By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
This is simply a weird story - but so important to tell. I read it in YNETnews.
Timothy Paul Jacobs Wordsworth aka Batn el Ghoul is fighting with the Kurds against ISIS in Iraq.
His grandparents survived Dachau - but his parents converted to Christianity and he was taught to love Israel.
Timothy was raised to fight for good against evil. He joined the British army and he even moved to Israel where he joined the Bratslav Chassidic sect. Timothy could not become a citizen of Israel, he will try again soon.
Interesting, right? But not the most interesting part of the story.
Here comes the most interesting part.
Every place in which Timothy Paul Jacobs Wordsworth fights and defeats ISIS, he tags with graffiti.
He writes his graffiti in Hebrew. He writes: Na Na Nachman Me'uman. Rabbi Nachman from the city of Uman, the phrase on the lips of all Bratslav chassidim.
Timoathy aka Batn el Ghoul says that he wants to bring sunlight into an area of darkness. According to the interview he ends practically every sentence with the phrase "Am Yisrael Chai" (the nation of Israel lives on).
Now that is interesting.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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