Last week I went to Kiddush at synagogue. Kiddush is a buffet-style lunch where after prayers congregants eat foods like herring, cholent, and crackers. They mingle and connect over small talk and business. This past Shabbat, I stood with a new acquaintance on the perimeter of the Kiddush surveying a scene of men, women, and children loading their plates with food. My new friend looks at the crowd and says, I’m just so embarrassed that these are my people. Where is the dignity? Look at them elbowing each other out of the way to get some stale crackers. Have they not eaten in days? There is no way other communities behave this way.
So many things in my life have simply streamed by without me thinking about them. As a child growing up in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's, I was ordered to Temple every Friday night and Saturday morning. Kiddush, which in Buffalo in those days was more like a brief snack, was, unless something special was going on, gefilte fish balls, herring, kichel (little egg based small biscuits - some with sugar and some without) and something to drink - wine, and schnapps (for the older men). I rarely considered the behavior of others as I was consumed with getting my arm in there to grab some food. I think, perhaps, people these days are a wee bit too judgmental. We should give ourselves a break. As long as there is no violence, let's leave other people alone to do what they do and not spend endless hours thinking about every little thing. People are who they are. Let's appreciate them for that. Some people are naturally more aggressive than others. I remember some of the people at those tables not being aggressive. They were also survivors.
Well said. I struggle with stress related binge eating. As a child, I was constantly berated for not eating enough by a grandmother and aunt. Though my grandmother and aunt and other family never faced evil and starvation like described here, my grandmother's generation did experience plenty of times when there wasn't enough food and lived for weeks on corn meal and tomato sauce. So, reading this reminded me to have more compassion about what was done to me as a child about food. Thank you, this helped me. Shabbat shalom.
I learned later in life that I was Jewish. My mother and her siblings had horrific stories of things that happened to them as children. They lost their parents at a very young age and none of them knew how. They were taken in by a woman and her husband and put into a cage outside of the house with two mattresses. The woman gave them food and allowed them to leave the cage during the day, but at night they were sent outside again. My mother had strange dreams and traditions, which no one seemed to understand. Later in life, I went to synagogue and started learning about Jewish foods and traditions. After some research, I figured out that the things my mother did had to do with Jewish traditions. I then started researching her name and family history and discovered that she was of Jewish descent.
My mother was adamant about not eating more than what you could finish. No food was to be left on the plate and giving thanks for what we had was mandatory. I remember that there were days when we ate once a day and other days we drank lots of water.
I have been to the dinners after Shabbat and sometimes I don’t partake. There are people who seem to not have had enough food so I don’t take, because I ate at home. I know there are families that have to do without and they don’t say anything because of pride. No one knows who they are, so if I have food at home, why take away from those that don’t have food? Let’s not judge what we don’t know or understand!
This reminds me the simple maxim: be curious, not judgmental. We all have stories, traumas and other pieces of our life that can drive how we interact and behave today. If more people were as thoughtful and curious as you, Eli, the world would no doubt be more compassionate, caring and loving. Thank you for your words. -Casey
There's never a wrong time to do the right thing, especially when being tested by HaSatan, as the accuser runs through HaShem. At some point all, not just wealthy Jewish men like Soros, face adversity and ethical dilemmas; heavily "concentratEd" on the $ root. As a double AshkeŇazi Holocaust 3rd generation survivor, I advocate against those out of site, out of mind or countermeasure Jewish legal professionals choosing to (not see 👀) i.e:
Mintz Lev[in] - top 100 law firm liable for Global Patent:
Cadwalader - Oldest law firm in NY that arrested me 4 times with no priors for calling out iP patents and their role as lead funder of the private Fed Reserve's RICO ACT violations: Patent 2020279585-A1 with a 2015 Priority date & many top Research Universities + an assist from Fox Rothschild?
[Mel] Gibson Dunn - Finuto? My team with HaShem as appointed CEO is currently testing them now. Specifically we've approached them with an Israeli derived global patent Wo2022034572A1 which is also disgusting PoliCIA 11107588b2. After interviewing the head lawyer/inventor of the patent about its SCARY invasive/evasive content, Gal Ehrlich compared it to an electric chair saying his job was to get it approved.
So many things in my life have simply streamed by without me thinking about them. As a child growing up in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's, I was ordered to Temple every Friday night and Saturday morning. Kiddush, which in Buffalo in those days was more like a brief snack, was, unless something special was going on, gefilte fish balls, herring, kichel (little egg based small biscuits - some with sugar and some without) and something to drink - wine, and schnapps (for the older men). I rarely considered the behavior of others as I was consumed with getting my arm in there to grab some food. I think, perhaps, people these days are a wee bit too judgmental. We should give ourselves a break. As long as there is no violence, let's leave other people alone to do what they do and not spend endless hours thinking about every little thing. People are who they are. Let's appreciate them for that. Some people are naturally more aggressive than others. I remember some of the people at those tables not being aggressive. They were also survivors.
Well said. I struggle with stress related binge eating. As a child, I was constantly berated for not eating enough by a grandmother and aunt. Though my grandmother and aunt and other family never faced evil and starvation like described here, my grandmother's generation did experience plenty of times when there wasn't enough food and lived for weeks on corn meal and tomato sauce. So, reading this reminded me to have more compassion about what was done to me as a child about food. Thank you, this helped me. Shabbat shalom.
I learned later in life that I was Jewish. My mother and her siblings had horrific stories of things that happened to them as children. They lost their parents at a very young age and none of them knew how. They were taken in by a woman and her husband and put into a cage outside of the house with two mattresses. The woman gave them food and allowed them to leave the cage during the day, but at night they were sent outside again. My mother had strange dreams and traditions, which no one seemed to understand. Later in life, I went to synagogue and started learning about Jewish foods and traditions. After some research, I figured out that the things my mother did had to do with Jewish traditions. I then started researching her name and family history and discovered that she was of Jewish descent.
My mother was adamant about not eating more than what you could finish. No food was to be left on the plate and giving thanks for what we had was mandatory. I remember that there were days when we ate once a day and other days we drank lots of water.
I have been to the dinners after Shabbat and sometimes I don’t partake. There are people who seem to not have had enough food so I don’t take, because I ate at home. I know there are families that have to do without and they don’t say anything because of pride. No one knows who they are, so if I have food at home, why take away from those that don’t have food? Let’s not judge what we don’t know or understand!
This reminds me the simple maxim: be curious, not judgmental. We all have stories, traumas and other pieces of our life that can drive how we interact and behave today. If more people were as thoughtful and curious as you, Eli, the world would no doubt be more compassionate, caring and loving. Thank you for your words. -Casey
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There's never a wrong time to do the right thing, especially when being tested by HaSatan, as the accuser runs through HaShem. At some point all, not just wealthy Jewish men like Soros, face adversity and ethical dilemmas; heavily "concentratEd" on the $ root. As a double AshkeŇazi Holocaust 3rd generation survivor, I advocate against those out of site, out of mind or countermeasure Jewish legal professionals choosing to (not see 👀) i.e:
Mintz Lev[in] - top 100 law firm liable for Global Patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2005060520A3/en
Cadwalader - Oldest law firm in NY that arrested me 4 times with no priors for calling out iP patents and their role as lead funder of the private Fed Reserve's RICO ACT violations: Patent 2020279585-A1 with a 2015 Priority date & many top Research Universities + an assist from Fox Rothschild?
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-2020279585-A1
[Mel] Gibson Dunn - Finuto? My team with HaShem as appointed CEO is currently testing them now. Specifically we've approached them with an Israeli derived global patent Wo2022034572A1 which is also disgusting PoliCIA 11107588b2. After interviewing the head lawyer/inventor of the patent about its SCARY invasive/evasive content, Gal Ehrlich compared it to an electric chair saying his job was to get it approved.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11107588B2/en
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Citations:
https://covidandvaxfaqs.substack.com/p/patents-implicate-pandemic-conspiracy
https://rumble.com/v24ahme-live-rumble-exclusive-premiere-of-new-video-metabiota-and-hunter-biden-spec.html
Love thy Neighbor Holocaust Memoir (Gramps)
https://legallinkconfidential.com/4words-flowers-forward-afterwards-blitzkrieg
Compassion is one of the most important acts of life. It extends beyond just being kind. Thank you for this post.