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It’s about supporting and protecting each other. We bring goodness and “Godness” down into the world.
For example, if a girl in New York does acts of kindness on behalf of a soldier she does not know, thousands of miles away, she increases our interconnectedness and unity. Think of our interconnectedness as a web of protection: each person to person connection makes one strand of the web. When we make the web stronger, we accomplish something amazing. Think of it as a “spiritual Iron Dome.”
You input your name and email and receive the first name(s) and mother’s name of a soldier. Then you keep that soldier’s name in your mind as you pray, learn Torah, give charity, or do a kindness for someone. You are performing that deed on his/her behalf. It brings goodness into the world in his/ her merit.
The activities can be simple and creative.
Here are some examples pulled from our website replies: giving charity, including a soldier in prayer at Shabbat candle lighting, learning Torah, volunteer for the homeless, babysit for free, Shabbat hospitality, say tehillim (psalms), make food for needy people, visit grandma.
The original Elef LaMateh IDF prayer matching program was started by Rav Simcha HaCohen Kook in 2006 in response to the Second Lebanon War. The Rav then joined with the Bostoner Rebbe, zt’l, in 2009 for the Gaza Operation, Cast Lead. It was continued in 2014 by the efforts of a mother of a Lone Soldier in the paratroopers and a dedicated team located in Baltimore, Maryland. Now in 2023 there is an international team, with a nucleus in Israel, who is working on this project.
There is the Biblical concept of Elef L’mateh. When going out to war against Midyan, 1000 men from each tribe in the desert were chosen as soldiers and 1000 from each tribe were tasked to study in their merit. (Numbers 31:5)
On a spiritual level, “Kol Yisrael arevim zeh b’zeh” “All Jews are responsible for one another” (Talmud, Shevuot 39A). It is the mystical paradigm that we are intertwined with each other on a very deep level – regardless of how far apart we are physically. An “arev” is a guarantor: we have signed on to be spiritual guarantors for each other.
Furthermore, spiritual connectivity runs across geographic borders and time zones. We can build a web of positivity and protection: a spiritual Iron Dome.
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