Jonathan Pollard, who is sitting shiva for his wife Esther, z’l, told Natan Sharansky and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer about Esther’s chilling last words.

“She was dying, and all of a sudden she opened her eyes,” Pollard said. “I don’t know where she was, she was looking up. And she said in a very small voice: ‘My neshama volunteered to come back for two missions. One of the missions was to get you home. The other mission was to bring you home as a Jew and not a goy.'”

“She said: ‘My first mission to bring you home was the easiest one of all.”

“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at that point,” Pollard wryly said. “But she said: ‘My hardest mission was to make sure that you return home as a Jew.”

Pollard tearfully continued: “And she said: ‘Now that I’ve accomplished my mission, I can go home.’ And she died.”

“I don’t know who she was,” Pollard said with awe. “I guess I’ll never know. But I do know one thing. She had as much love for all of you and this land as she had for me. And if we all remember that, maybe in the days, weeks, and months ahead, which could be very hard, but remember that we owe one another loyalty and support and love and understanding. Because that’s what she had for everybody.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)