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We Share The Same Sky

Chapter VI: I'm Going To Jump

We Share The Same Sky

Rachael Cerrotti

Memoir, Grief, World War Ii, Education, Holocaust, History, Religion & Spirituality, Immigration, Antisemitism, Widowhood, Denmark, Judaism, Refugee

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0

I love the biblical stories, not because I'm a rabbi, but because the biblical stories are

0:10.8

are symbols.

0:18.0

who doesn't know the story about Adam and Eve?

0:30.0

Do you really believe that the world was created in six days and then suddenly there was a person there who felt a little bit lonely? So God made life more interesting by creating, but splitting up that person into two persons,

0:37.0

I mean is that

0:43.4

literally.

0:52.0

to me the fact that the Bible talks about the Bible talks about one person and that person was not a man, that's a mistake.

0:59.5

People think that since it was Adam, but Adam means a person, a human being in Hebrew.

1:06.0

Later it became a boy's name so people think it was a man.

1:09.2

But the Bible says it was male and female.

1:12.4

That person was male and female, that person was male and female.

1:16.0

And then it was split up.

1:18.3

Why only one couple, why not, 100 couples or thousand couples?

1:24.0

And the answer is because we shall understand that we are all dissented to Adam and Eve.

1:30.0

Nobody has more blue blood or red blood. It's a simple, a wonderful symbol.

1:37.0

We all are descendants of the same people.

1:57.4

Bent and my grandmother were rescued from a little fishing boat on the shores of Sweden in 1943. That year the estimated number of displaced people in Europe was somewhere between 21 and 30 million,

2:07.0

and there would still be two more years of war.

2:10.0

Communities were completely annihilated, and lone survivors like my grandmother were displaced across Europe.

2:17.0

Hitler's final solution, eradicated Jews from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic countries, Romania, and others.

2:33.0

as the war continued, Italy and France would also join this list.

2:38.0

Sweden was a neutral country.

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