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My name is sarah Kacenelenbogen
I was raised by my parents and my grandmother
where we all lived together in the same house.
My grandmother was the most merciful person in the world that I know.
She was the one that instilled in me
everything that had to do with our Jewish people
from the historias of Abraham
to the stories of Moses that she told me over and over again.
And I remember as a girl I asked myself
who was that God that my grandmother talked about
because she always told me: You've got to have faith. Believe in Hashem. Believe in God.
But I said: "What is she talking about?"
Since I was a little girl I asked: "Who is God?"
Back then it was a God who talked to one person
which in that case was Moses, was Abraham,
and that through them, He guided our people.
That was always the doubt that I had in my heart:
to actually see if that same God could guide me or not.
In the Torah it says that Abraham was going to be
not only the father of multitudes, but that in him all the nations of Earth would be blessed.
So I said: "Wow! All the families? Well, there I am!"
In my adolescence, being a little bit older,
I started going to an orthodox temple which was also the high school where my kids went.
If I can describe in one word how I felt
what comes to mind is the word: "powerless"
I remember when my son had his Bar Mitzvah
I was so happy for him because of what it means to be a son of the precept, a son of HaShem,
and so I was throwing candy at him from a distance.
And in my excitement and emotion I went to go hug him,
and the rabbi came running and said: "No, no! You can't! You can't!"
And that was tough for me. It was shocking all of the sudden to think
"How can I not hug my son?"
Obviously these were rules I had to respect
because I had made the decision that my children would grow up within Judaism.
And while we do fulfill different roles with Judaism,
the jewish people in the Bible were all together as pilgrims.
It wasn't women on one side, the men on the other.
Inside me I began to have all of these doubts.
Because of all the seeds my grandmother had planted, I said to myself:
"OK, I had a personal relationship with my grandmother, right?
Is it possible I could have that with God too?"
I remember one Friday
I went to a church for a business course
that I'd taken for a career I was studying at the time.
My memory of what happened that day is really clear,
and today I can say that it was a before and after experience
from the moment I opened the door to that place.
I remember that a song was playing
and I started to cry.
And I cried, and I cried, and I cried.
And I couldn't understand what has happening to me. I thought:
I'm not crying because I'm said, I don't feel anxious,
this isn't a cry of pain.
And I couldn't stop crying.
There is where I began to understand
that the God who you can read about in a book like the Bible
is the same God that wants to live inside of me.
I recognized that in the same way
that we as Jews have our prayer that we recite every morning and night,
the Shema,
I was also able to recognize
that Jesus is the Messiah that we've waited and longed for so much.
All that I'd longed for over the years,
all of the questions that I'd had,
now they were answered.
I had them with me.
It was like saying: "Yes. I recognize that you're my Messiah,
that you're my Savior and my Lord.
As a Jew, while I had my doubts,
I went through that stage of saying:
"Alright, I know that the Messiah is here.
But Jesus is Jewish. He's as Jewish as I am."
So that internal identity crisis began within me, to the point where I asked:
am I still Jewish?
And today I can say: "Yes, of course!"
I live out my Judaism today with more fulfillment, more passion,
and more fervor because I can say: "My Savior is Jewish!"
We know that salvation comes from the Jews.
So I can say that I am proud.
I'm proud to be a Jew,
I'm proud to recognize that my Jewish Messiah, Jesus, has already come,
and that through Him I can know God better.
I can know Him better.
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