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A reflection on the challenges faced by the Jewish nation and the resilience of individuals after October 7th.
A 1h 13m chizuk shiur by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.


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What’s said in this shiur
The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
[Music] we're so used to numbers 1200 people killed hundreds of soldiers killed hundreds of hostages taken and I realized what we should focus on are the individuals individuals each person is is a son as a brother as a father a brother and a sister a mother father children grandchildren there's communities involved we just don't focus on individuals that I need to focus on the individuals people need to focus on individuals and I said for Tisha I want to be able to put together something the Kell can meet some of these individuals there's a name and a face behind the [Music] tragedy my name is Aid I'm from kibuts B I remember I born over there and I live on my life there I just we get married in in Berry and we got four children Ben y growing up a lot of energy a lot of spunk but at the same time very um very focused we always kept saying like he was very passionate about anything he did you passionate about anything he did you know if he got into a sport he was all into that until he moved on to the next if he did break dancing all in karate all in he was very skill like I always say he's just my boy he was my buddy I mean he was my boy my husband was a man of truth the truth was very important to him he never lied and you knew that whatever comes out of his mouth came out after a lot of thought and though he was very very
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- 0:00[Music] we're so used to numbers 1200 people killed hundreds of soldiers killed hundreds of hostages…
- 6:138:30 we hear the bell ringing in in the in the main door and we know…
- 12:26knew only three terrorists I didn't know it was 19 so we ran to the terror…
- 19:07bullet took my arm here inside so a few a few second later I'm collaps I'm…
- 25:22breath in quiet and and she told me around 7:00 she told me Dad we're going…
- 32:28as [Music]…
- 38:55organization so that's what the way he was living not just the way he died and…
- 45:07unfortunately killed we know that he was where he felt he needed to be that day…
- 51:25challenges for…
- 57:42saw mother and a father came for the first time to the place where their daughter…
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- Chizuk — 1h 13m, by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
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