For Sally, there was still another way out. He was sent to a "hachshara" farm near Hamburg. All over Germany, Jewish organizations maintained agricultural farms where young people were prepared for rural life in Eretz Yisrael. Sally later recalled, "It was the best year of my life. We were all young people, studying, dancing, working in the fields with the hope of a new life still looming large.”

In 1940, the Nazis closed the farm and Sally had to return to Rexingen.