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Hamas-Israel War: Remaining Anchored in Truth and Love During Insanity

6.4K views · Nov 22, 2023

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A women's class on the Hamas-Israel war and staying grounded in truth.

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[Music] sh we also do K Al and K Bas K Al [Music] know and the next one and we'll do the last capit of which is later I want to begin the class with two stories that I recently saw and both profoundly moving Yi htz was 44 years old and he was an esteemed principal of a high school for boys in y it's called the art pel High School a father a husband a father of five children and uh as the reservists were called to go into Gaza to fight and Destroy theas Yi 44 years old also went into Gaza and was murdered there so this is the week of Shiva so many people obviously coming to the house to uh Express their condolences to the wife and the parents and children of course and the entire family so Sian RAV Mayer who's a journalist in Israel wrote that a father of one of the students in the school told her the following about the principal about Yi y and the father shared with her and said that when my son arrived at the school the opening day of the year and this was his first time he was in the school in other words this was the first day the first experience in school so the principal y pulled this boy aside and he said to him that like these words you are going to save our school boy says how am I going to save your school the father says the principal heard that

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