Thu, 17 Aug 2006 8:06:00 PM

When Yossi Vaknin, who was serving in Lebanon arrived to his home yesterday and started unpacking, he was stunned as he noticed a metal chunk sticking out of his Chitat(A thick book containing Chumash, Psalms(Tehillim) and the Chassidic text Tanya). "I opened the book and found a bullet just inside the Chitat", he exclaimed. Yossi was given this Chitat by his counsellor when he studied in a Chabad Institute in his youth. Just before his unit went on a difficult shooting mission in MarjAyoun, Lebanon, a Chabad soldier told him that he ought to place his Chitat within the flak jacket he was wearing rather than merely keep it among his belongings. Sure enough, this suggestion - placing the Chitat just across his heart - had saved him from being hit by the Hezbollah bullet".

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 7:41:00 PM

In the mainstream media we seldom hear of the pain and suffering the Jews experience.

The Torah tells us that we are ' A nation set apart ', our strength is not only in our military might but primarily in our spiritual connection to our Creator. Take a look a these photos in which modern military might works hand in hand with the prayers pouring out of the hearts our precious soldiers.

'A picture is worth a thousand words..'

an emotional pictorial essay...

http://www.midnight.co.il/articles/181/war2_0005.wmv

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