On Monday, Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri visited the home of the family of kidnapped Eyal Ifrach in Elad. Deri strengthened the hands of the parents with faith and confidence, and gave them hope that with God's help everything will end well.
Below is the full transcript, from the documentation of the meeting, published here for the first time.
Deri: "Everyone has a mission in the world, which the Holy One, blessed be He, gives us, each with his own mission and calling. In a person's life, things happen that he does not understand what they are, but he needs to know that it is part of his mission.".
""Your 5-minute talk, with faith, confidence, and hope, is worth more than a thousand conversations and a thousand moral books. Yesterday I saw Naftali Frankl's mother, she spoke, I saw the light on her face, this acceptance, the confidence in the Creator. I told her, for me it was a moral lesson more than anything else.
""And this is what our generation needs, unity, confidence, faith and hope, this is what we lack. Although our generation is a generation of Torah that was unparalleled, a generation of kindness that was unparalleled, but the innocent and simple faith, and the trust in the Creator of the world, is something that has been eroded a little, because of all the media and all the modernization and the Internet. And this is your job.
""The entire people of Israel see you, your confidence and your faith, the fact that you are calling on everyone to unite together.".
Deri also said: "Look, who gets to perform such a prayer at the Western Wall as was done on Shabbat night, the slichot, you should have seen Rabbi Ades and Rabbi Reuven Elbaz and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in Yazd, and then at the Western Wall with Rabbi Druckman together, all of this is a picture that, unfortunately, we do not usually get to see.".
""Therefore, I say, God Almighty gives you this as a mission. We believe that everything will end well with God's help, but this is your mission at this moment.".
Deputy Mayor Elad Tzuriel Crispal, who also participated in the meeting with the parents, wrote in a status he posted on Facebook:
""I would like to share with you the very moving visit that the chairman of the Shas movement, Rabbi Aryeh Deri, made today at the home of the Yifrach family. The dear grandfather spoke with longing and with teary eyes about the circumcision ceremony that was held for his son, Ariel, Eyal's father, about 40 years ago, when the godfather was no less than Maran Ha-Gar'a Yosef, and praised Rabbi Deri's work for the Jewish settlement in Hebron, and about the resourcefulness that Rabbi Deri showed at the time in how to assist the small Jewish settlement, which did not have a municipal authority through which assistance could be transferred to settlers and Torah institutions. The grandfather also told Eyal's father how much assistance and help the yeshivots in Hebron received from Rabbi Deri, including the yeshivot where his father studied.
Rabbi Deri, for his part, encouraged and strengthened the family with the "right" that fell to them to unite all parts of the nation and urged them to continue speaking to the people. "You have no idea how much the words and words of encouragement that you give to yourselves work wonders in this nation. This is a moment that needs to be preserved and utilized as much as possible. Everyone has a mission in their life from the Creator of the world. And sometimes we don't understand what is happening to us. And why this or that thing is happening to us. Blessed are you," Rabbi Deri said to the parents and grandparents. "Thanks to you, we see the entire nation uniting and strengthening." Eyal's father said goodbye to Rabbi Deri with a long, warm hug. And he thanked him warmly for the visit that gave them a lot of hope," writes Crispel.
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