HaGaon HaRav Dovid Yosef spoke about the release of the three hostages in his weekly shiur broadcast on Kol B’Ramah Radio.
“We’re all moved [by the release] of several hostages, who were in a pit, like Yosef Hataddik, for over a year. We rejoice in their happiness and we daven to the Borei Olam that all of them – all of them – return from darkness to great light.”
“It’s still only the beginning of the way and I think we still need many many tefillos. Today, each one of us should feel the pain of those who are still there, it should pain us.”
“Each one of us should feel as if it’s our kids who are there because ‘Acheinu Bnei Yisrael’ and we should daven that no harm befalls them.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Feel as if your own children, rather than everyone else’s, will be taking responsibility for having to fight again in Gaza against a reconstituted and emboldened Hamas.
Feel as if your own children, rather than everyone else’s, will be preyed upon again in Yehuda v’Shomron, by the 1,000 freed terrorists.
THINK about the precedence of Maharam MaRotenberg.
Shlomo 2 and Mordechai Hayehudi, I am curious. If those were your own children, would you speak out against the deal? And if the decision was yours to make, would you tell your children that we are better off leaving them in Gaza? I don’t believe most parents could do that.
@M – my children ARE actually in Gaza – as soldiers, who were fighting to both bring back the hostages and to protect the rest of Klal Yisrael. Every single one of my children there said that if they are C”V captured, they DO NOT want to be traded for in a disproportionate deal like this one, which endangers Jewish lives going forward – both directly, as the murderers being released will undoubtedly return to their ways, and indirectly, as this only encourages future kidnappings.
an Israeli Yid
What’s the question? We see the castrophobic results of what happened, ה’ ירחם , with the freeing of over 1000 terrorist in the Glad Shalit deal. Among those freed- Yahya Sinwar, שר”י