Rabbi Yosef Galimidi - Yom HaZikaron - Fallen Soldiers - Hacham Ovadia’s Message - 04/30/25

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So today we are going to be dedicating the class all the soldiers and all the andoton and obviously as well as all of the victims of terror that sanctify their life alashm. And that's enough of a dedication for today because it's going to be an all-incclusive type of class. to be an all-incclusive type of class. So we put the sephirata daily message on hold for today. Erh, but we're going to blend it in in a few minutes. So I'd like to before we go to certain facts, every minashem today did the special memorial prayer, the isore prayer, the way it's known in the Jewish world or hashkava, but we did the world or hashkava, but we did the elim and the isor and hashem we did the prayer. Now we like to discuss the actual essence of the day. So I do have in front of me uh a lot of numbers a lot of numbers and these numbers are a bit scary but everything that we're going to do today is lem shama. So I'll tell you today is lem shama. So I'll tell you basically what it is. So as of now, maybe as of maybe a few days ago, from 1948 till this year, there were almost 25,000 fallen Israeli soldiers. 24,981. Unfortunately, that number increased Unfortunately, that number increased tremendously from October since October 7 that regretfully we follow the news of what's happening in Israel. Besides that, we have obviously all the casualties of uh October 7 and bottom line based on the statistics and the research erh that I did in the past few days we exceeded over

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