«Honor your father and your mother…»

They survived the hell. They went through the horrors of the Holocaust: horrors of Ghettos and Concentration camps. When they were children they faced death. It happened then when the concepts of kindness and holiness lost their meaning to their lives. Later they learned to appreciate good. However, for most of them God died in Ghettos when they saw their relatives being killed. One cannot possibly grasp their experience and imagine the horror of what they faced.
Now they are above 70 years old. They are close to the death again. Many of them do not have children: they were afraid to have children because the Holocaust paralyzed their emotions and desires, as well as ruined their health. Thus they lack simple human comfort. They have apartments and there are everything they need in the apartments. Some of them have financial problems, some of them do not. Praise God that Israeli authorities take care of them. However, they lack emotional support and sympathy, parent-child relationship and understanding.
We do not try to evangelize them: words may be vain to them. We just want to serve them with God’s love, love of the Messiah: to come, to listen, to help, to honor as it is written in the Torah, “Honor your father and your mother”. Yeshua emphasizes an importance of these words instructing His followers to obey the words of Moses given to Israel from Sinai Mount.

What do we do to cause them to feel love?
We help them to clean. We buy them necessary food products. We pay attention to what they say. We take them to different trips: for example, to Jerusalem and Galilee. We celebrate with them Jewish Holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah and Passover. It is not too much, but it blesses and comforts them. This is what we can do to those whose sufferings are in the foundation of the modern State of Israel.
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.
(Ezekiel 37:4,5)

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