We couldn’t have anticipated what happened that Shabbos, that week
As told to Rivka Streicher
Living in Jerusalem, you know it’s sunny, bright, thousands of people, thousands of possibilities. At any time, anything can happen. But we still couldn’t have anticipated what happened that Shabbos, that week.
A couple of years ago we were living in a small apartment on Divrei Chaim Street, from which my wife also ran a clothing business.
One Shabbos, we moved into my brother and sister-in-law’s apartment, just a block away. Our relatives from the States had come to visit, and we all wanted to be together for Shabbos.
Shabbos was wonderful — family, and food, and camaraderie. On Motzaei Shabbos, we didn’t want to leave this bubble of family; we decided to stay over one more night.
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