I can still hear the blast ringing in my ears, still hear the screams of the wounded, and still see the horrible images of that terrible afternoon.
I still get a lump in my throat when thinking of Chana Nechenberg, a young wife and mother who has been in a coma these past ten years, or of Malki Roth, a 15 year girl full of so much life who is still, ten years later, a 15 year old girl, because she never reached her 16th birthday.
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Dedicated to the blessed memory of Natan Yosef Chaim (J.J.) z”l, Ben Rav Yitzchak Ve’Blumah’ Greenberg. On the tenth anniversary of his untimely passing.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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9/28/12
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The heat was unbearable, but no one was thinking about the heat that day; there were 150,000 people who had gathered to pay their last respects.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/9/14
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Years ago, after a very difficult month in Lebanon, someone higher up decided our unit needed a break. Every unit maintains a daily events log (yoman iruim). Every patrol, ambush, search and seize, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/18/23
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If you would have collected a group of world-renowned military strategists, 40 years ago on Yom Kippur, Oct. 6, 1973, and asked them, at 4 p.m. Israel time, for a prognosis on the status of the events unfolding on the Golan Heights that afternoon, they would have probably told you Israel should be preparing the airport and shipping ports for a massive evacuation. And in all honesty, they would have been right.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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9/12/13
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Last year, I spent a week in Poland with Orayta, and had an experience I still cannot get out of my head. The wind was howling as we walked into the forest of Zvilitovska Gora, a suburb of Tarnow, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/20/19
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What motivates some people to do more than just appreciate the blessings they have in their lives and to actually be a vehicle for blessing?
This week’s portion, Eikev, contains one of …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/18/22
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This week’s portion, Terumah, introduces us to one of the most challenging concepts in Judaism.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/23/12
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Achi!” “My brother!” These were the words that always greeted me when I got to the meeting point for reserve duty every year, and it was the most common word on everyone’s …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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9/14/16
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His face is a study of pure determination, seeking every depression in the rock. There is little room for mistake. One slip will result in a 3,200-foot free-fall to the valley floor below. But he …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/7/19
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