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>Modeling faith and love
>The Fraenkel, Shaer and Yifrach families modeled for us spiritual strength
>and brotherly love.
>
>By David M. Weinberg
>
>Published in Israel Hayom, July 1, 2014.
>
>So it turns out that the families of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal
>Yifrach knew almost from the beginning of this ordeal that one or two of the
>three boys were likely to have been killed in the course of the kidnapping on
>June 12.
>
>There were gunshots on the recording of the SOS call made by Gilad, which was
>played for the families. There were bullet casings and blood found in the
>burnt shell of the getaway car, and the families were told this too.
>
>They were told that the lack of demands from the kidnappers was a sign that
>the boys might no longer be alive.
>
>And yet all three families exuded optimism, faith and positive energy for 18
>long days. They went before camera and after camera, reporter after reporter,
>concert after concert, and prayer assembly after prayer assembly, and
>asserted their confidence that just a bit more effort could bring a positive
>result. They met every youth group, every foreign diplomat, every UN
>assembly, every IDF commander they could, thanking everybody for their
>efforts, in their upbeat, affirming and unassuming way.
>
>What amazing people! What noble people! How they raised the spirits of an
>entire nation; united an entire nation; comforted an entire nation!
>
>They taught us how to harness all our temporal powers to drive towards a
>national goal in unison. They taught us all what it means to believe in
>powers greater than our own.
>
>Perhaps the most profound thought uttered over the past three weeks was
>expressed by Racheli Fraenkel at the Western Wall last week. In a clip shown
>on Israeli television, and seen I think by just about every person in this
>country, Mrs. Fraenkel is approached at the Wall by a group of very young
>girls who want to wish her well.
>
>Instead, Mrs. Fraenkel bends down to them and offers theological reassurance
>and warm wisdom. “I want you to promise me,” she softly says, “that no matter
>what happens, you won’t be crushed or broken. That you won’t lose faith.
>After all, we must remember that G-d isn’t our ‘employee.’ He doesn’t always
>do as we wish.”
>
>With these crushingly humble words, Racheli Fraenkel captured the hearts of
>an entire nation. Her words resounded through every living room and every
>workplace. People repeated them, reflected upon them, debated them. Agree or
>disagree, nobody could deny her strength of spirit. Nobody could avoid being
>awestruck at her clear-sightedness; at her breathtaking display of faith
>within realism.
>
>As I stood at midnight last night outside the Fraenkel home (down the street
>from my home in Nof Ayalon), Naftali’s uncle Yishai Fraenkel shared with me
>that behind the mask of embarrassed smiles and sunny demeanor we saw on our
>television screens, Racheli Fraenkel was being torn apart. “Inside the house,
>she doesn’t smile. Inside the house, inside her soul, she is dealing with a
>great personal burden of pain. And of course, she must simultaneously be
>mother to her other children. She may be a superwoman, but she has no
>super-natural powers. She says that she draws strength from the People of
>Israel; from the outpouring of care and prayer that has come from all corners
>of the Jewish world.”
>
>Such modesty aside, I feel that Mrs. Fraenkel and the other five now-bereaved
>parents modeled for us not just indomitable personal character. They modeled
>for us spiritual strength; a healthy blend of religious devotion and
>rationality. Of this world-ness and other-world-ness. Of pragmatism and
>values. Of self-interest and selflessness. Of coolly calculated tactics and
>naturally-flowing love.
>
>They gave Israelis a model for religious commitment, national unity and
>brotherly love not only in times of crisis but also in everyday life;
>throughout all regular seasons of our rough-and-tumble
>spiritual-social-political life.
>
>For this, we are in their debt.
>
>
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