Akiva's Book about Making Aliyah
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Making aliyah is for sure the best thing I ever did in my life.
Moving to the ancient land of my ancestors. The center of the Jewish universe. Where the Jewish people became a people. Where my soul connects and feels the most at home in this great big world!!
But making aliyah is other things as well. It’s the craziest, wackiest, funniest, overwhelming, most emotional and most inspiring, frustrating and angering and humbling thing I’ve ever done as well!!
For those who have made aliyah to the great land of Israel, you know what I’m talking about.
It’s the spiritual uplift of taking your little kids to the Kotel on Jerusalem Day.
It’s the emotion when you see Israeli teenagers in their brand new army uniforms.
It’s the pride when you see Israeli doctors setting up the best field hospitals after a disaster in a far-off country.
It’s the confusion when a stranger hands you their baby at the supermarket so they could run and get one more thing.
It’s the laughter when you the gas station attendant hands you a challah for filling up your tank on a Friday.
It’s the smile that comes to your face when you see Israeli Arabs eating matza during Pesach.
It’s the humiliation when you make a really embarrassing mistake in Hebrew.
It’s the sense of accomplishment when you actually understand everything the guy standing next to you at the post office just said to you.
It’s the anger when someone cuts you on line only to take the last available seat on the bus.
It’s the tears you hold back when you see your children singing Hebrew songs with that beautiful Israeli accent.
It’s the sense of being home and being part of a family when the bus driver veers from his route to drop off an elderly man right in front of his apartment building.
These are the moments that make aliyah the unique and powerful and incredible experience that it is.
It’s these moments that I wanted to capture and put into a book. To share with others. To tell the story.
So I did. With the help of over 30 other bloggers, I selected and wove together blogs written by a diversity of English-speaking olim (immigrants to Israel) that together share those hysterical, emotional, inspiring and challenging moments we all encounter throughout our aliyah process.
This book, “Becoming Israeli” (tentative title), takes you on an adventure into the sometimes hidden world of olim (immigrants to Israel). It is a record and a testament to what inspires them to move their lives and their futures across the globe and gives voice to the challenges they face along the way and how they deal with and overcome them.
Help me bring this book to life by making a donation today. Each donation will help bring this book out into the world and into the hands of readers, Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and secular, who will laugh and who will cry, who will feel the emotion and the inspiration embedded in the words of each personal story. Most of all, they will feel the unique power that can be found only in Israel.
Thank you for your support!
Moving to the ancient land of my ancestors. The center of the Jewish universe. Where the Jewish people became a people. Where my soul connects and feels the most at home in this great big world!!
But making aliyah is other things as well. It’s the craziest, wackiest, funniest, overwhelming, most emotional and most inspiring, frustrating and angering and humbling thing I’ve ever done as well!!
For those who have made aliyah to the great land of Israel, you know what I’m talking about.
It’s the spiritual uplift of taking your little kids to the Kotel on Jerusalem Day.
It’s the emotion when you see Israeli teenagers in their brand new army uniforms.
It’s the pride when you see Israeli doctors setting up the best field hospitals after a disaster in a far-off country.
It’s the confusion when a stranger hands you their baby at the supermarket so they could run and get one more thing.
It’s the laughter when you the gas station attendant hands you a challah for filling up your tank on a Friday.
It’s the smile that comes to your face when you see Israeli Arabs eating matza during Pesach.
It’s the humiliation when you make a really embarrassing mistake in Hebrew.
It’s the sense of accomplishment when you actually understand everything the guy standing next to you at the post office just said to you.
It’s the anger when someone cuts you on line only to take the last available seat on the bus.
It’s the tears you hold back when you see your children singing Hebrew songs with that beautiful Israeli accent.
It’s the sense of being home and being part of a family when the bus driver veers from his route to drop off an elderly man right in front of his apartment building.
These are the moments that make aliyah the unique and powerful and incredible experience that it is.
It’s these moments that I wanted to capture and put into a book. To share with others. To tell the story.
So I did. With the help of over 30 other bloggers, I selected and wove together blogs written by a diversity of English-speaking olim (immigrants to Israel) that together share those hysterical, emotional, inspiring and challenging moments we all encounter throughout our aliyah process.
This book, “Becoming Israeli” (tentative title), takes you on an adventure into the sometimes hidden world of olim (immigrants to Israel). It is a record and a testament to what inspires them to move their lives and their futures across the globe and gives voice to the challenges they face along the way and how they deal with and overcome them.
Help me bring this book to life by making a donation today. Each donation will help bring this book out into the world and into the hands of readers, Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and secular, who will laugh and who will cry, who will feel the emotion and the inspiration embedded in the words of each personal story. Most of all, they will feel the unique power that can be found only in Israel.
Thank you for your support!
Organizer
Akiva Gersh
Organizer
New City, NY