Opinion column by Yossi Morg, the candidate for the headship of the "Tsotov" organization, Haifa branch
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Jewish Home? After all, they would understand what Judaism is...!
When I was commander of a recruit base of the armor, I hosted the Holy Rebbe, Rabbi Makalib, he got out of a taxi, four ladies in black around him, two carry him and lift him in the air by holding his elbows, at his feet are white silk anfilas, and he is wrapped in a white robe woven with gold, it was like you met Elijah the prophet or At least the owner has a good name...
In the office he sits down in a regular chair, the umbrella bearer remains to guard the door and the clerk writes down every word in the notebook.
"Noooo, and the commander observes a mitzvot?" he started and asked with a smile in his thin voice and his eyes lit up the room...
"I try to fulfill a mitzvah between a person and his friend" answered the Jew in me in a hesitant voice..
The face of the elderly rabbi, a Holocaust survivor who was tortured and exterminated by the Nazis, a loving smile flooded his face, he squeezed my hand with both hands, got up from his place and said, "He who fulfills a mitzvot between a person and his friend will be redeemed many times by the Messiah who called a line on him, all the best! And now we will go talk to the soldiers.'
We went to the dining room that had been cleared of the furniture in advance, 400 soldiers sat on the floor, rich and poor, right and left, urban and northern development towns, and watched by intelligent moshavniks and kibbutzniks, Amech Israel, the armor recruits of the 82 class.
The hall has four entrances from which you enter and exit and a small stage that we prepared for the rabbi and a microphone. The Rebbe went on stage with his four umbrellas at the top, the guy closed the umbrella and the clerk pulled out the pad and the Rebbe spoke: "Hello soldiers, I am a Holocaust survivor and it is an honor for me to be here with you. I will not speak because I did not come to talk about anything. I came to be with you in the love of Israel, everyone knows that I composed Many verses to the tunes sung in the synagogues. I would like to sing before you two verses of the Psalms and whoever wants to join in."
The Rebbe began to sing and the recruits and the commanders are all captivated and join him in tremendous singing and repeat different parts from thirty to fourth and again and again repeat in an enthusiastic song like no other to the delight of the Rebbe who dances on the stage happy and happy as he sings in his thin voice psalms with the soldiers.
At the end of the singing, which lasted about five or six minutes, the Rebbe turned to the soldiers, said goodbye, greeted them with "Strengthen your hands" and said, "I will stand at the entrance on the left and whoever agrees to shake my hand will bring me great happiness."
All the soldiers in silence and silence, including the MCM and the officers together, about five hundred staff and recruits shook his hand, no one went out through the additional exits..
"Thank you, Commander, you will receive the mitzvot" said the little prophet Elijah in the white silk robe wrapped in the dignity of the Torah and went on his way...
The visit was a formative event in my life, it did not make me a religious person, but it definitely reminded me of a whole Jewish world from which we all came and we respect our identity today, each in our own way... The fascinating thing is that you remember the event in detail as if it were yesterday, even though 34 years have passed and you are rooted With the feeling that such an event is meant to be engraved in your heart forever!
And all this I call being Jewish!
He did not mention God even in one word, he did not mention Torah and mitzvos he sang to the soldiers of the army and strengthened their hands in the name of Torah in the name of God and for the moment that lasted forever and ever he was also his representative on earth.
How did Rabbi Akiva say? And loving your neighbor like you is a great rule in the Torah and this is the entire Torah on one foot.
I don't need the Jewish home to put me in the mud with both feet.
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