From Toronto – “Saving a World”
From Toronto – “Saving a World”
Here is a little story that I know you will appreciate. It's a story for your Shlock Rock "Divrei HaYamim", one which fulfills your band's truest raison d'etre, so to speak.
Do you remember that I mentioned an Israeli employee of ours that was living with a former Tibetan monk? Well, we gave her a pair of Shlock Rock tickets, hoping that she would attend your concert. She did and brought her boyfriend along. To make a long story short, they began having arguments about religion and other things almost immediately after the concert. She informed me a few days ago they broke it off for good. She was considering marrying him and even brought him home to Israel to meet her family. In any event, she now moved out of his apartment and she is now living not too far from me with some other Jewish singles.
I have been trying to get her to come for Shabbos for the longest time. I give her challah every week and things related to the Jewish holidays. No matter what though, she seemed persistent in her effort to remain "broad minded" and liberal enough to be living with a Buddhist monk. Apparently, your concert, due to the music, the message in the music and the location (it was the first time in a long while that she had been in a shul) touched something in her. The fact that she was surrounded by all Jews, also for the first time in ages (as she had been gallivanting around India for months and months following the army service and then came directly here), also made an impression. She expressed her realization in her uniqueness as a Jew and felt a pride in her Judaism that had been suppressed for so long. Sitting at the concert with her boyfriend made her even feel a bit ashamed and uncomfortable. In any event, whether directly or indirectly, Shlock Rock's Toronto show has changed this young Jewish woman's life.
We know that everything happens for a reason. I can tell you that you have managed to save a whole world in the form of this young woman. I know that you would agree that here is no price tag for something like that. Your visit here may have been orchestrated by the One Above for this very purpose. You never know...
Anyway, I just wanted you to know about this. Yasher Koach and Chazak Ve'Ematz
Shlock Rock
2018-05-13T16:39:21+00:00
Adina Abramov - Toronto
https://shlockrock.com/testimonials/from-toronto-saving-a-world/