"I had no concept of mitzvos as obligatory. I thought they were more like extra credit points"
As I mentioned last week, there was only one slight flaw in the very moving Kesher Yehudi event that launched a national campaign to pair study partners l’illiu haneshamos of those lost at Meron: I felt that Meirav, a recent addition to the long-running study partnership of Miri and Inbal, had been cut off in the middle. So I subsequently obtained her number and called her to hear the rest of her story.
Boy, was I right that she had much more to say. When I told Meirav how sorry I was that she had not been able to finish her story, she immediately responded, “No, this is much better. In any event, I would have had only a few moments, and now I can share the full story.”
When Inbal first told Meirav about her ongoing, seven-year learning with Miri, Meirav became very excited, and asked whether she could join. She had long sought to live a more spiritual life.
“I always believed in G-d,” she told me. “But I had no concept of mitzvos as obligatory. I thought they were more like extra credit points. And the idea of reward in Olam Haba was entirely foreign to me.”
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