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157: Wartime Diaries - Robbie Gringras

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Israel Story

Religion & Spirituality, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Judaism, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Grateful for his safety and relative comfort in this war, one man says goodbye to his personal paradise.


The end song is Pizmon LeYakington ("Hymn to the Hyacinth") by Yehudit Ravitz.


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So do you feel embarrassed to talk about this?

0:05.3

Yeah.

0:06.0

It's only because I was looking forward to seeing you that I said, yes, we'll have this conversation.

0:10.3

No, it is embarrassing.

0:11.3

I posted it on my Facebook, and I've posted lots of other things on my Facebook.

0:17.0

And I just said, you know, it's nothing compared to other people, but, you know, mark me miserable.

0:21.3

And the responses of people who were so sad for me, I was embarrassed because it was responding as if, you know, there was a death in the family and there hasn't been.

0:34.2

And I think it might be down to that it's to fully imagine the suffering of somebody.

0:39.5

For example, a friend of my daughter is still kidnapped, is still in Gaza. Rommy. Romney gone in.

0:46.6

They went to school together. They danced together. And Romney's still there. And I think that to be

0:52.6

able to fully imagine the nightmarish life that Romney's family is going through now and the nightmares that Romney's going through now, it's too difficult to imagine.

1:05.3

I can't go there.

1:07.0

I can't take my imagination all the way to touch the fire.

1:10.7

But I can imagine losing a lovely part of my house for the sake of war.

1:17.5

And so people can kind of fully imagine that and therefore almost more empathize with that

1:22.2

than with the deep tragedies.

1:25.3

Hey, I'm Mishi Harmon and this is Israel Story.

1:30.5

As you know, we're continuing our wartime diaries series, which is an attempt to collect

1:35.9

slivers of life during these seemingly endless days of war.

1:41.5

Last week, after nearly 14 months of war, bombardments, and suffering, Israel and Lebanon

1:48.7

signed a ceasefire agreement. While we can only pray and hope that it holds, and that the

1:54.9

northern border becomes and remains quiet and peaceful, the implications are already felt. Tens of thousands of people who had

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