Why don't you grab your Bible and turn to Zachariah, chapter 8?

Do you guys love the Bible?

Amen.

Man, I do.

There's a story of a guy, Anatoly Borosovich Sharansky, also knows Nathan Sharanski.

He was a dissident Soviet Jew.

He kissed his wife goodbye as she left Russia for freedom in Israel.

And his parting words to her were, I'll see you soon in Jerusalem.

But Anatoly was detained there in the Soviet Union and finally imprisoned. And the reunion that he'd hoped for, for he and his wife in

Jerusalem, you know, seeking freedom there and as a Jew back to their, you know, place of their country, you know, really is what

they were hoping for.

But he realized that that was postponed.

Maybe I'd never even would see her ever again.

That was the possibility.

But during those long years, he was in the actual Russian prisons there for more than nine

years, stripped of all of his personal belongings, his only

possession that he was able to keep, was this little miniature copy of the Psalms. During one of

his imprisonment times, he was refusing. They said, give us your little book. And he said, I know,

and he, like, would fight for it. Like, and they said, listen, you either give us your little book

or we're gonna throw you in 130 days

of solitary confinement in the hole.

And he would not give up his little psalm book.

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