming a typiAbrahams cally large lunch, makes a powerful case for some shut eye. This quaint custom has unfortunately all but disappeared in recent years, due to lengthy commutes home, economic pressures and the Westernization of the world.

As a yoga practitioner, I have learned the importance of shavasana, the “corpse” or resting pose. It took me many moons to evolve from being a fidgety rester to one who embraces the healing peace and quiet of the final minutes of a class. As a yoga teacher, I observe a wide range of reactions to this pose. Some don’t see the point and may even dread it, making a quick getaway just before the class reclines in the passive but crucial pose. Others clearly get what it’s about and audibly sigh with satisfaction as they settle down comfortably with pillows and blankets to make the most of this tiny bit of heaven.

A break doesn’t have to be quiet or restful to reinvigorate. We’ve just been away for a

family reunion, which was anything but serene. We flew to another city, were handed a full schedule of activities, and spent every meal engaging with lots of relatives. It was hectic, but in a totally different sort of busyness than our normal schedule. By stepping out of our regular rut, er, routine, and being fully immersed in our interactions, we enjoyed a vacation of sorts. We switched our minds off from job and home responsibilities, experienced new geography and different people, and some of the same people in a different environment.

Jarring the senses with emotional or physical changes feels like pressing the restart button, giving me a new perspective. However, it doesn’t have to be so drastic as having to leave town in order to gain the benefits.

A catch up lunch date with an old friend, a stroll on the beach or a gorgeous view of sunrise or sunset can help me recharge. Delving into an all consuming book helps me slip away from my surroundings and feel as if I’m transported to another era. Being totally engaged by a fascinating film takes me to another world. (Of course, making sure to shut off all devices--no posting or texting allowed to spoil the out of body experience!)

We are lucky to have the built in 25-hour reprieve of Shabbat available to us each and every week. However, I want and need a small taste of that during the other six days.

I’m learning that finding time for a mental health break every day is critical to my physical health. I’m telling my students (and consequently reminding myself) that the first step is to cultivate an awareness of the importance of separating out a piece of time.

Once we’ve done that, we must practice allowing ourselves to maximize those minutes by being fully in the moment, without letting guilt or regret spoil it. This is hard to do but may be accomplished by conscious breathing, feeling, observing and letting go. Only then can we begin to appreciate that this small oasis in the day is not a luxury, but a necessity, pehaps more than anything else we do.

After the break, whether it’s five minutes, an hour, a weekend or longer, we must inevitably come back to our reality, returning home, to work and responsiblities. As far as we’ve gone, we’ve still been ourselves, in our own bodies. Now take a moment to notice if there’s any change--if you see, feel or react a little differently. Take a slow breath and know that you’ve done something good for yourself and that will positively affect those around you. Take a break, you won’t be sorry!

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The Sounds of Silence The Radziner Rebbe`s tisch was unusual: the Chassidim would sit at the Rebbe`s table for hours, and listen to his silence ... I still remember the day I spent in an empty camp on my day off, when the entire camp was away on a trip. My friends thought I was crazy - but I was looking for the solitude and quiet. Many people seem to need the noise, the buzz, the tumult, and find it hard to be alone.

Maybe that`s why they search for virtual worlds and friends. But I think that it`s important to be able to be with oneself, which allows for quiet introspection .,.

By Rabbi Noam Himelstein

Miriam Bradman Abrahams is Cuban born, Brooklyn bred and lives in Woodmere.

She organizes author events for Hadassah, reviews books for Jewish Book World and is very slowly writing her father’s immigration story.

She is teaching yoga at Peaceful Presence Yoga Studio. mabraha1@optonline.net

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Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.

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Hello muddah, hello faddah...I’m home! except for Jerry and his bother) boys wore those little shorts, even to play basketball in. Wish I could have seen him on the court in those days, wearing penguin shirts and “long” shorts. If he wanted to wear dungarees (tangerines as his mom would call them or “jeans” as they are called today) he had to borrow them from friends who had American parents. Children who had European parents had the wardrobe that included wool dress pants, shorts with pleats that came past the knees and socks that reached up to the knees. All which had the makings of a really popular camper. At least he had his Chuck Taylor high top Converse All Star sneakers.

Every self respecting ball player wore them.

They weren’t a fashion statement as they are today--they were a necessary basketball tool.

Of course, you needed two pairs since they each only lasted about a month. They were always white, unless they were the hated Boston Celtics, black.

The first year, I had them bring the trunk into my living room. I wasn’t prepared…..I opened the trunk and quickly closed it before the clothes would walk out on their own. After I took a deep breath, I began the chore of going through and throwing out much of the socks (couldn’t even bend them…and weren’t they all white when I sent them?

These had black bottoms). Most of the undershirts made their way to the garbage pile as well. Much of the bedding was spotless as he never changed his sheets or pillow cases.

I put four pillow cases on each pillow and four quilt covers on his quilt and told him to remove one each week and send them to the laundry. On the fourth Sunday, visiting day, I

would put them back on again for the second half of the summer. I must have repeated this at least five times on the way to the bus the day he left. His dad turned to me and said, “I think he knows what to do at this point.”

PS, on visiting day, there were four pillowcases on each pillow and four quilt covers on his quilt. He looked at me and said, “Oh, I didn’t know there were four of each and that I was supposed to take them off each week.”

He did remember, however, exactly where all the snacks and spending money was.

Best part after hugging the kids, was having them shower, and then heading out to a restaurant and having dinner as a family once again. For those of you who don’t feel like going out for dinner that first night home, heres my healthy version of Fung Wong Gai, that I loved at Shmulka Bernstein’s way back when.......

STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS 6 boneless chicken cutlets sliced in half so that you have 12 pieces 3/4 cup Jason’s flavored bread crumbs mixed with 3/4 cup corn flake crumbs, in a shallow bowl

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Are those the camp busses rolling back into town? Didn’t they just leave? Wasn’t it yesterday that all the trunks were being packed? It’s been a while since I’ve packed and unpacked those trunks, but the memories are still very vivid. When my eldest went to camp, the first time, I taped a sheet of paper to the inside of the trunk listing all the items packed so he could remember to repack them once camp was over. What was I thinking? Would he actually look at that list?

And more importantly, would I actually want most of that stuff to make it home?

My husband Jerry, on the other hand, never unpacked most of his clothing. His mom took him to the lower East Side and bought at least two dozen identical shirts, half in green, half in blue, with a penguin emblem on them.

No need to unpack them Judy Joszef all, so at least 18 of them remained in the original plastic bags safely tucked away in his trunk, along with his Shabbos stockings (socks), his straps (belts) and the almost floor length cushy bathrobe that Tante Ruchel bought for him especially for his first summer at camp. He actually called those articles of clothing by those names. And let’s not forget most of the “walking” shorts that his mom thought was appropriate for a nice young Jewish boy to wear. There would be no “short” shorts for him. She didn’t quite understand how some (everyone in camp

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5 egg whites and one egg yolk in a shallow bowl mixed with one teaspoon of garlic powder, and salt and pepper to taste. ¼ cup of canola oil 12 lean slices of corned beef or pastrami Put 2 slices of pastrami or corned beef, or one of each on 6 of the chicken halves, and place the remaining chicken halves on top.

Dip each of the 6 breasts in the egg mixture then gently place in the bread crumbs to coat both sides, being careful not to lose any of the meat.

After all the cutlets are filled and coated, pour enough canola oil in a frying pan to coat the bottom. When oil is hot, place each piece in and fry for one minute on each side just to crisp the outside. Transfer to a baking pan and place in 350 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

VEGETABLE STIRFRY INGREDIENTS 2 onions cut into thin pieces 2 red peppers cut into chunks 10 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced into quarters 3 zucchinis sliced in half and cut into 1 inch pieces Pam cooking spray LaChoy Teryiaki Marinade Sauce You can choose any vegetables that you like. I tend to use different veggies each time.

Heat another frying pan and coat generously with Pam. When pan is hot, add the onions and sauté for a few minutes, then add some hot water and cook till the water evaporates. Add more Pam and add the other vegetables. When they are almost ready add 1 tablespoon of teriyaki sauce, and sauté another minute longer. Set vegetables on individual plates. Cut each cutlet in two pieces and place them on top of each plate.

By the way I should note that Jerry did get to wear those short shorts when he was captain of the YU Macabees, during his college years.

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Ashkenazic link to high LDL levels Continued from page 1 with FH commonly range in the mid 200s.

There are 1600 known genetic mutations that can cause FH, he said, but “when you have it, it looks the same; there are subtleties in levels of cholesterol. Most have elevated cholesterol; some have depositions of cholesterol around the eyes, on the Achilles tendon, called zanthomas.” He said that many have it and think it’s a sports injury, since in appears as a lump. “They have severely elevated cholesterol levels” and thus a “significantly elevated risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.” The overall average over the course of a lifetime is a 20 times greater risk of heart attack or stroke for someone with FH than someone without FH. “It’s not fatal at birth,” he said, and it does “not impact someone’s decision to have kids,” but “later on in life you might want to do more about it.”

Current recommendations, as of the end of 2011, from the NHLBI (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) and the National Lipid Association, call for all children between ages 9 and 11 to be screened for cholesterol. Underberg said that two year olds should be screened for cholesterol if a parent has FH or if there is a strong history of early (premature) cardiovascular disease such as “dad died in his forties from a heart attack, to be aware of the condition and promote a heart healthy lifestyle.”

Underberg pointed out that FH was first described by physicians in the 1930s and in the 1970s Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein discovered the LDL receptor that controls cholesterol levels in the blood and

cells and noted that mutations in this receptor cause FH. Their research paved the way for statins, drugs that prevent the creation of cholesterol, that make more receptors for LDL, lowers cholesterol in the blood and prevents heart attacks. Over 20 million people around the world use statins. Brown and Goldstein received the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their work. “They are kind of like rock stars in my business,” said Underberg.

There is a push now to increase awareness of FH because of two new organizations, the FH Foundation, begun this past year and the National Lipid Association begun two years ago, said Underberg. The first national awareness day for FH will be on September 20th. “As they develop more treatments, there are more reasons to be aware of it because they have a host of available therapies and other new ones on the horizon to change how these people live. It’s very exciting.”

He also stressed an “international awareness highlighting guidelines for managing this” and that in the next few months the U.S. government with also be releasing new guidelines and they are “hoping that attention will be paid to FH in the new guidelines. All this is contributing to increased awareness.” He said that although genetic screening is better than it was ten years ago it is still expensive but will hopefully be less expensive in the future enabling more people to be screened and aware of FH. But now, stressed Underberg, “we need to promote awareness in doctors and in populations at greater risk—they should know that they are at risk. They should screen all first degree family members of documented cases with cholesterol screen-

ing. Genetic screening is too expensive for this. I don’t think that all members of a high risk group have to be screened, just if a relative” has it.

Dr. Mitchell Weiler, a pediatrician in Cedarhurst, said he tests children for cholesterol between ages 9 and 12 and has seen many patients with FH. The one or two very young patients that inherited the gene from both parents manifesting the most difficult form with very high levels of cholesterol at a very young age he referred to a specialist. He said high cholesterol is “common,” genetic and may be controlled by diet.

Treatment for FH begins with diet, reducing saturated fat and cholesterol intake, increasing exercise, refraining from smoking, and controlling weight. “If I had a child with FH, I would want them to lead a very heart healthy lifestyle,” emphasized Underberg. He also noted that those of Lithuanian Jewish descent have an even greater risk. He noted that patients with FH have to be diagnosed and that they have to be told it’s treatable be-

cause if it’s not treated “for many people their first heart attack is their last heart attack.”

Some may not tolerate statins but there are other medications and other treatments and new therapies on the horizon, he said. Some of these include Zetia, bile acid sequestrants, niacin, LDL apheresis, new injectable medications that target RNA, or block the protein that breaks down the LDL receptor, or an oral drug that blocks the assembly of the precursor to LDL. “You shouldn’t just ignore it till you’re older,” warned Underberg. “If you wait, you will have heart disease at an early age.

If you have the condition in your twenties, why wait till you are in your forties, by then the cat’s out of the bag. If a young person is told that they have it they may go and do treatment and then be around when their kid grows up.”

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the program is a “statement of the quality of cardiac surgery and overall care” available there. Schubach noted that Cornell and Columbia were among the original 40 “academic centers” participating in the research in the U.S. and, when it was approved by the FDA, 30 other hospitals were added including Winthrop. Only five New York hospitals have TAVR: Winthrop, Cornell, Columbia, Long Island Jewish and Maimonides.

The procedure involves threading a catheter through the femoral artery from a small incision in the groin and essentially pushing the affected heart valve out of the way. It then replaces the stenotic valve with a valve constructed in a metal stent that is expanded by the balloon catheter. The procedure is done under general anesthesia and takes about an hour and a half as opposed to four hours for standard valve replacement surgery. This technology is currently only approved for severe aortic valve stenosis, for those patients who, for health reasons, cannot have standard surgery.

Standard open surgery is through a sternotomy, said Schubach, “opening the breast bone and repairing or replacing the diseased valve.” Schubach noted that he has been doing heart surgery for over 20 years, including valve replacement. For open surgery, they “had to stop the heart,” the patient had to go on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. He said that open surgery is “still effective and done often. It is relatively safe, and there can be complications associated with any surgery.”

Aortic valve stenosis is one of the more common valve lesions, explained Schubach.

He noted that there are four valves in the heart and that the aortic is the last valve on the pumping chamber that pumps to the body “to allow the blood to flow to the body

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er health issues.” The surgery requires the same preparation and testing, he said. “The artery has to be a good size with limited calcification.” Currently the procedure is done via trans femoral approach but a trans apical approach is “coming.” This involves a “little incision under the breast, the apex of the heart is right there, going directly to the heart without going thorough the artery,” he explained. It should be “approved soon” by the FDA. Winthrop began using TAVR in February 2012 and they have done 20 so far. “We see new people all the time,” Schubach said.

“They are seeking out the procedure. Some may not be candidates, but it is allowing patients and families to realize other options for the disease.”

With this procedure, he continued, “there is a risk of stroke, but people feel a lot better. We’ve had excellent results. We are very pleased to offer a treatment for AVS to patients who in the past were deemed inoperable.” A native of Long Beach, Schubach has been in Winthrop for 20 years, nine as chairman.

As for John Defazio, he is now going shopping, swimming at the beach and, even though his dialysis “takes a lot out of me,” he notes that he is “getting a lot better. I feel like I’m regenerating.” He said that after the surgery, his doctor told Defazio that he would have given him less than a year to live before the valve replacement. He had the surgery on a Friday and on Sunday the doctor said that he was “doing great” and could go home. Said Defazio, “I’m progressing everyday.”

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and closes to prevent backflow, allowing the heart to work efficiently. Stenosis is a narrowing of the valve; the heart has to work very heard to pump through this, it resists flow.” Common symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, tiredness, dizziness; patients may “pass out,” he said.

He pointed out that it is usually found in older patients, although it can be in children or congenital. “The problem is that it is a disease of the elderly with other problems and turns into a high risk operation.” Aortic valve stenosis is seen in two to nine percent of the elderly. “We don’t know why certain people get it and certain people don’t,” he added.

The procedure is a “less invasive and a valuable addition to the types of surgery we can provide,” stressed Schubach.

With TAVR, there is “no chest incision and they don’t stop the heart.” The catheter is passed up the artery in the groin and into the heart to “push the diseased valve out of the way and the balloon expands, planting the new valve in its place.” The procedure is monitored with x-ray and echocardiography.

An inflatable balloon is inside the new valve; the balloon is expanded, wedging the valve into place and the balloon is then removed.

The hospital stay following standard surgery is a week; for this four days. But the main advantage of TAVR is that it is “allowing us to take care of inoperable patients,” Schubach stressed. “It is not a replacement for standard surgery, but extends to those who couldn’t have the standard valve (surgery).

It’s good for an elderly patient who before couldn’t have surgery because of age or oth-

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He would get out of breath walking from one room to the other and would have to stop three times on the way to the mailbox at the curb and then back to the house. “Life was getting worse,” said John Defazio, aged 78.

But a groundbreaking minimally invasive surgery at Winthrop University Hospital changed Defazio’s life. He said he is feeling “90% better” and getting stronger every day.

“April 27, 2012 is my new birthday,” he said gruffly, his voice thick with emotion. “I get a little choked up.”

Winthrop is one of five hospitals in the New York area to offer the Edwards Sapien Transcatheter Heart Valve for the treatment of aortic valve stenosis, the same conPhoto courtesy of Dr. Schubachdition causing Defazio’s suffering.

Dr. Scott Schubach The treatment, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a technology developed and studied in Europe and the U.S., said Dr. Scott L. Schubach, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Winthrop, and Associate professor of surgery at the State University of New York at Stonybrook. The FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approved the procedure in fall 2012 and Winthrop became one of 70 hospitals out of over 1000 U.S. hospitals that do open heart surgery approved to perform this surgery. Schubach noted that they have a coordinated dedicated heart team and that Winthrop’s inclusion in

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A new heart valve for the medically compromised

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he Torah shuns violence, values life, and has embedded in most Jewish hearts and minds through the generations that violence is not our way. The establishment of the State of Israel, and the needs for vigilance and survival, have changed this attitude somewhat, but even so, the Jewish people are still held to a higher standard – by others and by ourselves – and will seek diplomacy and other options before resorting to violence as a last option.

This makes the section of Devarim 13:712 quite troubling. In simple terms, the Torah describes a case in which an individual from your community, who may be quite close to you, chooses to act as a missionary for another god or religion, and tries to get you to worship that other god.

The Torah says, “Do not agree with him, and do not listen to him. Do not let your eyes pity him, do not show him any mercy, Rabbi Avi Billet and do not try to cover up for him, since you must be the one to put him to death. Your hand must be the first against him to kill him, followed by the hands of the other people. Pelt him to death with stones, since he has tried to make you abandon G-d your L-rd, who brought you out

of Egypt and the House of Bondage. When all Israel hears about it, they will be afraid, and they will never again do such an evil thing among you.”

Before we continue, three disclaimers are in order.

1. Since the destruction of the Temple 2000 years ago, the Jewish people do not have a system that would allow for such a sequence of “justice” to play out.

2. The Talmud (Makkot 7) discusses the propriety of a court executing capital punishment. Some felt capital punishment should be a very rare occurrence, while others felt that all the criteria necessary to obtain such a verdict would be so difficult to achieve that a court would never be able to execute someone.

3. Perhaps our contemporary society views such an approach as barbaric. After all, you’re going to take someone’s life because he or she has expressed an opinion about which god you should worship?

In truth, this is really a question of which sins or misdeeds can so remove a person from society that said society agrees by consensus that the death penalty is in order.

I think the most blatant hint in our case, comes from the inclusion of the phrase “who brought you out of Egypt and the House of Bondage” in 13:11. The verse could have easily ended with the words “tried to make you abandon G-d your L-rd!” Mentioning Egypt is the most direct reminder that the god this person is suggesting you abandon is G-d who

loves you, Who cares for you, Who saved you from Egypt; G-d Who made miracles for you, gave you the Torah and asked for allegiance in return.

This is worse than a person asking you to abandon your parents – this is The G-d without Whom your parents would not exist, and you would not exist.

The Torah would seem to suggest that while evil has many faces, the “friend” trying to pull you away from G-d embodies pure evil. In the book of Devarim, the Torah emphasizes at least ten times the need to eradicate evil from amongst the Israelite nation. It speaks of a certain level of conformity – but in all cases the vilified act is one which, at its core, stands to undermine a civil and just society, which is partially defined by the laws that contribute heavily to the moral fabric and order that is the essence of the Torah’s instruction, or a direct affront to G-d.

How do we justify putting this person to death? The Torah Temimah (13:9) records a number of Talmudic and Midrashic passages that address the seeming contradiction between “Loving your neighbor,” for example, and, in this case, putting him to death. If the person’s deeds take him out of the category of being your neighbor, there is no c ontradiction – your non-neighborly-neighbor seeks your destruction.

But it is Rabbenu Bachaye who instructs us as to how we should properly view the death penalty: “The Torah is all mercy and it comes from the Merciful One. When it

tells us to take the life of one who is guilty, it never intends for us to do so in a vengeful manner. That would be the excuse were we trying to train ourselves to be cruel. But the ‘revenge’ is meant to be merciful: to have mercy on everyone else. This is why it says ‘Don’t let your eyes pity him’ and ‘All of Israel will hear and see and will not continue to do this any more’ and ‘you must eradicate evil from your midst.’”

There are organizations in Israel that exist specifically to counter missionary efforts in Israel – they can take up the debate whether missionaries who target Jews are the embodiment of evil. Perhaps Jews (or former Jews) who prey on weak Jews and try to entice them away from Judaism are the worst kind of missionaries.

But when it comes to the death penalty, just as the Torah is not looking to train its adherents to become cruel, it doesn’t put much stock in the notion that “the civil society does not participate in the cruel act of capital punishment” or those who question a society’s right to rid itself of evil people. If evil is allowed to live, the Torah argues, what deters other people from committing similar evil acts?

How many evil people, particularly terrorists and murderers, have “done their time,” been released, and found new victims?

Ridding the world of evildoers is not cruelty to the evildoer. It is mercy on all the rest of us, particularly potential victims, as it makes the world a better and safer place.

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oday, thirty years later, none of us remember exactly what it was we were supposed to have done, and what it was that had so enraged them, but our sergeants were on the warpath, and it was clearly going to be a long afternoon…

This had all started out as just another inspection. It was Friday afternoon, and after a week of intense maneuvers with very little sleep, followed by the weekly servicing of our tanks all night long, we were exhausted.

Our tanks had passed inspection, finally, and, full of oil and grease, and having gone without any sleep since early Thursday morning, and without a shower since Saturday night, all that stood between us and Shabbat was one last inspection of our barracks.

FROM THE HEART Blankets drawn tight OF JERUSALEM across beds, boots polished to a black shine, gear stowed regulation style beneath the foot of the bed, guns cleaned and oiled, and floors mopped shiny clean we could practically taste the showers and Shabbat food that awaited….

And then something went dreadfully wrong and amidst screaming Rabbi Binny sergeants, flying blanFreedman kets, and beds tipped over, we were given seven minutes to re-do the entire inspection…outside on the base perimeter in front of the tanks!

It is hard to imagine, much less describe a company full of tank crew men carrying bunk-beds full of gear all the way out to the area in front of the tanks and trying to remake the beds and stow the gear all while making sure the guns stayed clean…. And then they started screaming at us all over

again… we had forgotten our boot lockers….

As the sun dipped lower on the horizon, and getting more and more depressed, again and again we were ordered: Thirty seconds around the tanks: MOVE!!”

We were expected to run around the line of tanks and get back in line within thirty seconds, a hopeless task. And then we were made to run with our beds, and then with our boot lockers… all the while watching the sun dip lower and lower….

I don’t know how it began, but someone started to laugh.

We were behind the tanks so the commanders couldn’t see us, and pretty soon the entire company was in hysterics. We did our best to put a straight, agonized face back on once clearing the tanks and coming back into view of our commanders, but they could see most of us were smiling, which of course only infuriated them more….

With time on our side (they had to end all this before Shabbat) we all came to the same realization that our enjoyment was also our victory; we would not break. Of course, in retrospect, that may well have been the point of the entire exercise, (to mold us as a unit), but at the time, the pure joy of recognizing we had nothing more to lose, and we might as well laugh about it as cry, was a powerful experience that stays with me still.

But as much as I still smile, recalling that experience, it nonetheless leaves one with a compelling question: how do some people succeed in smiling in the face of adversity?

Rav Nachman of Breslev is quoted as having said: “Mitzvah gedolah le’hiyot besimcha tamid” “It is a great mitzvah to always be happy” Sounds nice; but seems to be beyond most of our reach, no? How do we (can we/should we?) keep a smile on our faces even when the most horrific things sometimes come our way?

This week’s portion, Re’eh (literally:

‘See!’) is all about learning to see the world through different eyes. This may explain why the particular mitzvah of being joyous on the festivals, occurs in this portion.

Specifically on the festival of Sukkot, the third of the regalim (biblical festivals wherein every Jew was meant to come up to the Temple in Jerusalem to rejoice in the midst of the entire Jewish people) we are commanded: “Ve’hayita’ ach sameach” “ A n d you shall be completely joyous” (Devarim 16:15) How does a person develop the skill-set necessary to being a happy person? And can one (how can one) maintain such joy in the face of the inevitable adversities life always seems to throw our way?

Take for example, the story of Aaron, (Moshe’s brother,) who, as part of an enslaved people in Egypt, caught in the depths of the most evil and cruel empire the world had ever known, might have been expected to be quite miserable. Yet, he is the only individual in the entire Torah who is described as being happy! No less than G-d Himself tells Moshe that Aaron will, upon seeing Moshe (just arrived back in Egypt after forty years), “rejoice in his heart”! (Shemot (Exodus) 4:14).

In the midst of all that pain and suffering, after being enslaved as a people for over two centuries, Aaron succeeds in focusing on the positive and is able to rejoice in his heart at his brother’s return. What is the secret to being happy? How does Aaron do it?

On the other hand, take a close look at the story of Haman, who seems to represent the opposite extreme in the spectrum.

Haman, chief advisor to the king (Achashveirosh) of the entire Persian Empire, is essentially the second most powerful person in the entire world. He is happily married (albeit to a wicked woman), with no less than ten sons who seem to idolize him and want only to follow in his footsteps, and every subject of

the Persian empire who crosses his path must bow down to him. And yet: “Ve’kol zeh einenu shaveh li” “All this is worthless to me” (Esther 5:13) Simply because there is one Jew (Mordechai) who will not bow down to him! And this, after the Jewish people have already been sentenced to death as a people, such that the issue with Mordechai is soon to be solved regardless! And yet, Haman is miserable; he cannot see all the good he has, because he is so focused on what he doesn’t have….

Herein, perhaps, lays the key to happiness: Haman cannot focus on all that he has because he is stuck on what he does not have.

What prevents a person from rejoicing in life? It is only the feeling that he or she is missing something.

Indeed, being happy is not really about how much we actually have, it is rather about appreciating how much we have. And it is only through appreciation that we really have things at all….

In the end, poverty is really a state of mind: you are poor if you think you are.

And it gets deeper, because if happiness is all about purpose (hence people who feel they have no purpose are depressed, whether they be financially well off or not, and people who are imbued with a sense of purpose have much joy in their lives…), there is no true purpose unless we are created. If we are a random accident in a G-d-less world, then of course there is no real purpose to our being here in the first place, which of course is very depressing….

But if we are created, and obviously G-d has a reason for creating all of us, so we all have purpose, then by definition I must have what I need, always! Whatever I have, and whatever skills I was born with are, by definition, all I need to accomplish whatever my purpose is in this world. And being happy is simply based on my ability to see that, all the time.

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raoh?” “Who am I to go before Pharaoh?”

(Exodus 3:11) For Haman, it is all about Haman, but for Moshe, it’s all about G-d and the Jewish people. Moshe sees himself as a tool in something much greater, whilst Haman considers himself the goal of all that he does. And a person like that always feels he is missing something….

Too much pride will make you miserable.

Because what is pride all about? Pride suggests that it’s all about me, but true joy is about recognizing that I am just a vehicle to a greater and higher purpose….

May we all succeed in finding joy in our lives by learning to see all we have, and finding the clarity to decide, as individuals and as a nation, what we are meant to do with it all….

Shabbat Shalom, from the Old City of Jerusalem, Binny Freedman Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem’s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children.

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Sukkot, the festival on which we are commanded to rejoice, is actually the goal, as it is the festival of the harvest. All the other festivals ultimately lead to Sukkot, economically as well as theologically, hence it is on Sukkot that we truly rejoice, when the purpose of all that hard work becomes clear….

Happiness is achieved when we succeed in tapping into what we each feel our purpose is meant to be, which of course is what joy is all about….

And there is a character flaw which seems to lie at the root of unhappiness: and that is pride.

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