Do we let the trauma master us or do we master the trauma? he likes to say.
The most common advice is to put the trauma behind you and move on, said Comet, a 96-year-old veteran Jewish communal professional who speaks about the Holocaust to groups around the country. But it is far better to transmute that trauma into creative energy and action, he said, which is precisely what his late wife, Shoshana, did.
And if Shoshana who suffered terrifying experiences during the Holocaust could overcome her trauma, then anyone can, Comet said.
Decades ago, at age 40, with no previous background in art, Shoshana set up a loom in the couple s Manhattan apartment. She taught herself the craft of weaving and using green, red, orange and yellow threads created a series of evocative 6-foot-tall tapestries.
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A view of the Chabad synagogue in Chisinau, the Moldavian capital. (Isabelle Ligner/AFP via Getty Images, JTA)
JTA Last week, Mendy Axelrod was working to secure a supply of matzah for his Jewish community in Moldova ahead of Passover. It’s no easy task this year, as air and land traffic into the small Eastern European country has been suspended due to the coronavirus.
Then near tragedy struck.
Axelrod, a Chabad rabbi working in the capital Chisinau, had to drop everything to save the life of an Israeli tourist, a man in his 40s who was teetering on the brink of death from a severe case of COVID-19 in a poor country with a fragile public health system that has been overwhelmed by the pandemic.