Rosh Hashanah is already behind us. We are in the midst of the Ten Days of Repentance, the days when everyone seeks to add another merit, another prayer, another good deed, in preparation for the holy day.
And these days we think especially of the children whose cries have no one to hear. Of those Jewish children growing up in Arab villages, so far from everything a Jewish child is supposed to know.
Five years old for the Bible, thirteen years old for the mitzvot - words that are so natural to us, but for them they may pass without the Pentateuch, without a Bar Mitzvah, without a synagogue, and without the simple and deep connection to the tradition of the Jewish people.
In the hands of the brothers We encounter these stories throughout the year. Mothers who ask to leave. Children who know almost nothing about their Jewishness. Families who need long, quiet accompaniment to start over. Every such rescue, every family that returns to the bosom of the Jewish people, is a whole world.
Behind every case are long hours of work, support, assistance, and many resources. This is the practical meaning of redeeming captives in our day. And now, just before Yom Kippur, Yad L'Ahim seeks to connect the redemption of atonements to this great mitzvah.
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The money we give on the eve of the holy day can be turned into real redemption. Redemption of a Jewish child. Help for a mother who wants to leave. For another home that can return to its people.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, scholars of Torah, the emissaries of Yad La'achim, will petition the donors and their families at the holy places for health, livelihood, peace, and the completion of a good seal.
Maimonides wrote: "There is no greater mitzvah than the redemption of captives." In these days when we all seek to be written and signed for a good life, we have an opportunity to add to our rights one of the greatest mitzvahs – and bring another Jewish child home.
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