Post Traumatic Growth — Glenn Cohen at Colel Chabad's Five Towns Siyum 5786 / 2026

Every single person here is connected to our roots, our culture, our Jewish history and DNA of surviving. Are there here second, third generation Holocaust survivors in the house? You are living proof. This is This is what we've been doing. Am Yisrael, we got our name from the struggle. Yaakov struggled with the angel and then he got the name Yisrael. We were born in struggle. After there was a famine and they went down to Mitzrayim into Egypt and we spent time in slavery. Came out, came into Israel. Over and over again, it's if whether it's the Assyrians and the the Babylonians and the and the the Greeks and the Romans and time and time again until the Holocaust, every time, every generation, they've been trying to wipe us out, but they just cannot succeed because we have something special. I'm sure of this. This is my This is my my my conclusion and I'm writing a book about this about post-traumatic growth and I'm sure I mean I will say that people in general are capable much more than we than everybody imagines, but the Jewish people even more so.