My odnoklassniki public profile picture.
As I've written many times before, I met many Stavropol Jews on the website odnoklassniki.ru, which is pretty much the Russian version of facebook.
I even created a group titled 'Stavropol Jews.' As of today, there are 60 members. Admittedly, about half of them are ex-Stavropolians living in Israel, but still 30-40 members of a Russian Jewish community in a semi-public internet group is something unique and pretty amazing, I think.
There is a discussion board, with an 'ask the Rabbi' thread, which recently was filled with questions on Kabbalah.
What can I tell them? I said I don't know Kabbalah, except for the very basics.
Anyway, today the board got interesting. Someone I don't know wrote that they've been speaking to people in the community who supported getting rid of me, and they said that there is a general consensus among them that they made a mistake. They want us back.
While I wish they'd have discovered this earlier, it's a good feeling to have. And I'm glad I listened to the advice people gave me not to reply publicly and turn this into a war and ego battle. I'm proud that we did the right and decent thing by not answering back publicly.
I wrote a reply on the thread. It was simple. "Thank you for telling me this. I wish I could return."
It's the truth.
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Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul, return to who you are, return to what you are, return to where you are, born and reborn again.
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