Experience joy or scream, both are good options

Yesterday I was at a wedding in Caesarea, and it was so beautiful to see my friend’s daughter find her other half. Love, the continuation of life and living, and more Jewish babies to light up the world. We have to find the joy, even in dark times, because this is the Jewish model of our life journey. We keep celebrating Shabbat, Jewish holidays and our own milestones, no matter what. I have a big one coming up, our Aliyahversary, in a few days it will be one year. Thank God my kids are thriving, while we are still navigating how to be entrepreneurs in a whole different system.  I had to look up the Hebrew calendar date, because we all live daily by the solar calendar. The Hebrew calendar date never changes, but Jewish dates change every year according to the solar calendar. Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, every other holiday, and our Jewish birth date are always the same on the Hebrew calendar. I realized the Hebrew date had already passed, and I always love to celebrate from one to the other when it is my birthday. This first year is a quiet celebration, because life is life, and we are praying for health and success in our business ventures. However, since I do believe that finding joy is of utmost importance, I will keep on sharing the gratitude and miracles. For instance, today my three kids took themselves to the beach. It is so beautiful how independent and free they are in their teens, here it is safe, unlike everywhere else in the world.

www.hebcal.com › converter Hebrew Date Converter – August 20, 2024 / 16th of Av, 5784

The first paragraph was about life and finding joy, and now I want to scream. Nobody wants to take the time to learn actual history and listen to Jewish and Israeli voices. This is a great video to watch and share with everyone you know. I think from now on, before I get into any more back and forth with sheep that are parroting and virtue signaling, they would have to watch this video in order to have a factual conversation. My fellow Jews keep on wanting me to understand that Gaza and the humanitarian crisis should bother me more than protecting my own family, Jewish people and Israel. I will never apologize for putting my family first. “You go to extremes to see things clearly, because that is where they make sense,” this is from the video below by Haviv Retting Gur, titled “What the world needs to understand about Zionism.”

Back to Joy. I personally always choose joy and to see the good in everything, even if it is a lesson. To worry is a waste of my energy. I would rather stay in Emunah, faith, and Bitachon, trust. It is the only way I know how to survive and thrive. Always seeing possibility is not toxic positivity, it is my truth and my sanity. My gut, my intuition, my uncompromising, unapologetic and authentic voice will never be silenced. Am Yisroel Chai!