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Sometimes I can’t seem to make anything out of G0ds’ plans but sometimes they seem too obvious. I’m grateful for this task, not knowing why it comes at this specific time of my life and why it’s me who was targeted to fulfil it, but I’m grateful.

So here I’d like to share, and I KNEW, I knew it, that something was up.

Hebrew school ended this month, and by “accident” I heard about someone who teaches Hebrew online and who isn’t too expensive. So I could take Hebrew classes at home and save the time I’d normally have to travel to another Shul / Hebrew school and use this time to learn something else. I sent him an email some time before Shavout, we had a test session online and talked. He’s a Kohen, left his very religious family in Israel, turned his back on the Torah, and is married to a woman with one kid whilst his parents and grandparents didn’t approve the marriage to say the least. He didn’t have a prayer book in his hands since he was a teenager and is totally non-religious now.

So here am I, new to the synagogue myself, learning Torah and Tefillah and Hebrew, and what I need is someone who not only teaches me Hebrew but who reads the prayers together with me slowly and often so that I will be able to one day somewhat follow synagogue services (lol)

You’re already getting the picture, right? This is a “teacher - student made in heaven” situation.

I had been able to see the battlefield inside him full force when he asked me what I wanted to learn and I told him Hebrew and prayer. When I told him I wanted to continue with my Hebrew book he smiled, when I told him I needed help with prayer he looked down and silence combined with certain electricity was in the air, palpable even via computer screen. We said good bye not knowing if he would teach me or not.

Weeks have passed, there was hardly a day I didn’t think about him and mourned the lost son.

Yesterday I sent him an email asking him if he was still willing to teach me and he said “Yes”. So now we made an app for classes.
When I told him I felt honoured to receive classes from a Kohen he smiled, so there IS something left deep down inside of him. He gave me the impression that he felt proud of his ancestors.

And guess what, it just so happens that he lives close to my house. Maybe, hopefully, since Yom Kippur is just around the corner, he will accompany me to the synagogue on that Very High Holiday. Until then there’s lots of work to do. Please pray for him (us).
 
504Katrin said:
Sometimes I can’t seem to make anything out of G0ds’ plans but sometimes they seem too obvious. I’m grateful for this task, not knowing why it comes at this specific time of my life and why it’s me who was targeted to fulfil it, but I’m grateful.

So here I’d like to share, and I KNEW, I knew it, that something was up.

Hebrew school ended this month, and by “accident” I heard about someone who teaches Hebrew online and who isn’t too expensive. So I could take Hebrew classes at home and save the time I’d normally have to travel to another Shul / Hebrew school and use this time to learn something else. I sent him an email some time before Shavout, we had a test session online and talked. He’s a Kohen, left his very religious family in Israel, turned his back on the Torah, and is married to a woman with one kid whilst his parents and grandparents didn’t approve the marriage to say the least. He didn’t have a prayer book in his hands since he was a teenager and is totally non-religious now.

So here am I, new to the synagogue myself, learning Torah and Tefillah and Hebrew, and what I need is someone who not only teaches me Hebrew but who reads the prayers together with me slowly and often so that I will be able to one day somewhat follow synagogue services (lol)

You’re already getting the picture, right? This is a “teacher - student made in heaven” situation.

I had been able to see the battlefield inside him full force when he asked me what I wanted to learn and I told him Hebrew and prayer. When I told him I wanted to continue with my Hebrew book he smiled, when I told him I needed help with prayer he looked down and silence combined with certain electricity was in the air, palpable even via computer screen. We said good bye not knowing if he would teach me or not.

Weeks have passed, there was hardly a day I didn’t think about him and mourned the lost son.

Yesterday I sent him an email asking him if he was still willing to teach me and he said “Yes”. So now we made an app for classes.
When I told him I felt honoured to receive classes from a Kohen he smiled, so there IS something left deep down inside of him. He gave me the impression that he felt proud of his ancestors.

And guess what, it just so happens that he lives close to my house. Maybe, hopefully, since Yom Kippur is just around the corner, he will accompany me to the synagogue on that Very High Holiday. Until then there’s lots of work to do. Please pray for him (us).
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Praying, Katrin, that you are able to help each other according to G-d’s will.
 
504Katrin said:
Sometimes I can’t seem to make anything out of G0ds’ plans but sometimes they seem too obvious. I’m grateful for this task, not knowing why it comes at this specific time of my life and why it’s me who was targeted to fulfil it, but I’m grateful.

So here I’d like to share, and I KNEW, I knew it, that something was up.

Hebrew school ended this month, and by “accident” I heard about someone who teaches Hebrew online and who isn’t too expensive. So I could take Hebrew classes at home and save the time I’d normally have to travel to another Shul / Hebrew school and use this time to learn something else. I sent him an email some time before Shavout, we had a test session online and talked. He’s a Kohen, left his very religious family in Israel, turned his back on the Torah, and is married to a woman with one kid whilst his parents and grandparents didn’t approve the marriage to say the least. He didn’t have a prayer book in his hands since he was a teenager and is totally non-religious now.

So here am I, new to the synagogue myself, learning Torah and Tefillah and Hebrew, and what I need is someone who not only teaches me Hebrew but who reads the prayers together with me slowly and often so that I will be able to one day somewhat follow synagogue services (lol)

You’re already getting the picture, right? This is a “teacher - student made in heaven” situation.

I had been able to see the battlefield inside him full force when he asked me what I wanted to learn and I told him Hebrew and prayer. When I told him I wanted to continue with my Hebrew book he smiled, when I told him I needed help with prayer he looked down and silence combined with certain electricity was in the air, palpable even via computer screen. We said good bye not knowing if he would teach me or not.

Weeks have passed, there was hardly a day I didn’t think about him and mourned the lost son.

Yesterday I sent him an email asking him if he was still willing to teach me and he said “Yes”. So now we made an app for classes.
When I told him I felt honoured to receive classes from a Kohen he smiled, so there IS something left deep down inside of him. He gave me the impression that he felt proud of his ancestors.

And guess what, it just so happens that he lives close to my house. Maybe, hopefully, since Yom Kippur is just around the corner, he will accompany me to the synagogue on that Very High Holiday. Until then there’s lots of work to do. Please pray for him (us).
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Praying that you find the Grace to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
psuedocenturian said:
Praying that you find the Grace to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
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Thank you for your prayer 🙂
 
So today when he said we would learn again next week Thursday my chance had come. I told him that it would be Rosh HaShanah and that I would be at the synagogue the entire day. He said to my surprise that he wouldn’t go all day but only in the morning and to the liberal synagogue. But then he said that he would only go there because they asked him to take care of the kids in the morning while everyone was at service praying. He said he wasn’t very religious but that he did some things for the kid like lighting channuka candles. He said that they asked him if he could come on Yom Kippur also to supervise the kids, and he said that this would even be too much for him, as it would be Yom Kippur after all, and he wouldn’t travel and that he would fast on that day. I was so glad to hear this. If you can get to a Jew your last strawl is Yom Kippur. It’s like Christians that don’t go to church all year, but on Christmas they remember they’re Christians. He then said something interesting which is, that just because his family is so religious he broke away from religion. Then I invited him to come with me whenever he wanted and left it at that. He said maybe in a couple of years. He jokes a lot with me during shiurim and we get along so well together that I can imagine that a friendship might develop from this one day.
 
504Katrin said:
Then I invited him to come with me whenever he wanted and left it at that. He said maybe in a couple of years.
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🙂 We do this as Catholics all the time, too, and get the same response. But what we also get, I’m sure many others would attest, is that lots of people do indeed take us up on our invite. When eventually they grow deeper in faith, and are asked why they started going to Church in the first place, they’ll reply, well, because someone asked me to! That’s it, because someone asked? Yep! Contrariwise, so many don’t go because no one ever asks.

You’ll be in my prayers, may HaShem bless you and keep you.
 
I love your mission and your enthusiasm. God bless you in your endeavors.

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day.
I thank You for my being able to wake once again, to see and to hear this morning.
I’m blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God.
You have done so much for me and You continue to bless me.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak.
Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost and can’t find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.
I pray for those who don’t know You intimately.
I pray for those that don’t believe.
And I’m grateful that you are in my life. Amen
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

:crossrc:
 
InNomineDomini said:
🙂 We do this as Catholics all the time, too, and get the same response. But what we also get, I’m sure many others would attest, is that lots of people do indeed take us up on our invite. When eventually they grow deeper in faith, and are asked why they started going to Church in the first place, they’ll reply, well, because someone asked me to! That’s it, because someone asked? Yep! Contrariwise, so many don’t go because no one ever asks.

You’ll be in my prayers, may HaShem bless you and keep you.
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Thank you for your encouraging words 🙂 I will continue to stir his most inner heartstrings here and there (not too often lol) “You, as a grandson of Aaron…”
I mean since he already says “maybe in a couple of years down the road”, he probably already thinks about returning?
 
Teese said:
I love your mission and your enthusiasm. God bless you in your endeavors.

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day.
I thank You for my being able to wake once again, to see and to hear this morning.
I’m blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God.
You have done so much for me and You continue to bless me.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak.
Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost and can’t find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.
I pray for those who don’t know You intimately.
I pray for those that don’t believe.
And I’m grateful that you are in my life. Amen
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Thank you Teese. And what a beautiful prayer this is 🙂
 
Michael57 said:
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

:crossrc:
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Thank you so much for your prayer, Michael57.
 
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