Tag: faith

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Tomorrow

Tomorrow is October 7 2023 take 19, Better known as April 7 2025.Tomorrow morning the clock will strike 6:28 am just like every other morning.Tomorrow morning I will thankfully wake up again to an alarm clock.Tomorrow

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Photo by Hila
Writing from the warfront
Ari

Diary Entry: 20 October, 2023

(21 days after being called in to Gaza)

To anyone who is even considering the option of ever making the move to Israel, to those who have never fathomed such a crazy proposal, to those who are seriously weighing the pros and have started packing their bags, and to those who know of someone who fits into any of these categories:

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Writing from the warfront
Dovid

Diary Entry: May 14, 2024

Erev Yom Ha’atzmaut (Eve of Israel Independence Day)

Usually we’d be celebrating after commemorating and remembering those who fell on Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Day of Remembrance for IDF soldiers) the day before.

A new dimension of pain, grief, intimacy and even regret fills the atmosphere of Israel this year.

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Writing from the warfront
Matan

Entering Gaza for the first time…

October 2023

“Signing off for now, love you all so much and please God we will do Am Yisrael and the world proud, this is my time to give all I’ve got for our beloved country and people.

We will strike them harder than ever, all off us are a part of history and the importance of this war is immense,

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Writing from the warfront
Ari

Diary Entry: November 11, 2023

(After five weeks in Gaza, on the way home for a short break) Tzahal is doing a fantastic job in the war so far. Many terrorist facilities have been neutralised, and we are edging ever closer,

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Writing from home
David Fellerman

Breathe Freedom

Powerful emotions pulsating
through my veins
every breath a challenge
as I struggle in my chains

In the bleakness of a tunnel
far below the light of day
never knowing never speaking
slowly dying there I lay

Will they save me
from this nightmare

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Writing from the warfront
Yigal Dilmoni

Tefillin Story

Most of the soldiers in my company are not religious. As a commander, I have a squad of soldiers working close to me – a driver, someone in charge of communications, and a navigator. They are not religious, but they know that I’m strict about putting on tefillin every day. Even if I don’t have time to daven, I always put on tefillin – every single day.

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Sheva BeOctober: A Poem

Without a chance
without being asked
Still they ask
They insist
Declaim “this”1

Before the mountain man2
before the voices3
before three stars4
came us5

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