Turning Rockets Into Jewellery | Romi Sussman

“You are not obligated to total the function, but neither are you absolutely free to desist from it.” (2:21 Pirkei Avot)

No specific has the time or electrical power to help you save the environment. But neither can we walk absent from carrying out our compact component. It is generally challenging to know particularly what that “part” is. Exactly where do we start out?

For me, the solution to that query is usually area. I try out to locate individuals inside my very own group who will need aid, and areas nearby that could use an excess hand, a compact donation or a social media push. For occasion, through the last 6 months of lock downs, we have tried using to order in meals the moment a 7 days from one of the local restaurants. Will it continue to keep them open and assistance their wide financial crises? I really do not know, but it is what we can do to try out to enable.

Last 12 months when I heard that a business referred to as Rocket Necklace was producing jewellery out of the Kassam rockets bombarding southern towns in Israel – I understood I essential to understand a lot more. I began to stick to their Instagram web site and I achieved out to them to hear extra of their background.

And what a story it is. Given that Procedure Protective Edge in 2014, Yedidya and Shiran Harush have turned lemons into lemonade – or rockets into jewelry. They are living in the southern town of Shlomit and have expert the terror of rockets for many years now. Yedidya grew up in Gush Katif. He bought the plan of turning Kassam rockets into jewelry when he was doing work for the Jewish Nationwide Fund and was tasked with bringing a piece of shrapnel to Jerry Brown, the governor of California at the time. How was he going to get shrapnel by safety and to the JNF conference? The relaxation is (jewellery) historical past.

All shrapnel for the necklaces is initially evaluated by the law enforcement to make confident that it is harmless to use. Collectively, Yedidya and Shiran then just take this steel, intended to inflict physical accidents and psychological terror, and turn it into wonderful necklaces and bracelets. Some of the revenue they make is donated to the Jewish National Fund to assemble bomb shelters in border communities.

I was so encouraged by their idea that I just had to get a piece from them. I a short while ago purchased this necklace and am fired up to put on it. Their business enterprise is such a stunning symbol of the perseverance and creative imagination demonstrated by the Israeli people today in the facial area of disaster.

As Yedidya explains on their web page,

Hundreds of Kassam Rockets have been fired into our communities bordering the Gaza Strip and the primary purpose of these rockets are to induce nothing at all but chaos, destruction & death. My spouse Shiran & I have collected parts of rockets, eradicated the rust, filed & reduce the sharp edges down & produced attractive necklaces gold or silver plated. It’s awesome to be equipped to flip a thing incredibly hateful into a charming piece of jewelry that symbolizes power and splendor which is what The Point out of Israel is to us! Thank you for your appreciate & help! #AmIsraelChai

Yedidya and Shiran are performing their part to generate splendor and light where by some may see only darkness and despair. And I’m striving to do my component by proudly donning the jewellery they create and by telling their tale. I’m also hoping this encourages many others to see the light-weight in the darkness of their possess predicaments and to distribute that light-weight to some others.

I hope you will do your part, in your own way, as effectively.

 

Romi Sussman is a instructor and author. When she’s not at her laptop, she’s juggling raising six boys ages 9-20 and conquering daily daily life as an Olah. She enjoys running a blog listed here and on her private web site at http://aineretzacheret.com.