Having the miracle of a community of friends, a group of people who know you who you have been in contact with for many years and as an extended family of cousins whose lineage like yours is Jewish, these people functioning as being your friends as well as your family. Having family who are friends and friends who are family.
Having a family of origin of brothers and sisters but also having "brethren" in a larger circle of people, a circle of family that is all related to you from a distance, but this distance closes and each member has a closeness, a closeness as the families form friendships.
Through these friendships a larger distanced world becomes a smaller world and we have friendships no matter where we go as we see faces who look like ours, people who are related in this large world as a community of Jews, wherever you go.
Being a member of a larger family in addition to your smaller family unit. This way be related to others and to care about them and have them care about you, even if you are motherless or fatherless, a widow or an orphan.
To have a view of the world being a place of friendships of Jewish landsmen and to have them as family no matter where you go, how far away you travel, and also in your own backyard, no matter where your backyard is located.
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