Closing holiday: I remember my sins today. In the interim, my family and I went on a vacation for a few days.
Well, what's the sin in that? You'll probably ask.
So there is one fact that makes me feel uncomfortable, being an exception in the general landscape, and that is what makes me apologize. Unlike most of those who went on vacation and returned full of complaints, we enjoyed our vacation. We even enjoyed it a lot.
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And for a moment of seriousness: It's not that there weren't any glitches on our vacation, whether it's an air conditioner that broke and took half a day to fix or a jeep trip where our driver trailed behind, took a wrong turn, and arrived 20 minutes after the rest of the convoy. It's just that we simply chose to have fun, so during the air conditioner malfunction, we hung out at the pool and barbecued, and we treated the jeep malfunction as a free bonus trip, etc.
And the result: a family that made the most of their vacation enjoyed every moment and returned satisfied.
Closing a war: It's amazing how the human brain works and how quickly it removes unwanted distractions from our minds.
Notice how two days of quiet were enough for us to sink into routine and forget that at the beginning of the week people were still killed here in the war with Hamas.
So true, this is human nature. But there was one thing that we would like to remember and take with us.
Remember the alarms? The echoes of the explosions? The fear of the children? The feeling of confinement that makes it scary to leave the houses? So now let's seize the moment and when the "leakage/drip/or any other dirty nickname" starts in the South (and it will start, believe me) we will all demand that the government do something about it. Let's not forget the residents of the South and wake up only when the problem reaches our doorstep.
Because brothers don't abandon each other.
On top of our joy: And if the war had subsided in the south, in Elad it flared up in full force, reaching its peak with rumors circulating about an urgent exchange between the mayor and his deputy at the entrance to a synagogue in the city.
I tried for a moment to be a true advocate in the style of Rabbi Levi of Berdichev - and what can I say to you? We can only appreciate the dedication, sacrifice, and mobilization of these years for their duty.
And speaking of Elad, a headline in the local newspaper caught my eye, heralding the great success in which this year no trailers were added to the education system and everyone was placed in built-in classrooms.
It's just that, for example, in Beit Yaakov, construction is in full swing and the girls are studying in all sorts of alternate locations or alternatively in shifts of classes that study in the morning and classes that will study in the afternoon, so as a temporary solution, it's fine, but to call it a success?
And in terms of success, they somehow managed to reach a situation where - as of this moment - the girls who are going to the seminary and are supposed to start on Sunday still don't know where they will study (issues of sectarian discrimination, etc.).
What's amazing is that no one thought of a similar solution to the problem: they would accept all of them into the same seminary and only assign some to morning studies and some to afternoon studies.
And perhaps the solution is to establish a values seminar in the city.
