To all of you who have been asking:
Yes, we are still planning on making aliyah in the Winter. No, we never said that we were going to change our aliyah date.
Yes, we know that we are moving “over the Green Line” (kind of ironic, how we seem to be fated to be living around green lines, wherever we are)
Yes, we know that the government is planning on building a “security fence“. Yes we know that we will be “on the other side” of said fence. And yes, despite this knowledge, we are still planning on going.
Yes, we are aware that the current government has uprooted Jews from their homes. Yes we know that it could happen to us. No, we are not prophets and do not know for sure what will happen to our community in the coming years. No, we have not decided what we would do if the government planned to uproot us (chas v’shalom!). We pray that this day will never come and we hope that our presence there will help in some small way to prevent that from ever happening.
Yes, we are nervous. Yes, we are excited.
Shabbat Shalom, G’mar Chatimah Tovah.
October 11th, 2005 at 11:12
Don’t worry about moving over the green line — the grass is always greenest on the Eastern Side of the Line!
May you have tremendous hatzlacha in your upcoming move – bisha’a tova!
We move home to Eretz Yisrael regardless of the particular government; some are better, some are worse. In Tanach there are lots of periods of better and less than great Jewish kings.
Gmar Chatima Tova – Shnat Bniya uGeula!
Jameel.
The Muqata