Survival and Outcast

 

What to tell a child,  how to shield a child

from the very special reality lurking in the world

outside the security of her home that she is so

very special to have been born a Jew, member

of a tribal unit dispersed throughout the world

of a people whom history documents from its

ancient roots to the present. The spirit of a

people believing in a sacred covenant with the

Almighty to persevere and heed the supreme

commandment to do unto others as you would

have them do unto you, a simple commonsense

formula for accepting others to live amongst in

peace for the world is comprised of a multitude

of humanity and their manifest divisions create the

atmosphere that divides and drives them to uncivil

suspicion and mistrust. That child will mature, the

lesson deeply engrained only to discover that although

she may do unto others, others will do unto her in a

distortion of the message: survival and outcast.