!פורים שמח

This text is Shoshanat Ya'akov, a prayer included in the Song of Songs and recited especially in Purim, after the Megillah is read. Purim is a very important jewish holiday, in which jews all over the globe celebrate how we escaped of anihilation (yeah, Hitler wasn't the only one who wanted to fry us like tequeños) thanks to Esther and her cousin Mordechai, with the help of their braveness and their faith in G'd, of course. We fast on Purim's eve, as the custom in those times was fasting before a battle to achieve both spiritual and body purity.

Something really strange happened to me while fasting. Since I wasn't eating for obvious reasons, I took my lunch time to read about Purim, but then something I don't know made me stop reading and walk downstairs to the K-12 lounge of my school. There was a box full of used books left by someone; usually when people at ECA wants to get rid of books, they leave a box in that lounge instead of trashing them away. I usually take a look at these boxes because sometimes people leaves interesting books, which always makes me stop by and sneak into the box to see if there's anything of my interest -no, not porn! (I mean, not in the boxes)


So guess what was the book that was sitting on the top of the box? The book that inspired Steven Spielberg to film Schindler's List. Yes, true. This is it:


And BRAND NEW. Ain't it interesting that while fasting on the eve of a celebration of how we jews escaped from anihilation more than 2,000 years ago, I find a book that tells the tale of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Catholic businessman who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust? And if we add that I lost some distant relatives during the Holocaust, that makes me think AGAIN that there are no coincidences in life...ever