1. Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr. I am the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health — with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and coveted by those who have them not — I sometimes think that I should be less unhappy if they had been denied me, for then the contrast between my outer and my inner life would not be continually demanding a painful attention. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the sombre secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels...

It's time to write about this too. Thanks for that to Roman Goldman. A few days ago in FB I had a short communication with this wonderful character. Roman looks like a good guy and is not the last person in Israel, he runs the largest state clinic in Tel Aviv. Judging by our conversation, the level of understanding of the events taking place in Ukraine and the world is reduced to the phrase "Russia attacked ...", etc. But Roman leads a friendship with the chief rabbi of Ukraine - Asman. This gives reason to assume that there are still more sober thoughts in his head...