Far from Home
Mishpacha Staff
As the miles slip by, so do the scents and sights of home.
Separated from their homelands by churning oceans and alien tongues, four women
use faith, determination, and humor to navigate the contours of a new life, a new world.
Here are their stories.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Acquiring Eretz Yisrael As told to Leah Gebber by Rebbetzin Malka Eichenstein Destination: Eretz Yisrael One Tu B’Shevat, my father
ztz”l, a venerated Eastern European
rav and grandson of Reb Mordchale Nadvorner, the first Nadvorner Rebbe, received an orange from Eretz Yisrael. Our entire family gathered as he peeled it and divided it into segments. He put so much
kavanah into that
brachah; and I can still smell the tang of the fruit and vividly remember the excitement, and the way we savored a fruit from Eretz Yisrael. And so I always wanted to come to Eretz Yisrael, and when we were married, I was thrilled to be given the
zechus to spend what was meant to be a year in Yerushalayim. It’s now close to 60 years later. The differences in lifestyle between then and now are so vast that we could have stepped back 200 years.
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