{"id":33421,"date":"2013-08-27T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=33421"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:25:17","slug":"commemorating-the-yom-kippur-war-the-legacy-of-rav-yehuda-amital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/commemorating-the-yom-kippur-war-the-legacy-of-rav-yehuda-amital\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating the Yom Kippur War: The Legacy of Rav Yehuda Amital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rav Amital with his student Asher Yaron at the door to the beit midrash. Yaron fell in battle on the second day of the Yom Kippur War.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Excerpted from \u201cBy Faith Alone: The Story of Rabbi Yehuda Amital\u201d by Elyashiv Reichner (translated by Elli Fischer. Maggid Books, 2011).<\/p>\n

It says in Psalms (145:18): \u201cGod is near to all those who call Him \u2013 to all who call Him in truth.\u201d Anyone who truly calls, whether religious or not. Neither I, as a Rosh Yeshiva, nor my students and friends, your comrades-at-arms, represent God any more than you do. Whose prayer comes nearer to God \u2013 the prayer of someone like me who was trained in it from childhood, or your prayer, which you discovered in the heat of battle? Only God knows\u2026a sincere prayer that originates in the depths and flows forth from there, even if the words are stammered, is heard at the highest heights. King David wrote in one of his psalms (ibid.130:2), \u201cGod! Listen in to my voice (HaShem shema be-koli); may Your ears be attentive to the sound of my supplication.\u201d A great Hasidic master once pointed out that it does not say \u201clisten to my voice (shema koli),\u201d rather \u201clisten in to my voice (shema be-koli)\u201d \u2013 listen to what is hidden within the notes of my voice, what I could not articulate in words.<\/em>
\nSpeech to Yom Kippur War combat soldiers,
\nHaMa\u2019alot MiMa\u2019amakim, 5734 (1973)<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

The 5734 (1973\u201374) academic year, the sixth year of Yeshivat Har Etzion, began normally. More than two-hundred students were studying in the yeshiva that year, and it had become one of the most outstanding and popular Zionist yeshivot. On the eve of Yom Kippur, Rav Amital delivered a discourse, as he did every year, on a theme of the day. He cited the prophecy of Ye\u0125ezkel (33:1\u20133), which warns the people of impending war if they do not repent:<\/p>\n

Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: When I bring the sword against a land, the people of that land take one of their number and appoint him their watchman, so he sees the sword advancing on the land, and he blows the shofar to warn the people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Later in that chapter (v. 11), a well-known verse appears: \u201cSay to them: As I live \u2013 declares the Lord God \u2013 I do not desire the death of the wicked, but the wicked man\u2019s turning from his ways. Turn back! Turn back from your wicked ways! Why should you die, O House of Israel?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of the students saw this, in retrospect, as a foreshadowing of what happened the next day.<\/p>\n

War broke out on the afternoon of Yom Kippur. Many students were called to report to their units even before the fast ended, and they went to take leave of the Rashei Yeshiva. They left the yeshiva\u2019s minyan and convened their own, completing Ne\u2019ila early. They were led in their prayers by Moshe Tal, a fourth-year student and a newlywed, having been married less than two months earlier. At the yeshiva\u2019s main minyan, Rav Amital gave an emotional speech before Ne\u2019ila. He quoted the Rambam\u2019s Hilkhot Melakhim (7:15) regarding one going out to battle:<\/p>\n

Once he enters the heat of battle, he should rely on the Hope and Rescuer of Israel in its time of distress. He should know that he is doing battle for God\u2019s sake, and he should place his life in his hand. He should not be afraid or scared; he should not think of his wife or children, but rather should erase their memory from his heart, and turn his attention from everything else to war.<\/p>\n

These words made a profound impression on the students.
\nRight after the end of the holy day, R. Yoel Bin-Nun, then Alon Shvut\u2019s security coordinator, among other things, urged the students not to wait for their orders, but to report to their units independently. He even shared with the students his assessment that the Bar-Lev line, the string of fortifications along the Suez Canal, had already fallen \u2013 and was reprimanded by Rav Amital, who expressed faith in the IDF\u2019s steadfast durability. On the other hand, Rav Amital was not euphoric, either. When one of the students proposed reading the Song of the Sea, which expresses gratitude to God for His miracles, Rav Amital rejected the idea, saying: \u201cSlow down. First let\u2019s hear what\u2019s happening.\u201d
\nThe yeshiva \u2013 which was about to break for Sukkot anyway \u2013 was\u00a0emptied of students, and Rav Amital went home to Jerusalem.\u00a0It was not long before terrible tidings began to arrive, one after the other.<\/p>\n

During the first twenty days of the war, Yeshivat Har Etzion lost eight of its students\u2026
\n***
\nIn most cases, Rav Amital heard about the loss of the student immediately, sometimes even before the parents. The tidings wounded him deeply, but outwardly he kept conveying optimism. One external sign attested somewhat to what was going on in his soul: after quitting for several years, he started smoking again during the first days of the war. It was a long time before he quit smoking again. A student who was a guest in Rav Amital\u2019s house that Sukkot experienced more evidence of what Rav Amital was going through. One night, as they slept in the sukka, he heard Rav Amital moaning in grief, heartrending moans that reminded him of the whimper of the shofar. Yoel Amital, who was called up on Sim\u0125at Torah, later asked his father how he felt and what he had to say about the loss of his eight students. Rav Amital sorrowfully answered his son: \u201cWhat did the Alter of Slabodka say after the events of 1929, when so many of his students from Yeshivat \u0124evron were killed? He cried.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the eight students who fell, several yeshiva students were wounded in the war, some of them severely. Meeting them was also traumatic for Rav Amital. Yehuda Schwartz, a member of the first class, was very critically wounded on the Golan Heights the day after Yom Kippur. Five days after being wounded, Rav Amital and Yedaya Hacohen went to visit him at Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Schwartz recalls:<\/p>\n

Rav Amital didn\u2019t recognize me. I was completely bandaged and the prognosis was very bleak. He knew it was me only because he saw my wife sitting next to me. I couldn\u2019t see the Rav because my eyes were covered, but they told me that he was worried by what he saw. Some say that he started smoking again because of that visit with me. The next time he came to visit, my legs were covered by a device designed to keep the sheets away from the burns on my body. Rav Amital saw the device and became very alarmed. He thought that something terrible had happened to my legs and immediately lifted the sheets to see that everything was okay. The first day that I was able to put on tefillin, I called him to tell him the news. I could feel him crying into the phone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Immediately after Sukkot, Rav Amital informed Rav Lichtenstein that he was incapable of functioning as a Rosh Yeshiva for the time being, handing over all authority. Once \u0125oref zeman (winter session) began on the first of \u0124eshvan, Rav Amital barely visited the yeshiva. Instead he traveled frequently to the front, to visit his students. The few students who remained studying in the yeshiva characterized Rav Amital during that period as the yeshiva\u2019s \u2018foreign minister\u2019.<\/p>\n

In his travels to the front, Rav Amital found some healing for his wounded soul. Wherever he went he encouraged his students, but he also drew strength from them. Once, on a radio show, he recounted the experience of his first encounter with his combat-soldier students, during a lull between battles:<\/p>\n

We came to them as Rashei Yeshiva, but there were moments that we were cut down to size in their presence, and we stood like students before their masters, awestruck by their greatness\u2026 we stood dumbfounded in the presence of students who, a few days earlier, were engaged in resolving the Talmudic debates of Abaye and Rava and clarifying Talmudic discussions, and now they were waging war with all their heart and soul, believing that they were indeed fighting God\u2019s wars and that God was fighting for them. I would not be exaggerating if I said that we felt that we were breathing the air of the Tanakh.<\/em><\/p>\n

The students also experienced something special when Rav Amital came to visit them on the front, during battles. R. Hillel Ra\u0125mani, a member of the yeshiva\u2019s third class who was then fighting on the Golan Heights, describes the meeting with Rav Amital as a spiritual experience:<\/p>\n

Right after Sukkot, he came with several other rabbis. We gathered in the synagogue and Rav Amital asked to speak last. When he got up to speak, everyone felt like he was going to prophesy, not merely speak. I have no idea what he spoke about. I don\u2019t remember a single word. But it was truly prophetic. He spoke with all his heart. I think that just a few minutes earlier he was informed that Rafi and Avner fell, and he was caught up in an extraordinary storm of emotions. He spoke about the war, about vision, about the Jewish people. Silence descended on the whole crowd. This was not just another speech by a Rosh Yeshiva, but something much more\u2026<\/p>\n

During the cease-fire, the nature of Rav Amital\u2019s visits to his students changed. The students, and many other soldiers, even those who were not religious, wanted to hear words of spiritual encouragement from him and from other rabbis who came to visit. \u201cIt turned out,\u201d Rav Amital recounted, \u201cthat when it comes to thirsting for God\u2019s word, the differences between soldiers who are yeshiva students and other soldiers, religious and non-religious, become somewhat blurred.\u201d He began shuttling from unit to unit to meet combat soldiers, to hear their experiences, and to strengthen them with words of encouragement. When he returned from his visits to the front, he would encourage the soldiers\u2019 families in the home front. R. Ya\u2019akov Fisher, a member of the yeshiva\u2019s third class who fought on the Northern Front against the Syrians, got married dur- ing the months of the war. About a week before the wedding, Rav Amital came to visit his unit. \u201cHe understood that there was no chance that I would be released to go home for my aufruf on the Shabbat before the wedding, so he lifted my spirits. When he got home, he called Tzippy, my fianc\u00e9e. Instead of telling her that I would not be home for Shabbat, he said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry. The equipment compartments of the tanks are filled with candy. The guys will make him a great aufruf. It\u2019ll be fine.\u2019\u201d
\n***<\/p>\n

The harsh result of the war impacted Rav Amital on the personal level, but his spiritual worldview was not altered, at least not for the first few years \u2026<\/p>\n

* * *
\nTwo years after the Yom Kippur War, in November 1975, Rav Amital lost two other students. Bentzi Leibowitz and Na\u0125um Fenigstein, members of the yeshiva\u2019s seventh class, were traveling to spend Shabbat with friends at Yeshivat HaGolan in Hispin and were killed in a terrorist attack. A month after their deaths, the yeshiva held a memorial service for the pair. As he walked into his home after the ceremony, the tele- phone rang with more terrible news: during a security drill held by the yeshiva after the ceremony, Yitz\u0125ak Lavi, a member of the yeshiva\u2019s fifth class, was accidentally shot and killed. Just seven years after its founding, the yeshiva had already buried eleven students.<\/p>\n

The deaths of his students etched themselves deep in Rav Amital\u2019s heart and affected his personality. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, speaking at a memorial service on Mount Herzl, Rav Amital described the deep impression that the fallen left on him:<\/p>\n

At the memorial service held for the yeshiva\u2019s fallen, I made a supreme effort to characterize each and every one of them. It wasn\u2019t simple. I labored hours upon hours to know and remember all of them. I tried, and I was more or less successful. The families can tell you. But I want to tell you: I internalized everything. It became part of my personality. They live inside me. God, Knower of thoughts, Examiner of hearts, knows that there are elements of my personality that I internalized from what I remembered of them. I have been passing them onward for thirty years now, and so these elements yet live. In this respect, they are my teachers. My personality has been enriched.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a small measure of comfort, he continued, in the fact that the fallen have become part of the personalities of those who knew them:<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, I knew an old man, a Holocaust survivor, in Re\u0125ovot. He came to me and begged me to procure a tape recorder for him. \u201cWhy do you need a tape recorder?\u201d I asked him. He replied, \u201cI\u2019m the only one who remembers a certain tune for Tefilat Tal, the Prayer for Dew. If I pass on, nobody will know the tune.\u201d The tune is still playing. Don\u2019t take it lightly. As someone who passed through the abyss of the Holocaust, I say to you: Tens of thousands of people perished together with their memories\u2026Those who fell in the Yom Kippur War left a book of memories that is occasionally opened. They live on within us, and we pass on everything we learned from them.<\/em><\/p>\n

To read more about the legacy of Rabbi Yehuda Amital, see <\/em>By Faith Alone, available at www.korenpub.com<\/a> or at your local Jewish bookstore. Maggid Books is a division of Koren Publishers Jerusalem.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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