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             7:00 PM Shabbat Service with Rabbi Aaron
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May 11  Shabbat at Home
May 18 7:00 PM Shabbat Service with Rabbi Aaron
May 25 Shabbat at Home 

 
Below is Rabbi Aaron's journal from the "March of the Living" 2012.

She will be sending more daily logs in the coming week. Be sure to read all about her remarkable visit.

Rabbi Aaron: Poland Day 1The bitterness of cold; I know now what it means to experience cold that is so deep, so complete, so bitter that it assaults us with a seemingly profound sense of hostile purpose, as though the cold is battering us with vicious intent. We are standing in the Umshagplatz, the area in Warsaw where the Jews were held before they were sent to the death camp, Treblinka. Inscribed on the Memorial are many names; I seek out and touch the name Koppelman as I have every time when I have stood here. My hand feels instantly frozen; the rain is fiercely cold. Laurie Koppel has been my friend since we were 6 years old. She is aware that her family name is recorded here on this wall of remembrance. There are probably a hundred of us huddling here in our bright, bright blue March of the Living jackets. I think of the strand of blue, techeilet, that we are told to weave into our tsitsit, our fringes; one for each of the 4 corners of a tallis. The techeilet is the blue of the horizon where heaven and earth touch; it is the strand in our sacred fringes that connects us to the heavenly places. I wonder, are we, in our vivid blue, embodying techeilet? Are we assuring the souls of the Jews who were murdered in the Shoa that we do not forget, that we are valiant warriors of remembrance, that we do not forget them? Are we reassuring them that there are still Jews in this world who live this sacred path of being, the way of Torah and mitzvot? We, in our blue jackets with mostly white stars of David, are wearing the direct opposite of the armbands that our Jewish brethren were forced to wear during the years of the Shoa. They wore white with blue stars of David.Earlier, this morning we walked amongst the headstones of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish cemetery. The only reason this vast cemetery still exists is because it was part of the Warsaw Ghetto; otherwise it would have gone the way of most Jewish cemeteries throughout Poland. The headstones were uprooted, crushed and used to pave the new streets that the Nazis made. Across the Visla River is the other Jewish cemetery. Few people go there for it is the cemetery that the Nazis obliterated; they murdered even our dead. There are no headstones, no markers for the thousands of Polish Jews who for centuries were buried there. What remains is the entrance with its bronze star of David and its wall that surrounds acres of trees. A few headstones have been propped near the gate of the cemetery as if to assert what happened here for they are all that is left. I have only been there one time; we stood there in a truly stunned silence; there were no words. I gasped at the enormity of the Nazi atrocities; six million Jews were murdered, but how many more were effectively disappeared as though they never existed; their headstones pounded into small pieces; the monuments of their lives pressed into service as payment.Poland Day 1 frozen tears, techeilet strong, warriors for remembrance.

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