The documents from the Palai family’s house on Mintz Street in Jerusalem reached me in seconds in New York. These short videos are lessons that reach the whole world. With the hectic pace of the news, the attack in the Ramot neighborhood on Friday may have been forgotten, but the swearing-in for the children Yaakov-Israel and Asher-Menachem Plai is in full swing.
In one video, the mother, Deborah Plai, sits in front of teenagers who accept good receptions, to lift the spirits of her children. One boy says he will respect his friends, the second says he will try to respect his parents more, and the third – put on a tefillin.
In another video, she tells how she and the children had a regular phrase at home: “Don’t say oops, say a monkey chapter.” Chapter 9 of the Psalms is “a psalm of thanksgiving”, a chapter of thanksgiving. Many initiatives for reciting psalm K were launched thanks to her words.
Last night Miriam Peretz came to Nahem, and said: “None of us were asked if he wanted to live, and none of us were asked when he would go. That is in the hands of the Holy One, blessed be He. But I learned from King David. When his son was sick, the king sat on The floor, neither eating nor drinking, he prayed and asked. But when they told him ‘the child is dead’ – the first word that appears there, this is the word that should accompany you: ‘and he will rise.’
King David gets up, dresses, eats. This is what you should do. getting up. The children are already angels in heaven, they are taken care of there, but for us – the Holy One, blessed be He, gives strength every day. I buried two children and a husband, but I also had children in law, and there are grandchildren and there are joys. The Holy One, blessed be He, opens doors, and we learn even more to connect with Him and get closer to Him, precisely from the biggest crisis.”
Then the mother Deborah said to Miriam: “You strengthen me, I see in front of me someone of ‘Vykom'”.
And Miriam concluded: “Soon all these people will leave, and we will stay at home. There are going to be difficult days. But – he will rise.
These children created a spirit of unity in the people of Israel. I wish she would accompany us not only when we bury the dead.”