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Day 359 Swords of Iron – “Turning Tide and the Big Picture”

Chaim starts the video by showing his viewers a fire that was started by a rocket impact near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. He says that ugly scenes of battle are playing out all over Galilee, which is usually so pastoral and peaceful. But Chaim says Hezbollah in Lebabon is also being pushed back and battered.

In this context, Chaim quotes Psalms 91:7; A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

Chaim mentions the heavy stream of rockets being fired into Israel, including Tel Aviv and the Galilee, but Israel is not intimidated. He says that Operation Northern Arrows is building momentum.

Chaim says that the High Holidays are approaching and it’s time to “come up” or “make Aliyah” to Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

But even the more well-known meaning of Aliyah is also relevant. Chaim says the Aliyah Return Center is opening up new facilities in order to be more ready to receive and assist the new immigrants who are coming. He says that if there’s ever been a time to come to Israel and volunteer and “kick it into high gear” that time is now.

Chaim concludes by saying that he believes a time of peace will follow this intense period of warfare, and we all need to stand strong and have faith for the blessings to come.

 

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(Day 563) Swords of Iron – “Drive Terror Out”

Chaim starts by saying he remembers the day he got the call to come to his IDF reserve unit because the war was starting and he was needed. He talks about others he knows who did the same, even though many of them were very busy and had a lot going on, they all dropped what they were doing and ran to join their units. They all thought it would be a short war like so many others before it, but this war has lasted over a year and a half and there’s no end in sight.

(Day 562) Swords of Iron – “Fell in the line of duty”

Chaim starts by saying it’s always tragic when the IDF suffers casualties, and he honors Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, of Rahat, who was killed in action over the weekend. Several other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which occurred in an area that was believed to have been cleared of hostile actors, but Hamas had a tunnel that had not been demolished yet and some Hamas guys popped up out of that tunnel and fired an RPG at an IDF vehicle and then later as a rescue vehicle was headed towards the scene Hamas detonated an IED and inflicted more casualties.

(Day 561) Swords of Iron – “Name a Hero of yours”

Chaim starts the video by asking his viewers to leave a comment talking about who their heroes are. He then tells the story of one of his personal heroes, Fredreich Bonhoofer, who was a pastor in Germany who publicly stood against the Nazi regime and was also involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944. His great legacy is that although he was a pacifist, he said that to not take action in the face of evil, and to not speak out in the face of evil, was to support evil and to become evil.

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