From Gaza to Sri Lanka: A Golani Soldier’s Emotional Encounter with the Megillah
A Golani commando wounded in Gaza was left speechless during a Purim service in Sri Lanka. As he read from a Megillah at the Chabad House in Weligama, he discovered it was dedicated to the memory of Major Moshe Avraham Bar-On, HY”D—a commander he had been part of a rescue mission to retrieve after a fears battle in Shuja’iyya, where he was also wounded • Full Story
Golani Fighter’s Emotional Encounter in Sri Lanka
A Golani commando fighter, who was wounded in combat in Gaza, experienced a deeply moving and fateful moment while on leave in Sri Lanka.
During the reading of Megillas Esther at the Chabad House in Weligama, Sri Lanka, led by The Rebbe’s Shliach, Rabbi Yossi Gromach, the soldier stumbled upon a heart-stopping revelation. The Megillah he was reading from had been dedicated to the memory of three fallen soldiers from the war. Among them was Major Moshe Avraham Bar–On, HY”D—one of the very soldiers he had been sent to rescue after they fell in battle.
The soldier had been part of the daring extraction mission, sent into the heart of Shuja’iyya, eastern Gaza, to retrieve the bodies of Major Moshe Avraham Bar-On, HY”D, Colonel Yitzhak Ben Best, HY”D, Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenberg, HY”D, and others who had been killed in the brutal battle. Amid the chaos and relentless gunfire, he himself was wounded.
Now, standing thousands of miles away, in a quiet Chabad House in Sri Lanka, he found himself face to face with their memory once again—through the very words of the Megillah.
“This was the first time the Megillah was opened and read—it felt like a full-circle moment for Purim,” he shared with deep emotion. “The connection between Purim, the reading of the Megillah, and the memory of the fallen soldiers made this an incredibly powerful and emotional experience.”
The battle in Shuja’iyya was one of the most intense and harrowing of the war. The soldier, who had risked his life to bring his fallen comrades home, now stood in an unexpected moment of divine connection, as their names were etched onto the very scroll he was reading from.
May Hashem avenge their blood.
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