Paraphrased:
My father did not really stand on ceremony but i would like to say a few short words. Thank you all for coming out here. I feel really lucky that i can take time from my busy life and arrive in Israel so easily 5000 miles away. That I can make a sort of pilgrimage out of such a difficult year to visit my father and in a way achieve a feeling of accomplishment.
I think a lot about my daughter, how my father never really got to meet her and how it feels so unfair and unjust. But on the on the other hand, how I have my daughter and she gives me so much happiness and I am too busy taking care of her to really mope.
I know people have to get home for shabbat so I just want to thank everyone again and finish off: when people say I am like my father, I take it as a compliment and I hope to develop those characteristics. And in the ways that I know I am not like my father, I always wish I was more like him.
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