K ol Nidrei…
Abe’s Bubbe tells Annie more about Aunt Cele’s unforgiveable behavior to Annie’s father. Annie tells Abe that they’re going to have a baby,Freefall: Chapter 41,Abe’s Bubbe tells Annie more about Aunt Cele’s unforgiveable behavior to Annie’s father. Annie tells Abe that they’re going to have a baby
K ol Nidrei…
From her seat behind the mechitzah Annie couldn’t see Reb Leibush standing before the bimah but she could clearly make out the words — awesome words both frightening and familiar — that Reb Leibush solemnly intoned as the sun slowly set. Yom Kippur had begun.
While the congregation murmured the prayer a strange thought flew into her head:
There has never been a Yom Kippur quite like this one.
She knew of course that the long cruel galus had placed her people in the four corners of the globe. But had there ever been a Yom Kippur where Jews prayed and fasted while war raged throughout the world? Had Jewish soldiers ever fasted in foxholes in Africa Italy Russia on dozens of tiny Pacific islands? And what of the Jews facing a fate no one dared speak about but everyone suspected and feared: Jews crouching in bunkers hiding in forests and monasteries and attics?
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