“I reached out to her as a rav, but by the time I hung up, I was a talmid of her emunah”
“Please, out of respect for me,” she pleaded.
And the media, whether their views lay with the left or the right, acquiesced. Because the purity of Lena’s faith touched something deep in them all, as it did in all of us.
On Friday, after receiving the news that Sasha would be returning, Lena sent out a message to the women of Am Yisrael: “I ask you all to light Shabbos candles with joy,” she said in footage posted to social media. “Make a wish that all our hostages come home soon, and that there will be peace, quiet and calm in the land of Israel for the nation of Israel.”
Thousands of homes had Shabbos candles last week, some for the first time.
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