Unfortunately, for several high school students, that tragic realization came all too late. Now that I am a college student living on my own so many miles away from home, I am the stranger who shouldn t be wronged, according to the Eternal. Those of you who know me know that I come from a very large city with a high Jewish population, quite different from Columbia. When I first came here, I was unsure what to expect, but it took almost no time at all for Hillel with its freshman pizza party and the congregation as a whole to make me feel welcome. I knew then, as I know now, that perhaps, without even realizing it, you have fulfilled an obligation set forth to you by Hashem.
More work has yet to be done, however.
Look around you. The answer, then, is an interesting one. We, each, in our own ways, are strangers to those around us and even ourselves. We truly cannot know everything there is to know about a person, including the one who stares back at us each morning in the mirror. I remember when my aunt passed away.