If a young man in a German concentration camp 75 years ago were asked to define "surviving" he might have taken it to mean living to see the next day, or the next week, or the next month -- maybe, by a stretch, living to see the end of the Second World War. He would not have imagined that "surviving" would some day mean what it meant this weekend: to have dinner and music in the company of his sons and grandsons and six decades of friends, gathered to celebrate his 100th birthday.
Happy birthday, Jake, and congratulations.
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בָּרוּךְ אַתָה יהוה |
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אֶלוֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הַעוֹלָם |
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שֵהֵחְיָנוּ וְקִיְימָנוּ |
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וְהִגִעָנוּ לַזְמַן הַזֶה |