Every breath makes a difference

— Every breath, every step, every word, every glance, every blessing recited, every mile traveled, every moment, makes a difference. In the Holy Land, every intention builds the land, builds the soul, builds the people. Something so much bigger than my project, my life, subsumes everyone and everything under the canopy of the land; even as I, little though I am, make a difference. The personal blessing I recite is, “thank you, O G-d, Creator of holiness and of the Holy Land, for making me a part of it, little though I be; the difference I make is eternal, like the difference in Israel made by everyone who preceded me and is around me and who will survive me.” Every Jew who was, is and […]