Faith, Unity, and Resilience: Looking Beyond October 7th - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

They took some hostages. Not since the Holocaust were so many Jews killed in one day. What a day, what a day. But we have to know that those people did not die in vain. Death of the body is only a asleep. We say in our Shmone Esrei prayer that those that are sleeping in the earth will rise again. And we have to know that. It's sad, it's hard, and I'm not belittling anyone's suffering. We we suffer with everyone, but no one suffers like those that really lived through it and lost loved ones. We were vulnerable on the October 7th because we lacked a unity and lacked a brotherly love for one another. There was inner inner conflict. We were heading towards a civil war. And unfortunately, when we're not getting along, we lose protection from our enemies that hate us and wait every day to come and hurt us.