Friends, brothers-in-arms, family members, rabbanim, and “strangers”— all have come together to storm the gates of Heaven
Returning to Hashem, to who we are, to what matters.
Hamelech basadeh. The King is in the field… and in the parking lot.
It is Elul 5781, and 21-year-old Sgt. Barel Shmueli, an IDF officer and sniper, has been seriously wounded in an attack on the northern border of the Gaza Strip. Evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, he is undergoing a series of emergency surgeries. The life of Barel Achiya ben Nitza — our brother — hangs in the balance. And the Yemei Harachamaim — days of supplication, of crying out and begging for life — are here.
This is not a drill.
It is well after chatzos halailah, close to 2 a.m.
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