"Im Tirtzu - If you will it, it is not a dream.”

Okay, so the Herzl museum was not a favorite of the group (too corny I think). We have, however, taken his message to heart.  “If you will it, it is not a dream. But if you do not really want it, then all that I have told you about it – a mere story it is and a story it will remain.” How many stories have we heard and sites seen that prove how much we can accomplish if we want it badly enough and work to make it so. At the Ayalon Institute we learned that the Haganah built the underground factory in only 22 days start to finish.  About the Six Day War, we learned how the feared “second Holocaust” was overcome and how Israel won one of its greatest victories. We saw a stone in the tunnel section of the Western Wall that was too big to be moved by today’s most powerful cranes and somehow was quarried, carved and placed there by masons 2,000 years ago. At Yad Vashem, at Herzl Museum, in the skyline of Tel Aviv, in the desalination technology developed here in Israel, and, yes, in the accomplishments of Sarah Kate, Daniel, Jonah and Sam. None of this was a given and all of it could have remained a story.  But, Im tirtzu…

(photo: Sam teaches us from his d'var Torah in the memorial hall of Ammunition Hill)