Did you know that there is (way more than) a hint to 9/11 in this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tavo?

I remember like it was yesterday.

I was on my way into NYC to get a visa for the Ukraine, in hopes of spending Rosh Hashanah in Uman for the first time with thousands of others by the grave of Rebbe Nachman.

I stopped by parents’ house on the way, to retrieve my passport which I had left there. As I was about to leave, the phone rang.

Though I didn’t usually pick up their phone, this time I did. It was my mom. She told me not to go into the city. I asked her why and she told me, “Turn on the television and you’ll see.”

That’s when I saw the first tower in flames. We didn’t yet know that America was in the middle of well planned terror attack.

A few minutes later, I watched in absolute shock and horror as the second plane crashed into the second tower.

Within about 90 minutes both towers had dropped to the ground.

The world stood still.

That was a Tuesday morning.

A few days later, on Shabbat, everybody was talking about it.

“It” meaning, of course, the attacks and the new reality we had suddenly entered. But there was another “it” that everyone couldn’t believe and couldn’t stop talking........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)