This is a story I heard from my mechutan, my son-in-law’s father, Rabbi Michoel Bachar:
“When my parents arrived in Eretz Yisrael, they settled near Binyamina. This was about 75 years ago.
It was a very difficult time in Eretz Yisrael. It was just after the war.
It was the time of the tzena – there was almost nothing to eat.
My father bought a donkey and a plow and hired himself out as a ploughman. It was very hard work. My mother learned to sew and worked as a seamstress – and that’s how they make a living.
It wasn’t a great standard of life, but they survived. And the years passed by. Slowly, they saved some money, and decided to plant a vineyard…
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Rabbi Yaakov Asher SinclairRabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair has been part of Ohr Somayach since 1987. Rabbi Sinclair gives a daily Gemara shiur in the Intermediate Program and a weekly philosophy shiur in the Mechina Program. He is a senior staff writer of the Torah internet publications Ohrnet, Torah Weekly and Seasons of the Moon. His articles have been published in many journals and magazines including the Jewish Observer, American Jewish Spirit, AJOP Newsletter, Zurich’s Die Jüdische Zeitung, South African Jewish Report and many others.
His first book Seasons of the Moon – the Auerbach Edition
