Worldwide Tehillim for Gilad Shalit

Mothers, I beseech you... pray that this son be reunited with his mother, who has suffered with the uncertainty of her boy's fate for two excruciating years. Let him not become another Ron Arad, now missing for 22 years.

I pinned this so it'll stay at the top until the day of the Tehillim. -Crayon210
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Platinum Member Joined: Aug 12 2007 Posts: 20496

Thank you for posting, Yesha.

thanks...

Thanks for posting that!
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Posted: Mon, Jun 30 2008, 1:33 pm Post subject:

thank you, just breaks my heart every time one of their names are mentioned.
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I pray he comes home soon !!!

Executive Member Joined: Sep 21 2006 Posts: 345

thanks for the reminder

Posted: Wed, Jul 02 2008, 10:13 am Post subject:

Bumping this up... 50 minutes to go, ladies.

countdown in minutes!

Posted: Wed, Jul 02 2008, 10:57 am Post subject:

I was about to bump this. 5 minutes to go
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and the four sweetest grandsons in the world

Whew! I remembered at 6:05.

Platinum Member Joined: Aug 12 2007 Posts: 20496

I read in the paper online (not that I believe a word) that they are suspending negotiations on behalf of his release Crying or Very sad

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 13198

Guess this is, in a way, bumping my other post, on signing up at www.cholimlist.org to say Tehillim for Gilad.

And to anyone reading this who's posted her own request: please know that no responses does not mean no action. I don't actively check out this forum but anytime - anytime! - I see a request for Tehillim I'll stop and say a kapital and try to focus on the name while doing so. I'm sure many, many people do so and I'm equally sure that such efforts yield results that don't always see, but results there are.
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The righteous praise and honor people for every good quality that is found in them while the wicked seek out faults in others to pull them down, even if they repented those deeds. (Rabbeinu Yonah, from Partners in Kindness)

I think we should all say this again.
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HE IS HOME:)
all our tehillim helped

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 13198

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 13198

Yes, the thread is from October, and I'm still writing my thoughts here.

Dear Gilad,
When you were released, some enigmatic words of the Birchas Hachodesh tefilla became clear, and haunt me still. We ask for all sorts of good things, yeshuos... and nechamos. It hit me that sometimes the good things come, but leave us with mixed feelings, and we need consolation.

The catalyst for my joining in tehillim, or signing petitions, or other forms of hishtadlus was an article on an Orthodox news site about your 23rd birthday. One of my children had recently had a 23rd birthday. It hit me like a ton of bricks. You were someone's child (and thank G-d, still are Razz

). So I'm going to speak to you like a mother now.

You haven't been in the news lately. We haven't seen pictures of you biking, or going to a game or anything else. And I'm glad. I hope you've got your privacy and life and bearings back, and have whatever support you need to keep you strong as you reintegrate in the world. I wish you all the happiness in the world. True happiness is going to come from doing something meaningful. I'm not going to dictate or tell you what you to do. Just remember, as you get busy, in your professional and personal lives, that if you ever wonder, is there more? yes, yes, there is more. Find ways to contribute meaningfully, effecting real people and their lives. Look for the substance, and rejoice when you find it. Surround yourself with people whose presence, to paraphrase a wonderful line I heard yesterday, bring joy to people in this world, not serve as their tickets to a hallowed place in the next. Be one of those yourself.

And do write home some time Wink

Gotta go decorate the succah. Lehitraot.