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people of the book
Feb. 27th, 2005 02:35 pmwas just reading an article about jewish learning and how much books have always been valued in the jewish community, and this paragraph i read touched me so much, i have to share it with you guys.
Another woman who had spent several months in a Nazi labor camp in Austria recounted how on Yom Kippur, after someone had succeeded in passing a copy of a High Holiday prayer book into the camp, it was torn apart and each Jew was given one page of the services. The Jews were forced to treat the day as any other and they put in their grueling hours of hard labor, but at the same time each of them clung to their tattered page of the prayer book, combining to offer up a sorrow filled collective prayer to their creator.
Another woman who had spent several months in a Nazi labor camp in Austria recounted how on Yom Kippur, after someone had succeeded in passing a copy of a High Holiday prayer book into the camp, it was torn apart and each Jew was given one page of the services. The Jews were forced to treat the day as any other and they put in their grueling hours of hard labor, but at the same time each of them clung to their tattered page of the prayer book, combining to offer up a sorrow filled collective prayer to their creator.
