This war has demonstrated again that the secret power of Jewish existence is the unity of the Jewish soul. The people of Israel are not tired. The courage and willingness to sacrifice was demonstrated by the emergency mobilization of our army units. People came from all walks of life. Even those who were not called volunteered and demanded the right to participate in this act of devotion. There were battles in which officers threw themselves on live grenades in order to save the lives of their soldiers.
Wounded soldiers in their hospital beds expressed their desire to be released in order to return to the battlefront with their comrades. On shiva visits we heard bereaved parents saying they were proud of their sons who gave their lives for the country and the people. This is the divine power inherent in the Jewish soul.
We are proud and thankful to the God of Israel that we belong to this one nation and one Land. We need a leadership that has complete faith and confidence in this divine process of redemption, a leadership that puts all its efforts into the reengagement of the Jewish people to its God, and its Land, a leadership that arouses the innermost powers of the Jewish soul by calling to the people “follow me.”
The great efforts and sacrifice of Jewish soldiers against the evil of those bent on our destruction is a true expression of Kiddush Hashem, the sanctification of God’s Name by His people. Compromise and surrender by Jews to the powers of evil is a chilul Hashem, a desecration of God’s Name. We, therefore, pray to our God that He grant us a leadership worthy of leading our people to its divine destiny in our land.
“You are one and your Name is One and who is like your Jewish People, One Nation in the Land.”