Addendum

I was a bit irked when several people who read The Lecture post, did not grasp in the nuances of this brief post, the backdrop sustaining it.

It happened that someone suggested that we have a question and answer session in our group, and some were in favor, while another said it was unnecessary in such a tight schedule.

Then someone stood up and said that a brief Q. and A. period would be beneficial for us all. He alluded to the fact that he had read in Readers Digest -many years ago-about a group of fifteen Holocaust prisoners, who nightly rotated turns in sharing their individual field of specialty with the rest of the group.

After their ordeal, one said that it had been like a free University for the amount of knowledge partaken by all.

Unfortunately, I was not able to find online that Reader's Digest article, and with due respect to the Jewish community, I attempted to bring to light this article to others as I was genuinely impressed when I heard of it.

I thought how wondrous is the human spirit, For a selected few who lived through, and endured such mental and physical hardship, that no human being should ever have had to contemplate, lest endure - as there is no proper wording in the vocabulary to expound on accurately, the full level of suffering inflicted. Nevertheless, the human spirit triumphed over such mind-bending suffering. And at least for those in the group, they thwarted the intent of their oppresors.

In these trying times, one must contemplate that there is always someone who's had it much - much worse than ourselves, and one must embrace the certainty, that this too shall pass.





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