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The opening of this shiur, in The Yanuka — Rav Shlomo Yehuda’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Just before Memorial Day, First Sergeant (Res.) Itzik Saidian, a 26- year-old Golani soldier wounded in Operation Protective Edge in Gaza during the battle in Shuja'iyya, shares his struggle tonight with the treatment he received during rehabilitation; his condition is difficult. Actually, after half a year, I woke up. You are hooked up to machines, you can't breathe on your own, you can't eat, everything is through tubes. You can't do anything alone, nothing, even using the restroom—all that is with diapers. And as they lower the painkillers, you start to feel it. Changing bandages every morning for burns—it truly seems to me the hardest suffering one can experience. It’s not like I woke up and the shell shock just went away; I woke up and I was having nightmares while I was in bed, stuck in bed without the ability to move, without being able to do anything. I think that there, that there I really, really wanted for my life to end. There were several times that I pulled out the device that was helping me breathe. I would take it out of myself. As soon as I would take it out, all the machines would beep and within seconds they would arrive at my room. It’s not something that—since then, two years of mental suffering passed for Itzik, and then by chance, the day arrived that changed everything ; one day a friend arranged for me to

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1. 0:00Just before Memorial Day, First Sergeant (Res.) Itzik Saidian, a 26- year-old Golani soldier wounded in…
2. 0:31painkillers, you start to feel it. Changing bandages every morning for burns—it truly seems to me…
3. 1:01life to end. There were several times that I pulled out the device that was helping…
4. 1:32go to a reception, and I told him, " Fine, I'm coming with you." Truly a…
5. 2:02like a miracle, they were saved from the fire, and Itzik, Itzik, I am here for…
6. 3:04loves you, and you are precious and wonderful and dear and very, very special beyond measure,…
7. 3:35Like, he encourages me from a real place, not from a place of interest or anything,…
8. 4:07observing the Sabbath with. He has something for people who are sick, mainly in the soul.…
9. 4:37the injury. There is God chose Those who were injured, because I think that this place…
10. 5:12To strengthen people so they will continue to live and never try to harm their own…

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