Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tough Exterior, Hearts of Gold

It gets me everytime. These hard boiled Israeli people- said in the nicest possible way of course- just melt at the slightest emotion.

They live through wars, send their children to be soldiers, work hard, pray hard, learn hard- life in Israel is hard. After all, it's a Gemara- Israel was given with trials and tribulations.

But when the guard makes silly faces at my 2 year old, or the mother on the bus carrying her packages home from Machane Yehuda Shuk helps another young mother wrap up her newborn, or even when the post office lady doesn't yell at me today because I have my toddler with me- I just melt.

This is such a special country. Tough exteriors, hearts of gold. No wonder this city is called Jerusalem of Gold. It reflects their souls.

6 comments:

Devorah said...

So beautiful to hear!

daughtersintheparsha said...

beautifully put.
If only the world would see things this way.

smb said...

sweet and true

Petal said...

I totally agree, and this is a great blog!

Mr. Cohen said...
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nmf #7 said...

Thanks all :D