Israel-Hamas War - Rabbi Mordechai Becher - Thoughts and Prayers on JBS

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

[Music] my dear viewers on Jewish Broadcasting Service JBS who regularly watched my program dimensions of the duff I was planning on recording four new programs this afternoon instead I have been trying to get my son on a flight to Israel in order to join his unit in the IDF another son in Israel had an emergency callup my daughter in Israel working 12-hour shifts as a nurse she has four children most of the time sleeping in bomb shelters what we are confronting and have started confronting this week is a started confronting this week is a war for our existence and for our survival unfortunately it is not unprecedented in Jewish history there have been many times in history going all the way back to Biblical times that people have tried to destroy us to murder us famous biblical Nation Amal when out of their way to attack the Jewish people when we were most vulnerable just after we had exited vulnerable just after we had exited Egypt after years hundreds of years of slavery but amalik is not a genealogical definition amalik RAB solovic said is an ideological definition that is to say when there is a group Whose desire is to murder and destroy every last Jew man woman child the elderly the young when their goal is not just to young when their goal is not just to murder the Jewish people but to humiliate to torture and to cause psychological and physical pain such a group is amalik they are ideologically if not genealogically Amal kites we were attacked by Hamas and to a lesser degree hisbah but they're behind it Iran is behind it Islamic Jihad Isis those are all groups Whose desire

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1. 0:00[Music] my dear viewers on Jewish Broadcasting Service JBS who regularly watched my program dimensions of…
2. 1:35vulnerable just after we had exited Egypt after years hundreds of years of slavery but amalik…
3. 3:11nightmares nightmares during the day the brutality the complete barbaric nature of our enemies has revealed…
4. 5:18target men women and children on one day what was our response historically and later on…
5. 6:53not on us we are defending ourselves they choose to hide their missiles in mosques they…
6. 8:57relatives who were murdered by these barbarians by Hamas so the second approach first is physical…
7. 10:31destroy dignity we reinforce our dignity response number three response number one physical self-defense war and…
8. 12:07fourth response I would like to read with you a Psalm of King David which is…
9. 14:10for granted and it's just part of the normal liturgy but when I read this prayer…
10. 15:47God from the borders of Lebanon to the Egyptian desert from the Mediterranean to the plains…

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