I choked up a bit when I saw this video...
this is a video of Yehuda Becher, one of the many murdered by Hamas at the music festival in Reim. In this clip Becher is seen on his way down to the festival, singing a song of dveikus to Hashem, Elokai Neshama.
Why did I choke up a bit?
Just the other day I heard in a shiur from an American rosh yeshiva that the reason why Hashem did this to us is [possibly? I dont recall if he said it definitively or only as a suggestion] because there was a party there where they were worshipping avoda zara. Some of our people got so far from Hashem, they were worshipping avoda zara. This "potch from Hashem", so to speak, was to straighten us out, and the result was a tremendous awakening with soldiers requesting tzitzis, not frum people keeping shabbos or lighting candles, people davening and saying tehillim, etc
Yes, I read there was a Buddha statue at the party. Does that mean they were worshipping avoda zara? Is dancing at a party idol worship because they decorated with a Buddha? I dont know. Yehuda Becher clearly was not, whether he was frum or not, he had his connection with God.
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