A New Perspective

While working here, sometimes I forget that Friendship Circle is also a Jewish Organization.  In additions to the various projects that I have been taking on for them, I also have participated in some of Rabbi Yossi’s more spiritual responsibilities.  For example, the Rabbi has Torah study sessions with a few people this week.  During one of the sessions that I sat in on, I met a man who told me that he has been spending his time hitch hiking through Latin America.  He explained to me that he was meeting his friend in Buenos Aries, and instead of flying he hitchhiked through Mexico.  Not knowing any Spanish at the beginning, he learned Spanish as he travelled, made his way to Guatemala where he eventually got a job in a hotel and later as an English teacher.  Meanwhile, over the course of a few years, he never ended up making it to Buenos Aires.  He then came back to the United States, where he finished his college degree and just now began studying Torah again with Rabbi Yossi.  I got to see a completely new perspective on the way someone can live his or her life. By the time the study session had ended, we haven’t even flipped to the first page of our books.  Instead, we had a discussion about the different ways