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Chizzuk From A Terrorist: How An Israeli Journalist Did TeShuva

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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This is why one of the head journalists in Israel who for many years reported interesting articles and interviews of terrorists. He would speak their language in Arabic and so on. He would go into their places, put his life on the line. One time he tells he did chuvah at the end. Himself did chuvah. They ask him, "How come you did chuvah?" He says the terrorist helped me do chuvah. Huh? Terrorist helped me do chuvah? He goes, "Yeah." He goes, "One time I was interviewing a terrorist." Hamas, I got like it's like a head of a terrorist organization. Hamas or this one or that one, whatever it was. And I'm interviewing him. In the middle of the interview he looks at me. He goes, "You know I want to kill you, right?" Somebody tells you he wants to kill you when he has a gun in his hand, it's kind of scary. "But only reason I'm not going to kill you is because I agreed not to kill you. I'll give you truth if you let you interview me." So, he interviewed him and ran away after. Shamayim, he just see put his life on the line. Time passed, he did chuvah and he interviewed the same terrorist again. So, this time when he showed up, he showed up with a kippah. And the same terrorist says to him, he goes, "You know, now I'm obligated to protect you." Huh? Protect me? You wanted to kill me last time. He goes, "Yeah, last time you were enemy of God. Now you're the one he chose." He got CHIZUK FROM A TERRORIST. DO YOU NEED chizuk from a terrorist TO BE VISIBLY JEWISH OR YOU STILL going to hiding?