In Kelm, they focused on how to live— but also on the great avodah of how to leave the world with calm and faith
There are moments in life when the clouds of confusion lift, and we’re left to survey our world with clarity and a sense of purpose.
I suspect that I’m not alone in identifying Rosh Hashana 5786 as one of those moments. Any one who, like me, stood in Ramat Beit Shemesh’s Gra shul during Shacharis likely experienced the same thing as Ouriel Dzikowsky z”l entered in a wheelchair.
Hooked up to an oxygen tank and breathing with great difficulty, Ouriel’s arrival was hard to miss. His struggles were the result of the aggressive disease that had reduced him from a healthy young man to one fighting for every breath.
To those who’d seen him just a couple of years previously, the change was shocking. Elegant as always in his French-American way, Ouriel was a shadow of the young man who’d made aliyah just a few years before.
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