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TITLE: In the Year 3760 | Previous Challenge Entry
By david grant
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What? Your brother? Yes. This was the day he was born. Why are you asking? Stop getting ahead of me and let me tell it. Ok?
It was in the Spring of 3760, in the month of Nissan, the first time we went. I didn’t want to go. I was doing good and I had lots of carpentry work to do.
And to top it all off your mother was ready to pop with your oldest brother. Your mother’s name is Miryam, of course, and the goyim call her Mary, but I call her Chavah, because she is the mother of all my children, and is life to me, too.
El Shaddai couldn’t ask for a more inconvenient time to have us return to my family’s home town. I figured we’d go, fill out their census forms, bribe a tax collector, and hoof it quickly back, so my Chavah could have the baby here at home.
Ay-yay-yay! I tell you! Things couldn’t have turned out more differently! There was something odd about this trip. Even the donkey felt it. I could tell, because he seemed to be a little extra friendly to me and Miryam all during the trip. He seemed to step more carefully over the rocks with your amah on board, and I could swear he even smiled at her every once in a while. Donkeys just don’t smile, you know, and it’s not so easy for them to be friendly.
The road south seemed to be filled with family, which was good, because my Chavah needed the kind of female help I just didn’t know how to give her. Her two sisters seemed always at her side.
All along the road it seemed every merchant in the world was hawking water, bread, and dried fish. They pushed clothes at us, and jewelry too. One man even offered his wife to help your amah birth your brother. We tried our best to ignore them, but I had to spend a little money on water and bread for your amah. I wanted to buy her the jewelry, but our coin purse was very small.
It took us a few days to get there, and the town was over flowing with crowds of people of all types and sizes. And we found no place to stay at first. Every building was full, and every inn- keeper pushed us away, except one. He wanted to shut the door on us too, but his wife saw your very large amah and pushed him aside to show us a cave behind their building. Yes, that’s where your oldest brother was born. Yes there were angels, and yes some kings arrived and gave us very expensive gifts, and yes there were shepherds too. Oye! Who is telling this story?!
People in the Inn were keeping their donkeys, horses, and oxen there in the cave. But those animals were the quietest beasts I’d ever seen. Did they kneel when your brother was born? I don’t know. I never saw it. Yes, your amah says she saw them praying, but I was too busy trying to keep visitors away to notice.
It was like WE were the tourist trap, and the biggest attraction in town! I had to rebuild and secure the frail wooden rail fence that was keeping the animals in, to keep most of the visitors out.
Of course I let them in to see him, a few at a time. Everyone was in awe of your brother. Some told me they heard angel choirs, and other’s wanted “holy” milk from the cows standing in the back of the cave. I don’t know. I didn’t hear angels, and the milk tasted the same to me.
Our several weeks there was chaos everyday. Your amah called it “wonderful chaos” and promised me she would never forget those days. I was just glad to be home with everybody safe.
Where is your big brother today? I don’t know. The last I heard he was heading for Jerusalem. None of us feel good about him taking that trip, but He says its Abba Avinu's will, and He must go. I hope he survives this year 3793, and comes home. I need some help with these wood-working projects.
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