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Israeli Man taken Captive at war - What Saved Him?

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Rabbi Joey Haber

An excerpt from Rabbi Joey Haber's talk on what saved an Israeli man taken captive during the war.

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The man's son told me the story this morning. There was a man, his name was Charlie. When he was 18, he started doing Shnayim Mikra v'Echad Targum. He lived in Syria. He then moved to Israel. When he was 44 years old, somehow the terrorists captured He was taken as a captive and he was dropped to literally the bottom of an empty well on a Wednesday. They gave him a little bit of bread each day, a drop of water that he actually used for netilat yadayim, and he stood there dying. It was Friday afternoon and Charlie called out, "Hashem!" He said, "Hashem, you made a

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