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A Dream Come True

128K views · Aug 31, 2016

Rabbi Yoel Gold

A story of a soldier's dream and the power of family.

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it was in February 2011 and RAB yotv elah was leading a trip to Israel for a group of 50 American High School students the last stop of the trip right before they went to the airport was the cemetery in har Herzel as you can imagine walking through the cemetery and looking at the graves of the young soldiers who gave up their lives and hearing their heroic stories can be a very emotional and moving experience the most difficult place for me to visit is har hearta because instead of the young har hearta because instead of the young bearing the old the old are bearing the young so asra is explaining to the students the sacrifice that these children these young soldiers and their families have made he suddenly sees just a few feet away from him there's an elderly couple crying over a grave suddenly everything I've been describing but it means to parents and families it's right there we see a mother and a man I said it's very clear this is ala coming to visit a c he sees that on the tombstone there's c he sees that on the tombstone there's a picture of a young Israeli soldier his name was eras der one of us leaned over and Es her Mrs der starts telling them how Eris was a paratrooper and was tragically killed in 2006 you see the kids faces everybody's in pain everybody realizes as much as they can at that age what this meant to them then she tells them something that left them speechless she goes last night I had a

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