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Commanders and Mass Burial | Rav Asher Weiss Shlit”a

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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You need to open your eyes and your mind and your heart to see Shamay and to see the miracles that we have been seeing the natural miracles. 15 months of war. I'm not a military man, but I'm also not a battling and I usually know what I'm talking about. Uh this is information I don't like to speak about in public but uh about two and a half years ago in my house we came together a group of commanders and people from the we discussing is about temporary burial and they said we know that the has more than 200,000 rockets and drones and if a war will both break out in the north we could expect a horrendous number of casualties every Okay, I can't say a number because this is confidential but a horrendous number and they said we cannot process that number of casualties. We will need

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  2. 0:30together a group of commanders and people from the we discussing is about temporary burial and…
  3. 1:03to do mass burial and we discussed various shilus. It has happened. And tens of thousands…
  4. 1:33Urban warfare is the most horrible type of war. And I read an article about a…
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  6. 2:36So on one hand this was a profoundly sad and tragic year also uplifting and we…

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