Invitations

Earlier this year, Leah was very nervous about the upcoming Pesach. It had been years since she moved from Yerushalayim to New Jersey, and much had transpired.

After a difficult first marriage, she found Aharon, who, like Leah, sought to rebuild. Leah sent her youngest daughter to public school, hoping she would find tolerance and acceptance in their adopted host country. Yet her expectations soon turned to despair. Leah and her daughter very quickly met with the realities of intolerance and disapproval, leaving them crestfallen and dispirited.

But as Jews have done for generations, Leah and Aharon began their trek back to their birthright and found their way back to shul. Eventually, the youngest daughter catalyzed the family’s reconnecting to Yiddishkeit when they enrolled her in a local day school.

When Pesach approached, Leah decided it was time for the whole family to reconnect, as she had left her two oldest children — a young man and a post-IDF daughter — in Israel.