Hola Binyan Olam
Terminó Rosha HaShana, empezamos el año con el pie derecho. Pasó Yom Kipur, estamos limpios recién sacaditos de la lavadora! Y ahora qué? Llega Sukot, zman simjatenu, el tiempo de nuestra alegría.
Ahora es el momento de regocijarnos con los logros reales que alcanzamos. Sin embargo algo que llama la atención es el hecho que la alegría y la felicidad la celebramos justo en una Suka, una Suka es un “chocita” que debe ser una residencia temporal y no fija (además de muchas halajot que no es aquí el lugar para explayarse).
Yo personalmente pensaría que la alegría y la felicidad se expresarían mejor en la cómoda sala de mi casa y no en la casita donde a duras penas cabemos y entra mucho aire!!
Pero aquí está el secreto de la felicidad verdadera: mientras nuestra felicidad dependa de cosas externas, nunca va a ser real y por ende nunca va a perdurar. Pero en Sukot declaramos (a nosotros mismos) que no dependemos de nuestros bienes materiales para estar contentos, nuestra felicidad es intrínseca. Eso lo mostramos saliendo a la chocita. Aquí se declaran los logros que alcanzamos en las Fiestas Mayores y nuestro cambio de nivel. No dependo de nada, solo con D-s estoy feliz (aunque el techo tenga goteras).
Jag Sameaj y Shabat Shalom
Soly Firman
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
