Dozens of Jews recently rescued from missionary cults participated in a grand 'Yad L'Achim' seder night'

Shtetl
April 16, 2026   
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A glance at the elegant hall could not tell the human story behind the perfectly arranged tables and the perfect Seder bowls prepared before each diner. A stranger who happened upon the place when everything was ready to receive the guests would probably notice that the place had been carefully chosen, in an underground shelter that could accommodate the invited guests, even if an alarm were to sound and send the residents fleeing to the protected space. There was no need to escape from here.

However, beyond protection from missiles and interception fragments, this night largely gave a powerful expression to the protected space, from a great and significant danger that lurked for each of the survivors, and from which they were only recently rescued.

The people gathered there with their families, a short time after the night of the holiday's inauguration, seemed excited and festive, but anyone who didn't listen to the exchange between them couldn't have gone far. A public order of 'Kirov Jews' would have immediately concluded and expressed appreciation in their hearts for the energetic Haredi activists who were observed running between the tables and making sure that not one of the lavish bowls was missing, not a spoonful or a piece of bread, not a bitter or a carafe.

Only those who witnessed the entire preparations that preceded this event would know the great secret that is not spoken aloud on this night of preservation. One common denominator was that all the participants, over fifty people, men, women and children, had their Jewish identity as a prize in the weeks and months preceding the time of our freedom, the holiday in which the people of Israel were born, leaving the shame of the land of Egypt, laden with the trappings of idolatry, and making their way all the way to Mount Sinai and the giving of the Torah.

These were the sons and daughters of 27 families who, with divine help and strong hand, through the good souls of Yad L'Achim, were redeemed during the winter of 1976 from a tight and dark connection with the most dangerous missionary sects operating in Israel, under the auspices of the broken law that allows them to deceive misguided Jews, exploit their ignorance as well as the personal distress to which they are exposed, and convert them to their religion.

The members of the Rescue Department from the Yad La'Achim Mission know each and every one of the souls they converted on the night of the festive Seder very well. They accompanied each and every one of them over the past few months, from the moment they learned of their father or mother's being dragged into the jaws of the destructive and dangerous cult until the happy moments when they finally decided in their hearts to finally and totally separate themselves from them and from everything they had. Each of these Jews is a whole world, literally. Each of them was in danger of spiritual collapse, he and his entire family, from the greatest to the least.

As an organization that has been engaged for decades in a stubborn struggle against the malicious accusers of the Covenant, who have made it their criminal goal to ensnare Jews and not say enough until they convert them to their religion, Yad L'Ahimah has developed rules and tools that help identify the signs of distress of those whom the missionaries invest resources and energy in capturing and lowering into the pit of hell.

The senior rescue activists include, first and foremost, survivors who themselves were in the missionary Valley of Lamentation, some of whom, like Jethro in his time, experienced a series of incarnations and transitions in various and strange sects, until they discovered the light and escaped the darkness. These, like other senior activists, who have accumulated mileage from decades of rescuing and rescuing from the mission sects, are well versed in all the devious methods of deception employed by the mission. They know how to easily point out the forgeries that float like oil on the surface of the water in the evil preaching, and with the great Torah knowledge that is their portion, as well as the ability to explain things to others, they are experts in dismantling the spider webs in which the missionaries hunt their victims.

Rabbi Shmuel Lipshitz, one of the heads of Yad Laachim, said this week: "The Passover holiday marked a particularly exciting turning point in the rescue department of the Yad Laachim mission. After more than two years of war being waged in Israel on various fronts, and against the backdrop of the war that broke out in Iran, with the security uncertainty that it entails - the hands of the missionaries, who are defiled by the souls of stray Jews, are filled with idolatry to the point of abhorrence. As always, they preferred to turn to backward, unstable populations, and to inflict evil upon them by projecting a false image of utopian peace that supposedly can only be found in believing in the same man, the Messiah, and following in his footsteps.".

Despite the many efforts invested by the missionaries, under the auspices of the international resources that flow to them constantly, and in view of the thunderous establishment of the law enforcement agencies, the brothers succeeded in both halting the continued malignant spread of the mission in various cities and districts and also in expressing satisfaction and gratitude to God for no less than twenty-seven families who were cut off from the hunt for souls, taken out as precious and devoured, and are currently making their long but safe journey to the Torah of God and its commandments, faithfully accompanied by mentors and professionals, who are making every possible effort to ensure that they do not stumble again.

As soon as the wine cups were raised high and from everyone's lips burst out the song "And she stood," "Not one alone stood against us to destroy us," there was no one who did not think of all those dark elements about whom it was said that "the one who offended is greater than the one who was killed," and with tearful eyes from excitement and age, they added and chanted, "And the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand.".