Remember: How I learned Hebrew and how it can help you to become the new human being in no time flat

Motto: Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight

Remember who you are

In 1981 I got a letter from a man from Israel. He claimed to be a second cousin to me. He was coming to an educational symposium (big conference) in Hungary. He came with his wife.

We spent time together, they were staying with me, in my one-bedroom high-rise apartment in Budapest. He visited with every member of my family, and experience their contempt for me first hand.

He offered to be family to me if I decided to go to Israel.

I year later I packed a suitcase and left Hungary illegally. It was winter in Hungary when I left, in fact it was below 15 minus, very cold. It was about 80 degrees in Israel when I arrived, penniless. I didn't know even one word of Hebrew, though I had heard the word Shalom, I didn't know what it meant.

I enrolled in an 'ulpan,' a free language school paid by the government as part of the Law of Return: every Jew has the right to get support to return to

remember who you are