My Mother’s Yahrzeit
Tuesday is the 19th of Kislev. That is the anniversary of my mother’s passing.
What is interesting is that this is an auspicious day in the Jewish calendar. I do not know if my mother could have chosen a better day but looking it up I noticed some interesting things. Coincidence? Could be.
Among Chabad Hasidim it is an important day since it is the anniversary of the liberation of the first Chabad Rabbi from prison. He had been arrested on false charges and was able to prove that the charges were false. Not an easy thing to do in Czarist Russia.
In the modern era this is the anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. What an amazing date. That this mass murderer was finally caught while hiding in his hole, literally in a hole, like the rat that he was. I know that there are people who will think that this is not nice to say but who cares.
In 2017 President Trump did something that was obvious. He recognized that the capital of the State of Israel is Jerusalem. (Jerusalem has been the legal capital of Israel since 1950.) This break with the State Department Arabists was a real gift. It was an announcement to the world that there are facts and there are myths, and that the United States finally decided to go with the facts.
Just some thoughts about my mother’s Yahrzeit that the significance of the day in history.
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About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, giving tours at the Grand Lodge of New York, being involved in Freemasonry, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then