Lech Lecha 5784- The Power of Unity 💡
I had an amazing experience 💥this week when I drove to Jerusalem for a meeting. It was my first time travelling to Jerusalem since the war began. I noticed as I drove into the city that all of the billboards, which usually have different kinds of advertisements, all had the same message: an Israeli flag🇮🇱 with a message of unity. Am Yisrael Chai; Together we will win; Shema Yisrael; One People One Heart and other messages.💖
Inside the pain of the war💔, it was an amazing change to see happening on the streets! Everyone can feel it. Just a few months ago, you would see everywhere different protest signs and slogans, for people both for and against the judicial reform. There was a lot of tension and division in Israeli society 💔🤕. More than once I got stuck in heavy traffic due to the protests about the reform in the city.
In a painful way Hashem is teaching us that we are all one soul, one family❤😍. It might be an old cliche, but our enemies don’t care what type of Jew you are. All different kinds of Jews were killed on October 7th, only because they are Jewish.
Our strength and our victory, Am Yisrael in it’s glory as we say in Hebrew, is that despite our differences, everyone is in the war together helping each other. We are all fighting for our lives and our home🙏, on many different fronts. In both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem there are informal ‘command centers’, which have been set up by citizens to help in the war effort. They are organizing help for displaced families, gathering information about the hostages, helping soldiers, organizing clothes and food donations, etc. There are all different kinds of people with the same goal, to help their people however they can.
Rebbe Nachman🔥 teaches that Moshiach will come when there will be unity in the Jewish people.
Am Yisrael Chai. Together we are winning!