My Sukkah and the refugee crisis

       The festival of Sukkot is a time each year when Jews around the world put up temporary structures in which we eat and many sleep for a week. This can be a comfortable time or an uncomfortable one depending on the weather. This year in sunny Arizona it has been extremely warm even for here. As we ate in our sukkah in the heat and walked to friend's sukkahs in the heat I tried to think what G-d might be teaching me. What can I learn from being so uncomfortable? How can this exsperiance open my eyes?
        Our sages have written that one reason for the building of our Sukkahs is for us to be reminded if only for one week each year that our people once roamed an arid landscape with no real home lest getting too comfortable and we forget we once were a people with a homeland but no home.
        We no longer roam and many of my fellow Jews have returned to our homeland in Israel or made comfortable homes in North America or Europe but for over 440,000 refugees who have fled conflict by sea attempting to get to Europe 2,920 losing their lives this is not the case.
         It is easy with our comfortable lives to turn a blind eye to those suffering without a permanent home that roam not knowing where they can safely go.
          Sometimes with a problem so big we can get overwhelmed unsure of how we can do anything to help. I recently found out that IsraAID an incredible organization that I personally saw in action in Arkansas after the horrible tornado two years ago is helping refugees in Europe as we speak. Please consider as this time of temporary dwelling comes to an end for us for many refugees it's just beginning. You can find out more about IsraAID and their efforts here: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/emergency-relief-for-refugees-arriving-in-europe/
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