Friday 18 July 2014

A Message For Our Generation - Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen

R Dovid M. Cohen
Rabbi of Young Israel of the West Side
«When I think of people dying al Kiddush Hashem, in sanctification of God's name, I tend to focus on the Holocaust or earlier generations in our history. Our generation, with its material comforts and affluence, initially doesn't come to mind when I think of mesiras nefesh (self-sacrifice) and dying al Kiddush Hashem.

I therefore was perplexed and surprised when reflecting on just a few of the Jews killed in recent years due to the fact that they were Jews: The eight boys learning in Mercaz HaRav; the five members of the Fogel family, including a three-month-old baby girl, in Itamar; the Holtzbergs, Chabad shluchim in Mumbai, India; Baruch Sandler and his two children in Toulouse, France; and the still raw trauma of the murder of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Frankel and Gilad Shaar. ...»
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-message-for-our-generation/2014/07/17/


Kol Tuv,
RRW

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