By COLlive reporter
Photos by M. Maamin
The Director General of Israel’s Social Affairs Ministry revealed this week that he attributes his survival in the 1982 Lebanon War to a good deeds campaign led by Chabad.
Yossi Silman, retired Brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Force who was the field headquarters director of Yair Lapid‘s Yesh Atid party in the last elections, visited the Yad B’Yad charity in Lod and was presented the best selling book “Towards a Meaningful Life,” based on the teachings of the Rebbe.
Sitting with the charity’s director Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, Silman said he has visited 770 Eastern Parkway during Simchas Beis Hashoeiva dancing on Sukkos.
He said that in the First Lebanon War, which began on June 6, 1982 and invaded southern Lebanon, he served as a captain in the Israeli Armor Corps 500 Brigade, fought in the central front and took part in the Siege of Beirut.
“The Chabad chassidim came to visit us and asked that I purchase a letter in a sefer Torah of unity, according to the directive of the Rebbe,” said Silman.
“A few days afterwards, the company I was commanding came under heavy attack and artillery fire,” he said. “I felt that I survived because of the dollar I had from the Rebbe.”
He went on to praise the charitable work of Gloiberman and its support to underprivileged Israeli families across the country.
This man does not really ‘owe his life to Chabad’…No one knows in what zchus he survived….as well as the other members of his batallion. did they ALL buy a letter?
In any case, of course, we as lubavitchers, believe it was as a direct result..it is not entirely accurate to use this headline..
You might say A letter in a Sefer Torah Had good Outcome…or something like that….
Moshiach must be near
770 has such powers!