5 minutes before candle-lighting on Monday afternoon, I went to check the mail. I did not do this because I necessarily had any time to read the mail – but with a small mailbox and two days of Yom Tov coming up, if I didn’t empty the mailbox right then…well, let’s just say that sometimes our mailman (or mail-person, if you prefer) gets a little bit overenthusiastic about trying to cram every last credit card offer into our box.

However, when I glanced at the numerous envelopes (mostly credit card offers and bills) that had been sent to us, I saw a large envelope from Nefesh B’Nefesh. Now with only 4 minutes left until candle-lighting, I quickly opened up the envelope. And there it was.

Up until this point, our aliyah date had still had a little asterisk next to it. “We hope to make aliyah on the second day of Chanuka, December 27″, is what we would tell people, quickly following with the qualifier: “that is, if Nefesh B’Nefesh will accept us”.

“Is there a risk that they wont accept you” was the inevitable reply. “Well…we don’t know…it is never for certain…” we would stammer in response.

Asterisk be gone. We have been accepted on the NBN’s Winter 5766 flight. (You can count down with us in the Upcoming Dates section on the right. 61 days to go!!)