Reply To: Bli Neder no music until all hostages are free

My Thoughts After 300 Days without Music
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Over the past 300 days, I have not listened to even one minute of music,
because of the great suffering of our people, in our Holy Land.
Even if I had listened to music, I would not have been able to enjoy it,
because of my knowledge of their suffering.

I cannot listen to music when it seems that every week,
more of our precious soldiers, who defend our precious Holy Land, are killed.

I cannot listen to music when 8 soldiers are killed in one day,
by a Muslim-Nazi genocidal-terrorist booby trap.

I cannot listen to music when soldiers in their 20s are being killed,
with at least one 19 year old soldier killed.

I cannot listen to music when those who righteously fight
to defend us from Muslim-Nazi genocidal-terrorists
suffer permanent injuries, injuries that will never heal.

I cannot listen to music when parents of these soldiers suffer
the most horrific fate that any parent can experience:
their children dying young, without giving them any grandchildren.

It seems ironic to me that I cannot remember things that I learned
in High School or College, even though I spent many hours
studying for tests; yet memories of the music that I used to listen to
enter my mind every day and every night, even music that I listened to
in the 1970s and 1980s. It seems that musical memories are the
longest-lasting memories; at least for me, and maybe for other people also.

I wish that all the time that I spent listening to music had instead
been spent accomplishing some useful goal, because listening
to music is pleasant, but it is not as useful as accomplishments,
nor is it equal in importance to achievements.

Last but not least, the very-small inconvenience that I suffer
by not listening to music is NOTHING, when compared to
the vastly greater suffering of our brothers and sisters in our Holy Land.
May G*D save them, and us here in the exile, very soon.