By: jrh

jrh — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:52:40 +0000

On Tuesday I met Mr. Effi Cohen, a remarkable man, remarkable family. We went down south give chizuk to the soldiers in the hospital and the people of Sderot. Instead we found strong people who gave us the chuizuk. Mr. Cohen with the most unbelievable sense of emunah in hakodes braruche, not even an ounce of anger all he had was hacarat hatov. The soldiers we met wanted to go back to the font lines to be with there comrades and protect Am Yesroel , weather they sit in Sderot ,Beer sheva, Yerushalim, Beni Bark, Tel Aviv or lihavdel New York. They understood the mesirat nefesh and what they were fighting for. Hakadush brachu gives all off us a task in life, not only to Frum people. Sometimes the one act the person who is not frum yet does he can get olam haba and we can spend a whole life and not achieve that one act.
I once heard in the name of Rav Chaim Shimulevitz, he told his students that anyone who take a pitur from the army to learn Torah, every minuet that they mivatel torah, they are like a rodef. Every time a soldier or any Jew is hurt or rchamna that is killed, we should walk over to the mirror and say what did I do or not do that allow this kadosh person to receive such pain and not question what they did or someone else did.
Remember a few things that when we see soldiers to thank them even hug them, frum or not yet, because they are giving of them selves to protect am yesroel. We need Tazdikim in the army. Jews are not our enemy. I saw a tephilah on Yom kipper asking that the rishim do teshuva. What saves the Jews is achdut yesroel, even such time of Melech Menasha which was a bad time, what saved the Jews Acdut Yesroel.
The last important thing to remember is we visit the sick go down south for the day. The people like Mr. Effi Cohen, Ahron Krovo’s wife of 2 weeks and family and many others will be living with this for the reset of there lives. What we did maybe nice but we should not feel good about our selves.
Hashem has a plan and the plan is Good, we should all be able to reach a madragar that no more should be injured or killed and that our enemies should be wiped out, and those who we have failed should have a full Refua and those families who rachmana litzlan lost some one find their nachama.

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By: jrh