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Supporting Israel

During the holiday of Shmini Atzeret, 50 years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets, breaching the country’s borders, killing over a thousand Israelis, wounding thousands, and kidnapping over a hundred civilians and soldiers. The IDF has launched Operation Swords of Iron, to confront Iranian-backed terrorism and protect Israel. Temple Beth Sholom unequivocally stands with the people and land of Israel. There are several ways we ask you to support Israel during this tragic time: 1) Support Israel with your financial resources. We are highlighting the following organizations: *Fund for Victims of Terror (supported by the Jewish Federations of North America): the first responder in the recovery process of families and individuals who have been impacted by acts of terror and violence, providing immediate grants within 48 hours to those in need. *Magen David Adom: to put more ambulances on the road and to replenish supplies for paramedics *Soroka Medical Center: Hundreds wounded Israelis have come to Soroka Medical Center for life-saving treatment and are in need of more supplies and equipment. *Stand With Us Israel Emergency Fund: Donations made on this page will help send meals and badly-needed supplies to Israeli army bases. We need to let them know we care and appreciate them. *Friends of the IDF: Friends of the IDF is the sole organization authorized to collect charitable donations on behalf of the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces across the United States of America. FIDF is responding to their most urgent needs for humanitarian support which currently include armored ambulances, field hospitals, plasma, and other life-saving supplies. 2) Support Israel by educating yourself and others as to what is occurring. Resources About What’s Happening in Israel

“How to Talk to Your Children About Hamas’s Invasion of Israel” per the Jewish Chronicle
AJC: “Everything You Need to Know About the October 7 Hamas Attack on Israel”
“How to Talk to Children About the Conflict in Israel” per Reform Judaism
Times of Israel
Stand With Us
Ynet News
Jerusalem Post
Ha’aretz

3) Show up and gather together. We hope to see you this shabbat. We have complied a list of comforting prayers for Israel.

Comforting Prayers and Hatikvah

Prayer in Time of War in Israel

Composed and offered by the Steering Committee for the Board of Rabbis of Southern California

Eloheinu V’Elohei Avoteinu V’Imoteinu, Our God and God of our ancestors. You know that the Jewish people are one nation with one heart, and today that heart is broken. With the grim news of so many of our sisters and brothers in Israel killed, wounded, and kidnapped, we turn to You. Harofeh Lishvuray Lev, the healer of broken hearts, be with our brothers and sisters who have been taken captive and with the families of the victims. Watch over the hostages, break their bonds, redeem the captives and bring them out from darkness to light. Comfort the families of all those murdered and bring them under the shelter of Your wings. Bring complete healing, healing of body and healing of spirit, to all of those who are wounded, those wounded in body and those wounded in spirit. To the entire Jewish people who were terrorized, bind up our wounds and may Your divine presence bring us healing. Tzur Yisrael, Rock and Redeemer of the people of Israel, Bless the State of Israel during this time of war and tragedy. Guide its leaders and advisors with Your light and Your truth, and help them with Your good counsel. Shield it with Your love and spread over it the shelter of Your peace. Shomer Yisrael, Guardian of Israel, strengthen and bless the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and the security forces, who stand guard over our land: on the land, in the air, and on the sea. Deliver them and crown their efforts with triumph. May God cause the enemies who rise up against them to be struck down before them. May the Holy Blessed One, preserve and rescue our soldiers from every trouble and distress and send blessing and success in their every endeavor. In the face of war, God, protect and preserve us, and restore peace and wholeness to our hearts. Oseh Shalom Bimromav Hu Ya’aseh Shalom, Aleinu Ve’Al Kol Yisrael. And let us say: Amen.

Prayer for the State of Israel 5783

Avinu Sh’bah shemayim, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, may it be the beginning of our redemption. Shield it with Your lovingkindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. May your name be sanctified in its midst. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory. Ordain justice andpeace in the land, and grant joy of heart to all who seek you there. May the law go forth from Zion and the word of God from Jerusalem. May Israel become a light unto the nations, and a sign of redemption for all the earth. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land. Amen.

HaTikvah

The words to Israel's national anthem were written in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia. The melody was written by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia. Cohen actually based the melody on a musical theme found in Bedrich Smetana’s "Moldau." Kol ode balevav p'nimah - Nefesh Yehudi homiyah Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimah - Ayin l'tzion tzofiyah. Ode lo avdah tikvatenu Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim: L'hiyot am chofshi b'artzenu - Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim. English translation: As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart, With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion, Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost: To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem

Prayer for the Well-Being of the Israel Defense Forces

May the Holy one who blessed our fore-parents Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah - bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea. May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may God send blessing and success in their every endeavor. May God bring our enemies under our soldiers’ sway and may God grant our IDF soldiers and all who guard Mehdinat Israel salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies, for you, to save you.