Shira, a new immigrant (or "Olah") to Israel, shared her story, and her excitement as her son grows up in the Holy Land:

"My guy made his first siyum on Sefer Bereshit... See as an Oleh parent- every time our kids take a big step in their lives - every time they pepper Hebrew words into their English, make a new friend, or learn to play soccer like an Israeli- it’s a massive win for them. We can truly appreciate how hard they worked for every step they take.

But when your child learns to love Torah; when the stories of our forefathers and foremothers roll like reishes off their tounges, when they light up because they can tell you full narratives of our people, when they recognize places on the maps near our homes - because they learned about them first from the Chumash- and they did it all in Hebrew- it’s massively huge.

Because an Oleh child is gaining fluency.

Fluency with the Hebrew language that will lead them to learn anything they want from any sefer they pick up.

Fluency with the land of our ancestors- it becomes a part of their identity as they become adults.

Fluency with the Jewish people- who populate this land and are thrumming with the potential for the future.

Fluency that will always be foreign to me as an immigrant.

So these moments - as an immigrant parent, are worth every minute of sacrifice we invested to get here.

To be strange and foreign all my days so my children can be natives.

So my family will always have a home, here in our homeland."