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I cannot even begin to tell you how agonizing it is to have to add as many
names as we're adding to the mishebayrach list this week. Please keep all
of our chayalim in mind when you daven, learn and do mitzvot!

I'm including a couple of links to some worthwhile reads (in my opinion):

Heartfelt, first-hand account of what's happening in Israel by my uncle
Rabbi Avi Weiss
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-during-operation-protective-edge/

Pics and bios of fallen Israeli soldiers:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/fallen-idf-soldiers-in-operation-protective-edge/

Finally, an incredible letter written by a soldier on the front (forwarded
by my good friend, Rabbi David Levin):

What's happening here in the staging area [area where soldiers prepare to
enter Gaza] is beyond comprehension, not rationally, not emotionally and
begs the imagination.

Almost every hour a car shows up overflowing with food, snacks, cold
drinks, socks, underwear, undershirts, hygiene supplies, wipes, cigarettes,
backgammon and more. They're coming from the North and the Center, from
manufacturers, from companies and private businesses, from prisons,
Chareidim and Settlers, from Tel Aviv and even Saviyon.

Every intersection on they way down here we get stopped, not by the police,
but be residents giving out food. What is amazing is that the entire
situation wasn't organized and everyone is coming on their own without
coordination between the folks coming.

They're writing letters and blessings, how they're thinking of us all the
time. There are those who spent hours making sandwiches, so they're as
perfect and comforting as possible.

Of course representatives of Chabad are here to help soldiers put on
Tefillin and distributing Cha'Ta'Ts (Chumash, Tehillim, Tanya) for every
troop transport and Breslov are showing up to the border and dancing with
the soldiers with great joy.

The Chareidim are coming from their yeshivot to ask the names of the
soldiers with their mothers' names so that the whole yeshiva can pray for
them. It should be mentioned that all of this is done under the threat of
the terrorist tunnels and rockets in the area.
Soroka Hospital (in Be'er Sheva) today looks like a 5 star hotel. A wounded
friend who was recently discharged told us how the MasterChef truck is
parked outside and is preparing food for the wounded.

It goes without saying the amount of prayer services that are going on. On
the religious front as well, there are lectures and Torah classes, all the
food is obviously Kosher. Shachrit, Mincha, and Maariv with Sifrei Torah.
They're giving out tzitzit and Tehilim by the hundreds. It's become the new
fashion! The Rabbi of Maglan [Special Forces unit] told me that almost the
entire unit has started wearing them, because the Army Rabbinate has been
giving out tzitzit that wick away sweat. They're gaining both a Mitzva and
a high quality undershirt. We've started calling them "Shachpatzitzti" (a
portmanteau of the Hebrew term for body armor and tzitzit). We're having
deep conversations late into the night without arguments, without fights
and we find ourselves agreeing on most stuff.

We're making lots of jokes at Hamas's expensive and without politics.
There's lots more to add but my battery is running low and the staff has
been requesting someone give a class on Likutei MoharaN (Breslov).

How happy is the nation that is like this.

Have a wonderful Shabbos

Yitz

PS - Please continue to keep my sister in mind: Adina Minya bat D'vorah
Elka. You can say tehillim on her behalf at
http://tehilimyahad.com/mr.jsp?r=NZG06wgo8r and post some encouragement at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/adinarocks.
Thanks to everyone who's doing something to help!
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Please sign a petition to free Alan Gross - a wrongfully imprisoned Jewish
American in Cuba http://jfedgmw.org/page.aspx?id=254583 and say some
tehillim on his behalf: Aba Chonah ben Hava Chana
Please say some tehillim for Amichai ben Devorah Steinmetz who went missing
in India on 7/22/09 (details here: http://tinyurl.com/mao37b) and for
Warren Weinstein (Yisroel Yitzchok ben Faigela), who was abducted by Al
Qaeda in Pakistan in 2011.
Please take out a few moments and say some tehillim (psalms) for the
Israeli chayalim (soldiers) & for everyone living in Israel. Please also
same some tehillim for the captive Israeli soldiers:
Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the
Golan Heights in August 1997;
Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah (Katz),
Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan Yaaqub
battle in Lebanon on June 11,1982.
If you need some suggestions for which Tehillim (Psalms) to say, I'd
suggest # 20, # 130 & # 121
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Any names on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be deleted unless I'm
told otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for:
Yosef Adam ben Elke
Chaya Rachel bas Devorah Mindel
Aidel Chaya bas Gittel
Binyomin Leib ben Pesha
Yisrael ben Dina
Oriya bat Michal
David ben Zohara
Yehudah ben Gittel Leah
Moshe ben Sara
Binyomin Chaim ben Faiga Sarah
Baruch Hillel ben Rasha Glicka Tirtza (5/3)
Fayge Rychel bat Rudel (5/24)
Daniel Reuven ben Rivka Kayla (7/5)
Yochanan Feival ben Chaya Raizel
Sarah bas Fayga
Yehonatan ben Malka
Adina Minya bat D'vorah Elka
Noah Shalom ben Inbar (6/20)
Avram Leib ben Tzivia (6/27)
Amy Bas Zelda (5/9)
Shmuel Aharon ben Rivka (7/4)
Eliyahu Dovid ben Esther (7/11)
Mordechai Chai ben Bracha Yehudit (7/18)
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Names added:
Shalom Yechezkel ben Kayla Chana (7/25)
  Ittai Aharon ben Ilana (7/24)  Aharon Yosef ben Tziporah Varda
(7/24)  Amatzia
ben Chedva (7/24)  Amatzya Chayim ben Chedva Malka (7/24)  Amos ben Sigal
(7/24)  Arad ben Liorah (7/24)  Aviad ben Sima (7/24)  Ben Tzion ben Rachel
(7/24)  Boaz David ben Fray Tzipora (7/24)  Chagai ben Chana (7/24)  Chagai
ben Sarah (7/24)  Daniel Mendes ben Miriam (7/24)  David ben Michal
(7/24)  David
ben Susie (7/24)  David Bnayahu ben Shayndel Gitel (7/24)  Dolev ben
Kochava (7/24)  Doron ben Illi (7/24)  Elad ben Itiel (7/24)  Eli'el ben
Ariellah (7/24)  Eliyahu ben Chava (7/24)  Elyasaf Chaim ben Chaya
(7/24)  Elyashiv
ben Sarah Zehava (7/24)  Erez ben Sarit (7/24)  Gil ben Michal (7/24)  Li'el
ben Ilanit (7/24)  Loreal ben Chagit (7/24)  Matanyah ben Rachel
(7/24)  Michael
ben Frieda (7/24)  Michoel Yitzchak ben Natalie Navah (7/24)  Mor Mordechai
ben Sarit (7/24)  Moshe ben Sharon (7/24)  Moshe Elad ben Itiel (7/24)  Neriah
ben Chava (7/24)  Ohad ben Elise (7/24)  Ohed ben Rut (7/24)  Ohr ben Ziva
(7/24)  Ovadiah ben Roital (7/24)  Rami ben Ramond (7/24)  Ran ben Aviva
(7/24)  Ran ben Tzipi (7/24)  Shachar ben Naomi Sarah (7/24)  Shaked ben
Orah (7/24)  Shlomi ben Chaya (7/24)  Shoham ben Yaffa Flora (7/24)  Yaakov
ben Laffo (7/24)  Yaakov Yisrael ben Chaika Faiga (7/24)  Yishai Dov ben
Niri (7/24)  Yoav ben Gila (7/24)  Yonatan Shimon ben Gittel (7/24)  Yonatan
Shimon ben Massoud (7/24)  Yoni ben Sarah (7/24)
Names removed:
Shalom Yechezkiel ben Kayla Chana
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