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0:00 We were privileged to host this evening the honored Gaon, Rabbi HaYanuka, Rabbi Berry, shlita. At the opening of the event I want to invite a representative of the hostages' families to speak - please. I want to thank you first of all for gathering with us this evening for the merit of their swift return in sound health, of all the hostages, men and women, and their children, our dear nephew Omer Maxim, son of Orna Esther, as well as for the success of the IDF soldiers engaged in the holy war against those who rise up against us to destroy us.
0:42 Good evening. My wife and I are the grandfather and grandmother of the soldier Idan, son of Yael and Adi Alexander. They abducted him and took him captive, and we saw a picture that indeed they are taking him captive healthy and whole, and since then we have had no contact with him, and it is very sad. First of all, to thank all of the Jewish people and to say to you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for all your prayers, thank you for all the Torah shiurim, for all the lighting of candles, for all the separating of challah that the women do, for all the mitzvos and all the cry to Heaven to the Creator of the world that everyone is making, all the Jewish people, for our hostages.
1:31 From the history of the Jewish people, the recent period, all these last months I happened a little to see and meet good-hearted people, dear families, bereaved families that I met, families of the hostages that I met, I saw all the shades - the pain is one.
2:11 And we must do everything in our power, both in prayer and in effort and in every single thing, in order to bring about a salvation in actual fact, that everyone should come out from darkness to light - amen. One whose life is taken only because he is of the Jewish people also merited to die for the sanctification of His blessed Name.
2:45 And this is the period that is most important for us, it is the test, that for very many years there was not such a test, that the Jewish people will need to be, on the one hand, united, and on the other hand divided, and the pain is great, because one cannot know how to speak, and about what to speak, and to whom to speak, because the opinions - there are so very many opinions. The Sages say in Tractate Sanhedrin, page 37, page 38, that just as faces are so different, so too are opinions.
3:28 They are very different from one another, the opinions among the Jewish people. Opinions are always different, just as faces are different. But one cannot disqualify the other, one cannot dismiss his fellow's words, and one must respect each one according to his level and according to his merit, and not dismiss his words, and respect him and cherish him, and listen to him and help him, and these are the main important things that the Sages teach us.
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4:03 This is not bad and this is not good, it is all good. All is one; the more we become one with each other and become united, it will help us, because our souls - the people is connected, and we must be united. For the families, also for the bereaved families, to strengthen them and encourage them and give them much support and much strength and to understand their hearts, and to try to appease them and encourage them and raise their spirit, and also the families of the hostages, that no one can imagine what they are going through, and each time the anguish and the thought about the loved one, how he is, and what he is doing and what is being done to him.
4:50 And we must pray and do everything, everything, everything, so that they come out quickly from darkness to light, and that they come out quickly, quickly, quickly with a mighty hand - this is what we will pray.
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