The Matriarch's Shabbat Candles - Chizuk for Iron Sword by Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

B the Sunday morning um beginning of the seventh week of this war already it's hard to believe that six weeks have passed since T um want to try to deal with a topic that um many of us are familiar with because um we light candles every Friday night and there does not seem to be a big novelty in discussing the Mitzvah of n chabbat except for the fact that chabbat lighting kanak lighting Friday night candles has be added on to the list of things to upgrade during this crisis time everybody knows that we're trying our best to be involved in on a higher level H we're all involved in Acts on a higher level this everybody knows but um there there are here and there different types of suggestions that um are sent around to the communities for purposes of what's called a skoa schoa a usually means some type of added Merit added SC that if we upgrade in a particular and U there are two uh suggestions that have come around they're not new but uh that are that that come to our attention many times during crisis situations one is to perhaps add another candle during our candle lighting Friday night and the other is to get involved in taking off kala I know that there were many many women past few Fridays who've been specifically baking kala and taking off the kala as the Mitzvah of taking off kala where um this would be a Scot of some sort especially since we're dealing with the issue of the hostages we're asking to whether it's miraculous or not just to help us end this situation and there are just so many um women involved as well and obviously women can identify with with this part of the tragedy uh women who normally would light candles and women who normally would take off kala when they bake um and and here we're just going to try to do this for them I'm just going to flash back to the days of the Soviet Je movement free the Soviet Jews back in the late 60s and early 70s where um people were asked to leave an empty seat at the Seder table just to remind us that there's somebody missing at this table and this was done now as well people have set up shabas tables with seats that are missing to symbolize those who are not with their families and so on so that's an idea that we're just trying to upgrade our awareness of of the situation but the concept of a schoa one have to be very tread very very carefully um the the the rambam 850 years ago talked about the issue of having amulets all kinds of uh things that were suggested uh for for for giving you know better luck now ran was against luck he was against as astrology on every single level uh but the ramam did say something that was of of great interest that sometimes the community or the individual does something that has no alic basis whatsoever but it's not an AA you can't put your finger on it and say this is a sin and therefore the ram would say if somebody would have such a custom and does not want to do away with it for whatever reason you don't have to do away with it because um it's not clashing with any particular halakic value nobody's going to say to up upgrade taking off kala is clashing with a h value that's actually involved in an upgraded performance of a Mitzvah with regard to adding a shabas candle so I would say the following I remember when um when Mar and I got married so um we I asked the r a question uh what happens when we spend Shabbat either by my parents or by my wife's parents does my wife have to light shabas candles now the gener generally it's understood that married people even as guests will light shabas candles but when you think about it U perhaps it's not even necessary because the obligation of chabat is not an obligation on the person but it's an obligation that the home should be illuminated with chabas candles uh it's taking it like from a different angle if we would introduce the jargon from the Lamb of brisk you would say it's more of a Mitzvah on the on the object on the house less so on the person on the gavra on the person so it's true that women took upon themselves to light the shabas candles so that the candles should illuminate the home Friday night but if there is no woman in the household and there's a man he could be a single person he could be a person who's divorced a person who's a widowed he has an obligation to light shabas candles also because he has the guarantee that the house is illuminated so once the house is illuminated BAS basically the Mitzvah has already been performed so let's assume as a young married couple I I go to my parents home with my in-law's home and my mother-in-law or my mother light shabas candles so perhaps my wife would be exempt from lighting shabus candles because that house already had the lights the candle lights lit the candles L and the r told me something interesting that first moment he said well you know the custom is that when you visit you do light shabas candles so that's first and foremost that we're not going to wiggle out of this but he said maybe it would be appropriate to to light in a different room because the room that my mother or mother-in-law L the the the the Mitzvah was already performed the house at least that part of the house is illuminated so if you light in a different room so then you're certainly creating a additional illumination but then the r took a step back and he said you know what he said you can light in the exact same place that your mother or mother-in-law lit why because he said every subsequent candle means additional illumination and obviously he wasn't talking about the physics of light obviously three candles four candles is going to give you more light than two candles but there is a certain spiritual upgrade that I can prove that the takes this into consideration because of the known custom it's a very known although it's not widespread in every Community but it's a known custom that after children come into the picture the mother will add a candle per child every single Friday night and obviously the there's going to be more light because now the three candles four candles five candles the idea isn't so much the the light per se the physical light but there is a spiritual illumination add-on that's taking place with these additional candles and that's why the r said that um guests can light in the same place that the household the mother of the household lit the candles with another it's not a and so on so therefore those in these trying days who've taken upon themselves to add an additional candle to also remember and symbolize the um the fact that there are women who normally would like candles but they're in captivity and they cannot do it and symbolically we want to light on their behalf so we're not making another we're simply just adding another candle to the number of candles that the the woman in the household would light yes this has some uh spiritual effect and so on uh and and something that's uh noteworthy however I think that the idea of um of of the WR chabbat to understand clearly what might be the the the significance of any type of upgrade that's associated with the RO chabbat uh I I would latch on to the ashkanazi custom and I stressed ashkanazi custom to make the on the candle lighting after the candles already lit we'll go let's take a step back the the the is very clear that whenever we for a Mitzvah that carries with it a the is supposed to be recited before momentarily before the very performance of the Mitzvah that's called right before you do a Mitzvah you you you make the bra there are certain occasions that for a variety of reasons we have to delay the making of the braa because um it might be inappropriate to say the before the performance of the Mitzvah so I'm just going to give a few examples so we should understand what we're talking about here uh if a convert uh goes to the Mikvah and obviously after the convert has gone through everything else that he or she had to do the climactic moment is going to be the Mikvah the the the immersion in the Mikvah there is a associated with that with that immersion now clearly that person is not going to say be able to say the before going into the Mikvah because the person is not Jewish so the only way possible that person can say the is after the person already immersed whether it's a man or a woman having said that the says if a woman goes to the Mikvah because of reasons so obviously she's Jewish she could make the before but we say once the converts are making the on the mikah afterwards so everybody should make the going into the mikah afterwards and that basically led to the custom that women take a second dunk in the mikah after the by the way some asking why why women do twoo but one it has to do with the but anyway we get back to the the question of bra before so that when we wash our hands so when do we make the we make after we wash the hands why because we figure if there is some type of spiritual impurity on the hands beforehand and that the reason that we're washing the hands so the should not be said while person is T and therefore it's said after so we wash our hands and then we make the while we're drying our hands but essentially the said after the Mitzvah but ordinarily we wouldn't do that take khah candles we say the we like the khah candles you say the you read the m and so on in chaar you say the you blow the chaar so this is a rule it's atic in the laws of MIT and RAB representing the modern day spardy tradition says that so too with chabas candles and that's what our wonderful spardy women do till this very day they make the n Shabbat and then they light the candles why do ashkanazi women do it the other way is because they many of the posim of the last few hundred years thought that women when they say the they assume that they are accepting upon themselves the sanctity of Shabbat by making the and if that's the case then they can't light any longer because it's already Shabbat so we have this gimmick and we have the women light the candles first and then they cover their eyes when they say the bra and then they remove the hands away from their eyes as if now okay I said the I have to light the candles and look at that they're lit already okay and this trick works every single Friday night and then we do it again and again so that's the popular reason why women cover cover their eyes but there was a great professor at the HEB University Professor toshma who actually researched this minhag and shows that the original minhag of covering the eyes it wasn't really covering the eyes but it was raising the hands as a gesture of Tila of prayer a very old custom in Jewish tradition was that at the time of candle lighting women would would um issue offer a prayer AA for the benefit of her family her surroundings and so on and perhaps all of CLA Israel all kinds of have been written and subsequently printed people have them on the wall next to their cand lighting and they say this this is something that takes us back hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years and once there's already an association of it goes together with and that's why there was this Association of a box we used to call a pushka it's many people had a Karen kayit box next to the uh candle lighting and they put a whatever they put in a little change and that little change would add up and once a year they would empty it out and you know bring it over to the Karen Cay but the idea of it stuer box was associated with the candle lighting not because the Mitzvah of lighting candles requireda but because it was associated with and to this point I want to stress the tells us in that if somebody negotiates with about something that he or she needs desperately and you want to suggest to God that all right I'll do better on a particular Mitzvah let's take K just for example and you tell look I need something very very much so and I'll be careful much more careful in in the Kash in my home this is totally rejected you cannot strike a deal with aosh you cannot bargain with him you cannot suggest something that suggests of a bribe the Tora says in God does not take a bribe and the ran tells us right there that you want to use a Mitzvah performance as a bribe to God that he should give us something so you want to say you know God should you know help us redeem all the uh fugitives all the all all those that all all the you know those who are in captivity the hostages so um so so I I'll I'll do better you know I I won't say lanara between 2: am and 3:00 am you know that's a that's not going to work that doesn't work you cannot make such an idea to but tells us that there's one Mitzvah that you're allowed to strike a deal with and that has to do with giving why is that so one can philosophies about it but the says as follows if somebody says this coin I'm donating to my son is critically ill and therefore I want to give a a coin for so this should be a merit for his for his that he should recover so the says that is perfectly okay perfectly legitimate and that's what really launched the idea that when people make a by whether it's on Shabbat on Monday Thursday say for somebody sick it is proper to make some type OFA donation so it's not a cheap shot of the sh you know earning income it's it's something that has a real serious basis that at the time that you ask for the recovery of somebody's sick it should be associated with and it's not an accident that said that there's something about that can save U so so so we have this Associated now with the giving with the lighting of the candles Friday night because women D and when women DAV the hands were always in a gesture of as the Tor tells us about I have raised my hands in prayer and that is what's behind mosu at the war of am that and were raising M's hands and the tells us this was and when saw that those who were not engaged in the battle were daving were praying then the battle went on our side and when mhu sensed that people were a little bit weak in their then the battle went on the other side gav and therefore this is a gesture of so Professor TMA said that this is where the original idea of women when they lit candles they they they raised their hands which eventually morphed into covering the eyes with that secondary reason that was introduced because of the issue that we mentioned just before I just want to mention that in Poland when people visit various Jewish cemeteries or at least see a remnant of matot because many of the cemeteries were destroyed they they more often than not you see pictures of matot of of monuments of women that have the image of candles two candles where one candle is broken you see this and obviously symbolizing the fact that the woman passed away and next to those two candles is AA box the idea OFA associated with with um with candle lighting Friday night was was embedded into the Jewish art of Designing the matot for women so therefore I'm suggesting that the idea of adding another candle has maybe psychological benefit or in accordance what we said earlier that the r said that every subsequent n has enjoys some type of level of a spiritual boost so we can accept this as as something that we want to do today uh because of the situation but what's most probably more important is it would be the associated with the candle lighting and more than another candle uh again I'm not saying there's a problem with the candle but I'm suggesting that if I'm prioritizing here what what would be the more potent Merit that we're looking for it was probably would be in the area of of so if on the subject of the so just yesterday we read at the end of that um the servant of abrahamu who Rashi identifies as elazar and said so why didn't the torat just come out and say it why is he called evid Abraham the servant Abraham throughout the the the the the story there's no mentioning of there's no identity of who he is so there's an oral tradition that perhaps it's Eleazar why shouldn't it be elezar I mean he was the top man inu's house so but this Abraham so said why because a sh a messenger there is a concept called that a messenger becomes the person himself other words there's a type of switch of identity here where the shal becomes the the messenger becomes the person who sent the messenger and and and therefore the the person who went even if it was elazar he was nothing but EV Abraham he was in the service of Abraham ainu and that's why he does not carry does not carry his own name so this um servant comes back and reports to Y and and obviously the Y sees that there's a young lady on the camel who now comes off the camel um and um and and she's going to be the bride she's going to be the shid that um that the EV Abraham successfully picked for y and the Tor tells us that he he bring brings her into the tent and and Rashi tells us something very interesting that on the that he y was consoled after the his mother had passed away and now there's a new woman in the household and she is replacing Sarah and it wasn't just a woman coming into the house this this is a woman who symbolized everything that Sarah was all about and Rashi gives us the big three that the the candles were lit from Friday night to Friday night and then it says that there was there was blessing in the in in the in the in the dough everything baked nicely you know came nothing burnt um and then came the an oil there was a spiritual Halo or Cloud on top of the tent something that was there when Sarah IMU was alive and they all three were gone when Sarah dies and they were now restored when Rifka enters into the picture so that's why Y is now consoled by what's interesting is there is a mishna in the end of the second chapter of M Shabbat it's a mish that's well known because it made it into to the S when in Ash circles when people D in calat Shabbat so after after and after mbat so then we've accepted upon ourselves Shabbat then there are some communities who read the chapter of Bin it's the second chapter of the Mish and it's everything you wanted to know about candle lighting you're afraid to ask it's about what are the proper oils and the proper Wicks and the proper this and the proper that um there there there is even a I have a nice book home uh that that was put out by uh the nature um Resort it's called in past between it's after mod on the 443 Road and they have an exhibition of everything that's in that mishna you can actually see and they made a book about it a color full c book colored book it's beautiful the um the idea of exactly why is anybody reading that mishna um on Friday night in shul after presumably the the wife already lit candles either 20 minutes earlier or 40 minutes earlier if you in what relevance does it have to do to read B so I once heard from Professor Daniela who's a expert in the the the understanding of how Customs came about is and he explained once that this was an anti- carite polemic the karaites those who in the Middle Ages believed in the written law the T but they did not accept our oral law Tradition now you know that lighting shabas candles Friday night is not mentioned in the Kish at all it's totally totally an oral tradition and it's not even biblical it's a rabbi tradition and um and and and okay ordained that we should have the theat but they were against it because they were against all these oral Traditions the Kites and the rabbis in the Middle Ages would give speeches between Kabal chabbat and before starting they would give a type of KN knam dead pical speech or anti- karite speech and they would kick it off with something about n chabbat because n chabbat was something very tangible that the kites were against so they would the the rabbis would use these Mish of as a springboard for the anti- carite pic sermon if you may that they delivered Friday night that's how it got into the into the s and while there are no longer carite issues today but many times when a custom kicks in it's very hard to kick it out so that's why is still there in the S but um the mishna there ends with Al there there's an opinion in of Ages that there are three very very Central itsv that women should be careful with about and and if a woman is not careful it could jeopardize her own life during child birth that doesn't mean that every woman who doesn't do a b and c is going to die in ch does not mean that at all and it also doesn't mean that every woman who does was careful about a b and c never would die in childhood both are incorrect all it means is that there is something um in the spiritual realm that gives a woman an added um protection during child birth and we have a daughter who's a a gynecologist and fertility specialist so she tells me all the time that God is there withal say that God is there in the labor room it's 100% correct 100% correct because so many things can go wrong even in today's modern day of modern medicine that you actually sense that is there on the scene and and and therefore you want you want to have all the extra benefits that are possible so suggested that for a woman to be very careful about a b and c would give her that added advantage of security during child birth and they are being careful about which means not to have any ation During the period of the second would be um taking off the kala from the dough before baking bread or kala and the third would be careful about lighting candles Friday night so you have these big three and lo and behold many years ago I I made this Drew this association between these three matters of upgraded security mentioned in the mishna with those very three that were mentioned about Sarah and ultimately Rifka as well because if we talk about Shabbat Shabbat that's precisely then wrote Shabbat that's mentioned in the mishna and if we're talking about the blessing that in the do of sahu there was blessing what blessing could our have been talking about but that the cake tasted tasted tasty and sweet it never burnt I mean what exactly what is it was it if not for the fact that the dough had a associated with it and that was the of taking off Kal and the third was nid Nida has to do with um modesty and how a woman conducts herself and you know that um when when the angels visited Abraham ainu and they said where is Sarah your wife because they had a message for her that she's going to have a child next year this time so Abraham said after the question she's in the tent and many many have pointed out what was she doing in the tent so you know don't say she was still baking or cooking the tent being the place of of of of of of modesty this this was she was indoor she wasn't out there you know making a spectacle of herself kazal tell us the exact opposite about Dina and Leia that both of them the Tor says V they went out they were they and and there were problems with both Leia and her daughter Dena and and Dena got into a lot of trouble because she was somebody who was very outgoing the with regard to S she was and that's what the mishna says that that one of the components of is and in the idea of the mid with regard to sah and it was there was something of spiritual value on the tent and the tent represented the modesty of Sarah and Rifka so you have here a correlation between that which is mentioned in the Rashi in the name of the mid and that which is mentioned in the mishna the end of the second chapter ofat which is quoted in every cedor ofh but I say again the idea of upgrading with another candle it's nice it's psychologically beneficial it also has some type of spiritual enhancement but um the the the U most probably uh the the more preferred upgrade would be in the world of St and that that for sure would be but if we're already talking about the idea of s so you know the um we we could actually suggest that this midash about what we only hear about it at the end of the par with regard to Y and having Rifka enter into the picture is part of the eulogy part of the HP for Sarah but the HP for SAR really comes in the beginning of the where it says so the phrase seems to be totally redundant because it just the begins and these were the years of 100 years 20 years and seven years which in a we'll see what the sh sh the added words it could have easily have said 127 years and not 100 years 20 years and seven years these are the years of s those last three words are redundant so said they're not redundant at all they are the headline of the HP of the eulogy that Abraham ainu gave for his wife Sarah and what was the H as the Tora says so the the rough quoted Rashi and the very famous Rashi and I I think I heard this Rashi for sure by second grade maybe even in first grade and that was the Rashi that said that there were three time Frameworks in s's lifetime there was the 100 Year there was the 20 year and there was the seven years and and the Tora separates them with the word sh to teach you that when Sarah was 100 years old she was free of sin just as if she was 20 and when she was 20 years old she was as attractive and beautiful as she was seven so what's the business of 20 years old being free of sin don't we usually talk about Bar Mitzvah or B Mitzvah that's age you know 12 and 13 for girls and for boys and and and just to uh you know to mix you up totally there's actually a dispute about this with regard to when boys and girls become Bar Mitzvah and bat mitzvah so our custom is an ordance with the opinion that boys are 13 and girls at 12 but in M there's an opinion just the opposite that it's girls at 13 and boys at 12 but all right we're not going to delve into that dispute but the hour it's 1213 and that's when a boy or girl becomes responsible to mitzvot so what is this age 20 all about so kazal teach us that kadosh starts keeping record at age 20 not from 12 or 13 at age 12 or 13 we are responsible but is not going to keep Hold Us responsible until after age 20 and this is derived from the story of the spies the maragam where there it says clearly only those from 20 years and up were were punished by not being able to go into ER Israel and they perished during the 40-year sojourn in the desert so the idea of age2 is that your record by God is completely clean so whenu was 100 years old she also had a clean record she had a clean slate there were no aot in her record and then it says when she was 20 she was as attractive as seven and now re said that there's something wrong with that because ag7 is not exactly when a woman achieves the height of her beauty perhaps a seven-year-old is cute but that doesn't mean she's terribly beautiful and attractive you you'd actually think the other way around at age 20 so the r actually suggested a alternative reading that is found it's not something he made up on his own it's actually found in a mid in the yimon where it says but may when she was a hundred years old she looked like a woman of 20 wow that's quite an accomplishment for a woman of 100 family we are blessed with my mother-in-law she should be well she's 102 and a half she looks okay she still has a little bit of a cute face but I'm not sure that she would say that she looks like she was 20 the the the Sarah at age 100 to think that she looked like she was 20 that is really amazing and when she was 20 she had no sins like the Innocence of a child but but that even at age 20 and believe me a person at age 20 can already do you know foul things already in life um because because that's where we are we're teenagers we do things we do crazy things and so on yet when she was 20 she still had the innocence of the seveny old and what the r said was that every single person is actually his life or her life is divided into three chapters there's the youth there is the the more mature part of one's life and then there's what they call the Golden Ages um where a person may have retired already the person is now counting his or her grandchildren and today already counting the great-grandchildren the Golden Ages so the r said that the young people they have the great advantage of of not just youth but life ahead of us and all the dreams ahead of us and all the planning and there's also a lot emotion and a l of lot of singing and a lot of fun type of part of life one gets into the age of the 30s 40s and 50s that's where a person is more serious and and and and has to get the job done makes his bark in in this world during those years and then at the end person passes 60 70 80 90 a person is um weaker physically but has the advantage of experience in life and that's why the toat ad advises people that you should take counsel in the older folks because they have they have life's experience and we could all learn from that experience even though they might not be able to do everything any longer that they used to be able to do but there's nothing like experience the ran said that the laws of CHA never taught us that we're not going to fall into the pit the long laws of chuva taught us that if he fell into the pit don't fall into the same pit twice try to correct yourself next time and that certainly can we can avoid falling into pits by taking advice from people who are older who've gone through life who fall into pits already and can advise us accordingly about where the dangers L throughout the one's lifetime so you have advantages and disadvantages the r said that there's nothing like the Innocence of a child for why because as said prayer emanates from dependence and the and children are dependent they're very dependent on the parents on the surroundings and so on they do not yet have the confidence nor the independence or the financial resources to go out make it make a go at it on their own adolescence is a little bit of a cross where the children are becoming independent and yet there's still a measure of dependence and then you break the shackles and you're on your own person marries he's on his own he's got his own headaches in life but person is now independent the said thatu even as an elderly person still maintained the innocence of the child and knew how to cry and how to pray and how to DAV and and when she was 100 years old she was a as ambitious as a 40 50 year old as a 20y old she carried in each time framework all the other time Frameworks which means the great eulogy that abrah aino gives for his wife Sarah when she was seven she was also a 20 year old and she was also 100 year old and when she was a 100 she was also a 20-year-old and also a seveny old and when she was 20 she was also 100y old and also seven she had all of the features of these three time Frameworks um and and she did it all by herself throughout her lifetime it's interesting that a great Master r r from liens in the saer that was written by his son culmination of rik's teachings the book is called no so there on par Noah with regard to the T Noah's Arc so we know no Arc had three three three stories to them and and the gives various interpretations interpretations to these three levels and one of them is that each human being has three stages in life there's the youth and and that's the the bottom the ground floor and if you recall what Rashi says about the arc what did Noah store in the ground floor he said that was the garbage Depot so the no says this is the the teenagers who are doing silly things like zevel things that have no purpose to them and then the middle floor says the nor when a person now lives a life that's on a certain degree tantan to the world of the animals where the animals were on the second level in Noah's Ark and they are doing what animals do and that is procreating and eating and living and basically surviving and doing things that are important no doubt so that's the second level and the third level says the that's and his family that's the level of sadic where a person in the Golden Ages is now trying to put his or her house together so that when one Returns the to everything is intact and everything is in order so it's interesting how the nor also saw one's lifetime into these three component parts on a level takes the word and reads it we read in and reads it you shall divide your learning into three parts a third in Tor which is the written law tanak a third in mishna and a third in TM so the gar says how in the world does a person know how to find this has anybody told us that we're going to live 90 years and therefore I can say 20 years and 20 I'm sorry 30 years for 30 years for Mish and 30 years for nobody knows how long they're going to live so thear says you're right and therefore take every week and every week divided two days for T and two days for Mish and two days for the so then the gar further says how do you know you're going to make it till Wednesday how do you know you're going to make it till Thursday week you know so maybe on every given day we should have U if a person knows that he or she has an hour a day for Torah study maybe it should be 20 minutes for tanak and 20 minutes for Mish and 20 minutes for so says you know you can then take the hour and and and fractionalize it into even further they have to stop somewhere so the gumar says let's just stop by the week and say two days two days and two days but what you see from here is that kazal did have this notion that human life can be divided into these three categories I want to just end now on a little bit of a somber note many many years ago when my son was in training to be Officers Training on um in in near Mitzvah Ramon in the base called the it was a scenario that um he had asked me to if I can come for yum kipa the whole base was there for yum kipa and it was just a sudden decision long story short I I I went there for yum kipur and I D there and I spoke and so on I came to nil and I had about 200 100 of which 170 of them were not religious 30 were Yesa boys and 170 who are not religious or most of them not religious but most of them were fasting and most of them came to schav it was an unbelievable y experience for all of us not just for them for all of us and I remember having to give a to them before n what do you D for before n you're going to be an officer in the Israeli Army and I said that next year and yipa we should all meet each other and they all started crying because this is not a given if you are officer in the Israeli Army you don't know when war is going to break out and when War breaks out you don't know if you're unit is going to be sent into battle and when your unit is sent into battle you don't know who's coming home in one piece and this they realize right then and there because I remember growing up as a child even later as a young adult you know we say you know that's for my grandfather I'm not there yet I'm 22 years old I'm 25 years old you I don't have to worry about who's going to live who's going to die well that's not true that's not true not only because they're God forbid accidents and not only because there there are sometimes the illnesses that strike people down young in life but also as we see today what happens during war what happens during Pim life is so vulnerable vulnerable every passing minute that we live we have to give thanks to kadosh that we are alive I had a gentleman in my an old man who was a sweet person and every morning when I say and he would say I need no shame I'm breathing and that's not a small not a small fact of reality I am breathing I got up in the morning the of getting up in the morning and saying toh thank you I'm still around to serve you every single day we cry we weep together with the families whether we knew the soldiers or did not know the soldiers We Are One family R taught us that Isel is one organism and when it hurts you in one finger you're G to feel it in the other finger you're gonna feel it in your foot somebody steps on your foot you're going to feel it elsewhere in your body too and am Israel is in pain right now but am Israel is more united today than ever was before and that's why we're feeling the pain very very very strongly should give all of our soldiers all of our soldiers the blessing of of divine guard that he's watching over each and every one of us all of them watch out for all the hostages and they should be able to come back B Shalom to their families using a laage phrase very very very soon not in another month or two or three but imminently immin will be able to will give us the opportunity to thank him for for for so many great things that are going on in this war and will protect us will continue to protect us as the sh Isel he will watch over all each and every one of us should be a good week of should be a for each and every one of us