Purim in Prison

I thought I would post this email that I received from a listener, 'Daniel Davidson'.  I changed all the names and ID numbers to protect his privacy and to prevent any trouble for him.  

To Tamar:

With Purim approaching I wanted to share a short Purim story with you.  This was either my second or third Purim in a Federal Prison a painfully miserable place.  Purim in Prison was difficult to celebrate, usually the Jewish Inmates where allowed to gather once to read the megillah (scroll of Esther), and hamentashen (customary Purim danish) was unheard of.  In the Federal Prison I was in, at this point, all other religions received pretty much whatever they needed for their holidays, the Jews however was a different story. 
            
Just before the Festival of Purim I received word from one of the officers that I was to report to the FDC (Federal Detention Center)  Lt. Lynch (name has been changed) wanted to see me immediately.  Now to know Lt. Lynch is to hate him, he is from the deep south, he never made it as a policeman as he had wanted so he resigned himself to be a prison guard.  When Lynch wanted to see you, you knew it was going to be bad and the meanest of Inmates were not so brave when they had to see Lynch.  
           
I arrived at the FDC, went through the multiple gates and steel doors till I came to Lt. Lynch’s office.  I held my breath and knocked on his door.  Lynch yelled from inside to enter and I did.  As I entered the office I saw Lynch and two other Guards sitting behind a table with a small package sitting on the table in front of him, the package had been opened. 

“What the hell do you think you are doing Davidson?” screamed Lynch. 

I took another breath and responded “I don’t know what you me Lt.” 

Then Lynch began a long rant of curses directed toward me while the other two laughed. 

“What the hell is this?”  Lynch demanded to know as he showed me the contents of the package.  To my surprise the package contained 8 beautiful hamentashen sent by the Aleph Institute, a Chabad Organization who help Jewish Prisoners in prison, in fact the only Jewish Organization.  

“Those are hamentashen sir, we need them for the Jewish holiday of Purim that begins tonight.”  I answered. 

“Jew food huh Davidson.” Said Lynch. 

“Yeah, I guess you could say that Lt.” I answered cautiously. 

“Do you think I am going to let you have this Jew food Davidson?" asked Lynch.  

Not knowing what to say exactly or what I had walked into I didn’t answer right away. I felt like a mouse who had just been cornered by three dangerous snakes.  “Answer me G-d D--- you inmate.” Screamed Lynch. 

I jumped backwards in reaction and finally said.

“Sir, that was sent by an approved organization that helps Jewish Inmates in Prison and we are entitled to have then for our holiday.”  

“You F------ Jews think you have something coming do you?  I will show you what you have coming XZ890-421 (that is my number they used to keep track of you and to de-humanize a person), you have NOTHING.”  Then Lynch passed the hamentashen around to each of the other guards who where being very entertained by Lynch and myself standing there.  They opened all the beautiful hamentashen and began eating them. 

I asked angrily. “Permission to leave Lt.?” 

“No boy you stand there till I tell you to leave.” Lynch answered with a mouthful of hamentashen and laughing.  I stood there for what seemed forever burning with hatred for these pathetic pigs and watched them finish the last hamentashen.  My expression was of pure hatred I am sure but inside I was screaming out to Ha Shem asking Him when would this end, how could this have happened? To be innocent of the charges that put me there was irrelevant at this point.  I only asked HaShem on a few occasions Why did You put me here? What good could possibly come of this? This was one of those times I asked.  I still remember in full detail how I felt.  The hopelessness of being a slave of people like this, the fact there was no one to help, no one would come to rescue me (and the other Jews in prison).

For whatever reason HaShem had decreed that I should be here.  My face burned with a combination of hatred and pain, I chocked back the tears as I watched these three anti-Semitic pigs finish off the last of the hammentashin and wipe the crumbs from their ugly faces.  I stood there for a few more minutes while they laughed and taunted the Jew before Lynch told me to leave and warned me that they would be watching all of the Jews.
           
I returned to the Prison Population to meet with the other Jewish Men that night for the reading of the Megillah to share with them what had happened.  As William Kay, a Jewish Inmate from Hawaii, read the megillah we watched Lt. Lynch stand at the door watching us.  In that place those little hamentashen were more important than what they would be on the outside.  The were just another part of Jewishness that we were continually denied as we lived among those who made it clear they where our enemy’s. 
           
B’’H this year we will make our own hamentashen at home and celebrate Purim in our Shul and Jewish community with hopes that ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’ we will be home.  I since learned that the goyims place was to teach us who and what we are as Jews and our place in the world. The lack of Jewish Identity we learned from a secular family, Ha Shem gave to us in Prison.  For this I will always be grateful to HaShem for the lessons over those 9 years in hell for there I learned how important I am as a Jew, how important the Jewish Community is and how precious our State of Israel, the freedom we have is  a gift from G-d and we need to cherish every moment we are free.  Israel with all her faults is the greatest place in the world.

Howdy, Infidel!

"Howdy, Infidel. I am your friendly Muslim jihadist. Let me come closer, I am a friendly guy." And as he puts his arm around your shoulder in a friendly manner, he grabs you in a neck lock, pulls your head backwards and slits your throat.

The West has been infiltrated, and your PC governments are cooperating. Watch this disturbing video showing Muslims training to be terrorists in - no, not Afghanistan. No, not Pakistan. Yes, in America, the Good Ol' USA.

Will they also prosecute the makers of this film, for showing the truth, like they are doing with Dutch parliamentarian and maker of the film FITNA, Geert Wilders? Hmmmm, this will be interesting to watch and see what happens.

What Are You Waiting For? Destination: Israel

Jews, come home before it is too late.  The Exile is over.  The future of the Jewish People is in Israel, not NY, LA, London, Paris, or Melbourne.  Watch this important video clip.

Worst Economic Collapse Ever

What are you waiting for?

Is it not enough that G-d gave us this land as our inheritance? 

Is it not enough that G-d has made it easier than ever before in the history of the world to make Aliyah?

Is it not enough, that here one can do so many more mitzvoth because we are home in the Holy Land?

Is it not enough that you get financial help and professional guidance, free Hebrew language ulpan, free job training, and free airfare to come home?

Is it not enough that the economy and the standard of living in Israel, though a little less than in Western countries, still lets us live live well enough here? We have supermarkets filled with lucious produce and food.  We have shopping malls, fast food, and entertainment.  We don't starve and we don't have a homeless people problem like in the States.

Is it not enough that the American economy is headed down the drain?  It's president is a globalist, a man of un-American values, a man who has contempt for his own citizens by refusing to show his birth certificate to prove and put to rest that he is indeed eligible to hold the office of the President of the United States, even after numerous lawsuits against him?

Is it not enough that your children who would grow up here would learn their mama-loshen, their REAL mother tongue and speak Hebrew - without an accent?  

Can one imagine Jews scattered all over the world, and we don't even know our own language? We know a foreign language better than our own?  How can we be true Jews living up to our potential when we can't even speak our own language?  What are we perpetuating to our children by giving them this handicap of not knowing their own land, their own language, and their own familiarity of their surroundings with such biblical history?  No, instead we rob of them of their rich heritage and even richer future, by keeping them, holding them like hostages, in foreign lands across the globe, --because we perceive the economic situation is better there, because we perceive it is better to be 'richer' in money, than in mitzvoth.  

Since when does economics top Jewish law?  Jewish identity?  Jewish responsibility, and closeness to HaShem?  The land of Money and Steaks has been toppled.  America's economy is spiraling down faster and faster, and kosher meat is harder to come by with the Agriprocessors in Iowa being prosecuted.  So now it is no money, and no steak.  The obstacles are being removed, yet Jews are still stubbornly staying behind. 

We learn that in Egypt, only 1/5 or 20% of the Jews left with Moshe (Moses) to go to the Promised Land. That means that 80% of the Jews chose to stay behind in Egypt, where they ended up dying in the plague of darkness. Isn't it interesting that 80% of the Jewish population in America voted for B. Hussein Obama?  Choosing him as their messiah/redeemer rather than Moshe and the promised Land?   80% of the Jews in America is the same percentage of Jews who stayed behind choosing Egypt over Israel. 
80% of the Jews in America is the same percentage of Jews who stayed behind choosing Egypt over Israel.

My brothers and sisters, I am not writing this to insult you, hit a nerve for a talk back, or in any way degrade you.  I truly worry about you.  Too many good Jews have died, swallowed up by their host countries.  I just hope you will wake up in time to come home, where G-d wants you, so you will not have to suffer in your foreign lands.  America has been good to the Jews.  But Germany was good at one time too, and so was Spain, etc, etc.

We KNOW that the future of the Jewish People is in Israel.  Therefore we KNOW that G-d will somehow have these foreign lands vomit you out (if you are lucky) like Spain, like Germany, etc…   And if you are smart, you will leave now, while you can still come with some of your blessings.  While you can still come like a mensch.  Do you have a  house?  Sell it and get what you can and come.  Do you have only a car?  Then sell it and come with whatever you can.  Do you only have clothes?  Then pack them up and come with the blessings of whatever you have been given.  

When G-d said to Abraham, "Lech l'cha", Abraham didn't answer, "Ok G-d, I'll come in a few more years time when I can get more money for my tent.  Tent prices are low now, but we expect the market to get better."  Abraham didn't tell G-d, "Ok G-d, in a few years, when my portfolios mature, I'll come".  What did he do instead?   He took with him the blessings that he had AT THAT TIME and left for Israel.  He packed up his possessions, his wife, his family, and all that he had, and he left.   Abraham didn't wait.  

How many more hints, cues, and cajoling do you need?  The Torah tell us that Israel is our home.  To remain in the Exile today, when everything points that you should be here building and making a life and planting your seed here, establishing your family here, raising your children and grandchildren here, - why would you listen to nay-sayers, excuse makers, and the 'establishment'?  People lie and leaders lie.  The economy will NOT get better for you.  G-d is preparing the world for redemption, and we have to let go of our overly materialistic mindset.  We have to purge ourselves of the money mindset and cling to true values, family, history, future and righteousness.  Obama tells you to have hope and that he will spread the wealth?  The government tells you to just pay more taxes and bail others out and things will get better?  Why would anyone believe these people?  The Torah tells the truth.  Listen to what G-d says, that is the only truth in this veiled world.  What Are You Waiting For?

Destination: Israel  Click here.