What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Ugandan Jew

Thanks for sharing PO1 William "Chip" Nagel the perspective of Shadrach Mugoya Levi who was orphaned at a young age and wnet far too many days and nights with minimal or no food.
"The idea of giving up food for 25 hours for the Yom Kippur fast can seem daunting.
But for Shadrach Mugoya Levi, it's not so unusual. In his impoverished village of Magada, Uganda, there are many days when there's not enough food to eat.
"On Yom Kippur I am asking God to pardon me," Levi says of the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. "On other days when I don't have food, I still pray. I pray that I get what to eat, so that I can continue to live."
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Levi, the 28-year-old spiritual leader of Uganda's Namutumba Synagogue, had an especially tough childhood. Orphaned at age 7, he raised three younger brothers as well as a sister who later died. Days with just one small meal, or sometimes no food at all, were routine. The nearest water well was a three-hour walk from the home of the relatives they lived with after their parents died. Their source of food were small plots of maize, potatoes, rice, cassava and millet that were planted and harvested by hand. Lack of rain meant lack of food.

Those memories are now far away, at least physically. Levi is spending Saturday's Yom Kippur holiday in Israel, where he arrived three weeks ago to spend the academic year studying at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. This is his first Yom Kippur outside Uganda."

This article has a great meaning to me. It's like finding the Ark of Covernant. On the way to the printer.

I've been to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC. Africa is an amazing continent and the people's are diverse. The different missions really do bring faith to folks who have seen things that are nearly indescribable to those who haven't been there. And Yes, the old buildings are still on the grounds across from the new terminals in Entebbe. The bullet holes are still there from the Raid on Entebbe. A tremendously successful IDF raid to rescue hostages from (in essence) the PLO. Shalom to you as well, my brother from a Christian brother.