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A Holocaust survivor once described that the worst day of his experiences was, in fact, the day that he was freed by American forces. His reason: He had nowhere to go, nowhere to return to.
That feeling of loss was harder than anything that he had experienced .
It is easy to complain about a state that you were born into. But do we realize that compared to our situation 70 years ago, we are living in the Garden of Eden?
Apparently some of us don’t.
Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF.
He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.
