Posted on 08/21/2021 4:50:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I’ll say Kaddish for him.
Well, you my be premature. He didn’t survive there this long by not being tough.
My heart goes out to him. The man’s emotions are torn asunder. Clearly this aging man annot tolerate abandoning the last synagogue in which a Jew has a presence, prayers, and in this case, lives. He has become the personification of his people in Afghanistan. He knows he would be pained until the end of his days for “abandoning” the role he has chosen for himself of keeping the spark Jewish life alive here.
No, it’s not nice, if it’s true, that he won’t grant his wife a divorce, but he can’t be defined solely on that basis.
He doesn’t want to be the Jew who turns out the lights and closes the door on Jewish life in Afghanistan. He is also afraid that he will be a lost soul, a fish out of water, anywhere else.
He realizes that an old man living anywhere else in the world requires light years more resources than he needs where he is.
I don’t find his story or his plight funny. When I try to put myself in his shoes, I don’t see him as either a fool or an ingrate.
Summary of the Jewish History of Afghanistan. (Include mention of this person, though to be the last identifiable Jew there).
https://www.aish.com/jw/s/The-Jewish-History-of-Afghanistan.html
“Once during a mutual stint in jail, their arguing was so annoying that their Islamic captors simply released them.”
That’s funny right there.
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I was wondering if there could be other Jews still left in Afghanistan, but they keep a lower profile.
ONE guy!!!!
Sounds like Iraq and Iran.
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