Category: General

Something Special Happened in Poland

When our Shul started recruiting for people for this trip, we did not receive a primary “click” of people. We ended up getting a group of individuals and couples that did not have much previous connection to each other. We got together and started to see the sites and listen to words of Torah. At first we were all polite and reserved, but then something special happened in Poland. We developed a spiritual connection together.  As days went on, we became closer and friendlier. The week culminated which an intensity spiritual Shabbos and Havdalah with Torah and song. We were all connected on a higher spiritual level. It was a very special week, life changing to all. We made new friends and family. Our memories will last forever.

-Erran Kagan

May 19, 2019

We Thought We Would

We thought we would, but we didn’t

Any Jewish trip to Poland consists of a trip to the Concentration Camps. The worst of which is Birkenau, a unimaginably humongous death camp where 1 million Jewish people were murdered. As the trip was approaching, I think we were all worried and anxious that it would be too intense, that we would cry, that we would be depressed. We didn’t cry and we weren’t depressed.

This time in history is undoubtedly the most horrific period in Jewish history and in all humanity. We saw and we felt what it was like to be helpless, weak, beaten and humiliated. When walking through the barricks, we found shards of human bones which is common in these camps. 

Why did we not cry? I believe its because we didn’t feel weak.We draped ourselves with the Magen David and we knew that we were strong. We didn’t cry because there was nothing to cry for anymore. Am Yisroel Chai.

-Erran Kagan

May 19, 2019