Wednesday, July 18

"We are going Home"

BH, we got home last night from a three-week visit with family abroad.  We flew via London, so we had four flights, each of which started with  "welcome aboard flight ... to ...."  Well, almost each.   Our flight home started with - in Hebrew, cuz that comes first - "ברוכים הבאים לטיסה 316 הביתה" "Welcome aboard flight 316 going HOME!" 
Now, it doesn't matter if, like one of my lot, this was your first flight back to Israel, or like the woman behind us, you were returning from 7 years in London, or if , for personal reasons, you are still "gar" outside Israel.
Israel, to every Jew, is HOME.
When we landed, everyone applauded.  And, yes, they played the 64-year-old tape of הבאנו שלום עליכם.  And Jews, who were born decades after the end of  thousands of years that Jews hardly dared to dream of seeing Eretz Yisrael, cried.


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