By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 1/5/2012, 6:35 PM
Miriam Peretz and Eliraz's daughter.
Israel news photo: Flash 90
Miriam Peretz, a mother who lost two of her sons in Israel's wars, moved an audience of 250 students to tears in a lecture Thursday at the Ono Academic Center's program for religious Zionism.
The strength of the state stands upon the private citizen, the one who buries his child and suffers from Katyushas," she said.
She ended her lecture with words that moved the audience to tears. "After 120 [the maximum number of years that a person can expect to live, according to Jewish tradition – ed.], when I come before the Holy One, I will give him three presents. The first present – a thorn, one of the thorns I used to pull out of Eliraz's hands when he came back from basic training. A second present – a thread from the tallit of Eliezer, my late husband, who used to spread his tallit and bless all of the soldiers that G-d will keep them safe in their journey and that they would return home safely. A third gift – a clod of earth from the grave of my son, Uriel." Read the rest: Arutz7
The strength of the state stands upon the private citizen, the one who buries his child and suffers from Katyushas," she said.
She ended her lecture with words that moved the audience to tears. "After 120 [the maximum number of years that a person can expect to live, according to Jewish tradition – ed.], when I come before the Holy One, I will give him three presents. The first present – a thorn, one of the thorns I used to pull out of Eliraz's hands when he came back from basic training. A second present – a thread from the tallit of Eliezer, my late husband, who used to spread his tallit and bless all of the soldiers that G-d will keep them safe in their journey and that they would return home safely. A third gift – a clod of earth from the grave of my son, Uriel." Read the rest: Arutz7
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