Avoiding Another October 7th

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

She went up to Shuki and she told him very gently, "So your father died." And he said, "Yes, Gaddasha." Well, we were exactly 10, but there was a problem. One of the 10 guys was Yuval Armedic. Uval was from one of the share kibbutim. Uval's mother was an active atheist. His father didn't believe in. This is the way he was brought up that religion to him was anathema her everything is really but he's the 10th man and here Shuki is saying kadesh and if all 10 don't say oh man the top guys are worth anything so we all looked at you most people will probably assume and and judge from what they see have no idea that you were part of a combat battalion unit in the Israeli army facing the enemies in Lebanon and wherever mamish eye to eye face to face. So why don't you tell us you know a little bit about that the same mistake you made the head of northern command in 1984 in Lebanon he made the same mistake what was happened I was the intelligence NCO intelligence non-commission officer I was in charge of all the targets all the maps high sense intelligence but two years before in Beirut when I came out of Beirut alive in the first Lebanon war then I decided I've got to look for who got got me out of their life that was Hashem and I made a commitment to change my life. Okay, that's when I started becoming observant. And so already two years later when I was on reserve duty, we were 400 meters from the Amal front lines before was founded. That was called El Amal. That was the Shiite terrorists, the Shiite fighters. And their front line was 400 line 400 meters from where we were. They had to go through a forest right there. And there

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1. 0:00She went up to Shuki and she told him very gently, "So your father died." And…
2. 2:03we were on the forward most forward post. And I'm with my battalion commander, my company…
3. 4:36in the world. Wow, Rabbi Brody, this is incredible what you're saying because you know, we…
4. 7:10the the the Jews that came from Europe to America and Yiddish. They come to New…
5. 9:44go to the army? You want to go to yeshiva?" And he says, "Aba, I want…
6. 12:18us as much as we think from far away. We need to get closer in many…
7. 14:53defending your Judaism, defending the Torah, defending the idea of God's mitzvah. Now, I understand this…
8. 17:27to embrace and include that person in your world as well and give him the respect…
9. 20:00else's view to to to define me? Am I just a puppet? Am I just a…
10. 22:34And this brings me to a beautiful a beautiful insight I want to share with you…

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