Holocaust survivors are the most powerful Souls ❤️‍🩹

B"H

On Yom HaShoah we remember the 6 million. And at the same time, I keep thinking about the survivors.

I’m a rabbi and a therapist, and their lives are the strongest message I bring into the room.

They went through hell, and somehow, they built.

Rabbi Sacks, in the name of Rabbi Jakobovits, said something powerful. Before they processed the past, they built forward. They made families, careers, communities. They rebuilt a world.

Not because the pain wasn’t real. Not because there wasn’t trauma. But because they chose to live today.

That’s the message I hold onto. No matter what someone has been through, there is still a היום. There is still a next step.

Processing matters. Healing matters. But there is something about building, about moving, about choosing life even while carrying pain.

Survivors showed what the soul can do. It can be wounded, and still alive. It can carry pain, and still build.

We remember the 6 million. And we honor the survivors by continuing to live, to build, to go forward.

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