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Mikey Zivan on Tisha Bav Marathon 2014

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Rabbi Shay Tahan

Inspirational speech by Mikey Zivan at a Tisha Bav event organized by CHAZAQ.

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You can say that coming from today or even more coming from last week to say the least about anything there's Just a few things going on there. When leaving is as someone who lives there, as someone who made aliyah with his family and and to know Sorry. And to know the amount of life that is there and what a great life is there and to leave there just on a regular basis. There's nothing simple about doing that. But then to leave knowing that multiple friends, multiple family friends, brothers of friends, guys who I learned with in yeshiva, my own brother is fighting inside Gaza makes things no easier. the beginning of the fighting. A boy from Yeshiva lost his foot. A boy who sat next who sat behind me for a whole year. Buckeye show last week was killed. I never planned about when I planned to come to America and speak about everything. I never thought I would have to speak about Bakai. But just two words about [Music] him. For the whole year that I was sitting in front of Bakai, I was convinced that he had a serious eye condition. His eyes are always this bloodshot red always. And in Israel, it's common for high schoolers to volunteer for viral. And then usually after 12th grade they stop volunteering and or go into the army or go to yeshiva or mina and they start building their their yiddish guy and they start learning and there doesn't really that doesn't really leave a lot of time for volunteering. When Bakai came to

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  1. 0:10You can say that coming from today or even more coming from last week to say
  2. 5:34years old, why does he have to have to go on with the rest of his
  3. 11:31leave." Comes next chabas and he's still there. And asked him what he's doing. and he
  4. 16:59for Shabas. But then I started seeing people mingling around whispering something's going on. So I
  5. 22:20this is real, that we're not messing around. Bid, as I'm thinking to myself that we
  6. 27:41the unpleasurable experience of ever opening up an Israeli newspaper or ever a Jewish news newspaper
  7. 32:58or close um we were in the room together. We were friends, but I'm here tonight
  8. 38:26And here 10 guys from yeshiva. 10 guys who've been spending the past year, two years,
  9. 43:43north coming to the kota the d night calling at all hours what what can we
  10. 49:05Matsmu where everybody does barbecues and like July 4th in Israel and Ayala didn't show up

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