mydonek continued
I'm outside now. There must have been a million shoes in there. Nazis kept everything. People lived here in the barracks. They are so dark and so small and probably so cold. I am now looking at the beds. Each "bed" held about 15 people. They would talk to eachother at night and dream of food. Their mother's cooking. I love my mother's cooking. We just sang the Hatikvah inside the barracks. I never missed Israel so much. I am now sitting next to a huge dome and under it are ashes of people killed in harvestfest. I've never cried so much in my life. We all cried. I just left the worst place I have ever been in my life.
We went straight to the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin. Rabbi Meyer Shapira established the idea of Daf yomi. He was a very young man and came up with the idea to build this yeshiva. He created it with a dorm and a kitchen. He had to go from place to place to collect money.
If you wanted to be part of this yeshiva you needed to know shas by heart. Before one would get smicha from him one would have to live with him for a month. If someone came to ask the Rav a question, the person wanting smicha would have to answer. Three years after the yeshiva was finished, he passed away. The nazis came here and took the library outside to burn. The flames burned for 20 hours.
We ate dinner at the other hotel at about 11 and didn't check into ours until about 12.
I'm outside now. There must have been a million shoes in there. Nazis kept everything. People lived here in the barracks. They are so dark and so small and probably so cold. I am now looking at the beds. Each "bed" held about 15 people. They would talk to eachother at night and dream of food. Their mother's cooking. I love my mother's cooking. We just sang the Hatikvah inside the barracks. I never missed Israel so much. I am now sitting next to a huge dome and under it are ashes of people killed in harvestfest. I've never cried so much in my life. We all cried. I just left the worst place I have ever been in my life.
We went straight to the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin. Rabbi Meyer Shapira established the idea of Daf yomi. He was a very young man and came up with the idea to build this yeshiva. He created it with a dorm and a kitchen. He had to go from place to place to collect money.
If you wanted to be part of this yeshiva you needed to know shas by heart. Before one would get smicha from him one would have to live with him for a month. If someone came to ask the Rav a question, the person wanting smicha would have to answer. Three years after the yeshiva was finished, he passed away. The nazis came here and took the library outside to burn. The flames burned for 20 hours.
We ate dinner at the other hotel at about 11 and didn't check into ours until about 12.
posted by Rebecca at 7:20 AM
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What you're doing on this blog is very important. Yasher koach.
i know exactly how you feel.
i felt the same way throught my trip.
and i think it's so important and amazing that you're putting your journal up.
so, since you haven't posted in a while i'll make a deal with you.
you post some more and i will send you the pictures you want from estee's party.
<3
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