The Last Hostage — Why Do We Fight So Hard for One Person?

0:00This Torah class is brought to you by Torahanytime.com Right before Martin Teirah, Hashem told Moshe, raid her aid bottom. Go and warn the people. They must not ascend her senai and they must not touch the mountain. Because if they do, Vennophah and Menu arrive. Many will perish. The question is, if many people will perish, why does the Teirah save Vennophah? He will fall. Singular. It should have said Vennophah flew plural. Sarash recording a medirage gives a powerful answer. Hashem said, even if only one person were to die. In my eyes, it is considered as if multitudes have perished. And the question is, why is one person equal to many? And the answer is, because we are called Mahmela Khaskan, a nation of princes. Every Jew is royalty and the value of a king is not measured like the value of ordinary people. When the king or queen passes away, the entire world takes notice.

1:00Leaders and presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries, they travel across continents to pay their respects. Nations pause, media coverage stops, and enormous resources are devoted to honoring that single life. And if this is how the world honors earthly royalty, we can even begin to imagine the value of one Jew. About whom the Torah testifies that we are Mahmela Khaskan. The Ghamarram Sakhir S. has called Mahmela Khaskan, the king of the world. Whoever saves one Jewish life is considered as if he saved an entire world. When one Jewish child goes missing or a Jew needs a reform or any type of Yeshua, then entire cli-straw-stabs. People search, people don't donate. We instinctively feel that one Jew is not just one. One Jew is a world. We just witnessed this when extraordinary efforts were made to recover the body of a fallen Jewish soldier. Intelligence operations, military missions, months of planning and unimaginable risk were undertaken.

2:04Not for an army, not for a city, for one Jew. For months, the family of former Israeli officer Rangavili lived in unbearable uncertainty. Their song fell in battle, but his body had not been recovered. There was no grave to visit, no closure, no final goodbye. Deep in Gaza, intelligence analysis began piecing together fragments of information. There were rumors, there were reports, there were some suspicions. At first, no one even imagined that he might be buried in a cemetery. But slowly, tiny details began to connect. When the soldiers entered the cemetery, there beneath the graves, they uncovered the territorial. They destroyed the tunnel, and at that moment, they had unknowingly stepped into the very place where a Jewish hero might be hidden. Slowly, they began to suspect that Rangavili's body might be buried in that cemetery. And now the picture was clear. But the challenge was enormous. The cemetery was vast, hundreds upon hundreds of graves, many bodies, many uncertainties.

3:08To find one Jewish body among them seemed almost impossible. Yet, the decision was made, we do not abandon even one Jew. An operation was authorized. Under the cover of darkness, elite forces entered the area, and they worked with painstaking precision. Grave after grave was opened, body after body was examined. The process was slow, emotionally wrenching and dangerous. The soldiers knew that every minute exposed them to risk. Yet, they continued. Each grave was approached with reverence. Each discovery carried the weight of history and holiness. More than 700 graves were opened. More than 250 bodies were examined. And finally, after weeks of effort, they found them. He was still wearing his uniform. His shoes and belt were still intact. It was as if his identity and his dignity and his honor had been preserved through the darkness. The soldiers understood that they were not just recovering a body.

4:08They were turning a son to his parents, a brother to his siblings, and a Jewish soul to the embrace of his people. Why did they do all this? Why risk lives? Why invest enormous resources? Why open hundreds of graves for one person? Because one Jew is not just one. Every Jew is an oil and mule. Every Jew is an entire world. Every Jew is infinite. The nations of the world value power and wealth, and influence, and cliques, and followers. The Torah measures value by something far deeper. The divine spark with an every Jew or soul. And perhaps this is what Rashi is teaching us. When Hashem said, even if only one person falls, it is as if many have fallen. He was teaching us how to see each other. Not as statistics, not as faces in the crowd, but as royalty. If armies will search tirelessly for one Jewish body, how much more must we cherish the living Jew beside us?

5:08If the urbanish lamb considers one Jew equal to multitudes, how carefully must we speak to one another, respect one another, and love each other? Because in the eyes of Hashem, every Jew is an oil and mule, and every Jew is priceless. And now, we know. Have a wonderful day. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torahanytime.com. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torahanytime.com.