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More than three months have passed and the echoes of the trip has not yet subsided in me. Yom Kippur and I isolated community in eastern Uganda. Six-hour drive from the airport in Entebbe highway, and another hour of paths that traverse a motorcycle thomasville cabinets locally, thomasville cabinets and finally we come to Poti, a community of Abayudaya in eastern Uganda. Here, in the little synagogue of the community of Poti, we will celebrate the holidays they approached. thomasville cabinets
Poti, like other villages of the Abayudaya, is a simple thomasville cabinets village, where each family a small inheritance from which it takes place, and at the farm several small houses - bedrooms, a kitchen, a chicken coop and granaries. Most of the villagers grow their own food and therefore do not work. Water for the children are sent to the local Beer kilometers, thomasville cabinets and the power is out. Poti fortunate and recently received a donation thanks to Israel works well outside the local solar power. Every Saturday and holiday get together all members of the Abayudaya village to pray (and far even overnight) in the synagogue in the village center.
Village we come to the eve of Yom Kippur, and many preparations thomasville cabinets - including the construction of a mixture, baptism tools, challah and shower jerry can happen fast - we reach the entrance thomasville cabinets of the festival. Since the prayer won not heard here, human, Cantor, opens Kol Nidre prayer. Written in Aramaic prayer is not easy to read, and human, although not read Hebrew, but has trouble correct pronunciation and comprehension, barely manages to pronounce it. Prayer is not impressive to say the least. Without melody, without stress and almost without enthusiasm. It is difficult to excite the heart without understanding what is being said. We all stand still and wait for humanity finishes his prayer.
After quite a bit of hops and a lot of disorder and confusion, we come very quickly to the end of the prayer. African Jews are indeed full of patience, there is no talk of prayer thomasville cabinets and kids of all ages sit in silence beside their parents, but also do not enjoy to stand for hours in prayer that they do not understand. With a pang We understand that prayer is over. Unpleasant to miss almost thomasville cabinets the Yom Kippur service from the seller. We did not know that this is only the beginning of the evening.
If synagogue was not full during prayer, now is filled. Eighty men, women and children sit, who on a bench and who on the ground, and Moses treasurer turns to us, "the rabbis from Israel"; Please, is certainly asking a supplier, gave us Torah. Remote came to teach us the Torah and we want to learn. Difficult to refuse such a request, and I stood up to demand. A few words about the place and the community, the search and desire to learn, hence the meaning and content of Yom Kippur. The God lies with us wherever we will be, and forgiveness given to us about the things we have yet to fix. I bear my remarks in English, and sentence by sentence translated by Moses to the local language. Molly sits and listens entire community awareness and silence.
At the end of my remarks Moses stood up again and kindly ask if it's okay we turn now time for questions. They all have many questions and since coming "Rabbis" This country time to ask. Again impossible to refuse, and we respond with joy. First up young man named Peretz and tells everyone the story of Zerubbabel, the child whose father was not taught to read and write only the letters of the alphabet. Zerubbabel, the number of burst, comes first synagogue at the age of thirteen and reveals that he does not understand anything. Everyone around him sing and pray and he looks arrangement, do not understand and filled with shame. Zrubavel not know what to do and helpless he starts to sing the only thing he knows - the letters of the alphabet. Alphabet, Alphabet, Bakal loud singing. Singing and praying to God to explain to him why he did it as it is. And ends Perez - God answers Zerubbabel, saying that it was this prayer, what Zerubavela do know, is acceptable to him. Peretz told, a bit clumsy but very exciting, the Ugandan version known Hasidic story, and sat down.
And now begin the questions, and everything is still in the local language with Moses as mediator. An elderly Jew got up and ask - Rabbi taught us that God is the Temple on Yom Kippur - Is God found in the temple only on Yom Kippur or even year-round? Exciting question, and my answer is that God is always with us, but sometimes we have to be careful thomasville cabinets not to be as Aaron and burn when we come to the Holy Land. We require thomasville cabinets the nearness of God but are aware of the many preparations required on our part when we come to the Holy Land. I finish and Neria, members of the journey, adding to remember that God is not only the temple, but also here with us in Uganda far.
And another question from one of the elders of the community - if Yom Kippur is a day of atonement Why should fast for the Land of Israel, the country that all the inhabitants of the righteous? For it is a symbol of Israel, and he does not understand how it was possible that instead of justice will be needed atonement. A similar question was asked a few days before Yom Kippur. Then came up to me another young Abayudaya community and asked me in a whisper, afraid to tell me, if he may have once seen Israelis who came to Uganda and cooked on Saturday. He hoped I tell him he was wrong, that the Land of Israel sin, and was not just to give an answer that comes from the heart and goes to the heart.
Now get up a little girl, no more than ten years old, and asks us whether can be atonement after Yom Kippur Or lock the gates of heaven and will not even atonement. thomasville cabinets Same girl get up and ask the next day is Yom Kippur we ask only atonement thomasville cabinets or that she may also ask for personal requests. Of course, we answered both questions can be atonement after Yom Kippur, thomasville cabinets and order you to ask for personal requests. On Yom Kippur there is just a chance, and a shame to miss it.
It did not end the story. Moses, a boy of fifteen, raising his hand, and the twinkle in his eye very long question asks Moses: Why Moses God puts on the border entry