I suppose this is the year that I will share more details of my personal life with you all. It’s really not something I’d planned on ever doing. Let me be totally honest, it is very hard to know the person behind the Facebook name. Some of you who have been with me from the beginning of this group I do feel I know your character, but many others I simply do not. Sadly, there have been many members that have been removed from the group because of x, y, or z. Those experiences have caused me to be very cautious with my personal life here.
I suppose part of the reason for me opening up now has a lot to do with the fact that after a very shaky couple of visits to Mishrad HaP’nim (immigration) I’ve been granted another year of residency. And my driver’s license has been extended for another year as well. With the new visa I was awarded I am entering my third year of residency, at the end of the fourth year if all goes well I should be awarded my citizenship. Another big reason to be cautious is that I’m still on a ‘good behavior’ basis until I finish that fourth year. There have even been times I’ve made this group private when the news would tell of crackdowns on ‘believers’ or non-Jewish (as in not practicing Judaism) spouses. They always ask on their forms what my ‘faith’ is. It can not be left blank.
When we moved to Israel we were under the impression that my husband was about to receive his inheritance from his parent’s estate. His younger sibling is the executor and had not wanted to buy-out my husband’s portion of the estate, neither did she want to sell the estate, but has made it into a shrine of sorts. We were told that by March (we moved to Israel in February of the same year) after taxes were sorted on their chain of liquor stores she would payout to my husband his portion. This never happened. There are too many details to share about what went on. This year again my husband has asked for her to settle up. The response was “Oh, that. You want to do that again, lol? Maybe in the Summer”. That was her one and only response.
We have seriously depleted our savings during this waiting period, I can see the bottom of the barrel so to speak. When we are left with just my husband’s social security we will have more expense than income. I’m asking for you to please pray that somehow we receive the inheritance from the estate of my in-laws. I watched this same ugliness happen to a lesser degree on my Dad’s side of the family. It’s always an ugly, ugly process when the one with power lets it go to their heads and assumes a dictator role.
Oh and before anyone say “get an attorney” the husband of my sister in law is the City Commissioner where they live. I don’t think that going to the courts there is a winning process for us.
You can read through the entire postings in this group and see that I have rarely ever asked for personal prayer. Thanks for your attention.Updated Feb 10, 2018, 6:58 AM