V Day

On the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy to free Europe from the Nazis, President Barack Obama saluted the elderly veterans who once stormed the beaches and achieved an "improbable victory" in World War II.

No one is more thankful for the sacrifices on this day than the Jewish People faced with annihilation having their population halves in five years down to six million. I was born in 1944 with searing memories of the crematoriums in my infant brain. The Jewish People have now regained their population to 14 million.

Not only were the Jewish People decimated but more importantly the Torah tradition and the great people of the Torah were murdered by Hitler once quoted as saying the only reason for the war was to killed the Jews. Why?

It says in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor that the world can not survive without the Jewish People in the same way the world can not survive without wind. The Jewish People, the Chosen People, are chosen by God to perform the 613 Commandments comprising the inner working of the human body. The seven continents of the earth also comprise a human body and the Jewish People who have been forced to wander throughout the earth have brought life to the world through the Torah.