A Hostage's Powerful Message to the Nation

I think all of us are familiar with one of the release of the hostages aam Burger her story is an incredible one but I think more incredible than everything is the words that she said as she was on the on the helicopter on the way back she wrote these words down and those were the first words she said when she met her family specifically here in par right at the end of par where ran speaks about that this is the para that has to do with everything with am she decided to speak out the fact that with am with the I left and with the Amun of I and without that amuna I have returned this comes from a lady who is most likely not religious but incredibly she was very mped to try to keep Shabbat the whole time that she was there she was stringent not to eat meat and order not to eat meat that was not Kosher and as we all know her mother DAV and and was interested that they she would not be returned on Shabbat every hostages have been returned every time on Shabbat and an exception was made this week where she returned on a Thursday because the Kamas decided to play some trick and say that and didn't release her and she ended up coming out on Thursday her real her real interest her Ron ended up being coming to fruition and that's the reason why took her out incredibly as we know that it was it's brought down that she brought a sidor she was able to find a sidor in Aza that was left over by some soldiers and with that she was able to Davin almost every day to be able to say something that maybe she wasn't necessarily saying before but that a moon that connection to was the that was the reason for her release whyu went and saved her I think this is an epitome of something that's incredible about our nation because we are a nation that no matter what difficulties we've went through what has happened to us instead of complaining and bickering about it instead of being on the dark side and running away we've always run to the hands of aesu We've ran to his big open arms and his hug even in cases even in scenarios of the darkest times that we've been through and we've always been back to embrace the great we've I I know personally from a neighbor that was in the Nova party and she was completely off and she was keeping now Shabbat and she's not only one all her friends out many of the people that were there instead of complaining why did this happen to us they went ahead and decided to find in the midst of the darkness in the midst of their which is an organization that does a lot of kiru here in Israel has packed houses it's impossible to get a shabbaton with them because there are so many people that are coming back to their Roots so many people who are interested in finding them where does this strength come from from why does this happen it doesn't happen with anybody else except for our religion other people when they are abused and tormented they complain they run away they have something else to say the answer is the midra says in that it Compares is to a z to an olive that we are compared to an olive an olive is not something that's necessarily tasty it's a little bit bitter in we don't necessarily make a for it it doesn't always have the Best Taste the epitome of an olive the reason why we have it is for the juice that's inside of it the oil that is extracted from that we cook from that we light up a room from that is able to use many many many things are used from olive oil and that is the epitome and from that we use the manora in the the that is spoken about over there in the mid that is what are about sometimes they need a little bit of a squeeze and all the juice comes out of them all the kishkas all the beauty that's inside of them everything that's within that saug that's that's that's absorbed within them comes out when you squeeze an olive you don't create anything new you just extract something that exists you are revealing something that is covered that's what K is all about that's what the Jew is all about that's what we are all about sometimes we need a little bit of a squeeze a little little bit of a push we need someone to put a rock and you know maybe squeeze us and all the beautiful olive oil all the juice comes out of us that's where we come it's straightens out our minds it puts us into reality yes sometimes we have to go through a little bit of tus but from there the Gula happens and it's very it's not it's so typical that of a story that I know in 9/11 September 11th they everybody all the families in September 11th who lost a family member during that time period received a very strong compensation a very large compensation from the government most of the go almost everyone went ahead and used it of course for vacations take off a couple years from work they went ahead and treated themselves to a bigger house they did what they needed but the Jewish people and especially one family specifically which I know took all the money they bought themselves a saer for for the sh they dedicated a whole to the sh because it was their daughter that passed away and they went ahead and they bought a hat ambulance they bought a whole ambulance you can already see how much money these people were receiving and with all that money they went ahead for the of their daughter they went ahead and they did it this is the beauty of Cl we know how to take something that's a difficulty and turn it into a challenge we take something that looks like it's Bleak that there's no end but we took it into a point of or of light we should all remember and live to these words for ourselves not just for the hostages