What came before me (and you)
By zevi770 · March 13, 2016
What came before me were people who desired to live
Of course my parents
But from my father’s side, his father, a sole survivor of at least 70 cousins (as well as two others, a niece and nephew)
On my mother’s side, her mother who lost her father, murdered by the communists in the anti-Judaism purge
Her father, both her grandmother and grandfather – the former died in Russian prison, helping Jews escape the hell; the latter for being a religious Jew
And before them, be it the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusaders
The pogroms or the Cossacks
Be it Rome, Babylonia, Egypt
All in all, it seems to me that the truth is as follows
A Jew is like a sheep amongst seventy bloodthirsty wolves
But the shepherd is he who made the wolves
With a simple flash all the wolves will not only disappear
They will turn to sheep