Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Scar



The Cantonists were Jews snatched from their homes then forced to abandon the faith while in the Russian Army. They who survived the torture became too emotionally and psychologically scarred to raise a family so they lived together in small villages. On the eve of Yom Kippur, a Rabbi came for minyan. Everybody gasped as one cantonist removed his shirt! “You can't take your shirt off in the synagogue!” Protested the Rabbi. But as the shirt fell from the man's shoulders, it revealed hundreds of deep scars - each one for each time he refused to forsake his God….
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