Unbreakable

They want to break us. They want no remnant or reminder of the Jewish people. They steal our children. They shoot them. They bludgeon them to death. They blow up our buses filled with innocent civilians, adults and children alike, they blow themselves up in coffee shops and nightclubs and they break into our homes in the still of the night, leaving blood baths. They celebrate in the streets with each murder they accomplish. Our excruciating agony and pain gives them great joy. But they can't break us, because we are unbreakable.

The entire nation of Israel is made up of one giant heart. A giant heart that celebrates together and that grieves together. For the last 19 days, our nation has gathered together in the most united and beautiful of ways. Prayer groups, bringing in Shabbat early together, rallies to #BringBackOurBoys, making meals for soldiers who were risking their lives around the clock to try to find our stolen boys.

On a daily basis, our small nation is filled with differences of opinion, sometimes very heated ones. But Gil-Ad, Naftali and Eyal made every barrier, every bone of contention and every disagreement practically disappear. For 18 days, our nation stood strong, proud and united with a common goal and a shared mission.


I am sitting here, struggling to catch my breath as the tears roll down my face. My emotions fluctuate between deep anguish and sadness, to anger and rage. The world has become a much darker place ever since it lost our three beautiful boys. But their light will not be extinguished because it is in their merit that the nation of Israel saw such beautiful unity and togetherness.

As a believing woman, I look up into the heavens and cry out to you, Abbaleh, my father in Heaven...Why did this happen? Were our joint prayers not enough? We left divisiveness aside and were a true team...Why didn't you listen to us???

But I have to believe that G-d DID listen to our prayers, and that just as a father would always like to say "yes" to all of his children's requests, sometimes he must say "no" though the child might not understand why. So too our Father in Heaven heard our prayers, and though we don't understand why, His answer was 'no'.

To my devastated brothers and sisters, it is true that we are crushed. And heartbroken. And filled with a wide range of emotions including rage. But let us continue on our beautiful path of love for one another, unity and common mission. We will sob, we will grieve and we will heal because we are unbreakable.

May the holy beautiful souls of Eyal, Naftali and Gil-Ad rise to the highest possible level and may they smile down at their beautiful and unbreakable nation, Am Yisrael.

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