A lot of people from outside of Israel (pronounced The 5 Towns) are reaching out to me asking what can they do it help in the current situation. Naturally it makes sense, I have been living in Irael for 14 months, dont speak a word of Hebrew, and might be the least qualified person in the IDF if I tried.
Every time they ask I give the usual response of different charities to donate to or forward different whatsapp messages I'm getting from people asking for deoderant (why dont they wear this deoderant they keep on requesting when there is no war going on) and bullet proof vests (where people are getting these bullet proof vests don't ask me). Then I try to explain how amazing it is to be living here throughout the current situation (editors notes; there are a lot of sleepless nights, random sirens, random crying fits, tehillim for friends you just made...). The amount of chessed your able to do on a daily basis from cooking meals, volunteering your washing machine, or paying for a soldiers coffee. Random rides to bases, stocking grocery shelves, and making sandwiches. Every supermarket you go to there is a kid or a shopping cart collecting food and snacks for soldiers. There is a sense of klal you cant explain to people not living here. I really dont know how i would feel/make it in America just reading about the heartbreaking news/ worrying about every single soldier without having an entire country to give me chizuk.
In the story of Purim, Mordechai tells Esther she needs to go in to see the king and ask for all the Jews to be saved. Esther at first says "Everyone knows if you go to the king without being called the king will kill you". Mordechai responds "כִּ֣י אִם־הַחֲרֵ֣שׁ תַּחֲרִ֘ישִׁי֮ בָּעֵ֣ת הַזֹּאת֒ רֶ֣וַח וְהַצָּלָ֞ה יַעֲמ֤וֹד לַיְּהוּדִים֙ מִמָּק֣וֹם אַחֵ֔ר". It's the same thing I am telling everyone who reaches out, the geulah is coming, the question is if you want to be part of it.
PS Im starting to get really Zionistic
