Dressed in Whites
When you hold that kid for the first time, in a hospital in
Detroit, you imagine the milestones he’s going to reach. You can envision him
heading off to school for the first time, playing sports, graduating from high
school and college, and getting married. And then life happens, and you find
yourself enthralled by that kid doing things that are so far off your radar, it
needs its own radar.
When Daniel was born Aliyah wasn’t something that we were
considering. But ten years later, we were on a Nefesh B’Nefesh flight to
Israel. I never pictured him wearing those fantastic white uniforms with Israel
emblazoned across his chest, representing his new country in baseball
tournaments in Czech Republic, Italy, and the United States. I couldn’t foresee
him wearing those white Bnei Akiva shirts as he disappeared every Shabbat. And
I don’t think I could have ever predicted that one day, I would be sitting in
the bleachers in Haifa, with the Mediterranean sea as a backdrop watching him wearing
a white uniform being sworn into the naval unit of the Israeli army.
There were about 170 of them, standing at attention,
relaxing, and standing at attention once again. The rav from the base read something
from Sefer Yehoshua, and then together as one, they pledged to defend the State
of Israel. They were divided up into three groups, which I’m sure there is a
military terms for it but as an Oleh, I have no idea what that term might be.
And then, each group began calling up the soldiers one by one. They ran to
their Mifaked, one at a time, with music playing across the square where the ceremony
took place. They stopped, saluted, and took a step closer to their commanding
officer. They were handed a gun and a tanach, and the sound of Ani Ashbeer (I
swear) rang out for the next ten minutes as each soldier individually committed
himself to serving in the defense of Israel.
The scene felt like we were watching a movie. The song Al
Tid’agi Li Ima (Don’t worry about me mom) played as Daniel ran to get his gun
and swear in. Together, Aviva and I watched as our boy began something we could
have never envisioned.
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