Wednesday, December 23, 2009

My little Moroccan hole in the wall and Jewish unity -by Hyim

I have been davening at a small hole in the wall French-Moroccan shul at which I was today number 10 and yesterday number 8 with no one to follow. I like praying with people with whom there is no expectation to speak. Who are so culturally different from myself. Today into this small room of 6:30am schacharit praying sefardim dressed in jeans and small kippot came a Chasid from a very different neighborhood both here and in the old country dressed in black and while with long payot collecting money. With no questions asked everyone gave there few shekels. In some strange way I think the Orthodox Jews of Israel are actually more unified than those of the exile.

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  1. Jews in Israel in general have far more unity than the bad press that they get.

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