Monday 14 July 2014

On Shabbat: Seeing Red

Our Chaveir, R Jay Chaim Shoulson, sent us a very inspiring email. We are sharing it with his kind permission.
"I did something this past Shabbat that may work for some other Congregations...

We tied our public address system into an App connected to Israel's Red Alert system.

All day Shabbat, when there was a Tzeva Adom alert in Israel, it went off in real time in our shul. I did not tell any one in advance. When it went off the first time at 9:30am, I announced that everyone has 15 seconds to get down to the basement. Then I explained what the noise was.
The alerts kept going off all day.  It was very emotional.  People began to understand what it was like in Israel.
After the first alert, I asked people to stop their Tefillot and stand for a moment of silence and Tefillah during each alert.

Pretty soon, the Israelis in the Synagogue were looking to the computer screen and calling out each city endangered.  "It's Yerushalayim.  It's Tel Aviv.  It's Naharia. ..."
I think everyone felt the strain.
About thirty people stayed in the shul all day until Havdalah. You, too, can find the App - it is called COLOR RED.

If any one thinks that the prayers for the three boys murdered were not heard in shmayim, just look at the lack of success of these Hamas murderers to take another Jewish life.
With prayers for Am Yisrael."

~ JAY SHOULSON
Kol Tuv,
RRW

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