Tomorrow we celebrate Yom Haatzmaut. But before we can get to the celebration of Yom Haatzmaut, a day of gilui shechina, we need to go through a Yom Hazikaron. Yom Hazokaron is a day that we commemorate the kedoshim who gave their lives not only fighting for the holy land physically but spiritually as well by having the courage to live the life our great grandparents only dreamed of. We commemorate the kedoshim of Merkaz Harav, of the Sabaro Pizza bombing. We remember Dr. Appelbaum and his daugher Nava who was taken just a day before her wedding. We remember the lives of the holy soldiers who gave their lives fighting so that we can live in (and visit for those of us not yet zocheh to move to) our homeland with some sense of security.
I was troubled by a comment on YW this morning by some misdirected fool who tried to turn this into some kind of Zionist thing. This guy writes that we should also remember all the people who zionism spiritually killed. I feel sorry for this lost soul, because he misses the focus and point of the day. It's a day where we as a people display that we are rachmanim binei rachmanim. Check your hashkafah at the door because today is a day of mourning for the kedoshim who died for you. There is no place for politics on a day like this. Unlike in America where Memorial Day is a day for beach going, and Bar-b-qing, with very few of us stopping to remember what the day is supposed to be about, in Eretz Yisrael it's a day for hakaras hatov; a day where we thank those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of not only fighting for us but having the courage to live there as well.
The people who choose to live in Eretz Yisrael live the dreams of our parents and grand parents going back 2000 years. We say v'sechezenah eineinu b' shuvcha l'tzion, but do we mean it? Could our great grand parents have ever envisioned a day where our dreams in galus would become a reality in our time?
I was troubled by a comment on YW this morning by some misdirected fool who tried to turn this into some kind of Zionist thing. This guy writes that we should also remember all the people who zionism spiritually killed. I feel sorry for this lost soul, because he misses the focus and point of the day. It's a day where we as a people display that we are rachmanim binei rachmanim. Check your hashkafah at the door because today is a day of mourning for the kedoshim who died for you. There is no place for politics on a day like this. Unlike in America where Memorial Day is a day for beach going, and Bar-b-qing, with very few of us stopping to remember what the day is supposed to be about, in Eretz Yisrael it's a day for hakaras hatov; a day where we thank those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of not only fighting for us but having the courage to live there as well.
The people who choose to live in Eretz Yisrael live the dreams of our parents and grand parents going back 2000 years. We say v'sechezenah eineinu b' shuvcha l'tzion, but do we mean it? Could our great grand parents have ever envisioned a day where our dreams in galus would become a reality in our time?
So we take this day to reflect remember and thank those kedoshim who gave their lives for the holy land. And only once we internalize the meaning of the day can we truly celebrate the great nes of Yom Haatzmaut.
3 comments:
well said
Of course they mean it when they say V"techezenah Eineinu... Remember, the next word id "B"shuvchah," Not "B"shuvi."
Dont think the person just, was trying to be religious about it, he was obviously from neturei karta, and as you said was misguided.
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