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As Syrian Tanks Closed In, an Israeli Soldier Began To Pray - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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1973, the Yom Kippur War, the Golan Heights. Chaim Sabato and his platoon were being wiped out by the Syrians. Chaim had a book of Psalms with him. It was stained with his mother's tears. He opened it up and started to read out loud. >> [music] >> Mizmor l'David, Hashem ro'i, the Lord is my shepherd, I will not want. As the Syrians were closing in on him, he got to the verse, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not fear, for you are with me. He said later, it was as though King David had written that line just for me. What was it that made you feel that all his Psalms were written just for you? Like a portrait whose eyes stay focused on you wherever you are in the room. It says in Parshat Ki Tavo, and Hashem has singled you out today. Because the Jewish people rejected idolatry and accepted the Torah, we singled out Hashem as our only God, >> [music] >> and so Hashem singled out the Jewish people to be his only people. Just as the eyes of a portrait follow you around the room, so Hashem's eyes follow and protect us wherever we are. We, the Jewish people, have never taken our eyes off Hashem, and he will never take his eyes off us. >> [music]