Yaffa ganz biography of abraham

          I am glad....

          The children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have brought the world untold benefits – holy concepts, human dignity, wisdom; eternal values, unending.

        1. Because he was a son of Abraham, a son of the covenant, a Jew in a Jewish land.
        2. I am glad.
        3. The Past: Glorious or Dismal?
        4. Yaffa Ganz is the award winning author of more than forty Jewish juvenile titles including Sand and Stars - a year saga of Jewish history.

          5. JEWISH tradition teaches that in the future "days to come," all of the holidays will be canceled except for Purim, the most free-wheeling, noisy, disorderly, feast and drink filled day in the Jewish year.

          Why should a rousing, boisterous, "minor," one-day, rabbinically ordained holiday that doesn't even rate the saying of the thanksgiving prayer, Hallel, be with us forever, while major, Divinely ordained holidays such as Passover, Shavuos and Sukkos will not?

          It always seemed strange, but who am I to argue with well established Jewish tradition? However these past, difficult, eighteen months in the Holy Land have given me an inkling of an answer.

          When everything seems dark; when solutions to a chaotic, dangerous world with political, military, economic and spiritual problems, are nowhere in sight; when we are seemingly in such dire need of practical, realistic guidelines (even though they rarely set the world aright) - in these threatening, depressing, what-can-we-do