Monday, July 19, 2010

commemorating the destruction....

we Jews have been attacked, annihilated, oppressed.....
since the beginning of time....

and yet....
and yet.....

we survive.....
we endure.....
in fact, we THRIVE....

throughout all of the degradation......
throughout the constant victimization and scapegoating.....

WHY ??
what makes us so IMPENETRABLE ??
so SOLID ??

it is this SIMPLE FACT.....

that ultimately......resolutely......
we are the people of KNOWLEDGE....
the scholars....
the doctors of intellect.....

our wisdom.....
our moral code......
our very, inner fiber.......

these attributes//////
these gifts.....
continue to uplift our essence.....
our core........

ABOVE measure.....
unequivocally......

TODAY we remember an unfortunate and tragic time in our history....
TODAY we remember that
WE CONTINUE TO LIVE ON IN PERPETUITY.....

the people of GOD.....
the CHOSEN ONES......

IS IT ALL RELATIVE ?

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