The days you hate yourself. Yes. There are those days.
You are guilty. You are marked.
Sam worked with a Jewish woman who escaped Warsaw in 1939 just before it fell to the Nazis. These were her words. She said that in the 1930s you couldn’t escape these thoughts however insane they felt.
You are guilty. You are marked.
The days you can only think the darkest thoughts. Because you are marked. You are in so much pain. You are so much in disagreement with so many of the people in the world. You are out of touch. You are way far away from what seems to be the mass of humanity.
א-מ-ת are the first, middle and last letter of the Hebrew language. They spell the word truth.
You are marked. You are marked with some knowledge of a truth. Some people, not many, also know this truth. A truth that contradicts the many many people in the many many countries who possess a different “truth.”
The early days after October 7 feel like you are separated from all humans. Surely you must be crazy. Your isolation is perfect. You suffer through it. You develop a new truth based on the old ones you hold. You have been holding these truths for a very long time. Since you were a child.
Your new truth: You understand the truth and you must stand up for it and you must continue to disagree with the falsehood, no matter how many people embrace it.
Here’s an example of that truth. It’s not easy to listen to. But it is self evident to Sam and me. It is based on simple history, not ideology. PLEASE. If it’s not self evident to you please contact Sam or me and we can discuss.
The truth ultimately will come to find its way out of the fog and it will become what the prophets called “an eternal truth.” And it will be coming down the road maybe in not that long a time, which is a strange thing to think when SO MANY PEOPLE say it is not so.
Strange thoughts for a human in this time and place aren’t they?
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