Michael Melchior Answers 18 Questions on the Israel-Hamas War, Prayer, and Why Peace Is Possible

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

Shalom my name is mik Mal I'm Rabbi and educator here in y I'm doing 18 questions 40 Israeli thinkers for 1840 so we'll begin where we always do as an Israeli and as a Jew how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history I feel that in many ways we at Crossroads uh Crossroads uh there are many uh possibilities which have opened uh with the Deep tragedies we've gone through uh there's a lot of Tears the question is if we use the tears uh to go deeper into tragedies and and deepen the uh internal and external internal and external controversies or if we use the tears to become Living Waters and a hope for a future so we're in many ways at a crossroad today in the history in our history both in the states of Israel and for the Jewish people how do you feel those tears are being used well I said as I said we're at the Crossroad so we can use them in both Crossroad so we can use them in both directions they're those who pulling us further apart and there are those who are bringing us together and it's very much up to us how we use it and this is the task God is giving us to use things in the right way this is the the main task of of I think our generation and our time the question is if we will use them as a Kem as a sanctifying God's name

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