I can't sleep. Just can't fall to sleep. I can't stop thinking about the terror attack that occurred last Thursday. For those of you who don't know or can't remember - you can look
here. I would like to show this story from my personal point of view.
"Merkaz HaRav", or as we all call it - "Merkaz" (Center) is the main Yeshiva (aka Jewish Seminary) in Israel of our way. This terror-act was well planned and well performed. Hitting Merkaz is not just another terror-act. Merkaz is the main Yeshiva of us all, meaning the jewish people who believe in the Rabbi Kuk's way - conjoining the holy and the secular, the holy books and the military, the religious brother with the non-religious brother (we all brothers, first of all) and so on. All that happened in the middle east for the last years began in this yeshiva: The settlements beyond the green line, knowing that we own this land who was given to our ancestors. The resurrection of the jewish people in our holy land and the eternal search for rightness and peach.
Hitting Merkaz meaning hurting us all, hitting our ideology, hitting everything. We all feel (we all talked about it, of course) that this attacked just happend in our homes. When the heart is hurt you'll feel it in the entire body. I just can't understand how our government can proceed like this.
I intended to paste here some pictures from the scene, but I don't want to shock you (look here if you really want to). The CNN and the international news companies don't show you these pictures and especially the pictures of the joy of the little children in Gaza strip (which I can't find right now). Little kids, full of hate, who are happy in the murder of others.
May g-d help us all.