Reply To: Is it time to leave America

Ujm Australia and Canada aren’t known for their love of Jews.
Amilzola, I haven’t planned yet and hoping it won’t ever come to that but obviously the only safe place for Jews to go is likely Israel. Yes the government is bad and it’s surrounded by Arabs but it’s the only place on earth where the land is rightfully welcoming to Yidden.

Avirahdeara, good observation, if you ever read Elie Wiesel’s personal account in the book Night, as he entered Aushwitz he told his dad, surely the crematoriums can’t be real right, they can’t be burning people in the 20th century how would the world let this happen! And his father replied, the world has no care for us Jews, anything is possible even in these modern times.

It was so unimaginable to the mind that even seeing it with their own eyes was barely comprehensible. Wiesel also narrated how when they rounded up the Jews of Hungary and lined them up it was surreal and felt he was seeing something out of the churban Beis Hamikdash and not reality.

So it’s not as if “back then” a Holocaust was expected and unsurprisng. 70 years ago which is not that long ago, the times were very modern, there were big yehivas and shuls, congregations, doctors and businesses. And most never could have imagined such a thing would take place.
Actually the most frightening part of Wiesel’s account was when he mentioned a specific person who would collect tzedaka and was well known in the community, was suddenly rounded up along with all other Jewish “foreigners” and was taken to an area where they all had to dig their graves and shot one by one. He managed to survive and went back to the town to warn all the Yidden. They refused to believe him. He said I don’t want money or anything I just fought my way to get back here only to warn everyone. But they ignored him and called him crazy. Until the day where the whole community was rounded up and transported, and he ran to the houses and yelled “I tried to warn you”!

Lehavdil elef havdalos and that nothing even remotely similar should ever take place anywhere in the world, but always keep on mind our history and look at the patterns. The Jews always lived in big Empires of the world and those countries always turned on them eventually, despite how difficult it would be to believe that something could happen.