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May. 12th, 2006 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdWe almost threw out a mezzuzah yesterday. They tore down the back door to put in the new one and we forgot to tell them to take it off. Fortunately I remembered and we were able to find it. It's stuck on a piece of wood in the garage now.
It was kinda strange. I mean to us (my mom and me) it was horrifying thing, to accidently throw it away but the workers it wasn't. To us it was a holy object, them a decoration.
We found a page of prayer in the rubble the first day too and rescued it. I don't know how non-Jews see it but it was a terrible thing for us. I was reminded of an episode of Law and Order where they began with a prayer book's pages being blown all over the place and the older Jews were running around to save the pages. One of them came up to a police officer talking about the Pogroms.
This gets me thinking about the Persecution of the Jews in general and the fact that I'm one generation removed from the Holocaust. See my dad, he was around during WWII. If he had been in Europe, he wouldn't have been here at all. Which is kinda freaky to think about.
It was kinda strange. I mean to us (my mom and me) it was horrifying thing, to accidently throw it away but the workers it wasn't. To us it was a holy object, them a decoration.
We found a page of prayer in the rubble the first day too and rescued it. I don't know how non-Jews see it but it was a terrible thing for us. I was reminded of an episode of Law and Order where they began with a prayer book's pages being blown all over the place and the older Jews were running around to save the pages. One of them came up to a police officer talking about the Pogroms.
This gets me thinking about the Persecution of the Jews in general and the fact that I'm one generation removed from the Holocaust. See my dad, he was around during WWII. If he had been in Europe, he wouldn't have been here at all. Which is kinda freaky to think about.
