Imagine what it would be like to be among the 6 million+ of your people--young, children and old, being herded to their death camps and gassed? Their suffering was not the usual kind like we do have now once in a while. But their suffering -- it was unlimited. It was not the suffering while being alive as we do feel sometimes; not the suffering of individuals who rise up against oppression or poverty, which some people clamor for.
It was the suffering of absolute, terrifying fear. The suffering of 6 million people who had no choice, trapped by those who seek to remove them from the face of the earth, called "annihilation".
Imagine with the suffering of 6 million innocent people whose purpose was just to live and that their children should live. Yes, I'm referring to the suffering of the Holocaust.
Suffering as such is never the purpose of life; it is not even an aim of life. Do you ever ask yourself, why are people around you suffering? Would your impulse be is to help, to save, and to comfort?
Addiction is a choice by anyone who can get out of its trap.
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*Inspired by "White Nights" by Menachem Begin, 1977
Memorial Day, 67 years of Israel since 1948
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