The Legacy of the Three Boys

Another story appropriate during The Three Weeks

When Jews from all over the world came together for what really mattered.

by Menachem Joel Spiegel for aish.com

The Jewish nation is one big question mark in history. Having been persecuted throughout the generations, in the natural course of events we should have been gone as a people many years ago. Yet, defying all the odds, the Jewish nation lives and thrives.

This has become known as the “Jewish question.”

Historians have come and gone, each grappling with their own unique theory, but coming to no conclusive answer. Mark Twain, in a particularly famous essay titled “Concerning the Jews,” ended off with a question mark.

“What is the secret of his [the Jew’s] immortality?” were his words. No one since has been able to answer.

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