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Here's a link to a site that's tracking the names of our soldiers who hae
been injured in the war so far (warning - the sheer numbers are
staggering): http://www.tehilimhotline.org/IDFSoldiers.pdf

Another couple of incredible stories sent to me this week:

A true and amazing story as told by Ohad Shaked:
I received a phone call on Sunday from "A," one of the Iron Dome
commanders, who was a student of mine about 6 years ago. I was glad he
called.

"Where can a person learn Torah in Ramat Gan?" He asked, me leaving me
baffled being that he was far from Torah and mitzvot.

"I'm going to be released in a couple of months, and I want to learn in a
yeshiva - I saw Hashem with my own eyes!" He said, nothing more and nothing
less.

"What happened?" I asked him.

 "A missile was fired from Gaza. The Iron Dome can detect where the missile
is going to fall within a 200 meter radius. This particular missile was
heading to the Azrieli Towers, or to the railroad tracks. Either way,
hundreds could have paid with their lives. We sent the first "dome" and it
missed. Then the second as well as the third dome missed, which is a very
strange and rare occurrence. To date, only two other such cases occurred. I
was in shock. We had four seconds until there is no way back and the
missile would hit. We had already informed and dispatched emergency
services, the police and the fire department, to the location."

 Then the commander spoke excitedly as I kept on listening.

 "Suddenly, without any preliminary design from the Iron Dome system (which
calculates the possible wind currents, etc.) a strong eastern wind blew - a
wind that we have no idea where it came from and dumped the missile right
into the sea. We were all in shock - we could not believe was we were
seeing. I stood up and started screaming 'There is a G-d'! 'There is a
G-d!' 'There is a G-d'!!! I saw this miracle with my own eyes. No one told
me about it, it was not reported to me. I personally saw the Hand of Hashem
fling the missile into the sea!

"Of course this was not reported for security reasons, but it's enough to
witness the miracles with our own eyes to know there is Hashem. I ran to
one of the religious soldiers and asked him to put on tefillin. I took it
upon myself to keep shabbat, and that was the very best shabbat I have ever
had."

This is what he told me. I was so excited that it even brought a tear to my
eye. "Ashrecha" (praisworthy are you) I said to him, "that you merited to
witness this incident and to understand that it's from Hashem."


Yet Another "Mi K'amcha Yisrael" Moment...
The father of a soldier who is now in Gaza told how his son was informed on
Friday that his unit will not be going home for shabbat, which was a
problem because they did not have any provisions for shabbat. The father
ran to the supermarket to buy some things, as much dips and salads as he
could, then he stopped at the schwarma place in Petach Tikva. He asked for
a portion to be put into an aluminum tray and explained that it was for his
son who is in Gaza without food for Shabbos.

The owner said to him, "What do you mean for your son? How many soldiers
are in his group?"

 The father answered, "70."

The schwarma place owner called all of his workers. They prepared all the
schwarma they had, brought out all of their meat, fried schnitzels,
prepared Moroccan salads and chips and within an hour he and all of his
workers had emptied the entire restaurant and given it over to the father.

The father, a religious man who has seen chesed in his life, just stood
there crying, and thanking him.

 Mi K'amcha Yisrael

Have a wonderful Shabbos and a meaningful Tish'a B'Av!

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
Amy Bas Zelda (5/9)
Shmuel Aharon ben Rivka (7/4)
Eliyahu Dovid ben Esther (7/11)
Mordechai Chai ben Bracha Yehudit (7/18)
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 added:
Sarah Tzvia bas Shayna Laya (8/1)


Names removed:
Noah Shalom ben Inbar (6/20)
Avram Leib ben Tzivia (6/27)
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