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Parshas Beshalach - A Unique Message From One Of Our Hostages - Blue Ridge Mishmar

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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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It's interesting. All of Klal Yisrael is is our minds are thinking about the people returning home. It doesn't mean we all have busy lives. Nobody's pretending that we're thinking 24/7 halivai, but definitely the attention of our people is on people returning home. One of the hostages that all of them, each one's important and precious a Yid, we have no extras, but this Agam Berger, this incredible this Agam Berger, this incredible woman, incredible person, it's it's lo ye'uman ki yeshurun. She started observing Shabbos in Gaza, started being a shomeres Shabbos. She came home, she shomeres Shabbos. It's amazing. She met her mother, Agam Berger, and Rebbetzin Berger, the mama, also over the time her daughter was in prison. They met each other. They're two frum Yidden today. Two Yidden are shomeres Shabbos. It's it's nifla. They both over these 481 days keep Shabbos kodesh. keep Shabbos kodesh. Uh there's that alone is Yidden we're we're an incredible people, and a person under such conditions, she became shomeres Shabbos. She found a siddur, the nice she found a siddur. They think, I don't know if they discovered yet whose siddur it is. I don't think you find too many siddurim in Gaza. It's not a normal zach. It seems a soldier misplaced the siddur. And she amongst somewhere on the floor, it not clear, she found the siddur and she had a siddur. She learned Tehillim

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  1. 0:00It's interesting. All of Klal Yisrael is is our minds are thinking about the people returning
  2. 3:04important to me the Shabbos table, a certain thing. And it was important to me. We
  3. 6:07stands in the way. Nothing. Nothing. Agam Burger was keeping Shabbos. Just for us to keep
  4. 9:12becharti. I chose the way of faith. Me and Hashem. I wanted a I wanted to
  5. 12:48A family that sings is a matzev. It means that yedain is included and feels part.
  6. 15:52the nurse that the help came in was like she didn't want to talk like I
  7. 19:59yetzer hara of Erev Shabbos Kodesh Hashem put in the briah on Erev Shabbos Kodesh. I
  8. 23:36Erev Shabbos is the most cast cuz the deepest place in Yitzchak especially when you get
  9. 26:39only we could do this. And accepting mamash to talk to that space. That I'm I'm
  10. 29:41he did the wicks, the thing. Yiddishe zach, the kid knocked over the whole zach. It's

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