Agam Berger is among the hostages expected to be released on Shabbos. Her mother, Merav, made a tremendous Kiddush Hashem and made a video urging Israeli media to honor Shabbos by refraining from coverage.
Merav said “We are waiting with bated breath for our daughters…. We also know that it will apparently happen on Shabbos, and not for no reason, either: Our enemies apparently intended that. To me it is important, and I have spent no small amount of time on this in recent days, how I will do it without desecrating Shabbos.”
“I will wait for Agam, with Hashem’s help, when she comes, with as little Chillul Shabbos as possible….”
Merav also appealed to the public and media, asking them to respect Shabbos: “From you I ask, those who embrace us and who have gone this entire journey with us, and who have the great merit of bringing our children home – please do not desecrate Shabbos…..Do not photograph, do not be photographed, and wait for Shabbos to end. At the conclusion of Shabbos, we will come out, and there will be time, a lot of time, to take photographs and be photographed.”
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Unbelievable Kiddush Hashem. To think what she’s going through and to have the strength for this is unbelievable. People like this hasten the arrival of Moshiach. We can’t begin to imagine the Nisoyan and how difficult keeping Shabbos this week is for her…. Wow. Truly inspiring.
I admire Merav – her zchus should help here daughter and all the others to come out quickly in good health.
The authorities and media as well as the general public, should finally realise, the whole thing started with and due to CHILLUL SHABBOS – TO END THIS SUFFERING OF ALL THERE MUST BE INCREASED SHMIRAS SHABBOS!
Just read elsewhere (on a facebook blog) don’t know if reliable, that:
“The Rishon LeZion, Rabbi David Yosef, in a conversation with Merav Berger, the mother of the kidnapped girl, issued a dramatic halachic ruling: You are permitted to fly and travel on the Sabbath with your daughter Agam, in case she is released during the Sabbath, in order to be by her side in these complex and sensitive moments”
Sadly she’s going to have to wait for her daughter’s return. So sad
שה’ ירחם